Skip the design queue

Your team can crop, create and organise every image they need without waiting for a designer. Studio turns templates we build for your brand into finished artwork in minutes, and everything lives in one shared Gallery.

Why not just use your ESP’s image tools?

Most ESPs let you upload an image and use it, and that’s about it. Anything more means another tool or a request to your design team. mailCMS gives your team what it needs to get images right, in the same place they build their emails.

Your ESP’s image tools

  • Upload an image and use it as it is
  • Crop and resize in another tool first
  • New artwork means a request to your designers
  • Images scattered across campaigns

mailCMS

  • Crop to fit any module as you build
  • Optimised for email automatically
  • On-brand artwork from Studio templates
  • One Gallery for your whole team

Meet Studio

Studio is our image editor for CRM teams, and it does what an email editor can’t. Your brand fonts over photography, images clipped into shapes, contrast layers that keep every word readable, badges and lozenges, all from templates we build for you. Your team swaps the photos and rewrites the words, and the result always looks like it came from your design team.

  • Your brand fonts over any photo
  • Masks, shapes and contrast layers
  • Exports saved straight to your Gallery

Made to measure

We build a Studio template for every image your programme needs, at the right size and format, with your fonts, colours and layouts built in. Your team never faces a blank canvas, so there’s no guesswork and no off-brand artwork.

  • The right size and format every time
  • Rules for what can change
  • No blank canvas

Everything in one place

Every image your team uses lives in one shared Gallery, organised into folders and easy to find by name. Upload a whole shoot at once, and everything made in Studio lands there too.

  • Bulk upload
  • Folders and search
  • Shared by your whole team

Crop it and drop it

Every module knows the shape it needs, so the cropper frames each image to fit. Your team chooses the part of the photo they want, and mailCMS saves a crisp, optimised copy while the original stays untouched.

  • Framed to each module’s shape
  • Optimised automatically
  • Originals untouched

Hosted however suits you

  • Hosted for you

    Export your email with its images hosted on our fast content delivery network.

  • Uploaded to your ESP

    Where your ESP allows it, like HubSpot, we upload images straight to your platform.

  • Packaged with your HTML

    Download a zip of your email with its images in a folder, ready for any platform.

FAQs

Is Studio included in our subscription?

Yes. Studio is part of every mailCMS subscription.

Who builds the Studio templates?

We do. We’ll agree with you which images your programme needs, then build a template for each one, with rules for what your team can change. If your designers already have artwork in Photoshop, we can build templates from those files too.

Does cropping an image change the original?

No. The cropper saves a new, optimised copy for your email, and the original stays in your Gallery exactly as you uploaded it.

Where are our images hosted?

On our content delivery network, so they load quickly wherever your subscribers are. Where your ESP allows it, we can upload them to your platform instead, or you can download them with your HTML.

What can Studio export?

Compressed JPGs and PNGs, including PNGs with a transparent background, depending on the template. Each template is set up with the right size and format for where it’s used.

Can we upload lots of images at once?

Yes. Select as many images as you like on your computer and drag them into a Gallery folder in one go.

See how mailCMS could work for your brand

Book a friendly, no-pressure 30-minute walkthrough. We’ll look at how you build emails today and share practical ideas you can use straight away, whether or not you choose mailCMS.