- Find your way around the template editorGet to know the areas of the template editor and its main tools.
- The layers panelSelect, hide, lock, rename and arrange the elements of your design in the layers panel.
- Design elements (images, text, shapes)Images, icons, texts, shapes and paths: what there is, and how to add, combine and style them.
- Draw and edit a path: create your own shapes and linesDraw your own shapes and lines with the Add path tool, change their points afterwards and style fill and outline.
- Set colors and gradientsGive shapes, outlines, text and images a solid color or a linear, radial or conic gradient.
- Appearance, effects and transformsAll properties of the Appearance, Transforms and Filters & Effects sections: outline, corners, opacity, rotation, shadows, filters and links.
- Design tools (zoom, align, scale, move)Zoom, align, the Select, Canvas Drag and Scale cursor modes and the keyboard: how to move around your design and place elements exactly.
- Keyboard shortcutsAll keyboard shortcuts and modifier keys of the template editor, for Mac and Windows.
- Use the layout grid: line up elements on guide linesShow rulers and guide lines, set your own grid lines and let elements snap to them while you drag.
- Dynamic layouts with the anchoring toolConnect elements so they move along when text or sizes change.
- Mask elements: crop an image to a shapeCut an image or another element to the shape of a second element, so it only shows where you want it.
- Group elements: move and arrange them togetherCombine several elements into a group so they move together, and arrange them automatically one below the other or side by side.
- Image propertiesAll properties of an image in the properties panel: Origin, Source, Crop, Flip, Crop Mode and Remove background.
- Text propertiesWhat each property of a text does: Origin, font, Max Font Size, Align, Spacing, Wrap, Enforce Uppercase, color, background and turned lines.
- Put text on a curveMake a text run along a path with Curved Text, for example along an arc, and set its baseline and offset.
- Upload a font: use your own fonts in templatesUpload your brand font as TTF, OTF, WOFF or WOFF2 and use it for texts in your templates.
- Saving, autosave and conflicting editsHow autosave stores your changes, how to tell that everything is saved, and what to do when someone else changes the same template.
- Animate a template: make a video with moving elementsSwitch your template to MP4 or MOV, animate properties with keyframes on the timeline and test the video in the design generator.