Next Gen: Create Traditional Sports Graphics

Table of contents

• Overview
• Your options
• Video walkthrough
• Workflow
• The takeaway

Overview

Next Gen is GotPhoto's comprehensive volume sports graphics solution. It allows you to outsource sports graphics creation and manage it entirely through your GotPhoto account. While Next Gen supports virtual team photos, this guide explains how to create traditional in-person sports graphics and memory mates.

Your options

Next Gen offers two styles of traditional memory mate graphics:

Video walkthrough

This short video explains how to request traditional sports graphics using Next Gen:

Workflow

Follow these steps to create traditional graphics using Next Gen:

1. Ensure all individual images are cropped for composition before submission. Images are used as-is.
2. In the Next Gen checkout page, select Traditional or Traditional+ instead of Full Composite:
   
3. For Traditional jobs: Choose a template from the dropdown. View Traditional templates
   For Traditional+ jobs: Use any available template from Next Gen's template library

   ⚠ Best practices: Template choice

   Do not use templates where the athlete appears behind the team. These are designed for Full Composite and may result in awkward composition for Traditional+ graphics.

   
4. If you uploaded 5 or fewer images per athlete, you’ll be prompted to Ignore team images or Move team images.
   
5. If you uploaded 6 images per athlete, the first image will be ignored by default. You can confirm or cancel:
   
   
6. Upload your team photo.
   

   ⚠ Best practices: Crop your team photo

   Crop to 8x10 or 8x12 at 300 DPI for best quality and consistency.

   

To review the complete Next Gen workflow, visit the workflow guide.

The takeaway

Next Gen makes it easy to create stunning traditional sports graphics. Choose between Traditional or Traditional+ styles and follow the steps to generate polished memory mates for your teams.