How to Create Product Images from Blank Garments and Designs

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Topic summary

A store owner is migrating from Magento to Shopify and seeking a solution for their in-house print-on-demand operation. They have approximately 2,000-2,500 unique designs that can be printed on roughly 10 different garment types (t-shirts, tank tops, long sleeves, sweatshirts, etc.).

Core Challenge:
The owner wants to avoid creating 20,000+ individual product images (2,000 designs × 10 garments). They’re looking for a way to dynamically overlay design images onto stock garment photos based on customer selections.

Customer Options Include:

  • Garment type selection
  • Color choices (varies by design)
  • Size selection
  • Optional sleeve image additions for certain garments

Proposed Solutions:
Community members suggested three custom product apps: Customify, Easify Product Options, and PC Product Options. One responder provided detailed screenshots showing how Easify could handle live preview overlays.

Current Status:
The store owner rejected these suggestions, clarifying they don’t need customer upload functionality or mix-and-match customization. Their needs are simpler: pre-defined design/garment combinations with standard variant options. The discussion remains unresolved with no suitable solution identified yet.

Summarized with AI on October 29. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi,

My store makes and sells our own print-on-demand T-shirts. We’re in the process of converting to Shopify from Magento, but are having trouble figuring out how to tackle our print on demand services. We have thousands of designs, and can offer them on multiple garments of the customers choice (T-shirt, tank top, long sleeve, etc). Everything is made and fulfilled in house - we’re not using any 3rd party printers / fulfillment etc.

Is there any way for me to upload the image of a particular design, and have Shopify overlay that image onto the the stock garment image that the customer chooses?

The way I’m seeing it now, is if I have 10 available garments for my 2000 designs, I’m going to need to make 20,000 new product images in order to show all designs on all options. Is there any way around that?

Thanks!

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Hi @SeasonOfMist ,

Now you can use Custom product apps for it. You can refer to the following apps:

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Hi @SeasonOfMist

I recommend Easify Product Options for you. It allows you to offer multiple garments and designs without uploading countless images. It’s easy to set up and doesn’t require any coding – perfect for custom products. Here’s how it works:

  • This is the result:

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  • This is the app setting:

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To make sure the option show up in real time, you just need to choose “Enable LIve Preview” in the Product Personalization for File Upload and Image Swatch like this:

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You’ll find this app easy to use, so I hope you give it a try. If you need assistance, just let me know or reach out to Easify! :hugs:

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Hi Namphan,

Unfortunately these options don’t really work for us. We’re not really doing “custom” products in that sense - the customers aren’t uploading any of their own designs, nor can the designs we have be mixed and match. We essentially have 2500 unique products. The customer is able to choose their garment option (shirt, sweatshirt, etc), a color option (if it’s available - not every design is available on every color offered), and a size option.
If the customer chooses a garment with sleeves, they have an option to add an image unique to that product to that sleeve.

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Hi Jolie,

This won’t really work for us. We have over 2000 unique products. The customizations are only in garment choice, color options for some but not all, and size. They can also add an additional, authorized image unique to the product if they choose a garment where that option is available.