Picsha Cards: uploading your own card designs

You can sell card designs of your own next to the Graphx designs: your studio's holiday card, a design you commission from a local artist, or one you make with an AI image tool. They appear only on your storefront. There's no limit on how many you add, and no extra charge.

Download the design kit

Picsha Cards Design Kit (2.4 MB) contains:

• a template Photoshop file for each 5×7 shape, with the cut and safe lines on their own layer
• the same lines as transparent PNGs, for any other program
• an example file in the flat gray-window format
• the fonts the customer's message can print in, free to install

The same link is under Our own designs in your admin.

What a design needs

Size. At 300 dpi, the card plus 36 px of extra artwork on every side, which is trimmed off when the card prints:

Larger files in the same shape are fine. Keep lettering, faces and the message area at least 95 px in from the edge of the file, inside the kit's safe line. Background artwork should run right to the edge.

Photo windows. One or more, any shape, not overlapping. Mark them in one of three ways:

• Layered PSD: leave the windows transparent in your artwork layers.
• PNG: leave the windows fully transparent.
• JPG: fill the windows with flat, even gray. Use this format with an AI image tool.

Artwork can overlap a window, such as a ribbon or a sprig of holly, and prints over the photo. Cards sell best when the photos fill at least a fifth of the card.

The message. Leave plain space where the customer's message goes. Picsha finds it and sets the message as large as fits. A band across the card works better than a narrow column. In a PSD you can set it yourself instead: add a text layer with sample wording in the box, font, size and colour you want, using one of the kit's fonts. A greeting that never changes, like "Merry Christmas", is part of the artwork.

Using an AI image tool

Keep the prompt short. Describe the photos as the main subject and the design as a border, ask for flat artwork filling the whole image edge to edge, and ask for the photo areas in solid gray. Long, descriptive prompts tend to shrink the photo areas.

Uploading and publishing

1. In your admin page, open Card designs. Under Our own designs, choose one or more files.
2. Tick I own this artwork or am licensed to use it, then click Upload and check.
3. Each design opens as a draft. Print preview shows the finished card with sample photos and message. What was detected outlines the windows and the message area. Correct the name, greeting, occasion and message style if you need to.
4. Click Publish. The design goes on sale on your storefront straight away, marked Ours in your list of designs. Untick it there to take it off sale without deleting it.

You can replace a design's artwork, retire it, or delete it if it has never been ordered.

Artwork rights

Upload only artwork you made, commissioned, or are licensed to use on products you sell. Clip art, other companies' card designs and licensed characters are not yours to print unless you hold the licence. Graphx doesn't review uploads, and the artwork is your responsibility.

Questions? help@graphx.com