The main tab for rendering authentic Magic the Gathering cards.
Render All: Renders a card image using each art image found in the art/ folder.
Render Target: Opens file select in Photoshop, renders a card image using each art image you select.
Global Settings: Opens a settings panel used to change app-wide options for:
Main settings: Affects template behavior, can be modified for individual templates. When you click the ⚙️ icon next to a template, a config file is generated for that template which overrides these settings.
System settings: Affects the entire application and cannot be changed for individual templates.
The set of tabs below these buttons represent template types, e.g. Normal, MDFC, Transform, etc.
Template types represent different kinds of templates which require different frame elements or different rendering techniques.
If the Normal tab is active, and you click on a template button, that template becomes selected for the Normal template type. Cards which match the Normal type will now render using that template.
That template DOES NOT become selected for other types. For example, if Borderless is selected in the Normal tab, but Normal is selected in the MDFC tab. Cards that match the MDFC type will render using Normal MDFC.
Next to each template in the template list there are two icons:
⚙️ Lets you change the Main Settings for this template, some templates will also have their own specially designed settings you can change as well.
🧹 Deletes the separate config file generated for this template, effectively returning this template back to default settings. Ensures Main Settings for this template are governed by the Global Settings panel.
The dark grey area below the templates selector is the Console, this is where status messages will be displayed tracking render progress and other user actions.
To the right of the Console are some useful buttons:
📌 Pins the Proxyshop window, so it remains above all other running programs
📷 Takes a screenshot of the Proxyshop window, saves to: out/screenshots/
🌍 Opens your default web browser, navigating to Proxyshop's GitHub page
❔ Opens your default web browser, navigating to our community Discord server
Continue: Becomes active when app is waiting for a user response, either when manual editing is enabled or an error has occurred.
Cancel: Becomes active when cards are being rendered, can cancel the render operation at any time or if an error occurs.
Update: Opens the Updater panel which allows you to download new templates and update existing ones.
Custom Creator Tab
This tab controls the custom card creator.
This feature is currently considered experimental beta and may have issues.
You can currently render Normal, Planeswalker, or Saga cards, just fill in the appropriate data and hit Render Custom.
More features and card types will be added in the near future.
Tools Tab
This tab contains a growing list of helpful tools and utilities.
Render All Showcases: Generates a bordered showcase image for each card image in the out/ folder, showcases will be placed in out/showcase/.
Render Target Showcase: Opens a file select in Photoshop, generates a bordered showcase image for each card image you select.
Compress Renders: This tool reduces the size of card images stored in the out/ folder. The settings are:
Quality: JPEG save quality of the compressed image, supports a number between 1 and 100. (Recommended: 95-100)
Optimize: Enables Pillow's automatic "optimize" flag. Lowers filesize by a small margin for no discernible downside. (Recommended: On)
800 DPI: Downscales card images above 800 DPI to a maximum of 800 DPI. Most Proxyshop templates are 1200 DPI which is much higher than anyone really needs. Most printing services do not print above 800 DPI. (Recommended: On)