# CreativeEditor SDK â Modern Design Editing Inside Your App

Bring design, video, and photo editing into your app and streamline production of visually stunning designs.   CreativeEditor SDK is a fully customizable, cross-platform design editor enabling template-based workflows & automations.   Get started in minutes.

##### Available for

- Web

-- [Javascript](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/js/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

-- [React](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/react/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

-- [Angular](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/angular/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

-- [Vue JS](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/vue/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

-- [Svelte](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/svelte/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

-- [NextJs](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/js/get-started/overview-e18f40/?framework=nextjs)

- Mobile

-- [iOS](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/ios/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

-- [Android](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/android/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

-- [React Native](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/react-native/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

-- [Flutter](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/flutter/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

- Desktop

-- [MacCatalyst](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/mac-catalyst/what-is-cesdk-2e7acd/)

-- [macOS](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/macos/what-is-cesdk-2e7acd/)

-- [Electron](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/electron/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

- Server

-- [Renderer](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/renderer/cesdk-renderer-overview-7f3e9a/)

-- [Node.JS](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/node/get-started/overview-e18f40/)

*FLEXIBLE & VERSATILE*

## Embeddable Design Editor for Your Use Case

### Creator Tools for Any Industry

CreativeEditor SDK is a perfect solution to help you grow your business. It automates print processes, streamlines asset creation, leverages user-generated content, and enables product personalization.

### AI Editor

Supercharge your creative workflows with AI, generate images, videos, text, and audio

[Explore](https://img.ly/use-cases/ai-editor)

### Print

Embrace the potential of personalized prints and variable data printing

[Explore](https://img.ly/industries/print)

### Brands & Agencies

Automate design processes and generate on-brand marketing materials with ease

[Explore](https://img.ly/industries/brands-agencies)

### Social Media

Unleash your users' creativity & boost engagement with an intuitive video & photo creation process

[Explore](https://img.ly/industries/social-media)

### Marketing Tech

Power content creation and creative automation in your marketing application

[Explore](https://img.ly/industries/marketing-tech)

### DAM

Enable users to create, collaborate, and automate design tasks

[Explore](https://img.ly/industries/digital-asset-management)

### Website Builders

Empower your users to edit photos, create video or compose designs from templates.

[Explore](https://img.ly/industries/website-builder)

### E-Commerce

Enhance product presentation and give customers the power to easily customize products.

[Explore](https://img.ly/industries/e-commerce)

### E-learning

Leverage intuitive tools to streamline creation of high-quality, engaging materials.

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*Design Features*

## Advanced Features to Craft Beautiful Designs

*Seamless design process right in your application.*

### Template-Based Designs

Jump-start users' creativity with easily customizable templates.   Simplify the editing process by defining placeholders, managing design elements, and seamlessly guiding user edits.   To accelerate your time-to-market, we provide a library of ready-made templates, including social media assets and e-commerce product designs.

### Fully Customizable UI

Customize the UI to accurately match your brand and correspond to your particular use case. The Editor provides choices for theming , styling , translations , and the option to activate or deactivate features as the default setting.

Customers can opt for pre-existing solutions or create a completely custom UI.

### True Cross-Platform Support

What do we mean by true cross-platform?

We built a single creative engine that is portable to any platform. Whether iOS, Android, desktop, or the web, every platform uses the same underlying tech.

### Workflow Automation

Let users design templates in the editor and generate variations on your servers for a fully-fledged creative automation solution.

Enable on-brand mass-personalization and multichannel publishing with ease.

### Customizable Content Libraries

Provide users with a rich array of creative elements like videos, photos, graphics, stickers, font libraries, page formats, and other custom elements.   Tailor the Library to your app's unique needs by adding custom sources for assets, and enjoy the convenience of filtering and sorting options.

### Extensibility through Plugins

Our SDK is designed for extension. Our flexible Plugin API allows you to implement custom editor functionality such as background removal or vectorizing .

That means you can readily respond to user feedback and new requirements without depending on our roadmap.

### Native AI Features

CE.SDK now comes with powerful AI features built directly into the editor. Instantly generate images, videos, graphics, text, and voiceovers with simple prompts, seamlessly integrated into your creative workflows.   Our AI plugins are model-agnostic, giving you the freedom to connect any third-party model or API you prefer.

### Everything you need

## Key Capabilities

Extensive features to serve any use case and enable a smooth and enjoyable creation process.

