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The editor

Canvas is the editor. Older slides built in the previous block editor still play as they are, and are converted to Canvas the first time you open one — a one-way change the editor asks you to confirm.

The Canvas editor: the assets rail down the left, a slide on the stage, and the frames strip along the bottom — A three-frame slide, with a live clock and live weather on the first frame

The stage and the rail

Everything you can add sits in the rail down the left. Click a button and its drawer opens beside it; click again to close.

The editor with the Elements drawer open, showing Headline, Body text, Rectangle, Button and Container, and the rail behind it listing Widgets, Apps, Layers, Photos, Videos, Icons, Shapes, Gradients and Animated — Elements holds the building blocks; Widgets and Apps hold live content

Elements — headline and body text, rectangles, buttons, containers, and particle effects (snow, sparkle, confetti).
Widgets and Apps — live blocks that update themselves. See Apps & widgets.
Photos, Videos, Icons, Shapes, Gradients — your own uploads and searchable stock.
Animated — Lottie stickers, either from the built-in set or pasted as a URL.
Layers — the stacking order, for when elements overlap.

Selecting and styling

Click an element and a toolbar appears above it with the controls that apply to that kind of thing — font, size, colour, alignment and effects for text; fit and border for an image. The panel on the right carries exact position and size.

The headline selected on the stage, with a floating toolbar above it showing font, size, colour, weight and alignment, and the Layers list open on the left — Select the headline and the toolbar switches to text controls; Layers lists everything on the frame

Text can carry a gradient fill, an outline, or a glow. Images take a fit mode, a filter, and rounded corners. Elements can rotate on the X and Y axes for depth.

Frames

A slide can hold several frames that play in order, so one slide tells a short story. Each frame has its own duration and its own background, and you choose how it enters: cut, dissolve, slide, push, or zoom. The strip along the bottom shows the frames with their transitions between them.

Animation

Every element has three stages — an entrance, an optional pulse while it is on screen, and an exit — laid out on the timeline. For a whole slide at once, pick a mood: Subtle, Energetic, Elegant, Playful, or Dramatic. A mood is not only motion — it also sets a palette and a font pairing.

Before you publish

Templates — start from a designed layout instead of a blank stage, either for the slide or for a single frame.
Palette and Brand — recolour everything at once, or pull in your brand colours.
Resize — switch the slide between landscape and portrait.
Quality check — flags low contrast, text too small to read across a room, and anything drifting outside the safe area.
History — step back through earlier states, or discard everything since the last save.
Preview — opens the slide in the player, exactly as a screen will render it.

Slides built in the old editor

Slides made before Canvas still play as they are. Opening one converts it to Canvas, which the editor asks you to confirm — and which cannot be undone.

Saved your design? Group slides into a playlist, or publish one straight to a screen.

The stage and the rail

Everything you can add sits in the rail down the left. Click a button and its drawer opens beside it; click again to close.

Elements holds the building blocks; Widgets and Apps hold live content

Elements — headline and body text, rectangles, buttons, containers, and particle effects (snow, sparkle, confetti).

Widgets and Apps — live blocks that update themselves. See Apps & widgets.

Photos, Videos, Icons, Shapes, Gradients — your own uploads and searchable stock.

Animated — Lottie stickers, either from the built-in set or pasted as a URL.

Layers — the stacking order, for when elements overlap.

Selecting and styling

Select the headline and the toolbar switches to text controls; Layers lists everything on the frame

Text can carry a gradient fill, an outline, or a glow. Images take a fit mode, a filter, and rounded corners. Elements can rotate on the X and Y axes for depth.

Before you publish

Templates — start from a designed layout instead of a blank stage, either for the slide or for a single frame.

Palette and Brand — recolour everything at once, or pull in your brand colours.

Resize — switch the slide between landscape and portrait.

Quality check — flags low contrast, text too small to read across a room, and anything drifting outside the safe area.

History — step back through earlier states, or discard everything since the last save.

Preview — opens the slide in the player, exactly as a screen will render it.

Slides built in the old editor

Slides made before Canvas still play as they are. Opening one converts it to Canvas, which the editor asks you to confirm — and which cannot be undone.