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Digitoly Canvas User Guide

Digitoly Canvas turns your brand colors, fonts and logo into ready-to-post graphics and videos. This guide walks through everything from signing up to exporting.

1. Getting started

  1. Create an account (or sign in) and open the Dashboard.
  2. From the Dashboard you reach Templates, Video, Brand Kit and Assets.
  3. Set up your Brand Kit first. Every template then uses your colors, fonts and logo automatically.

2. Brand Kit

  • Logo: upload a PNG with a transparent background for best results.
  • Colors: primary, secondary, accent, background and text. They appear as one-click swatches in the editors.
  • Fonts: heading, body, button and highlight fonts.
  • You can keep more than one Brand Kit, for example one per client.
  • Share a kit: under Share with workspace, pick a workspace. Everyone in it can then use and edit that kit; only you can delete it. Create workspaces (Agency plan) and invite people from Dashboard, Workspaces. An invite link works once and expires in 14 days. People you invite only need a free account.

3. Making images

  1. Go to Dashboard, Templates. Pick a starter template or start blank, using search and category filters to find one.
  2. Drag to move, drag the corner or edge handles to resize, and use the rotate handle.
  3. Add text with the H (Heading), Sub (Subheading) or Body buttons. Double-click any text on the canvas to edit it in place, or use the text box in the right panel.
  4. Add shapes, frames, icons, emojis, your own images and your logo from the left panel. The emoji list includes 249 country flags, listed alphabetically.
  5. Frames come in five styles: solid, dashed, dotted, double-lined and designer. Choose Square frame or Rectangular frame for a ready-made size, then change the border color and width in the right panel.
  6. Gradients: select a text or shape element and tick Gradient fill. Pick a second color and drag the direction slider.
  7. Photo adjustments: select a photo to change brightness, contrast, sharpness, noise reduction and vignette. For red-eye, press Fix red-eye and click each eye, then press Done. Reset clears all adjustments.
  8. Remove background: select a photo and press Remove background. It runs in your browser (the first use downloads a small model, so allow a few seconds), nothing is sent to an outside service, and the result is a cut-out PNG. Press Restore background to get the original back. It works best on clear subjects such as people and products; fine hair or fur can come out soft.
  9. Make a template yours: press Apply brand colors & fonts under Brand kit in the right panel to recolor the whole design and switch its fonts to your Brand Kit. Undo brings the old look back.
  10. Curved text: select text and move the Curve slider. Left bends it into a smile, right into a rainbow, and 0 is straight. Curved text is one line.
  11. Crop a photo to a shape: select a photo and choose Circle, Rounded, Arch, Hexagon, Star or Heart under Crop photo to a shape. Make the photo square first for a perfect circle or star.
  12. Backgrounds: the Backgrounds section in the left panel has gradients and patterns. Click one to place it behind everything, then resize or delete it like any picture.
  13. Text effects: select text and pick Shadow, Glow or Outline, then set its color and strength.
  14. Favourites: tap the star on a template or stock photo to save it. Use the Favourites button on the Templates page, or the Favourites tag in the Stock tab, to see only your starred ones.
  15. Share a view-only link: press Share a view-only link in the right panel to get a web address anyone can open to look at a snapshot of your design for 30 days. They cannot edit it.
  16. Fit to canvas: select an image and press Fit to canvas to make it fill the design exactly. Press it again to return to the earlier size. You can also type an exact width and height in pixels, which is handy for logos.
  17. Stock photos: open the Stock tab in the left panel to search the built-in photo library by keyword or category, then click a photo to add it.
  18. Select several elements with Shift-click (or Select multiple on touch screens) and group them so they move together.
  19. Right-click an element (or long-press on a phone or tablet) for the quick menu: duplicate, delete, layer order, lock and more.
  20. Use Undo and Redo (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Shift+Z) if you make a mistake.
  21. Magic Resize creates the same design in other sizes: Instagram, Story or Reel, landscape, Facebook and LinkedIn covers, YouTube thumbnail and slides. Tick Download all sizes as one ZIP to get them in a single file. Each size counts as one export.
  22. Bulk generate from a spreadsheet: type placeholders such as {{name}} in your text, click Bulk generate from CSV, upload a CSV whose first row holds the column names, and download one design per row as a ZIP. Up to 200 rows per run, and each design counts as one export. Rows that fail to render are not charged.
  23. Click Full screen preview to check your design on a dark full screen view. From there you can Download it or open the Print preview, which opens your browser's print dialog so you can pick the paper size or save as PDF.
  24. Room to work: the editor uses the whole screen. The main menu starts folded away (the button at the left of the bar brings it back, and your email and Sign out are at the bottom of it). The panel on the left holds the shapes, frames, icons and emojis (Elements tab) and the photo adjustments (Adjust photo tab), and the design panel on the right can be hidden with its button, to give the canvas even more room. The bar above the canvas holds the design name, undo and redo, flip, layer order, export format, Preview and Export, so they stay in view while you work. Choose PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG and click Export to download your design. SVG is a scalable vector file for print and further editing. Printing an image counts as one export, but the preview is free.

