1. Select the photos you want to change.
2. Tap SAME SIZE on the selection toolbar. It appears when the selected photos have different sizes.
3. Move them into place, or follow with ARRANGE or ALIGN.

The largest selected photo sets the size. The others keep their own pictures, effects and turns. Their pictures are cropped to the new shape. A photograph near a page edge may move inward enough to fit.

1. Use the duplicate icon beneath a page to copy it.
2. Drop a new tray photo onto the photo you want to replace.
3. Edit the words and check the crop before moving on.

This is useful for a series with the same arrangement on each page. The repeated layout gives you somewhere to start, and each photograph can still have its own crop.

1. Click a page, then open PAPER.
2. Choose a paper colour, or type your own colour in BRAND COLOUR.
3. Move to the next page and choose its colour.

Separate pages keep their individual colours. A new page begins with the last colour you chose. A seamless design shares one paper across the strip.

1. Open the post design.
2. Tap DUPLICATE FOR…, choose STORY, then confirm the copy.
3. Look through every copied page. Adjust the crops and the space around your words for the taller shape.

The copy stays beside your other designs. You can move between them in DESIGNS.

1. Tap EXPORT, or press E.
2. Choose GIF or MP4. The clips open.
3. Click one your design can make. EXPORT comes back with it under MOTION, its settings right below and its clip playing, small. A faded clip tells you what the page needs first.
4. Set its timing, then use the preview button to watch it. The button’s name follows the motion or file type.
5. Give the file a name and export it.

You can reopen the clips through MOTION or EXAMPLES. They are grouped under PAGES, PHOTOS, SCROLL and WORDS.

For ideas before you have made a page, tap MOTION beside PLAN at the top. Every clip plays there. Tap one for a larger view and a short explanation of the setup. Your design stays as it is.

Some make MP4s only. Their clips say MP4 only when you are choosing a GIF. Choosing one switches the export to MP4 when your page is ready for it.

1. Look for STARTS in the motion settings.
2. Choose Moving for a quicker start. Preview On the page to compare the opening.
3. Preview again after changing it.

MP4 begins with Moving selected; GIF begins with On the page. SOCIAL remembers your choices. The scrolls have their own opening controls instead.

Animate grid cells, Reveal the stack, Paper pieces and Flip the card add a brief view of the finished page at the beginning of an MP4. It gives the video a complete opening picture. The motion follows that picture, including when STARTS is Moving.

START WITH, where offered, chooses the first stage of the reveal: a first photo, one cell or the background. That stage follows the MP4’s brief finished-page opening.

For a simple sequence:

1. Finish two or more pages and put them in order.
2. Choose One page at a time.
3. Set SECONDS PER PAGE. Use PAGES → Choose pages if you want only part of the design.

This works with photographs, words, grids and collages. Give a page with more reading a comfortable pace. If you have made swipe reveal pages, MOTION reads Play swipe reveal pages.

For a magazine-like turn:

1. Make two or more pages, then choose Turn the page.
2. Set EACH PAGE HOLDS and TURN. Quick gives a brisk page turn.
3. Under BACK OF THE PAGE, choose Next photo or Front shows through.

TIMING lets the pauses stay Even, Speeds up, Slows down or Uneven. When the timing varies, AVERAGE PAGE HOLD sets the average pause. Try full-page photographs with a little printed texture for this one.

1. Give each of two or more separate pages one photo. Add words beside the photograph if you like.
2. Choose MP4 → Page wipe.
3. Set DIRECTION to Wipe up or Wipe down, then choose WIPE SPEED and EACH PAGE HOLDS.

None runs the wipes together without a pause. When there are words beside the photos, CAPTIONS offers Solid or Fade. Different paper colours help you see the wipe across the whole page.

1. Make two or more separate pages, each with one photograph and a name.
2. Arrange the first page carefully. Its layout sets where the photos and names sit throughout.
3. Choose MP4 → Two-way carousel. Set EACH PAGE HOLDS and the size of OTHER NAMES.

Names move up while photographs move down. A small second line beneath a name can travel with it. The first page’s paper stays behind the sequence.

1. Put two photos and one word on a separate page. Keep them unlocked.
2. Place one photo on each side, with room for the word.
3. Choose MP4 → The split and set PAGE HOLDS.

