> ## Knowledge Base Index > Fetch the complete knowledge base index at: https://help.wescale.ai/sitemap.xml > Use this file to discover available pages before exploring further. > Pure-Markdown content can be obtained by appending a '.md' suffix to the content URLs listed in the sitemap (without the trailing slash). # Using the designs tool ## Using the Designs Tool The Designs tool turns your artwork into a finished product in your store, automatically. You upload a PNG, and WeScale does the rest: 1. **Prepares your artwork.** It removes the background if needed, resizes the design, and checks which of your garment colors it suits. 2. **Places your design on your own mockups.** These are the blank product photos you uploaded to your mockup pack in Settings, one per color. You set them up once, and Designs reuses them for every design. 3. **Creates the product in Shopify and Printify.** The product is created in Shopify as a draft, with pricing, description and sizes from your Settings. 4. **Sends your mockup images to Shopify.** They go to Shopify only. Printify keeps its own default images. You review the draft and publish it when you’re ready. ## What Designs does — and what it doesn't Designs is built to remove manual work entirely: you upload your artwork, and WeScale handles background removal, resizing, mockup placement, color matching, and product creation automatically — complete with pricing, description, tags, and sizes already set up from your brand settings. * **Mockup colors are set up in Settings, up to 16 per product** — but Designs doesn't guarantee all of them will be used. It automatically analyzes your artwork against each color and removes any where the design wouldn't be visible enough (for example, a white design on a white shirt). If you need full control over which colors are used, use Import Designs instead. * **One design applies to all your selected colors.** Designs doesn't support using different artwork for different colors — for example, a light-colored version of your design for dark garments and a dark version for light garments. If you need that, use Import Designs, which supports per-color uploads. ​ * **You can manually adjust placement** using **Edit placement** in the Products tab — width, height, rotation, scale, and position. ​ * By default, Designs uses AI to generate your product title automatically. If you'd rather set titles yourself, turn off **AI product titles** in **Settings → Words** — your product title will then use your artwork's filename instead, with your configured prefix and suffix applied. You can also change the product title: Open the product in the Products tab and edit the name where you edit colors and placement. **If any of this matters for how you work, Import Designs + Mockup Generation are still fully available** — they give you full manual control over placement, titles, colors, and design variants, at the cost of doing more of the setup yourself. **Before you start:** you'll need to have completed your brand setup first. If you haven't finished setup, you'll be prompted to complete it before you can upload. --- ## Uploading your designs 1. Go to the **Designs** page and click the upload area, or drag your PNG files onto it. 2. Wait for your files to upload — progress shows per file. **A few things to know before you upload:** * You can upload up to **100 files at once**, each up to **100 MB**. If you try to upload more than 100 files in one go, the whole upload is rejected — split larger batches into smaller groups. * Only PNG files are supported. * You can cancel an upload while it's in progress, but not once it reaches **"Finishing up — registering your designs."** Keep the page open until this step completes; after that, WeScale keeps processing in the background even if you leave. ## What happens right after you upload | Result | What it means | What to do | | --- | --- | --- | | Accepted | Your design is being processed | Check its status — no need to re-upload | | Already present | The filename matches a design you already uploaded (this is based on filename, not the image itself) | Click View existing to see it, or Got it to dismiss | | Replaced | This file corrects a design that previously got stuck | Its checks restart from the beginning | | Rejected | WeScale couldn't accept the file | Read the specific reason given and fix the file, or split your batch | **If you're asked to fix and re-upload a file:** export the corrected artwork using the **exact same filename** mentioned in the message. Renaming the file will cause problems — don't use a different name to try to bypass this. --- ## What happens after upload Once accepted, your design goes through several automatic checks before it's ready: 1. **File check**: Makes sure your PNG is readable and undamaged. 2. **Background & sizing**: If your artwork already has a transparent background, it's used as-is. Otherwise, WeScale removes the background automatically. 3. **Resolution check**: Your artwork needs to be at least **2,500 pixels on its longest side** after this processing. If it's too small, you'll need to export and upload a larger version. 4. **Print-quality check** _(when active)_: Flags artwork where fine details might not print well: * A **warning** still lets your design continue automatically. * A **hold** pauses your design — you'll need to choose **Continue anyway** or **Remove design**. 5. **Color matching**: Checks how your design looks against each color in your product, removing any where it wouldn't be visible (see above). _For multicolor or gradient designs, double-check the result yourself — the automatic check is more limited for these._ 6. **Placement & sizing**: WeScale automatically scales your design to the largest size that still looks right on the garment, and places it in the print area — following the same standards used for WeScale's own brands. If your design would still print too small, you'll need to export a larger version. 7. **Naming & mockups**: **Product titles are generated automatically by default, and you can edit any title afterward.** Open the product in the **Products** tab and edit the name in the same place where you edit colors and placement. To use your file names as titles from the start, turn off **AI product titles** in **Settings → Words**. Your prefix and suffix are applied. 8. **Product setup**: Your new product is created with pricing, description, tags, and sizes already filled in from your brand settings, so it's ready to review. 9. **Choosing a product page template:** In **Settings → What gets published**, you can select a Shopify product page template for each product type. This applies only to new products published from that point forward — existing products keep whatever template they already have. Leave it unchanged to use Shopify's default template. ​ --- ## Tracking progress You'll see status labels like _Queued, Prepping, Print check, Checking colors, Placing, Building previews, Writing the title,_ and _Finishing._ These show which check is currently running — they aren't time estimates. **To cancel a design** that's in progress or needs attention, open its **… menu → Cancel**. This isn't available once a design is finished, or for designs created for an existing Shopify product. --- ## Finding and reviewing your designs **Designs are never published automatically — they're created as drafts.** When you're ready to make one live, you can: * Open the design, click on Edit Product and click **Publish**, or * Go to the **Products** tab and publish multiple designs at once in bulk. _Tip: To check a draft product, open it through your Shopify admin — a storefront link may not work until the product is live._ Click into a design to see its mockups, generated name, and which colors were kept or removed (click a color to see why). Click the original artwork thumbnail to see what you uploaded, or click any mockup to enlarge it — use the arrow keys or Previous/Next to browse. Use the search bar to find designs by name or filename, and filter by **Source** (All / Uploaded / From Shopify) to tell your own uploads apart from designs created for products you already had in your store. Keywords: Uploader, new uploader, v.2, new version, upload.