Every colour from one product photo

What does recolouring do?

Photographing a product in every colour you sell is slow and the photos never quite match. PrintBlob needs one photo of the product in white. When a customer chooses a colour, the designer recolours that photo to the colour’s value, keeping the folds and the shading, so a navy shirt looks like a navy shirt and not a flat blue shape. The print files are not affected: they hold only the design.

Where do the colours come from?

From WooCommerce: the terms of the attribute you name as Colour attribute, each with the Colour value PrintBlob adds to its edit screen. A variable product that uses those colours keeps its own prices and stock per colour and size, and the designer keeps sold-out combinations unavailable.

What is the Colours block?

A block that shows the colours you sell, as a rail or a row, with or without their names. Each colour links to the designer page in that colour, so a “Design yours” page can start from the colour the customer likes.

Who is it for?

Any shop selling a product in several colours: t-shirts and hoodies in a dozen colours, team kit in club colours, merch in a brand’s colours. You photograph once, and adding a colour is a new attribute term, not a photo shoot.

What are the limits?

Recolouring needs a photo of a white or light grey product, evenly lit; a mockup whose photo is of a coloured product keeps it as it is (leave Recolour the photo unticked). It makes a solid colour with the photo’s shading: it does not add a heather texture or a pattern. Photos on a transparent background work best.