All Image settings are located at the Image feature icon in the top menu bar. If a frame with the Image feature is selected the tab shows the settings for images.
Every image can either fit into a frame fully visible (fit) or fill out a frame entirely (fill). Additionally Printess features an AI based fitmode which is described below. In fill mode one can additionally define if the image should keep its aspect ratio or - if switched off - should get entirely squeezed into the frame potentially squeezing the content (necessary e.g. for Image Filter Snippets). Additionally one can crop an image to apply an individual clipping.
In both modes one might use the Fit Frame To Image button which will adjust the frame to the size and position of the full image, also removing any cropped area.
When using the fill option the focal point setting is taken into account. E.g. if set to the center-top it will center the image and move its top to the top of the frame. This ensures that the focal point area stays visible even with differing aspect ratios between frame and image.
By using the Crop button one can choose the visible area of an image. In crop mode, the frame changes and shows the visible area surrounded by larger white bars and the complete size of the image as a slightly grayed out area with normal frame manipulators. Both frames can be manipulated independently and by clicking the center of the visible area one can also move the image inside the visible area. Press the Close Crop button or use Esc to leave crop mode.
AI mode uses image analysis to set the cropping area for Images. This setting stays active in buyer mode so every buyer uploaded images will be cropped based on this setting. Each AI fit mode also has a possible setting.
As a first available analysis option Printess supports AI face detection. This is useful e.g. for photo books where buyer uploaded images should automatically focus faces.
Each uploaded Image will undergo an analysis and the crop area will be set based on the face mode:
Face - Group Mode
Face detection will try to identify all forward looking faces and focus to the bounding box around all detected faces.
Face - Portrait Mode
Face detection tries to find the largest face in the image and focus to it.
Here is a comparison between fill, Face-Group Mode and Face-Portrait Mode on two images.
Images can be masked by either a shape or a single line text. To use this option the frame must contain either a Shape or a Single Line frame feature. To switch on masking, click on either the Shape or Text button and the image will be masked with the selected feature. Only the fill area of the feature will be used for masking. If a stroke is present it will be drawn without masking.
Note: This feature is only available in the Printess Large Plan. Additional costs will may apply.
With the Text To Image feature, you can use the AI Generation to generate images for your layout in the Editor and you can offer this function to your users at the Buyer Side.
If you click Text To Image a separate dialog will open.
You have four different input fields to define your prompt to get a accurate result. Lets say you would like to get food rendered for your menu card. Therefore you would need an image of a pizza but you need it from a top view and you need a black background to match the design of your layout. In addition you don’t want to have tomatoes on the pizza shown.
You would use the three input fields like this:
Prefix
Top view of
Prompt
a delicious pizza
Postfix
with a dark background
Negative Prompt
tomato
The entire prompt used for rendering is now “Top view of a delicious pizza with a dark background and no tomato”. So you will get a picture of a pizza from the right perspective with the right background rendered and no tomatoes on the pizza.
Notice: Only the Prompt will be available at the Buyer Side. Neither the Prefix, the Postfix nor the Negative Prompt will be shown there. They could be defined by you only.
To make Text To Image available on the Buyer Side please don’t forget to activate the check box AI Generation at the Buyer Side settings of the image frame.
You can choose from different Image Generation Modes here. Only the SDXL Mode includes the option to choose different Styles in addition.
SDXL Style Selection
On the right hand side of the dialog window you can choose from different image styles like photographic, comic, line art etc. If you click the check box Show style selection on buyer side this selection is also available at the Buyer Side.
Prevents the buyer from uploading their own images. This option is therefore only available if AI-Generation is activated.
Note: This feature is only available in the Printess Large Plan. Additional costs will may apply.
Before you can use this action an image has to be placed in an activated image frame. Then you can just hit the button Remove Background and the AI will start the rendering process.
The result is an object in front of a transparent background.
If you want to enable this function at the Buyer Side activate the option Show Image Background Remove Option at the Buyer View Appearance dialog.
This is a global setting for all image frames of your template which do have the option Content activated. At the Buyer Side the button Remove Background will appear.
Note: This feature is only available in the Printess Large Plan. Additional costs will may apply.
Before you can use this action an image has to be placed in an activated image frame. Then you can just hit the button Segment Face and the AI will remove the background from the image.
The result is separated face on transparent background.
Note: This feature is only available in the Printess Large Plan. Additional costs will may apply.
If the resolution of a placed image is not good enough for print you can increase the resolution buy using the option Upscale.
If you want to enable this function at the Buyer Side activate the option Show Image Upscale Option at the Buyer View Appearance dialog.
This is a global setting for all image frames of your template which do have the option Content activated. At the Buyer Side the button Upscale Image will appear. But only if the uploaded image will undercut the defined resolution for the document.
