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title: "Images | Customer's Canvas Hub"
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# Images

> Learn what image types can be used in the editors and how to set up mockups for the product specification approach.

The **Images** folder contains graphics used to prepare product designs, personalize the designs, and display some types of mockups in the editors.

![The Images folder in BackOffice.](./images/images-backoffice.png)

In this article, you will learn:

* What types of images you can put in this folder.
* Where you and your customer can use them.
* How to organize a folder hierarchy.

First, let's see what types of images may be placed in the **Image** folder.

## Image types

The **Images** folder supports the following file extensions: `AI`, `BMP`, `GIF`, `JPEG`, `JPG`, `PDF`, `PNG`, `PSD`, `SVG`, and `TIFF`.

You can use these images for two primary purposes:

1. Creating designs in the Template Editor and personalizing designs in the Design Editor as an [image bank](#image-bank-for-editors).
2. Displaying a product view or additional graphic information when customers personalize their design. This type of images is called [_mockups_](#mockups-for-product-specifications) and works only for products based on product specification.

Let's see what images you can use in each case.

### Image bank for editors

You may use the same types of images for creating a design in Template Editor and personalizing a design in Design Editor.

The following classification isn't strict, and you can add your graphic type. Also, you don't need to have all these graphic types in your tenant.

#### Photos

For example, you can use a set of photos for a collage or ID cards. These can be images in `JPG`, `JPEG`, `PNG`, `BMP`, or `TIFF` format. The recommended DPI value is `300` or more. The lower DPI value, the worse the quality of a printed image.

![Photos in the Images folder.](./images/images-photos.png)

#### Clipart

To decorate designs, you and your customers can use clipart. These vector images can be in `SVG`, `AI`, or `PDF` formats.

![Clipart](./images/images-clipart.png)

#### Shapes

In Customer's Canvas, you can add only lines, rectangles, and ellipses through a toolbox. However, you can upload complex vector shapes in `SVG`, `AI`, or `PDF` format to assets and add them to designs.

![Shapes.](./images/images-shapes.png)

#### Logos

For some products, you may want to add logos to designs. Vector logos allow you to resize them without loss of quality. This graphics can be in `SVG`, `AI`, or `PDF` format.

You can also create logos as raster images in the appropriate formats if needed.

![Logos.](./images/images-logos.png)

#### Backgrounds

Designs usually have a background. These images can be both vector and raster.

In this example, these are backgrounds for business cards.

![Backgrounds.](./images/images-backgrounds.png)

#### Folder hierarchy

Let's see how you can create a folder hierarchy for images.

First, create a subfolder for your product designs.

* **Business cards**

If you need different image categories for different products, you can stick to a product-based approach. Create subfolders for images under the product folder. For example, if you want to assign backgrounds and logos to the **Business Card** product, you can arrange the folders like this:

* **Business cards**
    * **Backgrounds**
    * **Logos**

As an alternative, you can arrange images based on their types. The following example illustrates how you can organize clipart and photos into subfolders for different products. For common images, create a subfolder on the same level as the product subfolders.

* **Photos and Clipart**
    * **Business cards**
    * **T-shirts**
    * **Common**

### Mockups for product specifications

[Product specification](https://customerscanvas.com/docs/hub/admin-guide/product-specification.md) is one of the approaches to create a product in Customer's Canvas. It allows you to create a product with different attributes, mockups, and so on.

Mockups in product specifications are of two types: _editor_ and _preview_. An `editor` mockup, in turn, can be an overlaying or background image.

You can find more information about creating both mockup types in the [Product specification](https://customerscanvas.com/docs/hub/designers-manual/mockups/ps-mockups.md) section of the Designer's Manual.

Let's consider the concept of [editor](#editor-mockups) and [preview](#preview-mockups) mockups.

#### Editor mockups

The `Editor` mockups help you visualize a product in the Design Editor. This type of mockup may represent the product only in a schematic way, but the customer can see the proportions of the product and how the design will look on it.

For example, this is a tumbler editor mockup illustrating the product schematically.

![The editor mockup representing a tumbler.](./images/images-mockup-for-editor-step.png)

##### Defining design location

This mockup type requires coordinates of the _design location_ to place the design in a suitable area. These coordinates correspond to the upper-left corner of the design area and are measured in points.

To define the design location, right-click a mockup and select **Properties**. In a new dialog box, select the **Fields** tab.

To add new fields, click **Add**, then select **Design location**. Insert the coordinates in the corresponding input fields. `X` is the horizontal axis, and `Y` is the vertical axis. Finally, click **Apply**.

:::note
If units are not points in these fields, then change them through **Settings** > **Editor** > **Default measure unit**.
:::

![Defining a design location in a mockup.](./images/images-mockup-metadata.png)

#### Preview mockups

The `preview` mockup is a realistic product image that represents the personalization result for a customer. This mockup may represent a design both in projection and frontally. The image format is `PSD`.

For example, this is the `preview` mockup for a tumbler.

![A preview mockup for a tumbler.](./images/images-mockup-for-approval-step.png)

##### Defining design layers

A PSD file may contain one or more _smart objects_. Customer's Canvas uses them as a placeholder for the design. You need to define which smart object is for the front side and which one is for the backside (if any).

To do so, right-click a mockup file and select **Properties**. In a new dialog box, go to the **Fields** tab. Click **Add** and select **Design layer**. It will add a new field. This field's values are the smart object names from this PSD file. In the drop-down list, select the layer name of the front-side smart object.

If your mockup has a backside, select **Back design layer**. In the drop-down list, select the layer name of the back-side smart object.

To save results, click **Apply**.

![Preview mockup metadata.](./images/images-preview-mockup-metadata.png)

#### Folder hierarchy

To create folders for mockups, you can create a **Mockups** subfolder. This allows you to keep your files organized.

* **Mockups**

In the **Mockups** folder, define a subfolder for your product mockups.

* **Mockups**
    * **Tumbler**

In the folder for the product, create two subfolders for the editor and preview mockups.

* **Mockups**
    * **Tumbler**
        * **Editor**
        * **Preview**