### Editing

#### Trim

- Web

- Mobile

Set the start and end time of videos.

#### Adjustments

- Web

- Mobile

Fine-tune designs with an exhaustive set of adjustment operations such as brightness and contrast.

#### Effect & Blur

- Web

- Mobile

Add a unique mood to designs with effects & blur.

#### Element Snapping

- Web

- Mobile

Snap stickers and text to control points for more precise placements.

#### Blend Modes & Grouping

- Web

- Mobile

Define the blending behavior and grouping.

#### Undo & Redo

- Web

- Mobile

Allow users to undo and redo all editing operations.

### Composition

#### Timeline

- Web

- Mobile

Arrange videos and elements on a timeline.

#### Asset Libraries

- Web

- Mobile

Add custom assets for filters, stickers, overlays and frames.

#### Merge Video

- Web

- Mobile

Pick, edit and merge several video clips into a single visual sequence.

#### Video Collage

- Web

- Mobile

Arrange multiple videos on a single page for immersive video collages.

#### Overlay Audio

- Web

- Mobile

Add audio files to videos and set the mood through music or narration.

### Printing

#### PDF/X Export

- Web

- Mobile

Export print-ready files in industry-standard PDF/X formats to ensure reliable, color-accurate production.

#### Cutout Lines

- Web

- Mobile

Create and customize cutout shapes for web-to-print.

#### CMYK/ Spot color support

- Web

- Mobile

Integrate CMYK and Pantone color spaces, customized color libraries, including your brand's colors.

### Templating

#### Design Templates

- Web

- Mobile

Create role based design templates to jumpstart usersâ creativity.

#### Text Variables

- Web

- Mobile

Enable mass personalization and creative automation by embedding variables.

#### Placeholders & Lockable Designs

- Web

- Mobile

Constrain templates to guide your usersâ design and ensure brand consistency.

#### Configurable Presets

- Web

- Mobile

Enforce a consistent aesthetic across all creations by using preset filters, adjustments, fonts, and crop ratios.

### Customizability

#### Build Custom UIs

- Web

- Mobile

Use the headless API powering all creative operations to implement an entirely custom UI.

#### Theming

- Web

- Mobile

Change the editor theme to fit seamlessly with your app.

#### Media Libraries

- Web

- Mobile

Set up custom libraries that are easily sortable.

#### Toolbar Customization

- Web

- Mobile

Reposition toolbar elements, change icons, or rename tools to fit your use case.

#### Internationalization

- Web

- Mobile

Add support for additional languages, and customize any button label.

#### Export Options

- Web

- Mobile

Export designs in JPG, PNG, or PDF with custom quality, page ranges, and dimensions.

### More from IMG.LY

#### IMG.LY for Print

Embrace the potential of personalized prints and variable data printing.

#### IMG.LY for Brands & Agencies

Automate design processes and generate on-brand marketing materials with ease.

#### IMG.LY for Marketing Tech

Scale and automate any creative workflow.

#### Camera SDK

Make in-app recording easy with our Camera SDK.

#### Photo Editor SDK

Bring beautiful photo editing to your applications.

#### IMG.LY for Social Media

Unleash your users' creativity & leverage user generated content.

#### IMG.LY for DAM

Empower users toÂ create,Â collaborateÂ , andÂ automate design tasks in your app.

#### Video Editor SDK

Powerful video editor for your iOS, Android, and web applications.

#### More to discover

## Explore Our Demos

*See how IMG.LY looks and feels.*

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## What Our Clients Say About Us

Integrating IMG.LYâs editor meant we didnât have to build or maintain a complex editing layer ourselves. That kept our team focused on our core AI ad engine and saved us countless development hours â while still giving our customers the ability to polish and customize creatives at scale.

Hikari Senju@CEO@Omneky

With IMG.LY we built a central creative portal that now powers over 140 dealer campaigns across multiple automotive brands. Before this, asset creation was slow and inconsistent. IMG.LY gave us the scale and flexibility we needed to grow.

Martin RÃ¶hr@Product Owner@Digitas

By embedding IMG.LYâs editor we were able to hit key RFP requirements and deliver a template-based creative experience that now serves 1,000+ customers. It helped us win more deals and exceed enterprise expectations without needing to hire dedicated design teams.

