How Canvas Design Studio works
Turn any Shopify product page into a customer design studio. How the drag-and-drop editor, templates, and print-ready production files fit together.
What is Canvas Design Studio?#
Canvas Design Studio puts a full drag-and-drop design editor on your Shopify product pages. Customers personalise labels, stickers, stamps, apparel prints, engraving art and more, right on your storefront, and every completed order arrives with print-ready production files attached. No email back-and-forth, no fixing 72-DPI artwork, no design software required on either side.
Try it right now#
This is a small working taste of what your customers get:
Try the editor
This is the feeling your customers get: type, style, done.
Live preview, updates as you type
The flow, end to end#
- You create a template in the same studio your customers use, plus merchant-only authoring tools. Or adopt one of the ~140 professionally designed starter templates (labels, jars, beer bottles, stamps, circles, ovals and more).
- You attach it to products, per product or per variant, with default fallbacks.
- A customer designs via the "Design your own" button, a simple form, or an inline canvas that replaces the product gallery image. You choose the mode per template. See Lockdown and customer modes.
- Preflight keeps it printable: bleed, trim, and safe-zone guides are drawn live on the canvas, and warnings fire before submit if something won't print well.
- They add to cart: the design preview attaches to the cart line item, and the customer can still edit it before checkout.
- You get production files: high-res PNG at your target DPI, print-ready PDF, vector SVG, and a cut-path die-line, downloadable from your Designs gallery. See Production files and preflight.
The whole point: designs arrive printable. Canvases are defined in real physical dimensions at your target DPI, so what the customer sees is exactly what your printer receives.
What's in the editor#
- Text: 28 hand-picked fonts, curved/arc text, and nine text effects (Drop, Glow, Outline, Hollow, Splice, Background, Echo, Glitch, Neon). See Text effects and curved text.
- Uploads: PNG, JPG, WebP and SVG, auto-optimised for print, with crop, filters, and one-click AI background removal. See Images and background removal.
- Photos: a built-in Unsplash stock library (Starter plan and above).
- Graphics: 2,000+ icons and a vector QR code generator.
- Shapes, layers, groups, plus smart alignment guides, snapping, undo/redo, and full keyboard shortcuts. See Inside the editor.
- Mobile-first: pinch to zoom, touch-friendly controls, and an action bar designed for phones.
Where to next?#
- Set it up in ten minutes: Getting started
- Control creative freedom per product: Lockdown and customer modes
- Compare plans: Plans and billing. Free plan available, paid plans from $19/month with a 14-day trial.
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