--- title: "Image Editor for Social Posts and Thumbnails | Briks" url: https://briks.dev/features/image-editor description: "Make posts, stories, thumbnails and pins at each platform's exact size, in your site's colours and typefaces, from templates, your own words or a blank canvas." last_updated: 2026-10-08 --- On every plan # Posts, stories and thumbnails in your own brand On every plan. Make pictures for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest and seven more platforms from any project's Media tab, in your site's own colours and typefaces, at each platform's exact size. ## How it works 1. **Pick a format** 36 formats on 11 platforms, from an Instagram story to a YouTube thumbnail, or a size of your own. 2. **Make it yours** Describe the post and choose one of three designs, or start from a template or a blank canvas. Then add your photos, words, badges, arrows and icons. 3. **Export or save** Download it at the exact size, or save it to your media library to use in a post. ## Every platform's size, and what it covers Each format is the platform's own size: a 1080 by 1920 story, a 1920 by 1080 YouTube thumbnail, a 1000 by 1500 pin, a 1200 by 630 link card. 36 formats cover Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, Bluesky, Google Business Profile and the card a link shows when it is shared. Stories, reels and covers have parts the app covers with its own buttons, names and profile photos. The editor shades them, so nothing important sits underneath, and before you export it tells you about any words that do. One design becomes another format in a click. Copy to another format keeps each part where it is pinned, to an edge, the middle or the full width, so a portrait post becomes a story with its headline still clear of the buttons. ## Describe it, choose from three designs Say what the post is for, such as an open day this Saturday with free tasting, and three designs come back, each in a different template or with a different angle in the words. They are written from what you asked, what your site says about your business and the facts you keep for your agents, with today's date to work out days like this Saturday. Prices, dates and claims you did not give are never made up. A picture slot takes one of your own photos, chosen by what it shows. The one you choose opens on the canvas as ordinary layers, so every word, colour and photo is yours to change. Each try uses about 2 credits. ## In your brand from the first click The editor takes your site's colours and typefaces. Colours are kept as your site's roles, such as its accent or its ink, so a design follows if your site's colours change. Nine templates, 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 and a question, are laid out for whatever size you choose, in your colours. Every word is yours to change. New words, shapes and icons pick a colour from your brand that stands out against the background, so nothing you add disappears into it. ## The tools you expect Add your photos from the media library, or any picture already on one of your sites. Crop by zooming in on the part that matters, fill the canvas, round the corners or make it a circle, add a border, and adjust brightness, contrast, colour, warmth and blur, or turn it grey, sepia or two colours of your brand. Words come in your site's typefaces, with underline, an outline or a coloured ground behind them. Add rectangles, circles, triangles, polygons, stars and lines, any of 1,512 icons in six weights, or draw by hand. Any layer can have a shadow. Arrows come in seven styles: straight, curved, a swoop, a loop, a zigzag, hand-drawn and a bounce, each with its own bend, head and tail. Badges come in eight shapes, a starburst, a seal, a circle, a pill, a ribbon, a price tag, a corner banner and a rounded square, with their words sized to fit, ready for 20% off, Sale, New or a price. No picture is made by AI here: your designs are your own photos, shapes, icons and words. ## Arranging, quickly Layers snap to the canvas, to each other and, if you turn it on, to a grid. Group layers to move and resize them as one, line them up or space them evenly, and drag them up and down the layers list. Right-click anything for every action with its keyboard shortcut: cut, copy and paste, even between designs, duplicate, bring forward or send back, group, align, flip, lock and hide. Copy one layer's style onto others, or hold Alt as you drag to leave a copy behind. Every change can be undone, and the design saves itself as you work, so you can close it and carry on later. ## Exported at the exact size Download a design as PNG, JPEG or WebP at the platform's size, or at twice the size for screens that show more detail. Or save it straight to your media library with a description for people who cannot see it. From there it can go into a post in the Marketing tab, or anywhere else the studio takes a picture. Designs stay as you left them: open one again to change a date or a price, and save a fresh copy. ## Image editor in practice Three example businesses, and how each would use it. Where a site is pictured, it is a sample Briks built for an example business, not a customer. 