4. Making videos

  1. Go to Dashboard, Video. Start by uploading a clip, or pick a video template and add your footage.
  2. The bar above the preview keeps the video name, aspect ratio (1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 9:16 or 16:9), undo and redo, flip, layer order, zoom, clip speed and Export MP4 in view. Trim sliders and the look adjustments for the selected clip are in the left panel, and the right panel can be hidden for a bigger preview. Overlays keep their relative positions when you change the ratio. On a phone or tablet, select an element and pinch with two fingers to resize it.
  3. Video animation: under Frame, pick fade, slide or pop to animate the whole video (with its border) in at the start and out at the end.
  4. Clips: add more clips, then trim, reorder, change speed (0.5x to 2x) or flip them. Cuts get a short crossfade automatically.
  5. Overlays: add text (Heading, Subheading or Body), your logo, images, icons, emojis and flags, shapes or a second video as a small inset. Set when each starts and how long it stays.
  6. Resize: logos, images and shapes show eight dots (four corners, four edges). Text shows two, left and right. Drag any dot to resize from that side.
  7. Frame the main video: click it in the preview to drag it into place or zoom with its dots. Under Frame choose None, Circle, Rounded or Hexagon.
  8. Frame border: choose Line, Dashed, Dotted or Double, then set color and width. Try the one-click Designer frames: Classic, Gallery and Neon dots.
  9. Animation: select any overlay, including a video inset, and pick fade, slide, pop or typewriter in the right panel, then set the transition length.
  10. Gradients: select a text or shape overlay and tick Gradient fill.
  11. Clip adjustments: select a clip in the timeline to change brightness, contrast, sharpness, noise reduction and vignette. Sharpness and noise reduction are applied when you export.
  12. Music: add a background track from the built-in music library or your own file, and set its volume.
  13. Stock photos and cut-outs: the Stock section offers library photos to place on the video. Select an image overlay and press Remove background to cut out its subject, or Restore background to undo it. Background removal works on image overlays, not on the video footage itself. Press Fit to canvas to make a clip or image fill the frame, and press it again to go back.
  14. Auto captions: open Auto captions in the left panel, choose English, Hindi or detect the language, and press Generate captions. The speech is turned into text in your browser, so nothing is uploaded; the first time it downloads a small speech model. Captions appear as ordinary text on the timeline: read them through and fix any wrong words. Use Remove all auto captions to start again.
  15. Apply brand colors & fonts also works on the video: it recolors your text and shapes with the selected Brand Kit.
  16. Video templates: the Templates page has ready-made intros, lower thirds, sale and festival cards, captions and end screens in 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 and 16:9. Pick one, add your footage, then change the wording.
  17. Click Export MP4 in the bar above the preview. Video export runs in your browser, so keep the tab open until it finishes. When it is ready a full screen preview opens so you can watch it, then press Download MP4 to save it.

5. Assets

The Assets page holds the images and videos you upload. Search to find them. Uploads are temporary storage and are cleaned up automatically after a while, so keep your originals.

6. Plans, passes and credits

The editors are open to everyone. You pay only for exports, in the way that suits how often you export: short passes, export credit packs or a monthly plan. See the pricing page for current prices.

  • Free: 10 image exports every month, no card needed. Free exports cover images only.
  • Starter: 500 image exports a month. Pro: unlimited image exports. Agency: unlimited image and video exports.
  • Video export needs an Agency plan, an active pass or export credits.
  • One-time passes give unlimited image and video exports for 24 hours, 72 hours, 7 days or 30 days.
  • Export credits never expire. One credit is used per image or video export.
  • Previewing is free. Downloading or printing an image, and rendering a video, count as exports.

Payments are handled securely by Razorpay and you can cancel a subscription any time.

7. Troubleshooting

  • Export says to wait a few seconds: exports are rate limited to prevent accidental double clicks. Try again in a moment.
  • Video export says you need a plan, pass or credits: free exports cover images only. Get a pass, credits or the Agency plan.
  • Text is hard to select: double-click it to edit in place, or click it once and use the text box in the right panel. If another element covers it, send that element backward from the right-click menu.
  • Video export is slow: it runs on your device. Use a recent computer, keep the tab in front and avoid very long or very high resolution clips.
  • Logo shows a white box: upload a PNG with a transparent background.
  • Something looks broken: refresh the page. The video editor autosaves your work.

8. Getting help

Check the FAQs, or send us a message from the Contact page. You can also reach us on any social channel linked below.