I. THE ART
You don’t need to be a graphic designer to order a custom deskmat. Our professional design team will review your original artwork and prepare it for print at no extra charge. If we have concerns about the source or layout, we’ll contact you.
Basic requirements:
- Upload the highest-resolution original image you have. Our professional design team will review and prepare it for print at no extra charge. You don’t need to resize or upscale it yourself. A higher-resolution source generally gives us more detail to work with; if we have concerns, we’ll contact you.
- If your file won’t upload, contact support@specterlabs.co or send a cloud-download link to the original. Please keep layered source files unmerged when available.
- You can upload the original file from a computer, phone or tablet. Please avoid screenshots or compressed copies when the original is available.
Do's:
- Measure your desk when deciding on the pad size to make sure it fits your battle station
- Upload your original image as-is and add this note to your order: “Please adapt to the mat size without cropping; send for approval before printing.” Our designers will assess how the image can fit your chosen size. If keeping the full image requires a different layout or image extension, we’ll review the options with you. You can also email the original and your preferred mat size to support@specterlabs.co before ordering.
- Keep in mind the bleeding area of 2/5’’ (10mm) on each side of the mousepad/deskmat. Most of that area is left out and the rest is imprinted on the stitching. That is why important design elements should not be too close to the edge of the image.
- Feel free to add special instructions during checkout, our graphics processing team will do their best to tweak the design according to your needs
Don'ts:
- Do not use any upscaling software or service to boost the resolution of the image yourself, we use an array of tools and skills to achieve results that can't be matched by any stand-alone software
- Do not manually resize the image from lower resolution to higher resolution
