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Customizing your sign layout online is easy.  You can add an Image or Logo, From your local computer by following the steps below.

Step One: Upload Your Image

Click the  ‘IMAGE HOST’ button
On the editor begin here:
You will need to upload your image or logo to our software so we can print from your file.

Next browse your computer for your image or logo file.
(You will need to know the location of your file on your hard drive)

File types supported: jpg or png, Maximum size = 2mb

Click the  ‘browse’ button.  Select your file then click the  ‘open’ button, Once you have located your file on your local computer, click OPEN

Then click ‘upload’
After you have uploaded your
File, you will see a preview.
Below the image you must
Highlight and copy your image
Url as shown.

(Hint: place curser and click in text box
Then press ‘ctrl+a ‘ to highlight the link
Then press ‘ctrl+v’ to copy the link to your
Computer’s clipboard for using later use)
Select & copy the link
Begin by clicking on the ‘file’ tab in the
Tool box widget.

Next click the ‘add image’ button

Then click anywhere
Within the canvas
Of your design.

Proceed to next section
‘File’ tab
‘Add image’
Step two: insert your ‘image host’ link
Now that you have uploaded your image to our servers, you will need to
Paste the provided ‘image host’ link into your design.
Now the following dialog box will
Appear, prompting you to enter the
New image url:

Place curser and click in text box
Then press ‘ctrl+v’ to past the link
Of the image that you uploaded to
The image host from the previous
Steps above.
Paste your image link
Success!
Now your image will
Be placed on the canvas

You will need to resize
Your image while on the
Canvas.

Select the round
Corner nodes while holding
The ‘shift’ key to constrain
Your image proportions.
Click ‘select’
Step three: deactivate ‘add image’ tool
Now that you have completed these steps, you must deactivate the tool.

You must click on the select tool
To deactivate the add image tool

If you do not you will place multiple image on the
Canvas.

If this happens, do not worry, just  click the select
Ool, then select the additional images and press
The delete key on your keyboard or click the ‘edit’ tab
And then click on the ‘delete’ button.

Warning: do not click ‘erase all’ this will delete all your work and there is no undo!