Editor

The canvas editor

Checked against the app on October 17, 2026

Work in the canvas editor: the tool rail panels, the canvas and its artboard ratios, the Inspector, undo/redo, and the full keyboard-shortcut set.

Editor layout

The editor has three regions: the icon tool rail on the left, the canvas in the center, and the Inspector on the right. A rail panel slides over the canvas when you open a tool, and the Layers panel is open by default.

The editor with the Price drop template open, with the Layers section marked.
The Layers panel opens beside the canvas when the editor opens.

The tool rail

The rail's tools, from top to bottom, with Documentation at the foot:

  • Add element: insert an element onto the canvas
  • Layers: reorder, show or hide, and lock the elements in your design
  • Brand: the design levers for your palette, fonts, and canvas background
  • Creative & AI: the copy, video, motion and AI-image settings for this template
  • Assets: the images you have uploaded
  • Templates: import a design with Import from Figma
  • Documentation: open the Help panel beside your design

Working on the canvas

Select an element to move, resize or rotate it. Your design adapts to each Meta size: 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16. Once Pinterest is connected, a fourth artboard appears alongside them: 2:3, Pinterest's own 1000x1500 Pin size.

The canvas tools under the design, with the Toggle rendered preview button marked.
Safe zones and Rendered sit in the canvas tools under your design.
  • Turn on Safe zones to see where content stays clear of the frame.
  • Double-click an image to crop it in place.
  • Turn on Rendered to see the exact image your feed will use. Only AI-written copy can differ.
  1. Select an element, and the toolbar above it can bring it forward, send it backward, duplicate it, lock it or delete it. More actions holds the same and more, such as Bring to front and Send to back.
    The toolbar above the selected product image, with the More actions button marked.
    More actions holds the rest of the commands for the selection.

The Inspector

The Inspector on the right shows the selected element's numeric position and size plus its color, opacity, and corner radius, and the canvas background controls. During a drag it tracks the live position, so the readout stays in step with the canvas.

Undo, redo, and history

Every canvas change is one undoable step. Undo and redo work from the keyboard on the canvas and from the top-bar buttons, and both drive the same history stack.

Keyboard shortcuts

The editor shares these shortcuts, grouped by what you reach for.

Selection & clipboard

⌘ASelect all elements
⌘CCopy
⌘VPaste
⌘DDuplicate
EscDeselect
Delete BackspaceDelete the selected element(s)

History

⌘ZUndo
⇧⌘Z ⌘YRedo

Move & arrange

← ↑ → ↓Nudge the selection 1px
⇧ + arrowNudge the selection 10px
Tab ⇧TabCycle through layers
⌥↑ ⌥↓Move the selection forward / back a layer

Canvas

Space + dragPan around the canvas
⌘ + scrollZoom in and out around the cursor
Double-clickCrop an image in place
⇧1Fit the canvas to the window
⇧0Reset zoom to 100% without moving the canvas

Multi-select

⇧-clickAdd or remove an element from the selection
Drag a boxMarquee-select several, then align them in the Inspector
⌘GGroup the selection
⇧⌘GUngroup

Rotate

Drag handleRotate in fine 1° steps
⇧ + dragRotate in coarse 15° steps

Autosave, drafts and clashes

The editor saves your changes as a draft as you work, and your feed stays as it is until you publish. The status in the top bar reads Auto-saved once your draft is saved, and Published once nothing is waiting to go live.

The Discard unsaved changes? window, with the Keep editing button marked.
Discard asks before it throws a draft away, and Keep editing leaves it as it is.

Your draft is there when you open the template again. Discard, in the top bar, throws the draft away and goes back to what is published, once you confirm with Discard. Keep editing leaves the draft as it is.

If someone else publishes a change to the same template while you have a draft, the parts they changed take their version when you next open the editor, and a message says which parts. If they publish after you opened it, your publish stops, and Reload editor brings in their version so you can make your change again.