How to change design placement for products created with the designs tool

You can manually adjust placement for products created with Designs directly in the app.

Editing placement

1. Open the product in the Products tab.

Starting from Designs? Click "Edit product" first — this opens the same product in Products, where the placement editor is available.

2. Click Edit placement.
3. Preview the placement on every color the product sells, using the swatches shown.
4. Adjust: Width, Height, Rotate, Scale, Position left, Position top, Design size, and use Guides and Show print zone to help you size and position visually. (Width, height, and position use the same numbers Printify shows, so you can cross-check directly against Printify if needed.)
5. Not happy with your changes? Discard reverts back to the last applied placement.
6. Once you're happy, confirm to generate pending mockups with the new placement, then click Update product — this sends the new print area to Printify and the new mockup images to Shopify together, in one step.

Placement applies to all colors at once — you can't set a different placement per individual color. If you need per-color placement, use Mockup Generation instead.

Don't edit placement directly in Printify

Editing placement in Printify and publishing from there can overwrite your custom mockups with Printify's generic defaults. Use Edit placement in the app instead — it's the safe way, since it updates your mockup image and Printify placement together in one action.

Updated on: 27/10/2026