1. Bakery **One open day, every format** A bakery makes an open day post from the offer template in its own colours. Copy to another format turns it into a story for Instagram and a pin for Pinterest, each with the date clear of what the app covers, and all three are saved to the media library. [![The opening of Sourdough, a sample site Briks built for an example bakery and coffee shop](https://briks.dev/showcase/sourdough.webp)](https://sourdough.briks.live/) **Sourdough** is a sample site Briks built for an example bakery and coffee shop, not a customer. [Open the sample](https://sourdough.briks.live/) 2. Fitness studio **Thumbnails that look like a series** A fitness studio posts a video for each class. Its thumbnail is one design with a photo, the class name and a big number for the minutes. Each week the owner duplicates it, swaps the photo and the words, and exports it at 1920 by 1080. [![The opening of Ironbloom, a sample site Briks built for an example fitness studio](https://briks.dev/showcase/fitness-studio-v2-3753.webp)](https://fitness-studio-v2-3753.briks.live/) **Ironbloom** is a sample site Briks built for an example fitness studio, not a customer. [Open the sample](https://fitness-studio-v2-3753.briks.live/) 3. Pottery studio **Tips for Pinterest** A pottery studio uses the tips list template for a pin about caring for handmade mugs. It adds a photo from its own site, a coffee cup icon and a hand-drawn underline, and exports the pin at 1000 by 1500. [![The opening of Fernhill Pottery, a sample site Briks built for an example pottery studio](https://briks.dev/showcase/fernhill-pottery.webp)](https://fernhill-pottery.briks.live/) **Fernhill Pottery** is a sample site Briks built for an example pottery studio, not a customer. [Open the sample](https://fernhill-pottery.briks.live/) ## What you get - 36 formats on 11 platforms, each at its exact size - Covered areas shown for stories, reels and covers - Three designs from a description, or 9 templates - 1,512 icons, 7 arrow styles and 8 badge shapes - Groups, a grid, alignment and a right-click menu - PNG, JPEG or WebP, or saved to your media library ### Good to know - A workspace keeps up to 1,000 designs. - Making and exporting designs uses no credits; each Describe it try uses about 2. ## Questions about image editor ### Which platforms can I make pictures for? Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, Bluesky and Google Business Profile, and the card shown when a link to your site is shared: 36 formats in all, or a size of your own. ### Does it use my brand? Yes. It takes your site's colours and typefaces, and keeps colours as your site's roles, so a design follows if your site's colours change. ### Can I turn a post into a story? Yes. Copy to another format makes the same design in another size, each part kept where it is pinned. ### Can I use photos from my other sites? Yes. Add pictures from your media library, which every project shares, or from any of the sites in your workspace. ### Can it design a post for me? Yes. Describe the post in your own words and choose one of three designs, written from what you asked and what your site says. It opens on the canvas to change like any other. ### Does it use credits? Making and exporting designs uses none. Each Describe it try uses about 2 credits, for the three designs it writes. A design saved to your media library counts towards its storage. ### Who can make designs? Anyone in your workspace who can change its projects: every role except Viewer. ## Related features - [On every plan **Media library** Every picture and video you upload sits in one library for your workspace, ready to use in any project's prompt box. Storage grows with your plan. How it works](https://briks.dev/features/media-library) - [Paid plans **Social media scheduler** Plan, preview and schedule posts to X and LinkedIn beside your website, with alt text, tagged links and results counted as visits and enquiries. How it works](https://briks.dev/features/social-media-scheduler) - [On every plan **Templates** Start from a template built with Briks. Tell us about your business and every page is rewritten for it before it is published: your name and your words. How it works](https://briks.dev/features/templates) [See all 32 features](https://briks.dev/features) ## Try it on your own business Describe it in a sentence and Briks builds it. Start free with the credits you get at sign-up.