How to prepare signage and display artwork for rendering
Updated October 11, 2026
What to upload
It depends on the kind of sign, chosen when you add it.
- Floor graphics, and wall graphics or murals: the artwork file itself, the graphic you print. Renders reproduce its colors, imagery, lettering and logos letter for letter, and never repeat it as a pattern.
- Freestanding signs and displays, and wall-mounted signs: an image of the sign itself, which is what renders place. Studio swaps a freestanding sign for a piece found in your scene; a wall-mounted sign goes on a wall in Editorial.
- Lettering is copied exactly on every kind, so what's in the file is what appears.
The ideal artwork
Export the print file. A photograph of a print brings its angle and its shine with it.
- The flat artwork, exported as an image, not a photo of the printed graphic.
- The whole artwork, edges included: anything cut off is lost.
- Final colors, as printed.
- Lettering large enough to read at the image's size.
Do this: Ideal
The flat artwork, edges included.
Avoid: A photo at an angle
The lettering skews, and the desk shows.
Avoid: A photo of a glossy print
The shine is copied onto the sign.
Avoid: Cropped
Whatever is cut off never appears.
The ideal sign image
For a freestanding display or a wall-mounted sign, treat it like any product image.
- The whole sign in frame, on a plain background.
- For a wall-mounted sign, show how it mounts: flat to the wall, on standoffs, as letters or on a bracket. It is mounted the way your image shows.
- Even light, with no glare across the face.
Do this: Ideal
The whole sign, plain background.
Avoid: Already in a room
The room competes with the sign.
Avoid: Cropped
Half the message is missing.
Measurements
All in inches.
- Graphics: width and height of the printed graphic; there's no depth. Left blank, a floor graphic is sized like a typical one, about 24–36" across, and a wall graphic fills the wall.
- Signs and displays: width, height and depth of the sign as it stands or hangs. Left blank, it's sized from its image.
- There's no pattern repeat box for signs.
Before you save
Check each product:
- Graphics: the flat print file, edges included.
- Signs: the whole sign, mounting showing, plain background.
- Final colors and legible lettering.
- Size entered, or left to the defaults on purpose.
- JPEG, PNG or WebP, 4.5 MB or less.
Create your workspace, then choose a plan to render one of your signs before you prepare the rest.
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