Studio guide

How to use the wrap studio

Start with a photo of your car or van. Try a new colour, explore car wrap designs or build business signage, then compare your concept before speaking to an installer.

Open the wrap studio Designing for your business?
01

Start with a clear vehicle photo

Full side view of a red pickup with both wheels and all body panels visible
Keep the whole vehicle in frame, with room around the wheels and bumpers.

In Upload your car, choose a JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF up to 10 MB. A side or three-quarter view in even daylight makes it easier to judge the panels you want to wrap.

  • Use a sharp photo with the bodywork clearly visible.
  • Avoid heavy glare, deep shadows and cropped bumpers.
  • For business signage, show the side or rear where the lettering will go.

Image-based style transfer

Use Add reference photo for a second image, such as a logo or wrap style. Upload your vehicle first and the reference second. Explain which details to borrow and what to keep unchanged; the reference guides the result rather than guaranteeing an exact transfer.

02

Describe the finish and what should stay

Under Choose a look, select a suggested style or write your own AI prompt. The basic principles are simple: name the colour, describe the automotive finish, say where the design belongs and keep the vehicle details you want to preserve.

For car paint colours and paint effects, use concrete descriptions such as satin black, metallic blue or gloss vinyl. Add a HEX colour as a visual reference if useful; it does not guarantee a physical material match. Start with one clear direction, then change one detail at a time.

Example prompts

These AI-generated inspiration images show the design directions below. Your result will depend on your own vehicle photo.

Sports coupe with an iridescent teal-to-violet wrap

Colour-shift finish

Example prompt

Apply a glossy colour-shift vinyl wrap that moves from teal to violet across the body panels. Keep the original car shape, wheels, badges, windows, camera angle and background. Change only the body finish.

White hatchback with bold orange and charcoal rally graphics

Rally-inspired graphics

Example prompt

Create a white, orange and charcoal rally-inspired wrap with bold diagonal stripes along the doors. Keep the original vehicle, wheels, lights, windows and background unchanged. Do not add sponsor names or extra text.

Avoid conflicting instructions and changes to body kits, wheels or suspension unless you want them. Writing “8K” in a prompt does not change the resolution selected in the studio.

03

Set the shape, resolution and privacy

Image shape

Choose Landscape · 4:3 for a broad vehicle view, Square · 1:1 for a square composition or Portrait · 3:4 for a taller image.

Resolution

1K · Draft
A smaller image for exploring a direction.
2K · Recommended
The starting point for new wrap and signage concepts.
4K · Large format
A larger output. More pixels still require a production artwork check.

Privacy & credits

Keep this concept private is on for new drafts. Leave it on to keep the result out of the community gallery. Select Generate concept · 1 credit when ready, and sign in if prompted.

View credits & pricing

An existing draft keeps your saved settings. Drafts stay on this device for 24 hours after editing; they are not a permanent project archive.

04

Compare your concept, then download

Red pickup before a wrap concept
Original vehicle photo
Pickup with a contrasting wrap finish in the existing before-and-after example
Example AI wrap concept

Your results appear under Your concepts. Open a finished image to compare it with the original photo, inspect it at a larger size, copy its prompt or download it.

Give a running generation time to finish and check Your concepts before submitting it again. To explore a variation, reuse the prompt, change one detail and generate another concept; each new generation uses another image credit.

White landscaping van with green and cream Oak & Ivy business signage
AI inspiration concept with an example business identity.

For tradespeople

From van signage to a signwriter brief

  1. Open Trade signage and add your business name, services, contact details, logo and brand colour.
  2. Upload your van or car, choose the coverage and design style, then continue to the AI concept step.
  3. Generate your signage for 1 image credit. Review the result here and select Use concept & review brief to prepare your signwriter handoff.
  4. Check the exact copy, confirm your review and download the brief. Open the HTML file in your browser to print or save it as a PDF.
Start your signage project

Quality checklist before installation

  • Compare the vehicle shape, wheels, windows, lights and badges with your original photo.
  • Read every business name, phone number and website against your supplied copy.
  • Check graphics around handles, panel seams and areas that must stay clear.
  • Ask your installer to confirm real materials, colours, measurements and final print artwork.

An AI concept or signwriter brief communicates your design direction. It is not a scaled wrap template, cut file or print-ready artwork.

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