Export Mockup Photos, Videos and Print Files

Photos

Save Photo captures the current view and saves it to your Photos library. The High Quality Export setting, on by default, saves the image at twice the on-screen size. Free exports carry a ThreadCam watermark; Pro exports are clean.

Videos

Pick a camera preset and record. ThreadCam plays the move and saves a clip of roughly 4 to 12 seconds to Photos.

A mockup photo and a print file do different jobs

Use the mockup photo to show the shirt in a listing or a post. Use the print file to give your printer the artwork itself, at the size and position you chose. A picture of a shirt is not a substitute for the file a printer needs.

On a 12 × 16 inch print area at 300 DPI, such as the front of a regular tee, the print file canvas is 3600 × 4800 pixels (12 × 300 by 16 × 300). Other garments have other print areas, so their canvases differ. The shirt is not part of that file: everything around your artwork stays transparent.

Only need the picture? The free t-shirt mockup generator makes a mockup PNG in your browser; it does not make print files.

Print files (Pro, iOS)

Export Print File renders your placed artwork on a transparent canvas at 300 DPI, for example 12 × 16 inches (3600 × 4800 pixels), a common adult t-shirt front print area. The file is built from your original images at full resolution, not from the 3D preview, and keeps the position and size you set on the garment. It opens in the share sheet so you can send it to your printer, Files or email.

Printers use different templates, especially for caps and bottoms, so check the size against your supplier's spec before ordering.

To see how many pixels your own artwork has at the size it will print, use the free print file checker.

Saving projects

With Pro you can save a design as a project and come back to edit or re-export it later.