The photographs arrive from opposite edges while the word’s letters ease apart. A short word gives it room.

For Contact sheet:

1. Arrange three to five photos in a row, with the largest in the middle.
2. Keep the middle photo straight and plain. Add words if you want them to arrive when the photo fills the page.
3. Choose MP4 → Contact sheet. Set SPEED, FULL PHOTO HOLDS and ENDING.

Full photo finishes on the photograph. Fade to page lets it fade away before the next loop.

For Zoom between words:

1. Put a photo between two words, with the words level with it.
2. Add a few smaller photos around the edges if you like.
3. Choose MP4 → Zoom between words, then set ZOOM SPEED and HOLD AT EACH END.

The central photo grows to fill the page, moving the words apart. It then returns to your arrangement.

1. Arrange two or more loose photos in a zigzag down a page, with space between them.
2. Choose MP4 → Corner grid.
3. Set SPEED, FINISHED PAGE HOLDS and ENDING. Choose Fade or Shrink back.

Each photo grows from the corner nearest the one before it. Words stay still. Despite the name, this uses loose photos arranged on the page.

1. Place the photo you want behind everything. Select it and tap BACKGROUND.
2. Add a different photo and select it.
3. Choose Single split in CANVAS, or open PAPER on the photo toolbar and choose SPLIT.
4. Adjust GAP and MARGIN to show the background between and around the pieces.

SPLIT keeps a smaller photograph’s grid where that photograph sits. SPLIT PAGE, beside it, cuts the photograph across the whole page. The background stays behind either version.

1. Look for the notice Other photos overlap this grid.
2. Open LAYERS, or press L, and check the photographs above and below the grid.
3. Hide or move an extra photograph if you want the page to show through.

A photograph underneath can fill the gaps visually. SOCIAL leaves it where you placed it. A photo you deliberately set as BACKGROUND belongs there and does not trigger this notice. TIDY THE GRID returns eligible overlapping loose photos to the tray; backgrounds and locked photos stay.

1. Finish the grid, then choose EXPORT → GIF or MP4 and pick Animate grid cells.
2. Set CELLS PER STEP and REVEAL ORDER. Try Corner to corner or Centre out for an easy-to-follow build.
3. Choose START WITH → One cell or Empty grid.
4. Set SECONDS PER STEP and FINISHED GRID HOLD, then preview.

SOCIAL makes the in-between steps for you. Loose photos and words on top of a grid arrive after its cells. In a Multiple photos grid, FEATURE on a selected photo adds a full-page view of that picture at the end. FEATURE HOLD sets its pause.

1. Click the reveal icon beneath a finished grid to open MAKE SWIPE REVEAL PAGES.
2. Choose CELLS PER STEP and REVEAL ORDER.
3. Set FIRST PAGE to First step or Finished grid. Set LAST PAGE to Finished grid or Full photo.
4. Make the pages and check them with SWIPE CHECK. Export them as stills for a carousel.

These are editable pages. They count toward the design’s 20-page limit. Full photo uses the whole photograph from a single split, or the featured photos from a multiple-photo grid.

For a video of those prepared pages, choose Play swipe reveal pages. It plays the steps you already made.

1. Select two or more ordinary photos on the canvas or in LAYERS.
2. Tap FILL, or press Shift-F.
3. Check the crops. On one page, the photos now make a full-page stack. Across several pages, each fills its own page.

Filling straightens the photographs and removes their card, film frame and border. Their pictures, effects and layer order stay. One Undo restores the whole selection.

Use this with unlocked ordinary photos. Linked paper pieces and grid cells keep their own arrangements. If the selection includes a locked block, leave it out or unlock it first.

1. Select a photo and open STYLE.
2. Choose CARD or FILM. SPACE adjusts the room around the photograph.
3. Add a date or caption in the fields if you want them. For a plain photograph again, choose PLAIN.

On a card, FIT keeps the card’s shape and any extra white space. FILL makes the card snug around its photograph. These are the card’s fitting controls; the photo toolbar’s FILL fills the page.

For a shadow on several prints, select them and use SHADOW on the group toolbar. The strength choices are +, ++ and +++.

