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What is a lightbox?

A lightbox is a "folder" that you create on our website in which you can store and manage sign designs that you are interested in and associate them with a particular project if you want.

Your lightboxes will help you stay organized. When you find a design that you like, you can save it to a lightbox continue searching for more designs. You can create as many lightboxes as you want, and store as many images as you want!

Most people use lightboxes to store designs they're interested in relating to a particular project or client. Once you've created a lightbox and added designs to it, you can remove any that you don't want, or purchase only the sign designs you need for a particular project.

No need to save images to your desktop or write down design numbers, we can store all that info for you! Each time you login to your account, you will be able to view your lightboxes and manage your sign designs.
General Shopping Guidelines
  • Login to Your Account
  • Browse For Files Using Category or Collection Views or By Searching by Keyword
  • Add Them To Your Shopping Cart
  • Select Checkout
  • Enter Your Credit Card Information to Purchase Your Designs
  • Download Your Artwork
Designer Upload Guidelines
  1. Keep your digital files clean and organized! Try to minimize the use of gradient mesh and clipping mask if possible.  The basic design must be clean lined vectors that can be used to create production files from when the time comes.  You may use textures and placed files for fills and backgrounds, but be sure the main sign design is a clean vector based object.  
  2. Make sure your design falls within the confines of the artboard and always check outside the artboard area for any stray points or paths. 
  3. Your vector file should have all filled paths closed for better compatibility. Your files should have all stray points and loose ends cleaned up.
  4. Convert your type to outlines. Creating outlines of your type converts each letter to its own vector shape.
  5. Save your vector image/illustration/icon(s) as an .EPS VERSION 8 (Encapsulated Postscript) file. Your EPS file must be saved as an EPS VERSION 8.
  6. Create a jpg image of your design file, max width 300px max height 480px.  If possible, make this preview a portrait style layout rather than landscape. 
  7. Login to your designer account and click "add artwork" on the left.  Follow the steps to add your artwork to our catalog.
    • select the best category that you think your sign design fits under.  
    • Create a title for this sign design
    • Create a short (25 words or less) description for this design
    • Decide on a price for your design.  Browse our collection to see average pricing.  Your comission will be 50% of the price you decide.  If you want to change the price later you can.
    • Enter keywords (max 15) to use to describe/identify your design.  This will help users search for your design.
    • Browse for your jpg. image and select it.
    • Browse for your .eps file and select it.
    • When all fields have been filled out click 'submit artwork'
  8. Once you have successfully uploaded your artwork, it will be marked as 'pending' under the 'manage artwork' tab.  When our administrators approved it, you will see it listed under the 'approved' section.  Occasionally, we will reject your artwork.  Please see our FAQ's to learn more about what types of art we are looking for and why we might not accept your designs.
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