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Projects in Desktop: your material, your brand and what you create

Create a project in Polimake Desktop: gather a client's or brand's material, set its style and ask for videos and images from «What should we create in…?».

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A project in Polimake Desktop brings together everything for a client, a brand or a campaign: the folders and libraries with its material, its style (colours, typefaces and logo) and what you create, videos and images. It lives on your computer, in its own folder inside Documents, and the AI always works with its material and its brand.

Create a project

  1. In the sidebar, open Projects and click New project. If you're not signed in, you'll see Sign in to create: sign in with your Polimake account first.
  2. In Basics:
    • Type the Project name.
    • In What it is, describe it in one sentence. The AI reads it before creating anything.
    • In Saved in, choose where what you create is saved: a library you already have or New library.
    • In References, tick the libraries and folders with the project's material. You can also paste a Reference link: a website or an Instagram, TikTok… profile.
  3. Click Continue.
  4. In Style & brand, pick a Brand or a starting style, the Type and the colour, and upload the logo with + Logo. On the right you see how Your next piece will look.
  5. Click Create project. If you'd rather set the style later, click Not now.

While it's being prepared you'll see Getting your project ready…. When it's done, the AI starts a conversation to get to know the brand with what you told it.

The project page

When you open a project you'll find:

  • What should we create in…?: the box for asking for something new (explained below).
  • Conversations: what you've talked about with the AI in this project.
  • Videos and images: everything that's been created. A click opens its editor; right-click gives View full size, Edit, Archive, Move to… and more.
  • Posts: each piece's text (caption, hashtags and alt text), with Copy caption and hashtags.
  • The material the AI works with: click Add material to add more folders or libraries, or remove them with Remove from the project.

If the photos and videos are in a folder that hasn't been indexed on this computer, the box warns you that the AI has no context and offers Add its folder.

Create from «What should we create in…?»

  1. Choose what you want: Video or Image. For an image, also choose the Size (post, story…).
  2. Describe what you want in the box: "Describe the video" or "Describe the image".
  3. Click Create.

A conversation with the AI opens; it searches the project's material and prepares the piece. If it's a video, the editor opens on its own when it's ready. A new conversation also offers Ideas to get started, such as Make a short video or Design a post. For everything you can do in the conversation, see Create with AI in Desktop.

Brand and templates

In the project menu, choose Brand and templates:

  • Brand: the Colours (background, accent, secondary…) and the Typefaces for headlines and body text. The AI composes with them.
  • Templates: the catalog of designs the AI fills with your brand. Click Check for new templates to get the latest ones. When you like a piece, ask the AI to save it as a template: it'll show up here first.
  • Decisions and Texts: what the AI has learned about the brand, as text, so you can review or correct it.

Organize your projects

From the project menu you can also:

  • Rename the project.
  • Archive it (and later Unarchive it).
  • Merge with… another project: everything goes to the one you choose, and the first one's folder stays on disk.
  • Remove from this computer: the project leaves Polimake. If you tick Also delete its files, its folder goes to the Windows Recycle Bin, where it can be restored from.

Frequently asked questions

Where are a project's files saved?

On your computer, in a project folder inside Documents. Photos and videos in your other folders aren't moved: the project only uses them as material.

Can I change the brand after creating the project?

Yes. Open Brand and templates in the project menu and change colours, typefaces or templates whenever you want.

What happens if I delete a piece?

It goes to the project's trash, where it can be restored. Photos and videos in your folders aren't touched.

Can I work on a project with my team?

Yes, by sharing its designs with a Studio project. See Share designs with Studio.