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.

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• You can manually adjust placement using Edit placement in the Products tab — width, height, rotation, scale, and position.

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• 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

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.

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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.

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Updated on: 27/10/2026