Krevez on Mac.

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.

On a wide window the Library, navigator, and inspector sit beside the canvas as columns. In a narrow window, they slide in over your slide as drawers instead, so the page never gets squeezed. A large window has room either way, so it keeps its columns even when narrow.

A carousel is a set of pictures people swipe through, like an Instagram post with several pages. Click the New Project tile — Krevez asks for a name, and you can leave it blank to have one chosen for you. Click Create and a blank first page opens. It saves itself as you work.

Choose Photo Library and pick a picture. It lands on your slide, selected and ready to move or resize. (You can also drag a photo straight from another app onto the canvas.)

Type your text, then click away to finish. While text is selected, the inspector on the right offers its tools: typeface, size and colour, curves, and more.

The navigator shows every slide as a filmstrip. Click Add Slide at the bottom for a new page, click any slide to jump to it, or drag to reorder.

Choose Images and every slide is exported, ready to post anywhere. Video and Project File live in the same menu.

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.

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  My Projects

  Back to your project library. Work saves itself.

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  Menu (☰)

  Settings, exports, and extras, including this Handbook.

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  Share

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

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  Library

  Show or hide the Library panel on the left.

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  Canvas lock

  Pin the canvas so a stray scroll or drag can't shift your zoom or your place on the slide (⌥⌘Z).

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  Lock All

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

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  Erase

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

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  Quick Tools

  The wrench: the tools you've starred, filtered to whatever you've picked.

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  Format

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

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  Slideshow

  One menu with three choices: View Slideshow, Record Build Video (single-slide projects only), and Export as Video.

The floating bar under your slide is home base:

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  Photos

  Bring in a picture from your library, camera, or a file.

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  Text

  Add words to the slide.

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  Add (+)

  Templates, stickers, shapes, backgrounds, and everything else.

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  Layers

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

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  Slides

  Open the slide navigator filmstrip.

Krevez saves as you work and shows nothing when it succeeds. If a save can't finish, a red status word appears in the top bar — click it to try again. A brief "Saving…" can also flash there while a big change is written.

Click anything once to select it, and a teal box with handles appears while the inspector fills with its tools. Drag it to move, drag a corner handle to resize, drag the rotate handle above it to turn it, or type exact numbers in Position & Size.

Right-click (or click and hold) any item for half a second and a Layer menu appears: Lock pins it in place, Duplicate makes a copy, Delete removes it. Frames, layouts and templates also offer Merge frames, and text you have reshaped offers Reset box shape. The press works on a locked item too, so Unlock is always one press away.

Scroll or pinch on the trackpad to zoom, drag to pan while zoomed, and press ⌘0 to snap back to 100%. The open padlock in the top toolbar pins the canvas: while it is closed both the zoom and the position hold still, so nothing drifts while you work up close. If you would also like a zoom slider under your slide, switch on Show zoom slider in the menu — it greys out while the padlock is closed.

Put Photos (or any app) beside Krevez and drag a picture straight onto the canvas. A highlight ring shows the slide will take it; the photo lands in the middle of the slide, ready to move.

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

Everything you can add lives here as tiles, and the panel stays open while you work — so you can keep placing without losing your slide. Tile by tile: Templates — ready-made designs you drop on and then fill. Stickers — hundreds of cut-outs, by category. Frames — shaped windows you add empty, then fill with a photo. Shape Frames — cuts a shape-shaped window into a photo you already have (see below), plus phone and laptop shells. Layouts — grids and rows that hold several photos at once. Shapes — solid squares, stars, arrows, callouts and banners. Photos — add a new picture, or reuse one you've already used. Filters — ready-made looks and your own, applied to a photo you pick first. Text Boxes — bubbles, cards, labels and chat threads. Backgrounds — a colour, a texture, or your own pattern. Favourites — everything you've starred, in one place. Draw — freehand, on a pad or straight onto the slide. On devices that support Apple Intelligence, an AI tile appears between Favourites and Draw. Your recent photos and starred favourites gather below the tiles.

Frames and Shape Frames sound alike and work opposite ways. A Frame is added empty and then filled. Shape Frames does the reverse: it cuts a shape-shaped window into a photo that's already on your slide. So click your photo on the canvas first. Open Shape Frames with nothing selected and the panel tells you so — "Select a photo on your canvas first" — rather than silently doing nothing. The Devices chip at the top is the exception. Phones, tablets and laptops with see-through screens can be dropped straight onto the slide with nothing selected, and filled afterwards from the shell's ⋯ menu.

