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Interface Overview

The Image Editor is one page that behaves like the Bulk Edit page: you set a scope, then edit a grid, then create a job. This tour covers what you see and where everything lives.

Getting there​

After the one-time data sync, open your Shopify admin → Apps → Merchinary, then click Bulk Image Edit in the app's top navigation. You can also start a new edit from the New Image Edit action in the top bar or from the Home dashboard.

The page, top to bottom​

Title bar​

Across the top of the page sit the page-level actions:

  • See drafts — Jumps to your saved, unapplied edits (see Drafts).
  • Asset Library ↗ — Opens the Asset Library as an expandable modal — manage folders, upload, and import PSDs without leaving the page.
  • Discard — Throws away the current edit and lets you start a new one (this is how you change a frozen scope).
  • Create Job ▾ — Apply the edit Now, Scheduled, or Recurring (with optional auto-revert).

Scope (set once, then frozen)​

This is where every edit begins. Build a filter to choose which products you'll edit, then choose:

  • Dedupe by — the variant dimension that defines your buckets (defaults to Color).
  • Layers — how many layer columns the grid should have.

Click Apply scope to freeze the product set. The scope card then collapses to a read-only summary bar showing the product count, the dedup dimension, and active filters, with a note that it's frozen.

Why scope is frozen

Once frozen, the product set never drifts as your catalog changes, so your buckets and staged edits stay stable. To work on a different set, click Discard and start a new edit.

View filter (a working lens)​

The view filter lets you narrow what the grid shows — the full bulk-edit product and variant filter, applied within your frozen scope. It shows "Showing N of M products" with a Clear action.

The view filter never changes what gets applied — apply always targets the entire frozen scope. It's purely for finding and surgically editing a subset in a large grid.

Modifications summary​

A slim, read-only card summarizing your staged layer changes (e.g. "L1: 38 set · L2: 12 · 3 locked"). The grid is the real editor — this card is just a glance-able summary.

The grid​

The largest part of the screen. Rows are products (expandable to their variants); columns are Current Image · Next Image · Layer 1 · Layer 2 · … · Layer N, plus a per-bucket Export PSD action.

This is covered in depth in The layer grid.

Surrounding surfaces​

The Image Editor mirrors Bulk Product Editor everywhere it appears in the app:

  • Top bar — a New Image Edit action sits beside New Bulk Edit and Export Data.
  • Home dashboard — cards for your recent image edits and upcoming scheduled/recurring runs.
  • History — a dedicated Image Edit History tab, with a Drafts sub-tab.
  • Automations — recurring image edits appear alongside recurring bulk jobs, each tagged with an Image badge.

What's next?​