Designing on the Studio canvas

The canvas is the design editor for each piece. You open it in the piece's Canvas tab and use it to build posts, stories, thumbnails or multi-page documents with your project's material.

Canvas modes

Above the canvas you choose between View, Comment and Edit. The modes you see depend on your role in the project:

• View: look at the design without changing anything.
• Comment: leave comments on the design. See commenting on designs.
• Edit: change the design. Only the project's editors have it (see roles and permissions).

People who open the piece through a public link can never edit it.

Pages and sizes

A new design starts at the size of its format: 1080×1920 for story and reel, 1080×1350 for a 4:5 image, 1920×1080 for 16:9 video and 1080×1080 for everything else.

To change a page's size:

1. Open the canvas menu and go to Page size.
2. Pick a preset: Post 4:5, Square 1:1, Story / Reel 9:16, Landscape 16:9, YouTube thumbnail, A4 or Classic canvas.
3. Or type your own Width and Height and press Apply. Tick Scale contents if you want what's already there to fit the new size.

A design can have several pages, which is useful for carousels or documents. From the page thumbnails you can Add page, Add page after, Duplicate page, Rename page, Lock page, Delete page and reorder with Move left or Move right. See all pages frames the whole design. Page Up and Page Down jump to the previous or next page.

If anything sits outside every page, you'll see a warning that some elements are outside any page: those elements are left out of exports. Turn into pages gathers them into new pages.

Change the background colour in Page background.

Text and shapes

• Insert text adds a text box. The text panel has three ready-made styles: title, subtitle and body text.
• The elements panel has rectangle, circle, diamond, arrow and freehand drawing.
• New text and shapes come out in your brand's colour and typeface. See brand and components.

Some labels inside the canvas panels are still shown in Spanish only, even with the interface in English.

Layers and alignment

The Layers panel lists everything on the active page:

1. Drag a layer to change its order.
2. Each layer can be shown or hidden, locked or unlocked, and deleted.
3. On an image, you can make it the page background or stretch it to the page edges.
4. To place an element relative to the page, align it left, centre or right, or top, middle or bottom.

Elements snap to each other as you move them.

Adding images

Images come from the project's library:

1. Open Resources in the piece's right-hand column.
2. Click a file to place it on the active page, or drag it to exactly where you want it.
3. You can also drag files from your computer onto the canvas. They upload to the piece's folder and appear straight away.
4. To swap one image for another, hold Shift while dropping it onto the existing image.

If the project has no linked library, you'll see "This project has no linked media library". If a file is still processing, wait a moment and try again.

For a video, the canvas shows a still frame. Use the frame picker to find the moment you want and confirm it.

Saving your changes

The canvas does not save on its own. You save:

1. Press Save changes in the header whenever you want to keep your work.
2. If you try to leave with pending changes, choose Save and leave or Discard changes.

While you work, the browser keeps a copy every few seconds. If you close without saving, next time you'll see "You have unsaved changes from last time": press Restore to pick up where you left off, or Discard the copy. That copy lives only in that browser.

If someone else saves the same design while you're editing it (from the desktop app or another tab), Studio doesn't overwrite their changes: it tells you the design has changed somewhere else. Your work stays on screen; reload the piece to get the new version.

Frequently asked questions

Does the canvas save automatically?

No. You save with Save changes. The browser keeps a backup you can Restore if you close without saving, but only in that browser.

Can two people edit the same design at once?

Not at the same time. If someone saves before you, Studio warns you and overwrites nothing; reload the piece to work on the new version.

Why is an element missing from my export?

Because it's outside every page. Move it inside a page or use Turn into pages.

Can I upload images from my computer?

Yes. Drag them onto the canvas or into Resources: they upload to the project library and are available for other pieces too.