Right-click any item in the Library and two choices appear. Favourite stars it, and everything you star gathers behind the Favourites tile. Hide takes it out of the catalogue, which is how you thin out a category you never use. Hiding is not permanent and it isn't a dead end: everything you've hidden is listed under ☰ menu → Hidden items…, and you can bring any of it back from there. If a sticker or a whole category seems to have vanished, that's the first place to look.

Open a category and click any design to place it on your slide — the panel stays open, so you can keep adding. Click the back arrow to return to the tiles. Categories, search, favourites and Pro crowns work just like the phone. Recent photos are the exception: drag one onto the canvas to place it exactly where you want.

Colour picks any shade, Designs has ready-made textures, and Custom tiles one of your own images into a repeating pattern. Choose whether it covers every slide, this slide only, or a set of slides you pick. Your choice takes effect as you make it — close the panel when you are happy.

The Library's first panel keeps the photos and starred assets you've used, ready to drag back onto a slide. Right-click (or click and hold) a recent photo for Add to Slide or Remove from Recents, and use Clear to empty the whole strip — it asks first.

Some Templates are a card you fill in — a comic strip, a tier list, a stat row, a poll, a colour palette. Add one from the Library's Templates and it drops onto your slide like any other layer: move, resize and delete it the normal way, and each card's empty slots take a photo with a click. Its Tools — the rows and captions, values and labels, colours and covers made for that specific card — open from the Quick Tools wrench → More: add "More" to your Quick Tools once (☰ menu → Quick Tools), then select the card and click the wrench → More. You can also edit it on an iPhone.

A 4-Koma card is a strip of panels — great for a before/after or a step-by-step. Drop a photo into any panel; set the panel count and each panel's caption from the Quick Tools wrench → More.

A tier list is a stack of labelled rows. Drop photos into a row to rank them; set how many rows there are and rename each row's label (S, A, B…) from the Quick Tools wrench → More.

Cell-badge cards tag a grid of photos: Numbers, Stats (a big figure with a caption), Ratings (stars), Marks (a click-to-cycle grid, handy for a habit tracker), Stamps, People (name plates) and Stages. Fill the photo cells, then set the layout, columns, header and row labels from the Quick Tools wrench → More.

A row-rail card is a list of rows: Bars mode gives each row a label and a value slider shown as a percentage, perfect for a poll; Timeline mode gives each row a date and a caption instead. Set the rows and their content from the Quick Tools wrench → More.

A cover card lays big text over your photo — a masthead, a title and a tagline, with a Scrim slider that darkens the photo behind the words so they stay readable. Edit the lines and Scrim from the Quick Tools wrench → More.

A swatch card shows a palette, 3 to 8 swatches, each with its own colour and label, in Rounded, Circle or Square. Set the count, labels and shape from the Quick Tools wrench → More.

A callouts card adds little pointers to a photo — 2 to 5 of them, each with its own text, dragged into place on the picture. Set how many and what they say from the Quick Tools wrench → More.

An obscure card covers your photo for a reveal: pick the Cover — Blur, Pixelate or Silhouette — and the Reveal shape — Full, Band or Circle — plus an Intensity slider and a teaser Prompt line. Set these from the Quick Tools wrench → More.

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.

Click 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. Its headings fold, and several start closed — click a heading to open it. A tool that looks missing is usually just inside a closed heading. The top of the panel names what you have selected, and the red bin beside that name deletes it — even a locked layer, since a lock now only freezes an item's position and size. Undo brings it back.

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

The Filters tab has ready-made looks — two are free, the rest are a Krevez Pro feature (your own saved My Filters are always free). Colour Grading has Basic sliders for warmth and more, free for everyone, plus an Advanced section and a one-click Auto suggestion that are both Krevez Pro. Save your own look as a filter.

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

Layer fades the whole photo evenly, Brush paints the fade, Area fades a rectangle, and the wand fades the background automatically.

Click a photo and the inspector fills with its tools. Replace swaps the picture but keeps everything else. Cut Out lifts your subject away from its background. Sticker turns that subject into one you can reuse. Frame finds your subject and draws an outline box around it.

Open Arrange in the inspector and two rows sit together that look alike but do different things. Flip turns the picture around where it stands, left to right. Mirror instead adds a reflected copy alongside the original, mirroring the left half onto the right. Each is a single click — for the fuller set of directions (Vertical flip; Right, Above, Below or Quad Mirror), use an iPhone.

Under a photo's Style, Frames cuts your picture into a shape you draw by hand, and Shapes cuts it into a preset shape — a heart, a star. The separate Shape Frames tile in the Library works the other way round: it cuts a shape-shaped window into a photo you've already placed. Frames and Shapes act on the selected photo; Shape Frames asks you to pick a photo first.

