Designer is your creative studio within Captura Workflow. It gives you the tools to build, customize, and manage all Design templates and assets used throughout your photography workflow.

By combining your design elements with subject data, job data, and image assets, Designer allows you to create personalized products that can be Automatically generated at scale.

Whether you're building print products, digital assets, product options, or green screen backgrounds, Designer is the central place to create and manage all of your studios designs.

Designer helps studios create consistent, professional products while reducing manual work.

With Designer, you can:

• Create personalized products at scale

• Build reusable templates and designs

• Manage all product offerings in one place

• Offer image and product upgrades

• Support green screen workflows

• Automate product generation using subject data

Designer is the foundation for creating and managing the products and experiences your customers purchase throughout Captura Workflow.

Before you start building products in Designer, take a moment to set up your categories and sub‑categories.

Organizing your Designer workspace helps keep your products structured and easy to manage. Each Designer tool includes the ability to create categories and sub‑categories, allowing you to group related items and maintain a clear, efficient workflow.

Create Your Top‑Level Category Start by setting up your main category to organize your Designer workspace. You can name these categories based on product type, school, sport, or any structure that makes sense for your studio’s workflow.

Go to Designer → Products → Add Category →Name → Click Top-level Category → then select Create

You can then create Sub-Categories:

Go to Designer → Products→ Add Category → Enter a category name → choose a parent category from the dropdown, then select Create.

💡Quick Tip: You can drag your products to different categories

Products represent everything your studio sells, both physical and digital. This includes simple items like prints as well as fully designed templates that merge with subject data.

Print Products

These are items that require at least one image and can use custom layouts, subject data, and external assets.

💡Quick Tip: Print products can also be purchased with product and image options.

Examples include:

• Prints

• Magnets

• Keychains

• Digital Downloads

• Specialty Products

• ID Cards

• Memory Mates

• Sports Trader Cards

• Personalized Prints

• Graduation Products

• Event Graphics

👉 How to build a Print Product: Designer - Print products

These are offerings that don’t require a design but can be sold alongside traditional photography items.

Examples include:

• Frames

• Session Fees

👉 How to build Non‑Print Products: Designer: Non-Print Product

Proof Sheets display multiple images on a single page for review and selection. Proof Sheets cannot be added to Price Sheets.

Common uses:

• School Photography

• Sports Photography

• Event Photography

• Client Image Selection

👉 How to build a Proof Sheet: [Coming soon]

Collections group images together for use in multi‑image products or specialty workflows.

Examples include:

• Wedding Albums

• Graduation Books

• Sports Yearbooks

👉 How to build a Collection: Designer: Collections

Options allow you to offer customizations and additional services during the ordering process. See our different options below.

Image Options provide editing and enhancement services applied to photos.

Examples include:

• Retouching

• Blemish Removal

• Brace Removal

• Teeth Whitening

• Background Enhancements

👉 How to build Image Options: Designer: Image Options

Product options are a great way to create product "add-ons," like a frame for a print.

👉 How to build Product Options: Designer: Product Options

Order Options provide additional services or fulfillment choices at checkout.

Examples include:

• Boutique Packaging

• Shipping Methods

• Order Acknowledgements

• Rush Processing

• Special Handling

👉 How to build Order Options: Designer: Order Options

Background Sets allow you to offer multiple background choices within your Green Screen workflows. Customers can preview and select their preferred background, creating a simple upsell opportunity that can help increase average order value.

Common uses:

• School Photography

• Sports Photography

• Dance Photography

• Seasonal Events

• Special Promotions

Background Sets can be assigned to specific products, jobs, or workflows to streamline production.

👉 How to build Background Sets: Designer: Backgrounds