Handbook — Mac

Krevez on Mac.

The desktop studio — menu-bar commands, keyboard shortcuts, and pointer-perfect control.

What everything is

The Mac editor mapped out, then every button pictured and named.

The editor, at a glance

Every area on screen, numbered and named.

1 — The chrome: your way back, the project's name, the ☰ menu, and Share on top; the tool row underneath. 2 — The Library: everything you can add, always at hand. 3 — The slide navigator: all your slides in a filmstrip. 4 — Your slide: the white page where everything lives. 5 — The inspector: tools for whatever you've selected. 6 — The toolbar: Photos · Text · Add (+) · Layers · Slides.

Krevez on Mac — The editor, at a glance

The Mac chrome, button by button

Two rows: the title row, then the tool row.

The title row holds your way back, the project's name, the ☰ menu, and Share. The tool row underneath runs the workspace — panels on the left, actions on the right. Hover any button for its name; every button also lives in the menu bar at the top of your screen.

  • My Projects button in Krevez on Mac

    My Projects

    Back to your project library — work saves itself.

  • Menu (☰) button in Krevez on Mac

    Menu (☰)

    Settings, exports, and extras — including this Handbook.

  • Share button in Krevez on Mac

    Share

    Export your carousel as images (⇧⌘E shares, ⌘E exports).

  • Library button in Krevez on Mac

    Library

    Show or hide the Library panel on the left.

  • Zoom lock button in Krevez on Mac

    Zoom lock

    Freeze the canvas zoom so a stray scroll can't move it (⌥⌘Z).

  • Lock All button in Krevez on Mac

    Lock All

    Pin every item on the slide in place (⌥⌘L).

  • Erase button in Krevez on Mac

    Erase

    Clear this slide, or start the whole project over (⇧⌘⌫).

  • Format button in Krevez on Mac

    Format

    Show or hide the tools panel on the right (⌃⌘I).

  • Record button in Krevez on Mac

    Record

    Film your canvas while you build — a making-of video (⌥⌘R).

  • Play button in Krevez on Mac

    Play

    See your carousel full-screen, as your audience will (⌥⌘P).

The bottom toolbar, button by button

The same five buttons as iPhone.

The floating bar under your slide is home base:

  • Photos button in Krevez on Mac

    Photos

    Bring in a picture — library, camera, or a file.

  • Text button in Krevez on Mac

    Text

    Add words to the slide.

  • Add (+) button in Krevez on Mac

    Add (+)

    Templates, stickers, shapes, backgrounds — everything else.

  • Layers button in Krevez on Mac

    Layers

    See what's stacked on the slide, front to back.

  • Slides button in Krevez on Mac

    Slides

    Open the slide navigator filmstrip.

Panels that make way for your work

Columns when there's room, drawers when there isn't.

On a wide screen the Library, navigator, and inspector sit beside the canvas as columns. When the window narrows — Split View, Slide Over, portrait — they fold into overlay drawers so your slide always keeps its space.

Krevez on Mac — Panels that make way for your work

Touching things

Fingers or Apple Pencil — the gestures behind everything.

Select, move, resize, rotate

Everything responds to your touch.

Tap anything once to select it — a teal box with handles appears and the inspector fills with its tools. Drag to move, pinch to resize, twist two fingers to rotate, or type exact numbers in Position & Size.

Krevez on Mac — Select, move, resize, rotate

Hold down for quick actions

Lock, duplicate, or delete anything.

↳ Right-click (or click and hold) any item on the slide

Press and hold any item for half a second: Lock pins it in place, Duplicate makes a copy, Delete removes it. A pointer or trackpad right-click works too.

Krevez on Mac — Hold down for quick actions

Zoom, pan, and the zoom lock

Get closer without losing your place.

↳ The padlock lives in the top toolbar

Pinch the canvas to zoom, drag to pan while zoomed, double-tap to snap back to 100% — or use the slider under the slide. The padlock in the top toolbar freezes the zoom while you work close up.

Krevez on Mac — Zoom, pan, and the zoom lock

Type exact positions and sizes

Pixel-perfect, keyboard-friendly.

↳ Select an item → Inspector → Position & Size

Position & Size in the inspector takes typed values — X, Y, width, height, rotation, and opacity, each with −/+ steppers. The fastest way to line things up exactly.

Krevez on Mac — Type exact positions and sizes

Apple Pencil

Pressure changes your brush.

Anywhere you paint — fades, custom frames, drawing — pressing harder with the Pencil widens the stroke. A finger paints at a steady width.

Krevez on Mac — Apple Pencil

Keyboard shortcuts & the menu bar

The Mac way to move fast.

