Designer and Templates

please note the designer and templates are only available with an advanced or pro licence the designer and templates these tools are here so you can make head turning, eye catching content with ease in the design section, you'll see two tabs at the top my templates your personal storage area for any saved templates, and where you can create your own designs from scratch browse templates access hundreds of professionally made designs edit to make them your own perfect for businesses without in house designers creating your first design click the create button, then select new design give your design a name leave the type as normal for now, and choose the orientation that matches your screen next, you'll see two tabs my templates use this to select and customise your saved templates default templates these are basic layouts to help you get started quickly choose a template, then click create at the bottom of the screen you’ll be taken to the designer (where creative magic happens) inside the designer top of the screen edit your design name access your saved folders once your design is saved left panel add design elements add dynamic widgets – like weather, time, news, text tickers (to name only a few) background set a solid colour, image, or video layers section (bottom) find, lock, or reorder objects on the canvas tools next to the canvas adjust, resize, or rotate objects seamlessly handy hint hold control (or command on mac) to select multiple items at once on the canvas click and drag to reposition objects use handles to scale or rotate double click text objects to edit content use the top menu for editing options adding images upload your own or browse over 3 million free images from unsplash choose how images fit within objects using the mode options contain = keeps proportions cover = crops to fill saving your design click save to keep your current work use save as to give it a new name or location save as a template to add it to the my templates library for future use once saved, you can add your design to a playlist or revisit it later from the manage section important note any changes you make to a design that is already playing in any playlist will go live as soon as you click save be sure to double check before saving if you're making adjustments to a live display looking for something else? we can’t wait to hear about it reach out to our sunshiney support and we'll be in touch in a flash