> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://print.app/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Creating designs

> Write a brief, compare up to three drafts, keep the ones you like, and ask for changes afterwards: a walkthrough of Template Studio.

Open **Designs** in the admin, go to the folder the new designs should land
in, click **Create New Design** and choose **Template Studio**. The panel
opens beside your designs.

## 1. Write the brief

Pick how to start:

**Describe it**

Say what you need in your own words: the product, its size if you
know it, the occasion, and the wording. *"A 5 × 7 invitation for a
bakery opening on 12 November, warm and rustic, with a wheat
motif."* Dates, names and wording become sample text your customers
replace.

**Product link**

Paste the address of a product page in your store and click
**Read page**. Template Studio reads the product, its size and its
purpose, then designs for it. Add anything else in the optional
note.

**Pick a product**

Choose a product and size, then optionally an occasion or theme,
colours, and one or more styles (bold, playful, elegant, minimal,
retro, rustic, festive).

Choose how many **variations** you want, from one to three. Each one is a
clearly different direction: its own layout, palette, fonts and graphics.
Then click **Create**.

> [!TIP]
>
> Name the product and the size when you can, and say who it is for.
> *"A roll-up banner for a software company at a trade show"* gives a
> sharper result than *"a banner"*.

## 2. Compare the drafts

Each variation appears as a card while it is drafted, which takes about a
minute. A finished card shows the draft (click it to turn the pages of a
two-sided or folded product), the direction's name, palette and a short
summary.

![A finished draft card: a round party sticker with its name, palette, a note box and the Keep this button](https://mintcdn.com/printapp/55R6PBqBJkDTrrFt/images/template-studio/draft-card.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=55R6PBqBJkDTrrFt\&q=85\&s=a6099e39619fe84609810cdc28686743)

For each draft you can:

* **View** it larger.
* **Try again.** With the note box empty you get a fresh take on the same
  direction. With a note (*"bigger date, add the logo"*) it redraws **this**
  draft with your change and keeps the rest.
* **Keep this.** See the next step.

Drafts are free, so try again as often as you like.

### Good to know

If you asked for something Template Studio cannot do as asked, it tells
you, in a **Good to know** note at the top of the panel or on the draft. For
example: *"Söhne is not available, so the Modern sans pairing (Outfit) is
used, the closest match."* or *"Foil is not available as a print finish,
so the logo is printed in gold ink."*

## 3. Keep the ones you like

Click **Keep this**. Anything in the note box is applied while it is
finished. The finishing pass takes one to two minutes: it sets up every
customer field and lock, tidies spacing and alignment, and saves the design
into the folder you opened the panel from.

Under the button you can see what keeping costs: free while your store has
free designs left, then \$0.25. See [Pricing](https://print.app/docs/template-studio/pricing.md).

## 4. After keeping

A kept design is an ordinary Print.App design. From its card you can:

* **Open in editor** to adjust anything yourself.
* **View** it, or **Download PDF** to check the print file.
* **Request a change.** Describe it (*"make the date bigger and the title
  gold"*) and click **Apply change**. The saved design is updated in place
  in about a minute. Each kept design includes three changes; after that,
  edit it yourself in the editor.

When it is ready, assign it to a product like any other design (see
[Platform features](https://print.app/docs/platforms/platform-features.md) for where your platform
does this).

## Working in the background

Minimise the panel and keep working: a small Template Studio pill at the
bottom right shows the progress and brings the panel back. When you have
kept what you need, click **Done**. **Start new** begins another brief; any
drafts you have not kept are cleared from the panel.


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