Krevez has a full menu bar — File, Edit, View, Insert, Arrange, and Play — with shortcuts like ⌘Z undo, ⌥⌘P play, ⌘E export, and arrow-key nudging. The complete list lives in Menus & Shortcuts at the end of this Handbook.

Krevez on Mac — Keyboard shortcuts & the menu bar

The Library

A panel that stays open while you work.

The Library panel

Everything addable, always at hand.

↳ Click the Library button in the top toolbar

Templates, stickers, frames, layouts, shapes, text boxes, backgrounds, drawing, and AI — all in the left panel, so you can browse without leaving your slide. Your recent photos and starred favourites gather at the bottom.

Krevez on Mac — The Library panel

Browse and place

Tap to add — or drag it into place.

↳ Library → any category

Open a category and tap any design to drop it on your slide — or drag it from the panel to exactly where you want it. Categories, search, hearts, and Pro crowns work just like the phone.

Krevez on Mac — Browse and place

Drag photos in from other apps

Split View superpower.

Put Photos (or any app) beside Krevez and drag a picture straight onto the canvas — a highlight ring shows where it will land.

Krevez on Mac — Drag photos in from other apps

Slide backgrounds

A colour, a texture, or your own pattern.

↳ Library → Backgrounds

Colour picks any shade, Designs has ready-made textures, and Custom tiles one of your own images. Apply to all slides or just this one.

Krevez on Mac — Slide backgrounds

Working with photos

Select a photo and the inspector fills with its tools.

The photo inspector

Adjust, Style, Source — in one panel.

↳ Click your photo → the inspector, right side

Tap a photo and the inspector offers everything: Crop, Grading, and Effects under Adjust; Fade, Frames, and Shapes under Style; replace and background tools under Source; exact numbers under Position & Size; and stacking under Arrange.

Krevez on Mac — The photo inspector

Crop or straighten a photo

Trim it, or level a crooked horizon.

↳ Click your photo → Inspector → Crop

Drag the corners to trim, or pick a fixed shape. Auto suggests a crop around your subject; Straighten levels the photo in one tap.

Krevez on Mac — Crop or straighten a photo

Filters & colour

One-tap looks, or fine control.

↳ Click your photo → Inspector → Grading

The Filters tab has ready-made looks; Colour Grading has sliders for warmth, exposure, and more. Save your own look as a filter.

Krevez on Mac — Filters & colour

Shadow, outline & corners

Give a photo some polish.

↳ Click your photo → Inspector → Effects

Effects adds a soft shadow, a coloured outline, or rounded corners — each with its own slider.

Krevez on Mac — Shadow, outline & corners

Fade a photo

See-through, all over or in places.

↳ Click your photo → Inspector → Fade

Layer fades the whole photo evenly, Brush paints the fade (Pencil pressure sets the width), Area fades a rectangle, and the wand fades the background automatically.

Krevez on Mac — Fade a photo

Background removal, stickers & more

The smart photo actions.

↳ Click your photo → Inspector → Source / Style

Under the inspector's Source and Style sections you'll find Replace photo, Remove background, Make sticker from subject, Frame the subject, and Shape Frames — the same one-tap actions as on iPhone.

Krevez on Mac — Background removal, stickers & more

Adding words

Select text and the inspector switches to type tools.

The text inspector

Font, Style, Box — in one panel.

↳ Click your text → the inspector, right side

Tap your text and the inspector offers Typeface, Size & Color, Curve, and Fade, plus Box styles, exact Position & Size, and Arrange.

Krevez on Mac — The text inspector

Change the font

Normal, decorative, or your own.

↳ Click your text → Inspector → Typeface

Normal Text is everyday fonts, Creative Text is decorative lettering, My Text is fonts you've imported. Search works across all of them.

Krevez on Mac — Change the font

Size, colour & thickness

Make it bigger, bolder, brighter.

↳ Click your text → Inspector → Size & Color

Size, solid colours and gradients, saved brand swatches, weight from Thin to Heavy, italic, underline, strike, and auto-fit.

Krevez on Mac — Size, colour & thickness

Bend text, or make it see-through

Arcs, rings, and your own curves.

↳ Click your text → Inspector → Curve

Curve bends your words along an arc, a ring, or a Custom line you draw yourself. Cutout makes the letters transparent so the photo shows through.

Krevez on Mac — Bend text, or make it see-through

Your slides

The filmstrip, the shape, starting over.

The slide navigator

Your whole carousel in a filmstrip.

↳ Click the Slides button in the bottom toolbar

Every slide, in order, beside your canvas. Tap to jump, drag to reorder, Add Slide for a new page — and the Aspect chip at the top changes your carousel's shape.

Krevez on Mac — The slide navigator

One photo across several frames

The "peephole" trick.

↳ Right-click (or click and hold) a frame or layout → Merge frames

Hold down a frame, layout, or template and choose Merge frames, then tap the others and hit Merge — one photo shows through all of them. Select the merged group and tap Unmerge to undo.