Shape Frames has a Devices tab — phones, tablets and laptops with a see-through screen. Drop one straight onto the slide with nothing selected, then fill its screen from the shell's ⋯ menu → Add photo to screen. A placed device also shows a Screen row in the inspector for the same thing.

Click your text and the inspector offers Typeface, Size and Colour, Curve, and Fade, plus Box styles, exact Position and Size, and Arrange. Its headings fold. Font and Style open for you; Box, Position & Size and Arrange start closed — click a heading to open it. If a tool seems to be missing, it is almost always inside a heading you have not opened yet. The top of the panel names what you have selected, and the red bin beside that name deletes it. That bin is the inspector's delete — it removes even a locked layer, since a lock now only freezes position and size. Undo brings it back.

Normal Text is everyday fonts, Creative Text is decorative lettering, My Text is fonts you have imported. Normal Text is grouped into categories — click a chip such as Basics or Bold & Loud to narrow the list, and your favourites sit pinned above it. Search works across all of them.

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

Curve bends your words into a shape: Straight, Arc, Ring, Wave, or Bump. Arc, Wave and Bump each get a slider for how deep the bend goes — drag it the other way to flip the bend over. A Ring is a full circle unless you narrow it into a band. Pick Custom to shape the line yourself: drag the dots on the canvas, and right-click (or click and hold) a dot to add or remove one.

Open the Box group in the inspector and click the Box row. A picker opens with three categories — Comic for speech, thought and burst bubbles, Labels for tags and price cards, and Plain for simple boxes — plus a search. Click a style to wrap your words in it, or None to take the box back off. The box moves and resizes with the text, so you style the words once and the container follows.

The Translate row sits in the same Box group. Click it and Apple's translation panel opens for the selected text — pick a language and replace your words with the translation. The row does nothing on empty text, so type something first.

Add a chat from the Library's Text Boxes, then build it from the inspector's Messages section — the Chat row. Add message drops the next bubble on the opposite side to the last one; long-press it for an explicit Add Sent or Add Received, and each bubble has a Me/Them toggle. The extras hold ticks, a typing bubble, timestamps and per-bubble reactions, and a Received toggle flips a bubble to the other side. Continue on next slide carries a long conversation onto a fresh slide.

With Warp corners on, drag any corner of the text box to tilt and stretch it, like a label photographed at an angle. Reset box shape puts it back. It's only on plain text and the plain rectangle box — picture-style bubbles (speech, sticky notes, chat) can't be warped — and the corners go back to plain resizing while the text is on a Custom hand-drawn bend.

Custom fonts… imports your own .ttf, .otf or .ttc typefaces — up to 25 — so they appear alongside the built-in ones in the font picker. They travel with the project when you export it as a Krevez file.

Everything on a slide sits in a stack, like sheets of paper. Click Layers in the bottom toolbar and that stack takes over the middle of the screen — your slide hasn't gone anywhere, and the same button (now a ‹ arrow) brings it back. The inspector stays where it is on the right, so you can keep adjusting whatever you pick. You get two views of the same stack. On top, your slide is tilted and pulled apart so you can see the sheets separately. Underneath is a list, one row per layer, with the frontmost at the top. Drag a row by the grip on its left to restack it. Each row carries three controls: a pencil to edit that layer on its own, an eye to hide it, and a padlock to pin it. Background sits at the bottom with a small padlock and none of the three — it's the slide itself, so it can't be reordered, hidden or removed.

View: exploded is a button, not a label — click it to swap between the pulled-apart 3D stack and a flat, straight-on view. Flat is easier when the tilt makes a layer hard to recognise. The eye beside it hides or shows every layer at once, which is the quickest way to see what's underneath something. The last button turns on selecting, so you can tick several layers and act on them together.

Click the eye on any row and that item disappears from the slide. It isn't deleted — clicking the eye again brings it straight back, and Hide in the inspector's Arrange section does the same job. Hidden layers stay hidden in your exports, so this is the safe way to park something you're unsure about rather than removing it.

Click the pencil on a row and everything else steps aside, leaving that one item by itself. Nothing else can be grabbed by mistake while you work, and all the normal tools still apply. Click Done when you're finished and the rest of your slide comes back. The pencil opens a locked layer too — a lock now freezes only its position and size, so you can still edit its content here.

If an item stretches across more than one slide, it shows up in Layers on every slide it touches — but only the slide that owns it can move, hide or lock it. On the other slides it appears as a borrowed row, tagged "from slide N" and without the eye, lock or grip. The ‹N · N› chevrons on the row step you between the slides it spans. To reorder or hide it, go to the slide that owns it.

