--- title: "Image editor: posts, stories and thumbnails | Briks" url: https://briks.dev/docs/image-editor description: "Make social posts, stories, thumbnails and pins in your site's colours at each platform's exact size, or describe one and pick from three designs." last_updated: 2026-10-08 --- # Image editor: posts, stories and thumbnails The image editor makes pictures for your social accounts and your site: a post, a story, a YouTube thumbnail, a pin. It works in your site's colours and typefaces, at each platform's exact size. Making and exporting designs uses no credits; **Describe it**, which writes three designs from your words, holds a few credits a try. 7 minute read Checked against the studio on 8 October 2026 ## Start a design Where 1. Projects 2. Your project 3. Media 4. Designs **Designs** sits beside **On the site** in a project's **Media** tab, on every plan, Free included. Owners, Admins and Editors make and change designs. Each design belongs to the project it was made in and uses that site's colours, typefaces and logo. 1. Click New design Where: Designs The formats open, grouped by platform: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, Bluesky, Google and Website. Or choose **Your own size** in pixels, from 64 to 8,192 on each side. 2. Choose a format and Start Where: New design Each format shows its size and shape, such as 1,080 × 1,920 for a story. Press **Start** and the editor opens on a blank canvas of that size. 3. Or start from a template Where: Editor Click **Templates** under **Add** and choose one: a quote, an offer, an event, an announcement, a list of tips, a photo with a headline, a photo beside the words, a big number or a question. It is laid out for your canvas in your colours, and every word is yours to change. 4. Or describe it Where: Editor Click **Describe it** under **Add**, say what the post is for and click **Write three designs**. Click the one you want: it opens on the canvas to change like any other. The section below covers it in full. The design saves itself a moment after each change. The top bar says **Saving soon**, then **Saving**, then **Saved**. If it says **Changed elsewhere**, someone else saved the same design meanwhile; if it says **Not saved**, check your connection before you close the tab. ## Formats by platform | Platform | Formats, in pixels | | --- | --- | | Instagram | Post, portrait 4:5 (1,080 × 1,350); Post, 3:4 (1,080 × 1,440); Post, square (1,080 × 1,080); Story (1,080 × 1,920); Reel cover (1,080 × 1,920) | | TikTok | Post or cover (1,080 × 1,920); Photo post (1,080 × 1,920) | | YouTube | Video thumbnail (1,920 × 1,080); Shorts cover (1,080 × 1,920); Channel banner (2,560 × 1,440); Post picture (1,080 × 1,080) | | Pinterest | Pin, 2:3 (1,000 × 1,500); Pin, square (1,000 × 1,000); Video pin cover (1,080 × 1,920) | | Facebook | Post, portrait 4:5 (1,080 × 1,350); Post, square (1,080 × 1,080); Link picture (1,200 × 630); Story (1,080 × 1,920); Page cover (851 × 315); Event cover (1,920 × 1,005) | | LinkedIn | Post, square (1,080 × 1,080); Post, portrait 4:5 (1,080 × 1,350); Link picture (1,200 × 627); Document page (1,080 × 1,350); Company cover (1,512 × 256); Profile banner (1,584 × 396) | | X | Post, 16:9 (1,600 × 900); Post, square (1,080 × 1,080); Header (1,500 × 500) | | Threads | Post, portrait 4:5 (1,080 × 1,350); Post, 3:4 (1,440 × 1,920) | | Bluesky | Post, portrait 4:5 (1,080 × 1,350); Post, square (1,080 × 1,080); Banner (3,000 × 1,000) | | Google | Business Profile post (1,200 × 900) | | Website | Link card (1,200 × 630) | 36 formats in all. On stories, covers and banners the editor also knows what the platform's own buttons hide. ## Describe it: three designs from your words 1. Open it Where: Add, Describe it **Describe the post** opens over the canvas. 2. Say what the post is for Where: What the post is for Up to 600 characters, such as “our new Ethiopian coffee is in, 20% off the first bag this week”. Give the facts you want on it: the offer, the date, the time. 3. Write three designs Where: Write three designs It says **Writing three designs from your words.** while it works. Three designs come back side by side, at your canvas's size. 4. Pick one Where: Describe the post Click the one you want. If the canvas already has something on it, Briks asks first: “What is on the canvas now is replaced. Undo brings it back.” Not right? Press **Try other words**. Each try holds 2 credits while it writes and is charged what it really cost; what it does not use comes back. It writes from your words, what your published home page and your brief say, the facts and tone your agents keep about the business, today's date, and up to 40 of your workspace's own pictures by what they show. It never makes up a price, a date or a claim you did not give, and it makes no pictures: a picture slot takes one of your own photos. ## Add things | Under Add | What it adds | | --- | --- | | Headline, Text, Label | Words in your site's typefaces. Double-click them on the canvas