Configure Multi-Panel art in ART AR – For Shopify Stores

Tutorial to configure Multi-Panel art in Art AR for Shopify stores

In this tutorial we’ll take a look on how to easily configure art that is made of multiple panels or a group of paintings grouped together or a painting split to different parts. It’s essential that you first check the Quick Start tutorial first to know your way around the ART AR Shopify app. This is a tutorial to bring configure multi-panel art in Art AR for Shopify stores. Here is the final result we’ll be reaching by the end of this quick tutorial:

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ART AR visualizing a multi panel painting

After you’ve launched the ART AR Shopify app you’ll navigate to the products dashboard in the ART AR Shopify app. From there you can select the art we want to configure from the ART AR products dashboard.

ART AR products dashboard in Shopify

In the configuration dashboard of the selected product, you can check the “Multi Panels Frame” checkbox at the top right. This indicates that the art we’ll be configuring consists of multiple parts and not just a single frame. After you’ve checked the “Multi Panels Frame” checkbox, you’ll notice additional configuration parameters are shown, these are to help you customize the layout of the multi panels you’d like to configure.

📝ART AR brings existing and ready to use presets that you can use, you can select one from the presets list and start configuring it or you can create a new one from scratch.

Multi Panels art configuration dashboard in ART AR Shopify solution

📝On the left you’ll notice a 3D preview to the left that reflects the configuration we just made, this is just a visual representation to help you understand how it will look like.

You can use the mouse inside the preview, mouse wheel to zoom , dragging while left mouse button is clicked to change the position, dragging while right mouse button is clicked can change the rotation. The current preset we selected will be the starting point to what we’re trying to achieve. The configuration dashboard allows you to modify this preset or make a layout from scratch, you can use this preset and change it like you wish by modifying the parameters. You can change the number of paintings, the spacing between them, the number of columns, the dimensions and frame type of each painting and its position. Once satisifed with the layout, we’ll now import the images for the panels. To do this, click the add files button.

Adding multiple images for the panels in ART AR Shopify Solution

Adding multiple images for the panels in the Multi Panels configuration

📝Make sure you have multiple split images (based on the number of panels you have) each panel will be affected an image (from left to right). Each image needs to be less than 2MB.

Multi-panel canvas of 7 parts configuration in ART AR Shopify solution

We can see now that our multi panel art is coming together nicely. Now we need to save the created frame configuration before we save the final art. To do this click on the green button with the text “Save”.

After clicking the save button, wait until the art has been saved. Once saved successfully then all you’ll need to do is to enable AR for that specify art piece.

Enable AR for our current art in the ART AR products dashboard

That’s it, congratulations! 🎉 You now have configured the multi-panel art to work in AR. Your clients can easily visualize the art in AR on your Shopify store. You can have any layout you’d like to create by adjusting the parameters we mentioned above to have the result you want. For example here is a layout that provides an art with 5 split parts.

Art with 5 split parts configured for AR using ART AR

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