Designing Templates for Picsart Photo and Video Editor SDK

There are 3 different ways to design templates for Picsart Photo and Video Editor SDK.

1. Design with Adobe Illustrator (below mentioned as AI)
2. Design with Picsart Photo and Video Editor SDK
3. Request Picsart to design templates (recommended)

Design with AI

The process to design with AI can be summarized as follows

1. Picsart shares guidelines for the .AI files with the Company
2. Picsart does and intro, trainings to make sure Company designers are fully aligned and aware about the requirements on the .AI files
3. Company designers design the templates according to the requirements
   Picsart reviews the provided .AI files and provides feedback (this is mostly feedback on the requirements not being met)
4. Fixes are done on .AI files by Company designers
5. Picsart accepts the .AI files and prepares for production
6. Picsart publishes the templates to the Company’s integration

As described in the last two steps, Picsart should accept the required information above. The process will take up to 7 working days to analyze the provided template information and either accept or suggest edits, and request more info.

The accepted list of template information will then be consumed within 3 working days and immediately be available for use on the customer integration site.

Design with Picsart Photo and Video Editor SDK

The process to design with Picsart Photo and Video Editor SDK can be summarized as follows

1. Company integrates Picsart Photo and Video Editor SDK (in an internal backoffice platform) or uses a demo/test environment provided by Picsart (ask your Account Manager)
2. Company allows designers to use the Picsart Photo and Video Editor SDK, design templates and export
3. Company saves the template files provided by the editor
4. Company shares the template files with Picsart
5. Picsart publishes the templates to the Company’s integration

As described in the last two steps, Picsart should accept the required information above. The process will take up to 7 working days to analyze the provided template information and either accept or suggest edits, and request more info.

The accepted list of template information will then be consumed within 3 working days and immediately be available for use on the customer integration site.

Picsart designs templates

The process looks like

1. The Company shares template requirements with Picsart (categories, classes, business use cases, styles, etc)
2. Picsart designs the templates
3. The Company reviews the templates
4. Picsart publishes the templates to the Company’s integration

Additional information required to publish the templates

Before any template can be published, the following information should be provided:

1. Replay file: ID.replay; type=File (applies to the case when the templates are designed by the Company using Picsart Photo and Video Editor SDK)
2. ID (same as in the filename ID.replay); type=String
3. Tag list, e.g. “#red #hat #sunny”; type=String
4. Tags are used for the discoverability, during the search functionality
5. Taxonomy/subtype; type=String, e.g. subtype=card
6. Taxonomy/subsubtype; type=String, e.g. subsubtype=business card
7. Taxonomy/class; type=String, e.g. class=events