Free label prep

Lite needs one file: a transparent PNG of your label, cropped to its shape. Make it yourself in your browser right now, or send your file to our team and get it back by email within 2 business days. Both are free, with no order required.

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Label Prep tool

Drop in your label file (PDF, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, PNG or JPG) and download the transparent PNG your Lite bottle shot needs.

Label Prep tool open in a browser, with a label cut out and placed on a Lite bottle
Removes paper, die lines and crop marks in one press, with hand tools to refine the edge
Optional
Erases something printed, like a vintage or a medal, and fills the gap
Adds foil, emboss, deboss and varnish accents. They look convincing on your website and retail listings
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Places the label on a Lite bottle and gives you the height, width, distance from the bottom and rotation for your order
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Saves a settings PDF, so the next label in your range lands in the same place
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Prep my label now
When the finish is the star of the label (deep or multi-level relief, foil over most of the label, textured or specialty paper), or the image has to match the printed bottle exactly, that's Outshinery Studio.
Free

Or let our team prep it

Some files are too tangled for the tool, usually a layered Adobe Illustrator or PDF file with every version, the dieline and the varnish stacked on top of each other.

Send it to us, and one of our designers opens it, hides the layers that don't belong and cuts your label out by hand.

Step 01

Submit your label artwork

Upload your label file through the form above. We accept PDF, Adobe Illustrator (.ai file), EPS, PNG, JPG and most common design formats. Not sure which path fits? Try the Label Prep tool first. It tells you what it found the moment it opens your file.

Wine label print production sheet showing McCollum Family Vineyard Chardonnay artwork with printer marks, die lines, and color proofs, the starting file format for free label prep
Step 02

We extract and prepare your label

Our team isolates your label artwork and removes the background. You get a high-resolution PNG cropped to the exact shape of your label, transparent outside the edges, with your label's paper color kept. The service is a cut out only. For foil or emboss accents, use the Label Prep tool.

Extracted front and back wine labels for McCollum Family Vineyard Heritage Chardonnay, isolated from the print sheet with clean edges during Outshinery Lite label preparation
Step 03

Receive your Lite-ready file by email

Within 2 business days, you'll receive your prepared label file by email, ready to upload directly into your Outshinery Lite bottle shot order. No back and forth, no guesswork about file specs.

You're ready to place your order.

Final Lite-ready transparent PNG of McCollum Family Vineyard Heritage Chardonnay label with floral illustration, prepared for wine bottle shot creation in Outshinery Lite
Hand grabbing a wine bottle illustration

How to prepare your label file

Preparing the file yourself in your own software?
Here's the rule.

Think of it like scissors.

Cut your label out along its edges and place it on a clear surface. The label stays exactly as it is (paper color and all). Only the area you cut away becomes transparent.

Solid white = your label paper
Checkerboard = transparent area
Correct

Paper label (white, cream, kraft, etc.)

The label is cropped to its shape. The area outside the edges is transparent (checkerboard). The white paper is kept as-is because that's what your real label looks like.

Rectangular label cut to the edge? No blank space needed outside it.

Keep the paper color. Only cut away the outside.
Vinha Brava wine label featuring an illustration of terraced vineyards and a sailboat on a river with text indicating certified sustainable viticulture, woman-owned winery, Touriga Nacional, Douro DOC, and 14.0% ABV.
Bottle of Vinha Brava Touriga Nacional Douro DOC red wine with a green cap and white label featuring vineyard illustration.
Correct

Silkscreen / ACL (printed directly on glass)

There's no paper. The ink is printed directly onto the glass. Everything except the printed elements is transparent, so the glass shows through.

Fully transparent. Only the ink stays.
Logo for Cape Theory South Africa featuring stylized mountains, a sun, waves, and plants in earthy red and gray tones.
Bottle of Cape Theory South Africa rosé wine with minimalist design featuring a sunset, mountains, waves, and plants.
Wrong

Paper label with white removed

The white paper was deleted, making the whole label transparent. Now it looks like a silkscreen instead of a paper label. The text floats on glass.

Don't remove the paper color. It's part of your label.
Wine label for Vinha Brava featuring a line drawing of terraced hills, a river with a sailboat, and the text Touriga Nacional Douro DOC 14.0% ABV.
Bottle of Vinha Brava Touriga Nacional Douro DOC red wine with a green foil cap and a label featuring vineyard hills and a river illustration.
Wrong

Label on a white background (not cropped)

The label file has a solid white rectangle behind it. This creates the "white box" effect on the bottle because the system can't tell where the label ends and the background begins.

Crop to the label shape. Remove the background, not the paper.
Wine label for Vinha Brava, certified sustainable woman-owned winery, featuring a hand-drawn landscape of terraced hills and a sailboat on the river, Touriga Nacional Douro DOC, 14.0% ABV.
Bottle of Vinha Brava Touriga Nacional Douro DOC wine with a green cap and label featuring vineyard hills and a river illustration.
FAQ

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Do I need a transparent PNG to use Outshinery Lite?

How long does it take to convert my label?

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Does your team edit or redesign my label?

Is my label private in the Label Prep tool?

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