Best Practices for Optimizing Images on Corjl

🖼️ Are your Corjl designs taking too long to load or download? Your image files might be the reason! Corjl is a web-based design platform, which means it runs inside your browser—not on your desktop. Because of this, performance depends on your internet connection, browser memory, and the capabilities of your device (like RAM and CPU).

To help your customers enjoy a fast, smooth editing experience, follow these image preparation best practices before uploading designs to Corjl. 🚀

❓ Why Does Image Optimization Matter?

Because Corjl works inside a browser, large or overly complex image files can bog down performance and cause issues like:

⚠️ Slow loading times

🐢 Laggy editing experience

📥 Long download times

💥 Browser crashes or freezing

By optimizing your images, you’ll help your customers edit and download designs more efficiently—and avoid unnecessary frustration.

🔧 Reduce Image Size

📏 Image size is the #1 factor that can affect your design’s performance. Clipart and image files are often sold in high resolution—much larger than you actually need for digital or printed products.

📚 Example:

A watercolor PNG of a blue truck might be 10800 x 5400 pixels—that’s 36" x 18" at 300 DPI. For a 5x7" invitation, this is over 6x larger than necessary! 😲

✅ Best Practice:

• Resize your images to better fit your final design dimensions.
• Keep the resolution at 300 DPI for sharp print quality.
• Use tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, or free online editors like Pixlr, Photopea, or ResizePixel.

🎯 A smaller file = faster loading + better customer experience (without compromising print quality).

🧩 Flatten Multiple Elements Into One Background

📚 Using too many individual images in one design can seriously slow things down. Instead of uploading 15 separate decorative images, flatten them into a single background file.

✅ Best Practice:

• Combine non-editable elements into one JPG or PNG.
• Create this flattened image in Photoshop or Canva—or even inside Corjl!

🛠️ If you're using Corjl:

1. Build your layout.
2. Download it as a JPG or PNG.
3. Re-upload it as a background.
4. Delete the individual image layers.

🔒 This also prevents customers from accidentally moving or editing static design parts.

💡 Bonus Tips for Image Efficiency

📂 Keep things light and clean with these quick extras:

• 🧼 Use JPGs when transparency isn’t needed—they’re smaller and faster.
• 🔁 Avoid repeating large images within the same design.
• 🧮 Limit the number of elements in your project—fewer parts = faster results.

🎉 Wrap-Up

Taking the time to resize and flatten your image files will drastically improve the user experience in Corjl. Your customers will thank you for smooth editing and quick downloads—and you’ll reduce support requests, too! 🙌