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New Design — from your words

For anyone starting from nothing — you have the words, and you want a finished design.

Open New Design

New Design appears in the 90-second tour; the steps below walk through it in full.

Step by step
  1. 1
    Type the words

    Station 1 is the words. The first line is the headline; the rest are the details. Type, paste, press Speak, upload a document (PDF, Word, PowerPoint or text file) or let AI draft it from one sentence. Every line goes on the design, spelled exactly as you wrote it.

    New Design — from your words — Type the words: the whole screen
    The whole screen · click to open full size
    New Design — from your words — Type the words: close-up
    Close-up — the part to look at
  2. 2
    Pick the look

    Station 2 is the look. Choose one of the house looks — Neon Night, Gold Gala, Warm Studio or Watercolour — or switch to “Copy a design I have” and drop in a design whose style you want. Only its colours, mood and type come across, never its words.

    New Design — from your words — Pick the look: the whole screen
    The whole screen · click to open full size
    New Design — from your words — Pick the look: close-up
    Close-up — the part to look at
  3. 3
    Tick the sizes

    Station 3 is size and format. Tick every size you want, or press a kit to tick a set. The first one you tick is made from your words; the rest are made from it, each fitted to its shape. Small sizes get a “what to keep” note you can change.

    New Design — from your words — Tick the sizes: the whole screen
    The whole screen · click to open full size
    New Design — from your words — Tick the sizes: close-up
    Close-up — the part to look at
  4. 4
    Press “Make it”

    The button shows the total: $10 for the first piece plus $3 for each extra size. It takes about a minute for the first piece and one to three minutes per extra size. The result saves to your Library.

    New Design — from your words — Press “Make it”: the whole screen
    The whole screen · click to open full size
    New Design — from your words — Press “Make it”: close-up
    Close-up — the part to look at
Tips
  • Keep it short — a flyer is read in seconds. Five or six lines is plenty.
  • Anything the AI writer doesn’t know (a date, a price) comes back as [a blank] for you to fill in — it never makes facts up.
  • Pick a saved brand under “Your brand” and your real logo goes bottom-right, with your colours steering the design. Save one first on the Brands page.
  • Add up to four pictures of you, your team or your product — they go into the design, kept clear of the words.
  • If you copy a design you have, you must tick “This design is mine to use” — required, every time.
  • When you’re done, the finished piece works like any other design in your Library: Edit, Sizes and Download all apply.
If something goes wrong

The messages the page can show, and what to do.

Type what the design should say (station 1).
The words box is empty — the Make button stays grey until there is something to put on the design.
Add the design whose look you want (station 2).
You chose “Copy a design I have” but haven’t dropped one in. Add it, or switch back to “Our looks”.
Tick “this design is mine” (station 2).
The ownership box under your own look isn’t ticked.
Pick at least one size (station 3).
Nothing is ticked. Tick a size or press a kit.
Could not read that file — try again.
The document couldn’t be opened. Try a PDF, Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx) or plain text file, or paste the words in by hand.
The design failed — try again in a moment.
The maker hit a snag. Press “Make it” again — nothing was charged.
These sizes couldn’t be made (try them again on the Sizes page): …
The first piece is done and saved; only some extra sizes failed. Open it on the Sizes page and tick those sizes again.
You’re out of credits. Add some to keep going.
Your balance can’t cover this piece. Add credits on the Account page — your work carries on from where you left off. Nothing was charged.
Other guides
Remake a designThe Editor — fix it by chatSizes — one design, every sizeSlide Decks — a whole deck in any lookPowerPoint Editor — change the words, keep it editableLibrary and Account