Templates are a great way to save time when you need to apply the same, or similar, design to many product images. They remove the need to make the same editing steps for different designs.
Here, we explain what templates are, how they work, and why you should use them in Photoroom.
What is a Photoroom template?
A Photoroom template is a pre-prepared design that:
Sets the canvas size and orientation, for example, Landscape with a 4:3 ratio.
Can contain prepared images, graphics, text. For example, you could have a template for an Instagram post that includes a 20% off graphic.
A template contains "common" design elements that you want to use on many different designs. You can think of them as a starting point for new designs.
For example, in the image below, we show a magazine-style template from the Photoroom collection (1). This template is applied to three different product photos of sports shoes (2, 3, and 4). This gives us three designs that are very similar, as they all inherit the text and background from the template.
Photoroom provides many different templates to choose from, ranging from plain white and transparent backgrounds to specially designed templates for social media post and special events. You can also create your own templates.
What are the benefits of using a template?
Why should you use templates? Because they can help you:
Save time
Create more consistent, on-brand designs.
For example, let's say you want to create social media post images for 10 products. You want them to have similar designs featuring your logo and a 20% off banner. To create them, you have two options:
Create a new design for each product.
For each design, you’ll need to set the size, add the logo, banner, and other elements. This can be time-consuming, as it requires repeating the same edits for all 10 products.
Use a template.
In the template, set the size and add the logo, banner, and other common elements once. Then, import a product photo and apply the template. This automatically applies the size, logo, banner, and other elements, saving you time compared to manually editing each design.
Note: If you have the Batch Mode feature, you can even apply the template to all 10 images at once.
How to use templates
When you import an image into Photoroom, the app removes the background of your image. You can then choose to apply a template or use an AI Background.
For templates, you can choose:
A custom template that you made previously.
A template from the Photoroom collection.
We have lots of templates to choose from, including white, black, transparent backgrounds, the original background of your image, social media templates, marketplace templates, themed templates and more.
When you choose a template, Photoroom adds the various parts of the template to your design. Your design will then have a minimum of two layers:
Background layer
Object layer (for the subject of your design).
Some templates have additional layers for other parts of the template, such as graphics and text. In the image below, there are layers for the product photo and for the different lines of text.
Each layer has its own settings that you can use to change the appearance of that layer. If you make changes to the layers, the changes only affect your design. They do not affect the template from which they originate.
Further information
To learn how to use templates in Photoroom, see:
Templates in Batch Mode:
Apply a custom template to multiple images in Batch Mode