Workflow

Import Design Templates via PDF

Convert existing design files into easy-to-edit digital, print, and presentation templates using the PDF import. Design templates maintain their original formatting, design elements, and quality, and allow for added template locking and simplified end-user customization.

End-User Project Saving

All customized designs are automatically stored securely in the cloud per user for re-use on any device in the future. This is great for users needing to re-order prints of a previously customized design (e.g. business cards) or finish a project that they previously started.

Multi Brand Support

Manage and distribute brand approved photos, logos, fonts and color palettes for multiple brands in a single environment.

Optional Approval System

Use the Approval Queue to review changes, request revisions and fix issues within user design projects. Take complete control of the final product to ensure quality standards and maintain brand consistency.

Clone with Resize

Clone any design project into another size for easy re-use of campaign assets.

Basic Editing

Drag & Drop To Editor

Drag and drop image assets (PNG, JPG, SVG) onto the canvas for quick upload.

Upload Photos

Drag and drop or upload your own photos to the canvas when creating a new project or customizing a template.

Upload Custom Fonts

Upload custom fonts per project or save them within your brand fonts. Allow users to easily access and use fonts within the editor.

Undo & Redo

Undo or redo changes to your design project even after you've left the editor. Projects are automatically saved so you'll never lose your progress.

Shapes & Icons

Quickly add additional elements to any design by using our built-in shapes and social media icons. Easily mask photos to any shape.

Drop Shadows

Add and adjust shadows on any text in your project. Use advanced shadow features such as color, distance, direction, blur and transparency.

Instant Resizing

Custom resize your canvas to any size or use our preset standard print sizes. Design elements magically resize and reposition maintaining design consistency.

Photo Cropping

Double click any photo to instantly crop and hide unwanted outer areas of a photo.

Zoom Controls

Zoom in and out of the canvas to enhance the view of specific items and details of your design within the editor.

Photo Filters

Enhance any photo with built-in photo filters. Quickly apply color overlays or edit the exposure, brightness, contrast, vibrance, hue and saturation on any image.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Take control of your design experience by leveraging our keyboard shortcuts for quick access to specific functions within the editor.

Object Aligning

Use our guidelines to create uniformity in your design and verify that all expected elements line up as intended.

Upload JPG/PNG/SVG

Import PNGs, JPGs, and SVGs into the editor.

Color Picker

Use the color picker tool to sample an existing color of an image. For example, if you want your text or background color to be the same color as the flower in your image.

Text Anchoring

Text can be anchored to the top, middle, or bottom of text boxes. As line wrapping occurs when typing or changing styles, the text box will grow according to the anchor. This also works with auto-fit so that downsized text maintains its position.

Curved Text Effect

The Curved text effect allows you to add a custom angle for your text, or use a preset curve such as full, half, quarter, and inverted circles.

Stroke Text Effect

Add a text stroke with round or mitered corners with its own color and weight.

Integration

B2B Software-As-A-Service

No need to manage servers or worry about storage, redundancy, scalability, latency or reliability. The software is hosted securely in the cloud with elastic resources at every tier, served via a global CDN. Updates are delivered automatically and all functionality is available via an easy to use REST API in addition to the built-in user interface.

Embedding

The customizable editor can be easily embedded via iframe into any site. OAuth-based tokens are used to avoid any 3rd party cookie issues and CORS is supported for direct front-end API interactions. Design projects can be launched from pre-created templates or created in real-time with any size/shape and background color/photo via API.

Mobile-friendly Editor

The Editor displays a simplified experience for customizing design templates on mobile web browsers. Allow your users to make basic text updates, add background images, place images in frames, and submit their completed design while on the go.

Robust API

The REST API was built to support any custom workflow. Custom identifiers can be supplied on all objects to avoid consumers needing to alter database schemas for data sync’ing. “Upserts” are supported globally to avoid multiple API interactions where unnecessary. Limited fields can be specified in GET responses and PATCH requests to avoid unnecessary data access.

Account & User Syncing

Use the respective API's to synchronize accounts and users directly or leverage the auto upsert functionality during user token requests to limit unnecessary API interactions and reduce synchronization complexity.

Free Stock Photos and Videos

Design Huddle has partnered with some of the largest commercial free stock photo and video repositories - Unsplash+, Pixabay, and Pexels. Search thousands of high quality photos and videos and apply to your project with the click of a button.

Free Stock Vector Shapes and Icons

Browse one of largest shape, icon, and SVG libraries in the world, Iconfinder, and apply directly to your design or video from the Design Huddle Editor.

Templating

Create Custom Templates

Create design templates for easy customization by end users, optionally targeted at specific accounts.

Brand Fonts/Logos/Colors/Photos

Upload and organize brand specific assets (fonts, logos, colors, photos) for your users to easily access and design with. Designate brands to certain users for easy segmentation and a customized design experience.

Template Layouts

Save any page within a project as a reusable layout to allow users to easily import and build projects with multiple pages. Try It

Template Locking

Lock down all or individual design elements per template to ensure design integrity, for example allowing only basic text editing. Optionally publish multiple templates from the same design with different locking configurations to allow different levels of customizability for different user groups.

Auto Fit

Restrict width and line count of text boxes and automatically reduce text size based on user input per template.

Zones

Zones allow you to create a placeholder where the user can add a design element. Elements in the Zone will be altered to either fit fully or be masked to fill the Zone completely (cropped). Admins can choose what file type/source is allowed to be added to the Zone as well as its default orientation, rotation, and locking controls. Users can optionally position and resize elements they add within the zone boundary.

Constrain Proportions

Avoid stretching by properly maintaining the width and height aspect ratio of any shape.

Categorize Templates

Create your own categories to assign to design templates allowing easy filtering by end users.

Swap Out Alternate Templates

Replace the open design with a different template directly within the editor.

Advanced Editing

Mask Photos Into Any Shape

Crop and mask photos within any shape or SVG uploaded to your project. For example, mask a brand photo within your logo.

Image Background Removal

Easily remove the background from any uploaded image.

Font Preview & Slider

Finding the right font for your design has never been easier. Preview any word in all font styles instantly or use the font scroller to instantly live preview fonts on your design.

Selected Objects Grouping

Group various objects on the canvas and treat them as a singular item when moving, adding color, or aligning.

SVG Vector Artwork Support

Upload Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to the canvas such as logos or shapes. SVG files do not rely on unique pixels to make up the image you see, rather they are vector data that can scale up and down to any resolution with no quality loss.

Color Grouping

View and change colors of grouped objects to verify uniformity amongst grouped elements.

SVG Ungrouping

Ungroup any uploaded SVG to treat each path as its own element. Customize colors and size for each element of the SVG.

Swap Out Alternate Backgrounds

Easily swap out your existing canvas background with a color, image or video, ensuring the background fully fills the canvas.

Right to Left Text Support

Create text that runs right to left with specific fonts that were created for languages meant to be read this way (e.g. Hebrew/Arabic).

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Dedicated Support Team

Enterprise packages include access to a dedicated account manager for training and on-going support.

Cross Browser Compatible

The app is accessible and optimized across all browsers. Projects are automatically saved regardless of browser so nothing is ever lost.

Custom Reporting

Custom reports can be buit to give specific insights on users and template performance.