Visual Studio: carousels, images, decks and guides

Visual Studio turns your words into branded visuals that are checked for legibility before you can export them. Open Content, choose Post mode and select Visuals. Your designs are listed there; choose one to open it in the editor. Owners, admins and operators can create and edit designs.

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Formats

Each format has its own layouts, such as a cover hook, a point, a quote, a figure, before and after, steps, a checklist, a timeline or a comparison table.

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Create a design

1. Choose the Format, the Size, a brand kit (or none) and a Theme.
2. Under Start from, choose An idea and write what it should say, or A saved post.
3. Choose Lay out my text to place your own words into layouts without AI, or Design with AI · 1 credit to have AI write and lay out the pages. Only facts you include, or approved Vault claims, can appear as figures.

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Edit it

• Select any text on the page to edit it in place. Esc closes the editor.
• Change a page’s Layout, add or remove pages, add an image from your workspace files with its alt text, and add speaker notes to deck slides.
• AI on this page only · 1 credit each: Rewrite, Shorter or Punchier changes one page and leaves the others alone.
• Brand & theme sets the display name, handle, footer, logo, headshot, heading and body fonts and colours for this design, starting from the brand kit.
• Every save is kept. Version history lets you restore an earlier version as a new one; nothing is overwritten.

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Legibility checks

Export stays unavailable until every page passes. Each problem names the page and what to do:

• text that does not fit at the minimum readable size, or runs over the word or line limit
• text contrast below 4.5:1 (3:1 for large text), or text on a photo without a scrim
• anything outside the safe margin
• characters the chosen font cannot draw

Choose Edit to fix it yourself or, for text that is too long, Fix with AI to shorten the page so it fits (1 credit).

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Export and use it

Choose Export. When every page passes, the export window shows Passes legibility checks and offers:

• Download: PDF (selectable text in the embedded fonts, sharp shapes and your images; lead magnets add bookmarks and a linked contents page), PNG (one image, or a zip of every page) and, for decks, PowerPoint (editable) with editable text boxes. PowerPoint names the fonts rather than embedding them, so Download the font files (free, SIL Open Font License) for identical line breaks.
• Save to workspace files: stores the PDF, PNG or PowerPoint file privately in your workspace and verifies it.
• Attach to a post draft: adds the file to a post draft. Approval covers the attached file, so the draft returns to review.
• Companion post: Create companion post draft writes a post to go with the visual, with an optional download link, saved as a draft for review.

Visuals can also be made as part of a content set.