Editing the design

Edit design#

In the editor, Edit design (above the canvas) switches from filling in banners to changing the design itself. Every object on the canvas can now be selected, moved, resized and rotated. Undo and redo are in the top bar (Ctrl/⌘+Z, Ctrl/⌘+Shift+Z); Delete removes the selection.

The toolbar above the canvas adds and styles objects:

• Text, Rectangle, Circle add new objects in the template's colours.
• The colour dots fill the selection with one of the design's colours.
• Shadow gives the selection a soft shadow — see below.
• The font menu changes the font of the selected texts.

Each size has its own layout: switch the size tabs to edit the others.

Fonts#

Select a text and open the font menu. Point at a font to preview it on the canvas straight away; click it (or press Enter) to keep it. Press Escape, click elsewhere or move the pointer off the list to go back to the previous font. Fonts are grouped: the fonts of this design, sans serif, display, serif, handwriting and system fonts.

Besides the common system fonts, PromoRails includes 20 Google Fonts: Montserrat, Roboto, Open Sans, Inter, Poppins, Lato, Nunito, Rubik, Raleway, Oswald, Bebas Neue, Anton, Archivo Black, Abril Fatface, Playfair Display, Merriweather, Lobster, Pacifico, Dancing Script, Permanent Marker. Exports use exactly the same fonts, so the PNG looks like the editor. Most of them include Cyrillic letters.

Shadows#

Select any object — text, shape or picture — and press Shadow. Turn the shadow on and set its colour, opacity, blur and offset; the canvas shows every change at once. Shadows are part of the design: they appear in exports and become drop-shadow effects in PSD files.

Save Template, Save and Close#

While you edit the design, three buttons decide what happens to it:

• Save Template saves the project and the design to My templates. A catalog template is copied first (the catalog never changes) and the project switches to your copy; pressing it again later updates that copy.
• Save (top bar) saves only the project.
• Close goes back to the banners; the design changes stay in the project until you save.

Reset to original

When the design comes from a catalog template, Reset to original loads that template's design again into every size. Nothing is saved until you press Save or Save Template, and Undo brings your version back.