# 500M+

video and photo creations are powered by IMG.LY every month

## Unify Content Creation and Distribution in Your App

**Challenge**

Inability to automate asset creation for different channels, languages, and formats.

**Solution**

### Modern Design Editor with Extensive Automation.

Publish designs in multiple formats for any channel. Automatically propagate changes to the design without the need for time-consuming manual updates, and supercharge your usersâ productivity.

**Challenge**

Asset creation process limited to design team creates bottlenecks & delays marketing campaigns.

**Solution**

### Design Editor with Easily Adaptable Smart Templates.

Empower your users to produce assets with ease. Define placeholders, lock and unlock design elements and guide what customers can edit and how. Make the creation process easy and accessible while ensuring creatives are always on brand.

**Challenge**

Production of high-quality content for multiple channels without slowing down campaign timelines or overloading creative teams.

**Solution**

### Native AI Features

With new AI features built directly into the editor, marketing teams can instantly generate images, videos, graphics, text, and voiceovers through simple prompts.

Our model-agnostic AI plugins allow seamless integration of any third-party AI model or API, giving you the freedom to scale content production while maintaining full creative control.

**Challenge**

Users need a flexible design editor that covers all types of assets.

**Solution**

### Editing Solution Combining Video & Static Designs.

Our SDK is uniquely designed to handle both video and static designs, making it the go-to choice for comprehensive asset creation & management.

**Challenge**

Lack of features for easy generation of print-ready designs.

**Solution**

### A Design Editor Optimized for Print

Our SDK can be configured for print campaigns of any kind, from greeting cards, posters, or flyers to physical merchandise and apparel.

Configurable bleed margins, page clippings, and special colors ensure a smooth print production process.

Generate pixel perfect PDF X files that are ready-to-print.

**Challenge**

Lack of compatibility with other systems.

**Solution**

### 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.

**Challenge**

Users need to rely on 3rd party tools to store brand creatives.

**Solution**

### Customizable Content Libraries

Allow users to build custom content libraries serving brand creatives, logos, vector graphics, stock photos and templates. You can easily integrate with any third-party provider or your own asset management system.

**Challenge**

Building a solution from scratch takes a considerable amount of time and resources.

**Solution**

### Best-In-Class Design Editor Integrated With Only a Few Lines of Code.

Thanks to our developer-first focus and comprehensive documentation, the integration process is quick and easy. Our team of experts is ready to provide support and assistance throughout and get up and running quickly, saving valuable time and resources.

**Challenge**

Training customers and familiarizing them with new tools is time-consuming.

**Solution**

### Fully Customizable UI That Perfectly Matches Your Use Case.

Our SDK ships with out-of-the-box UIs optimized for use cases from simple template adaptations to complex print designs. Its headless API also allows you to build entirely custom editor UIs to perfectly fit any use case.

### Everything you need

## Key Capabilities

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

### 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.

### 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.

### 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.

### 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.

#### Timed Elements

- Web

- Mobile

Add a dynamic elements such as stickers and set their duration on the timeline.

#### Overlay Audio

- Web

- Mobile

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

### 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.

*Your partner in crime*

## Why IMG . LY ?

### Battle-tested

Our SDK has matured in demanding environments, powering 500+ million creations per month.

### Scalable & Future-Proof

We regularly release new features and improvements to help you stay ahead of industry shifts.

### Customization

Our SDK can be flexibly customized, you can even build custom UIs and extend the editor functionality.

### Cross-platform

Our SDK is optimized across platforms ensuring consistent rendering and interoperability.

#### More to discover

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### Check Out Other Use Cases

*Learn more about related solutions.*

#### Stories, Reels & Short Video

Delight users with intuitive way to create stories, reels, and short videos.

#### Creative Automation

Automate & scale content creation with ease.

#### Variable Data Printing

Enable mass-personalization in your design & print workflows.

#### Print Personalization

Streamline personalization for your print products.

### More From IMG.LY

#### IMG.LY for Brands & Agencies

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

#### Camera SDK

Make in-app recording easy with our Camera SDK.

#### Photo Editor SDK

Bring beautiful photo editing to your applications.

#### Creative Editor SDK

Empower your users with an easy-to-use design editor.

#### 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.

## 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

### What is the difference between creative automation and variable data printing?

Creative automation refers to the general process of programmatically creating or editing designs, all aspects of a design are subject to change whether colors, fonts or element position. In addition a data source can be used to update dynamic elements of the design.  Variable data printing refers specifically to using data to create variations of a specific design template. The designs thus created are then further processed in a down-stream printing workflow producing physical prints.

### 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 frameworks do you support for building custom UIs?

You can use any Javascript framework to implement a custom UIÂ on top of our [headless CreativeEngine API](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/node/get-started/overview-e18f40/) . You can find dedicated getting started guides for [React,](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/react/get-started/overview-e18f40/)  [Vue](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/vue/get-started/overview-e18f40/) , [Angular](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/angular/get-started/overview-e18f40/) and [Svelte](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/svelte/get-started/overview-e18f40/) in our documentation.

### 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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