Docs The Studio
A tour of the Studio
Where everything is in the editor.
The Studio is where a design is made and edited. Open one from Home, Designs or a brand's page.
The parts of the screen
| Where | What | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Left | The agent | Ask for a design or a change in plain words. See Work with the agent. |
| Top | Design tabs | The designs you have open. Click to switch. |
| Top | Title and status | Click the title to rename. "All changes saved" tells you saving is done. |
| Top right | Post details, brand check, comments, version history, Export | The panels and actions for the design as a whole. |
| Under the title | Menu bar | File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Arrange, Page. Every command lives here. |
| Left of the canvas | Pages and layers | The slides of the current format; below them, the layers of the current page. |
| Centre | The canvas | The page you are editing. |
| Floating above the canvas | Toolbar | Undo, redo, add text, shapes and images, and quick settings for whatever is selected. |
| Floating below the canvas | Safe zones, formats, zoom | Switch format, add a format, zoom in and out. |
| Right (slides in) | Panels | Layer properties, post details, brand check, comments or version history. One at a time. |
On a phone or tablet the same parts are arranged to fit: see Soda on a phone or tablet.
Selecting and editing
- Click a layer to select it. Shift-click to add to the selection. Click the empty background, or press Esc, to deselect.
- Drag to move. Drag a corner to resize; drag the handle above the box to rotate (it catches at every 45°).
- Double-click a text to edit the words.
- With something selected, the toolbar shows its most-used settings. Choose Adjust for everything else.
- With nothing selected, Page settings changes the page's name, format, size and background.
Moving around the canvas
- Move around
- Scroll
- Zoom at the pointer
- ⌘ + scroll, or pinch on a trackpad
- Zoom in, zoom out
- ⌘ + · ⌘ −
- Fit the page to the window
- ⌘ 0
Undo, always
Everything in the Studio can be undone with ⌘Z, including what the agent did, for as long as the design is open. After that, version history takes over.