Krevez on Mac — One photo across several frames

Start over

The eraser in the top toolbar.

↳ Click Erase in the top toolbar

Erase asks whether to clear just this slide or every slide. It always asks first — and Undo can bring things back.

Krevez on Mac — Start over

Finishing & sharing

Getting your carousel out of the app.

Export your carousel

Images, a video, or a project file.

↳ Click Share in the top toolbar

Images saves every slide as pictures, Video renders a slideshow clip, Project File packages everything for another Krevez. On Mac the share options appear in a popover by the Share button.

Krevez on Mac — Export your carousel

Record your canvas as you build

A making-of video for reels.

↳ Click Record in the top toolbar

The Record button films your slide while you edit. Stop when done, pick playback speeds per section, and save the video.

Krevez on Mac — Record your canvas as you build

Save a design to reuse

Your layout, again and again.

↳ ☰ menu → Save as Template

Save as Template keeps this project's whole design in your Templates — next time, start from it instead of a blank page. Export format (JPEG or HEIC) lives in the same menu.

Krevez on Mac — Save a design to reuse

Back at your projects

A sidebar library with drag and drop.

The Projects screen

Sidebar, search, folders, drag-out.

All Projects and Recent live in the sidebar, with your folders below — drag a project onto a folder to file it, or drag it out of the app to share it as a project file. Search, sort, import, and your account sit in the toolbar.

Krevez on Mac — The Projects screen

Folders & tidying up

A series, a client, a theme.

↳ Projects sidebar → New Folder

New Folder in the sidebar creates one; drag projects in, or use Select to move or delete several at once. Everything saves and syncs with iCloud when it's on.

Krevez on Mac — Folders & tidying up

Make it yours

Optional helpers and your account.

The ☰ menu

Settings and extras, in a popover.

↳ Click Menu (☰) in the top toolbar

Your account, canvas options, on-canvas controls, exports, and app settings — including this Handbook — all live in the ☰ popover.

Krevez on Mac — The ☰ menu

Quick Tools — your shortcuts

A floating button of favourites.

↳ Inspector → Quick Tools (nothing selected)

Star up to 8 tools and the floating gold button keeps them one tap away, right on the canvas. It shows only tools that fit your selection, and you can drag it anywhere.

Krevez on Mac — Quick Tools — your shortcuts

What's free, what's Pro

The crown badges explained.

↳ ☰ menu → Upgrade to Pro

Free gives you the first designs in every category and a daily export allowance. Items with a crown badge, and unlimited exports, come with Krevez Pro — monthly, annual, or lifetime. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Krevez on Mac — What's free, what's Pro

Words you'll see

Seven terms, in plain language.

Plain-words dictionary

Carousel, slide, inspector, and friends.

Carousel — a post made of several pictures people swipe through. Slide — one page of your carousel. The white page is the current slide. Canvas — the working area where your slide sits. Layer — one item on a slide (a photo, some text, a sticker). Layers stack, so one can sit in front of another. Inspector — the right-hand panel of tools for whatever is selected. Template — a ready-made design you can start from or save yourself. Pro — the optional subscription that unlocks every asset and unlimited exports.

The Mac way

Every button also lives in the menu bar — with a keyboard shortcut where it counts.

Every button lives in the menu bar

File · Edit · View · Insert · Arrange · Play.

The menu bar mirrors the whole editor. File holds slides, sharing, and exports. Edit holds undo, duplicate, delete, and locking. View shows or hides the panels, zooms the canvas, and locks its zoom. Insert adds photos, text, shapes, and backgrounds. Arrange orders, flips, and nudges whatever is selected. Play previews your carousel or records a build video. If a button ever hides, its menu command is still there.

Krevez on Mac — Every button lives in the menu bar

Keyboard shortcuts

The chords worth learning.

⌘N new slide · ⌘E export images · ⇧⌘E share ⌘Z undo · ⇧⌘Z redo · ⌘D duplicate · ⌘⌫ delete ⌥⌘L lock all · ⌥⇧⌘L unlock all · ⇧⌘⌫ erase ⌃⌘I inspector · ⌃⌘N navigator · ⌃⌘L layers ⌘+ / ⌘− / ⌘0 zoom · ⌥⌘Z lock canvas zoom ⇧⌘T insert text · ⌘L lock selection ⌘] / ⌘[ bring forward / send backward ⇧⌘] / ⇧⌘[ bring to front / send to back Arrow keys nudge the selection (⇧ ×10, ⌘ ×50) ⌃Tab / ⌃⇧Tab select the next / previous item ⌥⌘P play · ⌥⌘R record a build video

Krevez on Mac — Keyboard shortcuts