Exporting a template to ZIP

Some files contained in the resources subfolder are auxiliary files needed for the Template Creator to work correctly. The template itself does not actually need them. The total archive size, with these ‘unnecessary’ files, may be way too large. This may lead to a longer time that the template takes to process a user photo. For this reason, it is not recommended to zip up the resources folder manually. It is advisable to use the Template Creator instead.

To do so, go to the File menu and select Export template resources as ZIP.

This will create a zip archive inside a specified folder containing two folders: 1080 size and PSD Resources.

The folder 1080 size contains only the resources that a template needs to function and an automatically created template preview. The archive from this folder is ready to be uploaded to the server.

Another folder PSD Resources contains an archive with the template project and PSD.

There are tree ways to export template resources available to users:

This way is suitable for most template. To generate the preview image, it uses the photo from the standard set of test photos for the Template Creator "girl in green with blurred background".

This methos is recommended when the automatic creation of previews is impossible due to specific requirements for the input photo (for example, the presence of animals or glasses), or when automatically generated previews do not reflectthe meaning of the template (for example, for templates with several photos). For this method it is recommended to choose an already processed photo, that will be used as the preview image.

When using this method, the archive with template resources will use placeholder images, instead of processed user photo images as the template preview.

If you export template resources automatically in a project when is is impossible to generate preview automatically, the placeholder pictures will be used and a corresponding warning will be shown.