Every slide, in order, beside your canvas. Click to jump, drag to reorder, Add Slide for a new page — free projects stop at two slides, and Krevez Pro removes that cap — and right-click (or click and hold) a slide to duplicate, move or delete it. The Aspect chip at the top sets your carousel shape: square, portrait, and wide stay free, and a custom size you type in is a Krevez Pro feature. On a project you have already worked on, changing it saves what you have and opens a fresh project at the new size, so pick your shape early.

Right-click (or click and hold) a frame, layout, or template and choose Merge frames, then click the others and hit Merge. One photo shows through all of them. Select the merged group and click Unmerge to undo.

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

Record Build Video, inside the Slideshow button, films your slide while you edit. It works on single-slide projects only, so on a carousel with several slides the button will not start — trim down to one slide first. Stop when you are done, pick playback speeds per section, and save the video.

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

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.

Export format sets how your images save. JPEG opens everywhere — the safe choice. HEIC makes smaller files that modern iPhones, iPads and Macs read happily. If you're unsure, stay on JPEG.

Everything that isn't a drawing tool lives behind ☰, in a sheet titled More with five labelled groups. Krevez Pro is your account. Canvas is what happens to the slide itself. On-Canvas Controls are the optional helpers that float over your work. Project covers saving and exporting this carousel. App is the whole app — including Help, which is how you got here. The next few pages walk each group in the order you'll see it.

Upgrade to Pro and Account & Subscription sit at the top — see What's free, what's Pro below. Then Canvas, which acts on the slide you're looking at. Slide background… opens a picker with three tabs — Colour, Designs, and Custom. Reset zoom to 100% undoes any zooming and puts the slide back at its true size. Erase canvas… is red because it clears your work — it always asks first, and Undo brings it back.

Show zoom slider adds a slider for zooming without pinching. Quick Tools comes next — a drill-in, not a switch: it opens its own page where you star the tools you want on the wrench button in the top toolbar. Favourites star switches on the floating gold star. The two switches start off. Project is about this carousel. Save as Template… keeps its design so you can start from it next time. Export Project File… packages the whole project — pictures, fonts and all — for another Krevez. Export format shows its current setting on the right. Custom fonts… is where you bring your own typefaces in. Hidden items… is the way back for anything you've hidden from the Library.

iCloud Sync tells you whether your projects are following you between devices — when it's on you'll see Up to date. Haptics turns the little taps on and off. Help opens this Handbook. Replay Introduction runs the welcome cards again from the start. About and Font Licenses hold the version, the legal documents and the typeface credits, and Learn more at krevez.com opens the website.

Free gives you the first designs in every category, two filters total, and a daily export allowance shared across images, video, Build Video, project files, and Chat Replay. New projects are capped at two slides, a typed-in custom aspect ratio is Pro, and so are Colour Grading's Advanced sliders and the Auto suggestion. Items with a crown badge, and every limit above, come with Krevez Pro: monthly, annual, or lifetime. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

When you go Pro, Krevez fetches all the premium stickers, templates, frames and backgrounds so they're ready even offline. On Wi-Fi it happens automatically in the background — a small "Downloading your Pro assets" bar sits under the top tools and disappears when it's done. On cellular nothing downloads automatically; click any locked item wherever you're using it to fetch just that one pack. You can always check progress from the ☰ menu, and on Wi-Fi you can start or resume the whole download from there too.

Star the tools you use most and the Quick Tools button — the wrench in the top toolbar — keeps them one click away. It shows only the tools that suit whatever you have selected.

All Projects and Recent live in the sidebar, with your folders below. Drag a project onto a folder to file it — filed projects move out of All Projects and into that folder. Search, sort, import, and your account sit in the toolbar.

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

Right-click any project tile and its own menu appears, in this order: Rename gives it a new name. Share saves the whole project as a Krevez file you can send to someone or keep as a backup — pictures, fonts and all. Duplicate makes a copy, so you can try something without risking the original. Move to… files it into a folder. Delete, at the bottom, removes it. This is the only way to rename a project after you've made it, so it's worth knowing before you end up with a shelf of projects all named the same thing.

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 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. Slideshow views your carousel full screen, records a build video, or exports one. If a button ever hides, its menu command is still there.

The Mac menu bar has a Help menu at the far right. Krevez Handbook opens these pages in their own window, and Krevez Help opens the same thing — so you can reach the Handbook without going through the ☰ menu. macOS also puts a search field at the top of the Help menu that jumps to a match.

⌘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 view slideshow · ⌥⌘R record a build video