1. Make the stack’s page active, then choose EXPORT → GIF or MP4 → Reveal the stack.
2. In PLAYBACK, choose Reveal, Unstack or Reveal then unstack.
3. Choose START WITH → First photo or Background only. With Unstack, the row becomes END WITH.
4. Set SECONDS PER PHOTO, TIMING and FINISHED STACK HOLD. Preview the whole sequence.

The stack follows its back-to-front layer order. Lock a photo that should stay there throughout. If your page has text, TEXT lets it Reveals in turn or Stays still.

1. Place two photos on the page, with the front above the back.
2. Select both and tap FLIP. They become one card with two sides.
3. Use SHOW BACK and SHOW FRONT to check each side. Leave the front showing for the opening picture.
4. Choose Flip the card in Export, then set FRONT HOLDS, BACK HOLDS and TURN.

This is lovely with a POSTCARD front and back. Every paired card on the active page turns together. UNPAIR makes its back a separate photo again.

1. Select a plain, unlocked photograph outside a grid.
2. Open PAPER on its toolbar. Choose VERTICAL for left and right pieces, HORIZONTAL for top and bottom, or FOUR.
3. Use GAP to bring the pieces closer or move them apart.
4. Move, turn or resize the selected pieces together. The photograph continues across their cuts.

For several photographs at once, select them, open PAPER and choose the cut. Each photograph becomes its own linked set. WHOLE makes a whole paper print. REJOIN brings a cut photograph back together.

The PAPER tab at the side changes the page beneath your work. PAPER on a photo toolbar changes the photograph itself.

1. Select the photograph or its linked pieces and open EFFECTS.
2. Open SURFACE, turn PAPER EDGE On, then choose EDGE STYLE.
3. Try Hand-cut, Subtle or Loose.

Hand-cut has a slightly irregular cut edge. Subtle keeps it quieter. Loose gives each piece the look of its own small print, with softly rounded edges and a little shadow around it.

For a stack of cut photographs, GAP controls how much of the layers beneath shows. A photograph that fills the page keeps its outside edges beyond the page when it is cut, so the cuts remain the visible edges.

1. Arrange one or more loose photographs on a separate page. Put the lowest photo where the sequence should begin.
2. Choose EXPORT → GIF or MP4 → Paper pieces.
3. Set LAYOUT to As placed to keep the arrangement, or Fill frame to fill the page.
4. Choose PIECES → Four, Vertical or Horizontal. Set GAP → Close or Open, and choose an EDGE.
5. Set SECONDS PER PIECE, PIECE ORDER, TIMING and FINISHED PAPER HOLD, then preview.

Loose is available in EDGE here too. It uses a wider gap than the other edge choices. Photos you already cut on the canvas keep their own cuts, gap and edge. Export’s cutting choices apply to the photographs it cuts for you.

1. For a stack of two or more photographs, choose START WITH → First photo to begin the reveal sequence with the lowest photograph already whole.
2. Choose Background only when you want every photograph to arrive piece by piece.
3. Lock a full-page photo if you want it to stay behind the pieces throughout.

An MP4 first shows the finished page briefly, then begins this sequence. A GIF follows the reveal opening without that added MP4 cover.

On a design with several pages, PAGES offers Current page, Choose pages or All pages. Each page brings its own artwork and background.

1. Finish the words and their placement.
2. Choose EXPORT → GIF or MP4 → Word by word.
3. Set SPEED and FINISHED QUOTE HOLD.

The words arrive in reading order, rest as your finished quote, then leave for the next loop. Your photograph and background stay still. Lock any words you want visible throughout.

1. Choose Typewriter in Export.
2. Set TYPE → All the words.
3. Choose TYPING SPEED, CURSOR and FINISHED QUOTE HOLD.

The line types, holds, then erases. CURSOR can be Underscore or None. Under STARTS, Moving begins typing straight away. On the page keeps a short pause before the first letter.

1. Write the whole line on the page. For example: “A little autumn colour”.
2. In Typewriter, choose TYPE → Some words.
3. In WORDS TO TYPE, put the ending already on your page first: “autumn colour”. Add another ending on the next line, such as “paper and light”.
4. Preview it. The beginning stays while each ending types, holds and erases.