to type in place. | | Picture | A picture from your media library or from any site in your workspace, chosen in the same window as everywhere else (see [Media library](https://briks.dev/docs/media-library)). | | Box, Circle, Line, Triangle, Star | Shapes. A polygon is in a shape's own settings, under **Shape**. | | Arrow | An arrow in one of seven styles: straight, curved, swoop, loop, zigzag, hand-drawn or bounce. Change its bend, head, tail and line in its settings, and turn it to point anywhere. | | Badge | A badge such as 20% off, Sale, New or a price, in one of eight shapes. Its words are sized to fit; change them, the shape, its points and its colours in its settings. | | Icon | One of 1,512 icons, found by a word such as “coffee”, in six weights. | | Shade | A soft dark edge so words read on a photo. | | Draw | Draw by hand in your brand's colours, **Thin**, **Medium** or **Thick**. Click **Done**, or press Escape, to stop. | | Templates | A whole layout for this size, as in the first section. | | Describe it | Three designs written from your words. | | Logo | Your site's logo, when it has one. | New words, shapes and icons take a colour from your brand that stands out against the background. Choose anything on the canvas to change it in the settings on the right: its place and size, its colours, a shadow, and what its kind has, such as a picture's crop and adjustments or the outline round some words. ## Arrange - **Grid**, in the top bar, opens **Show grid**, **Snap to grid** and the grid's size. Layers also snap to the canvas's edges and middle and to each other, with a guide shown. - Shift-click to choose several layers. **Group** them (Ctrl+G, or ⌘G on a Mac) to move and resize them as one; double-click a layer in a group to reach it alone. - Right-click anything for every action and its shortcut: cut, copy, paste, duplicate, copy and paste style, bring forward or send back, group, align, flip, lock, hide and delete. - Drag layers up and down the **Layers** list to change what sits on top. Hold Alt as you drag on the canvas to leave a copy behind. - **Covered area** shades what a platform's own buttons hide on a story or a cover, so nothing important sits under them. - **Undo** and **Redo** sit in the top bar, with the zoom beside them. Tip Press T for words, R for a box, O for a circle and L for a line. Plus and minus zoom, and 0 fits the canvas to the window. ## Export or save it 1. Click Export Where: Top bar Choose the **File**: **PNG** is sharpest and keeps see-through parts, **JPEG** is smaller and every platform takes it, **WebP** is smallest but not every platform takes it. Then the **Size**: the format's own, or **Twice** for extra sharp screens. 2. Read the checks Where: Export The dialog warns about anything that will look wrong: an empty design, a layer with no words, a layer outside the canvas, or something under the platform's own buttons. 3. Download it Where: Export **Download** saves the file at exactly that size. 4. Or save it to your media library Where: Export Describe what the picture shows for people who cannot see it, then click **Save to media library**. From there it can go into a post in the [Marketing](https://briks.dev/docs/marketing) tab or anywhere else the studio takes a picture. **Copy to another format**, in the top bar, makes the same design in another size, each part kept where it is pinned: a portrait post becomes a story with its words still clear of the buttons. Pick the format and press **Make the copy**. ## Your designs **Designs** lists every design made for the project. Each card's menu has **Open**, **Duplicate** and **Remove**. Removing a design asks first, and pictures you exported from it stay in the media library. Good to know A workspace keeps up to 1,000 designs. Making them is free; a picture saved to the media library counts towards your [storage](https://briks.dev/docs/storage). ### Do I need a paid plan? No. The image editor is open on every plan. Only **Describe it** uses credits. ### Can it make photos for me? No. Designs use your own pictures from the media library or your sites. Upload the photo first, then add it with **Picture**. ## Read next - [Your site's features **Media library** Upload your own pictures and videos once to the workspace media library, place them on any project from the prompt box, and swap pictures on a site for free.](https://briks.dev/docs/media-library) - [Your site's features **Storage** Keep files for your project, share them by link or through a public folder, see where your plan's storage goes, and download everything as a .zip file.](https://briks.dev/docs/storage) - [Your site's features **Marketing and social posts** Connect your X and LinkedIn profiles, write a post once with a version for each, schedule it on the calendar and see the visits and enquiries it brought.](https://briks.dev/docs/marketing) Still stuck? Write to [hello@briks.dev](mailto:hello@briks.dev) with your project's name and what you expected to see. A screenshot helps.