Single-Image Tracking

Image Tracking can detect and track digital content to a flat or upright image. This is great for building content that’s augmented onto print material such as business cards, posters, and magazine pages.

Designer supports both single-image tracking (one target image per project) and multi-image tracking (multiple target images in one project), giving you flexibility to create the right experience for your use case.

This article covers single-image tracking. If you would like to learn about tracking multiple images in one project, check out our Multi-Image Tracking documentation. For curved target images, see our Curved Image Tracking documentation.

Single vs Multi-Image Tracking

In single-image tracking, the target image that you upload to your image tracked scene will be shared across all the image tracked scenes in your project. All scenes will track to the same image.

If you want different scenes to track to different images, you’ll need Multi-Image Tracking, which allows up to 5-10 target images depending on your plan.

Using Image Tracking

When you create your Designer experience, you will be asked whether you want your first scene to be World, Image, or Face tracked.

Upon selecting Image Tracking, you’ll be prompted to upload a target image in which your content will track to. To do this, select the Upload target image button in the Project Properties panel. Your target image will be trained, and once uploaded, will appear on your canvas.

Show on Screen

You are able to choose whether content becomes screen-relative when the target image is lost (otherwise known as ‘Show on Screen’) through the Project Properties panel.

You can also choose whether the target image should be shown alongside your content when the screen-relative view is in effect.

Note: Show on Screen is disabled by default to create better user experiences in most cases.

Target Image Orientation

You are also able to choose whether the image you track to is oriented in the Upright or Flat position through the Project Properties panel.

Note that if you choose a Flat oriented image, your project will switch to and be locked in 3D mode.

Building Your Experience

You can then start to build your Designer project, using Components.

For more complex experiences that need to respond to multiple different images, consider using Multi-Image Tracking instead.