How to preview customer-edited text on product images?

Topic summary

Need: Allow shoppers to see their custom text rendered on a product image (e.g., posters) before purchase. Current setup uses “Globo variant option” to capture text, but it doesn’t overlay onto the product image, so customers can’t preview or approve the visual result.

Proposed solution: A respondent recommends a third‑party app from Seal that provides live on‑image previews. Claimed features include support for custom fonts and the ability to add extra charges. A free trial link was provided.

Context notes:

  • “Variant option” refers to custom input fields for products; here it collects text but lacks image rendering.

Status: No confirmation the solution works for the requester; no native theme/Shopify method was shared. Discussion remains open with one app-based suggestion and no reported implementation outcome.

Summarized with AI on December 22. AI used: gpt-5.

Hello.

I was wondering if there is a option to preview products that customers are editing themself.

We are selling posters for example, where you are supposed to be able to edit the text on the poster. We have the option to write the text by “Globo variant option” but this edit does not show up in picture. We want the customer to see the text on the poster and kind of accept the look of it.

How do we do that?

Hey @ThereseW , it is indeed important to let customers preview it beforehand, it boosts sales and lower return rate.

At Seal we just launched an app that do just that. You can also use your custom fonts and charge additional price.

You can try it free here.