Rob Driscoll@Director of PM@Optimizely

Since integrating IMG.LYâs editor, we now deliver 30,000+ ad creatives per month dramatically shorten time-to-launch, and help our clients cut design spend by up to $10,000 per month.This capability has been essential to delivering on our promise of fast, scalable creative production.

Logan Welbaum@Founder@Plai

IMG.LYâs solution engineers did a deep dive on our business case and helped us implement a custom print kiosk UI.

AndrÃ© Albrecht@Digital Solution Manager@Brother

Our customers create over a million personalized postcards each year choosing from over hundreds of templates with IMG.LYâs SDK. Itâs the only solution that allows us to build our own specialized, on-brand UI that integrates seamlessly with our platform.

Jeanine Zaalberg@Product Manager@Swiss Post

Our app has photo-editing at the very core of its experience and the editor has been invaluable in making that vision happen. There are no other tools on the market up to the quality of PE.SDK.

Toby Green@Lead Developer@Elbi

From a developerâs perspective, the most powerful feature of the photo editor is the integration process. It was completely flawless, quick, and easy to integrate.

Stefano Fornari@CTO@Funambol/Zefiro

Our developers loved that the integration was really straightforward and that everything you need like APIs and documentation is easy to find and of excellent quality.

Thomas Witt@Head of Product@Infopark

I believe that it is one of the easiest to use and most powerful editors on the market and the integration possibilities into our solution are awesome.

Marcus Burk@Head of Marketing@dirico.io

We compared PhotoEditor SDK with other solutions and found that it would be the best fit for us since it provides all the features that are crucial for our use case.

Carem Pereira@SCRUM Manager@HP

## Get in Touch

Contact our sales team to learn more about licensing options and get access to our AI plugins for CE.SDK.

## FAQs

### Can I implement roles and permissions using the SDK?

While there is no functionality included with theÂ editor that allows implementing roles and permissions you can use any backend technology or framework to control access to the editor. Furthermore our SDK features are extendible allowing for hooks where permissions can be checked and the editor behavior customized accordingly.

### Can we integrate our own assets (Sticker, Frames, Overlays)?

Yes, absolutely! Please refer to our [documentation](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/js/import-media/from-remote-source/unsplash-8f31f0/) for more information on that topic.

### Can I decide on which features to implement?

Yes, you have full control over which features you decide to use. You can configure the toolbar on mobile and on web you can interface with the API directly to build the exact feature you need.

### Which platforms/ frameworks are supported?

Our IMG.LY SDK is suitable for web and mobile (Android & iOS). Supported frameworks are React-Native, Flutter, Ionic, and Cordova for mobile and React, Angular, Svelte and Vue.js for web. For more information, please visit our [Guides](https://img.ly/docs/vesdk/guides/) .

### Can I import existing designs files into the SDK?

You can always import individual elements as PNG, JPG or SVG, we are currently working on importers for PDF and the most common design file formats.

### Which export file formats for print do you support?

All CreativeEditor SDKÂ scenes can be exported in PNG, JPEG, TGA, binary, and PDF. See the export guide in the documentation for more information on [exporting scenes](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/js/export-save-publish/export/overview-9ed3a8/) .

### Can I enable/ disable a function by default?

Yes, you have full control over the Editorâs UI and functionality. You can also take full control over the editing process with smart templates, lockable designs and placeholders.

### Do you offer integration support?

Yes, apart from accessing our complete [CreativeEngine documentation](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/js/get-started/overview-e18f40/) you can also contact our support team. Our solutions team offer different levels of support based on your license type.  To explore your use case and potential solutions with us simply [get in touch.](https://img.ly/forms/contact-sales)

### Which server-side technologies do you support?

You can run the CreativeEngine in a Node.js environment and deploy it on any platform with Node.js support. See [this guide](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/node/automation/multi-image-generation-2a0de4/) on how to deploy on AWS for reference.

### Can I try your Editors to see how it works?

Yes, we offer a free trial for all our products. You can get your [free trial](https://img.ly/forms/free-trial) right now.

### Can my users edit their photos using IMG.LY SDKs when they are offline?

As the editor works client-side, a permanent internet connection isn't necessary for the editor to run properly. Once the device reconnects, available updates can be installed and the export tracking will be communicated. However, if you require the SDK to work in a purely offline environment please [contact our sales team](https://img.ly/forms/contact-sales) to request an offline license.

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