Design Templates
Start from a ready-made design, keep your own versions for every event, and build templates with placeholders.
Start a template from a ready-made design, keep your own modified and duplicated designs for every event, add image, drawing and text placeholders, and save layouts to reuse.
What design templates are
Design templates are ready-made designs made of placeholders, texts, shapes and widgets, in categories such as Photo layouts, Clothing, Labels & stickers, Mugs, Cards & invites, Weddings, Birthdays, Business and many more. Guests can start from one in the editor, and you can start an event template from one.
Built-in designs
Ready to use in every event. Some include a widget, such as a name badge, QR code or date stamp, that guests tap to make their own.
Our designs
Your modified and duplicated designs. They are saved to your account and shown in every event.
Saved layouts
Designs you saved with Save layout…, plus layouts shared with you by code.
Choose what guests see
Open the event, then Toolbar → Toolbar Settings → Templates.
Categories and designs
Untick a category or a single design to hide it from guests.
Open automatically
Open "Start with a template" automatically shows the designs as soon as the editor opens.
When the side already has a design
Choose which of Combine with your design, Add to your design and Replace your design guests are offered, and which is selected first.
Manage all designs
Manage all your designs in Design Studio opens Design Studio.
Modify or duplicate a design
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Pick the design
In Design Studio → Template Designs, or in the event Templates settings, choose Modify or Duplicate.
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Edit it
The design opens on the canvas with a Modifying design template banner. Change it like any design.
- 3
Save
Save to keep it for all your events. Use Reset to default design to undo your changes to a built-in design.
Template Edit mode
When you edit an event template, the round + button on the left of the canvas opens these choices. Guests never see it.
Placeholders
Add image placeholder, Add drawing placeholder and Add text placeholder. Image and drawing placeholders ask for an aspect ratio first.
Start with a template
Start the side from a design, or Change template. If the side already has a design, choose Combine, Add or Replace, and optionally Lock background.
Auto layout and Auto style
Arrange or restyle the whole side. See Auto Layout & Auto Style.
Save layout…
Saves the side as a layout you can reuse in other templates.
Shapes… and Add a widget
Add shapes, or a widget that keeps working for guests.
Screenshot placeholder — The + menu in Template Edit mode
Image and drawing placeholders
Names and sizes
Image placeholders are labelled Image placeholder 1, Image placeholder 2 and so on, with their size in pixels, for example 1080 × 1350 px. The Layers panel and the Delete and Lock messages show the same size.
Guests' own photos
Leave an image placeholder as it is for guests' own photos, or link it to a survey photo. Guests see Use the Replace Image button to add your photo.
Drawing placeholders
Styled from the Drawing panel only. The smiley shows a preview of the drawing style. A survey drawing is fitted inside the placeholder without being stretched.
Link placeholders to survey answers with Survey Mapping.