Imageshop Designer is an advanced tool for creating templates and designs based on text, images, and other elements. These can in turn be exported to PDF files or as image files. To access Imageshop Designer, this module must be enabled for your organization. This article describes the Designer from an administrator's perspective. An end-user manual for how to use the Designer and its features is also available.
To open the Designer as an administrator, navigate to «Designer» from the «Edit» menu in the Imageshop administration panel. Other standard users who have been granted access will find the Designer as a dedicated menu item in the Imageshop frontend interface. The administrator must grant users access to use the Designer from the user settings within the Imageshop administration (see more details regarding this below).
User permissions in Designer
Administrators who have access to the Designer have full rights within the tool. This means they can save, edit, and delete shared templates. Standard users with access can only view and utilize existing templates. Templates represent shared designs for the entire organization, while My Designs are personal working files accessible only to the individual user.
An administrator or editor can determine which specific elements a standard user is allowed to edit within a template. This is done by selecting an element in the template and clicking on «Permissions». In the example below, we have configured it so that standard users have full rights to change the text color of the selected text box, but they are not permitted to move, scale, or rotate it. This prevents standard users from making structural modifications to the template – which remains reserved for administrators and editors. However, it allows them to save the document under «My Designs» and perform the adjustments they have been explicitly granted rights to modify under «Permissions».
Note: For a standard user to have the ability to make any adjustments to the template (such as changing text), explicit permission must be granted. Otherwise, the elements will be completely locked for them. Typically, you want to allow standard users to perform specific content adjustments in a template without granting them full editing rights.
Page format
To select or change the format of the page, you need to open the Inspector. You can open it by clicking on this icon.
Next, click on «Format». The page size and its configurations will then appear in the menu. Here you can manually specify the width and height, or select from predefined formats optimized for channels like Instagram.
Templates
When a template is saved, it is also created as a standalone document within the image bank. As an administrator, you can easily navigate to this document by clicking the button labeled «Open Template in Imageshop».
As long as you are logged into the Imageshop administration panel, you will be redirected directly to the document associated with the template. Here, you can tag and categorize the template just like any other document asset. By default, the document is not distributed to any interface, but if you assign one or more interfaces to the template, it will become searchable and visible to regular users in the interfaces where it is published. Each time you modify and save the template in Designer, a new and updated version of the corresponding PDF file will automatically be generated.
You can search for templates both in the administration panel and directly within the user interfaces by filtering for templates in the admin menu: Advanced search options -> File type -> Templates.
The option for standard users to filter for templates within the frontend user interface is enabled by default, unless this feature has been deactivated for that specific interface under «Configuration» → «Media Type».
You can navigate directly back to the editor from a template at any time, whether you are in a user interface or within the administration area. Templates will always display a dedicated button labeled «Open in Designer» located right below the thumbnail preview representing the template.
User Configuration
By navigating to «Edit» → «Users» and clicking into a specific user profile, you can activate access to the Imageshop Designer. The Designer will only be visible in the administration panel and within the user interface for users who have this permission enabled.
Configuration
Imageshop Designer has a dedicated configuration page for administrators. Here, you can manage overall access permissions, define corporate default colors, and upload custom fonts (typefaces) that should be available to users in the editor.
Limitation on number of users
The total number of unique users who access the «Designer» during a calendar month will affect the module's licensing/billing. You can easily toggle Designer access on or off for specific users within the user administration area, as described in the section above.
Colors
In this section, you can add and assign names to the colors you want to make available as default selections in the Designer. The custom color name will be displayed inside the tool alongside the color swatch sample. You can provide color codes in your preferred format (e.g., HEX) or choose freely from a color palette, as demonstrated in the example below.
Fonts
Here is an example of what the font tab view looks like after custom fonts have been uploaded. The font name and font family will be visible in the editor, and users can choose between the different variants (weights) of the typeface that have been made available. If desired, you can configure the system so that no other fonts are available in the Designer except for those manually uploaded. This ensures that all generated content strictly aligns with your organization's graphic profile guidelines.
