Getting started

Create one reusable template with AI, from a ready-made design, or in the canvas. You put its image link in your email tool, and Piksio renders the saved design with each recipient’s details. AI helps create the template; it does not generate new artwork for each email. See template creation and recipient personalization for how the two uses are billed.

Optional: start from your brand

Want the image in your brand’s colours and fonts? Click Add a brand on the home screen and type your website. Piksio reads its colours, fonts and imagery, and every image you make starts on-brand. Start from your brand shows how.

Just want one image fast? Click Create a personalized image and go straight to step 1. You can still set colours and fonts by hand.

1. Choose how to start

Create a personalized image offers three ways in:

• Start from a template — a ready-made personalized design, yours in seconds, no credits. See Start from a template.
• Create with AI — answer a few questions and Piksio builds your reusable template, including text and supported personalized layers, in about a minute. See Create with AI.
• Blank canvas — build it yourself: a background or photo, text, shapes, your logo, charts. New to the editor? Take the Editor tour.

The template and AI paths have a guided result screen for review and saving. You can open the design in the canvas whenever you want finer control. See On your phone for the phone workflow.

2. Check what changes per recipient

A template or an AI design already has its personalized parts set up, with a fallback for each one. Read them over on the result screen and change what you like.

Building it yourself, or adding more, works like this:

• Text: type a merge tag into any text layer, like Hola {{first_name}}. With a text layer selected, the Insert merge tag row adds one for you, and you can add your own ({{plan_name}}, {{discount_code}}).
• Logo: a logo layer uses the company_logo field. Give it a domain (acme.com) or a direct image link for each recipient.
• Images, charts and colours: bind them to a field in the layer’s settings. Each recipient’s value replaces the one in your design. See Personalize layers.

Keep field names short and lowercase with underscores, like first_name.

3. Save

Give the image a name and click Save (Save & get link on the result screen). Saving gives the image its link, and that link never changes: edit and save again, and every email already sent shows the new version.

4. Use in email

Click Use in email in the top bar (or open the Connect tab); after Save & get link it opens by itself. It writes the link in your platform’s syntax, so you don’t need to look anything up. More about Use in email.

1. Sending from: pick your platform, or search for it. Not listed? Choose Custom merge tag.
2. Match fields: Piksio pre-fills your platform’s field names. Fields marked Custom field need to exist in your platform before you send.
3. If blank, show: what a recipient with no value sees. Leave it empty to leave that word out. See Fallbacks and blanks.
4. Copy the image link or HTML and paste it where your platform’s page says. Every platform has its own page under Integrations.

5. Test, then send

Use Test the link in the same dialog, then preview one real recipient in your platform. See Test your link.