Good starting audiences
- Holiday gift buyers
- Couples and families
- Memorial shoppers
Design structures
- Circular portrait
- Name and date
- Stained-glass motif
Works well
- Centered faces
- Bold outlines
- Simple short wording
Avoid
- Details near hanging holes
- Long text
- Subjects touching the cut edge
Personalization options
- Names
- Year
- Couple, family, or pet portrait
Production notes
- Shape, hole position, transparency, and white ink vary by product.
File checks
- Cut shape
- Hole clearance
- White-ink or transparency proof
Common risks
- Hole through artwork
- Dark transparent result
- Unreadable small text
Sources and specifications
Supplier and platform requirements change. Recheck the current page before production or publication.
Back to the POD GuideGuide chapters
- Research & methods
- What POD is—and what AI changes
- The complete POD workflow
- Find markets, people, and trends
- Choose products and build a range
- Ways to make POD artwork
- Skills and an asset knowledge base
- Build an AI toolkit
- Match design, product, and print method
- Prepare print-ready files
- Design reliable personalization
- Mockups, listings, pricing, and testing
- Rights, platform rules, and your 2027 plan