Use one ending per line, without the quotation marks. The first ending must match the end of the text on the page. This mode changes the first text block; other words stay still. The phrases have their own pause, so FINISHED QUOTE HOLD steps aside.

1. Make at least two pages, with something on each. Photos, grids, words and collages can all come along.
2. Choose EXPORT → MP4 → Photo scroll.
3. Set DIRECTION, SCROLL SPEED and TIMING. Pause on each photo lets a page rest; Even speed keeps travelling.
4. For separate pages, choose DIVIDER and OPENING. On a split begins between photos; On a page begins on one.
5. Use PREVIEW SCROLL, then export.

On a portrait or square design, ASPECT RATIO also offers 4:3 landscape and 16:9 landscape. They show more of your pages together across a wider frame. Design shape uses the shape you made.

Photo scroll also works with a SEAMLESS carousel. The whole strip travels together, including photographs and words crossing a page edge. It scrolls sideways and opens on a page. With Even speed, the last page joins back to the first.

1. On one page with no grid, make a pile of at least two photos on the left and another on the right.
2. Keep the piles apart. Put your words in the space between them.
3. Choose MP4 → Opposite scroll.
4. Set DIRECTION, SPACE BETWEEN PHOTOS and SCROLL SPEED.

The top photograph of each pile sets that column’s place and width. Several photos on each side give the columns more to travel through. Your words and locked artwork stay still.

Try Left up, right down, then reverse it with Left down, right up. Keep the two piles fairly similar in length for an even pace.

1. Put two or more photos on a page with no grid. Pile them or arrange them in a row.
2. Choose MP4 → Slow row.
3. Set DIRECTION, SPACE BETWEEN PHOTOS and SCROLL SPEED.
4. When CROP is offered, choose As placed for your existing framing or No crop to show each whole photograph.

In a pile, the top photograph sets the position. In an arranged row, it is the leftmost photo when the row moves sideways, or the topmost when it moves up or down.

No crop keeps each photograph’s own shape. A horizontal row uses the height of the tallest placed photo; a vertical row uses the width of the widest. Words remain on the page while the photos pass.

1. Arrange a clear top row and bottom row, with at least two photos in each.
2. In Slow row, choose ROWS → Two.
3. Set the direction. The second row goes the opposite way.

The space between the rows follows your arrangement. For upward or downward motion, arrange the photos as two columns instead. ROWS appears when SOCIAL can recognise the two groups.

Sometimes you just want the photo to look printed on the page. That’s what LOOKS is for. It sits at the top of EFFECTS.

1. Select a photo, some words or a graphic, or several at once.
2. Tap EFFECTS, or press F.
3. Choose a look from LOOKS.

ON THE PAGE is my favourite. It lays the photo into the paper with Multiply and lifts it so it doesn’t go muddy on grey paper. Words and graphics get the paper showing through and a fine grain, so they look printed right on the page. Black ink comes out charcoal, the way real ink does. PRINTED, FADED PRINT and BLACK & WHITE PRINT turn a photo into a print. STAMPED is for words and graphics. It looks like a real rubber stamp, uneven ink and all. It picks Multiply for dark ink and Screen for light ink on a dark page, and you can change that in BLEND.

A look never moves or crops anything, and one Undo takes it off. You can still change any setting afterwards. To take a look off words, a graphic, a date or a caption, tap RESET on the ALL EFFECTS line under LOOKS.

Made a look you love? Tap SAVE LOOK and give it a name. It’ll be in your list in every design. Words now have BLEND on their toolbar too, the same Multiply and Opacity your photos have. The page date and caption have BLEND and EFFECTS as well, so they can sit in the paper like your words.

1. Select the photo with the treatment you want and press Option-Command-C.
2. Select the receiving photo, or several photos, and press Option-Command-V.
3. Check their edges and captions as well as their colour.

This copies the photograph’s look, including its border, shadow and card styling. Each receiving photo keeps its own place and crop. Blend and opacity come along too, and it works on words: copy a stamped line and paste it onto another.

1. Select the page labels you want.
2. Use SAVE TO LIBRARY to save finished images of those pages.
3. Keep the editable project too, so you can return to the separate photos and words.

These LIBRARY images are useful elsewhere in the Studio. You can use a finished composition as a photograph in another design.