You define the minimum image resolution for your document at the Buyer Side Feature Panel at the Document Settings.
Note: This feature is only available in the Printess Large Plan. Additional costs will may apply.
This feature will add a white outline at the edges of the image.
If you want to enable this function at the Buyer Side you have to activate the Ai Image Assign Action “Contour” to this frame.
Note: This features are only available in the Printess Large Plan. Additional costs will may apply.
These features are automated actions at the Buyer Side. They will always be done automatically if a Buyer will upload, assign or generate an image. The Buyer is not able to use this function optional. You can run a test in the Editor by clicking the icon of the running man next to the selected feature.
To enable this feature at the Buyer Side just choose background-remove from the drop down menu of the Image Assign Action list.
The result is an object in front of a transparent background.
The automatic remove of the background is helpful if you offer posters of football stadiums for example and the people on the uploaded images should be included in front of the stadium. To get the impression that they are really standing in front of the stadium the background has to be removed before the final image is generated.
To use this action you choose face-swap from the drop down menu of the Image Assign Action list.
If you click on the icon of the running man next to it a dialog box will open. Here you can now select the image you would like to use to swap the face with your image placed in the frame before.
As soon as you have selected an image the dialog box will close automatically and the rendering process is starting. Please be aware that the Image Placement will be locked by using Face Swap.
If Face Swap is activated it will be available at the Buyer Side.
If you select that Assign Action while an image frame is activated this feature will be available at the Buyer Side for this frame.
It will remove the background to separate the face. By default the face will fill the frame.
Afterwards the Buyer can define the zoom of the separated image.
If you select that Assign Action while an image frame is activated this feature will be available at the Buyer Side for this frame.
It will not just remove the background to separate the face. In addition it will create an outline so that the result could be used as a sticker.
With the Contour Length you can define the size of the outline. A percentage value is specified in relation to the frame size so that the contour thickness always remains the same. Regardless of the size and resolution of the uploaded image. By default the outline created is white. At the Buyer Side the color of the outline could be changed.
Note: The generated contour in the production file is vector based.
If you select that Assign Action while an image frame is activated this feature will be available at the Buyer Side for this frame.
I will remove the background to add an outline to the separated object. This could be than used as a sticker.
With the Contour Length you can define the size of the outline. A percentage value is specified in relation to the frame size so that the contour thickness always remains the same. Regardless of the size and resolution of the uploaded image. By default the outline created is white. At the Buyer Side the color of the outline could be changed.
Note: The generated contour in the production file is vector based.
If you select that Assign Action while an image frame is activated this feature will be available at the Buyer Side for this frame. This action add an outline at the edges of the image.
With the Contour Length you can define the size of the outline. A percentage value is specified in relation to the frame size so that the contour thickness always remains the same. Regardless of the size and resolution of the uploaded image. By default the outline created is white. At the Buyer Side the color of the outline could be changed.
Note: The generated contour in the production file is vector based.
If a frame with an image feature is selected, you can also change the image shown by clicking on one of the loaded images in the Change Image area. If the former image had crop selected the frame will automatically switch to fill mode to ensure the new image is not distorted. If Fit or Fill was selected the setting will stay.
Pixel Mask halftone masks a given image by stretching the set Mask-Image to cover the entire image, then masks the Frames-Image with it either with Inverse switched off (white = image visible, black =image not visible) or the inverse of this, when Inverse is switched on. Additionally, one can select between masking by image content (Masking Channel = image) or by its alpha channel (Masking Channel = alpha). If image is selected and the mask image is a color image the combined color channels will be reduced to a gray image before masking.
This mode is for images used in monochrome engraving which should be full color above a certain threshold. It also uses the set engraved/not engraved color for displaying on buyer side.
Check out our Engraving example to see this powerful feature in action!
Printess allows users to easily change basic image properties like brightness, contrast or saturation directly in the Image tab.
Additionally, one can use an adjustable sepia effect or rotate the hue of the image, effectively rotating all colors in the image:
This allows for Gamma changes of the image either for all or for separate channels. This filter is especially useful to change light color like skin tones. Have a look at our Avatar example where this feature is used extensivly.
Color multiply simply multiplies a given (RGB) color onto an image. This comes in handy in case you’d like to color comic elements like hair, skin etc. all white areas will become the selected color, all black areas simply stay black.
This is a special feature only for SVG graphics. It lets you replace up to three different colors in a SVG graphic.
First put the HEX-Code of the color you want to replace in the Form Field “…color to find”. Then choose a color to replace it with from the Form Field below. Click on the small pipette symbol on the right to pick a color from screen.
Notice: Be aware that this feature will replace the HEX-Codes inside the SVG file. So it will only work properly, when given the exact HEX-Value. For example: If the HEX-Code inside the SVG file had six digits (#000000), using a three digit code (#000) would not work.