How to Use the New Canvas Resizing Feature on StoriesEdit

June 19 2020 | StoriesEdit , SE-best-practices

How to Use the Canvas Resizing Feature on StoriesEdit

The StoriesEdit design app makes it easy to quickly design branded creative assets for your social media channels on your phone. The latest updates to our StoriesEdit App include Canvas Size options to resize your favorite templates for various social media platforms, a rotation functionality to fit your design, and a new keyboard with stickers to elevate your template creations.

When it comes to telling a visual and engaging story to your audience, half of the fun comes from creating the content! Our biggest goal with PLANOLY’s StoriesEdit app is to make it feel as though you have access to your own creative design studio right in the palm of your hands. It is seamless and easy for you to create thoughtful, engaging, and beautifully designed Instagram Stories, Pins, posts, or whatever your social media needs with just the touch of a finger.

How do you use this new resizing feature? Let's dive in!

NOTE: ‘RESIZE’ Canvas Sizes features on StoriesEdit is only available to paid StoriesEdit subscribers

How to Use the New Canvas Resizing Feature on StoriesEdit

Canvas Sizes & Resizing

We’re so excited to share our StoriesEdit feature: ‘RESIZE’ Canvas Sizes! You can now use templates from our StoriesEdit collections in various Canvas Sizes to share with your audience across multiple social media platforms? You’re no longer limited Story-sized templates and have access to four different Canvas Sizes to choose from.

StoriesEdit Canvas Size Options

Instagram Story - 9:16 ratio for your Instagram Stories
Social Media - 1:1 ratio for any Social Media
Portrait - 4:5 portrait ratio for Portrait
Pinterest - 2:3 ratio for your Pinterest content

How to Use StoriesEdit Canvas Size Options

Open the StoriesEdit App
Choose any template from a COLLECTION or CATEGORY
Once you’ve selected your desired template, tap on the ‘EDIT’ Pencil Icon on the bottom right corner of the screen
You’ll then see an option to ‘RESIZE’ Canvas Sizes on the far right - tap here
You can then select from four different Canvas Sizes:
- 4:5 ratio for Portrait
- 9:16 ratio for Instagram Story
- 1:1 ratio for Square Social Posts
- 2:3 ratio for Pinterest
Select one or multiple sizes that you’d like to create! (You’ll then see the ‘RESIZE’ button activated followed by the amount selected at the bottom of the screen)
When you’re ready to ‘RESIZE’ your template, tap on ‘RESIZE’ at the bottom of your screen

To create content with StoriesEdit, simply add your copy, additional shapes & stickers, then tap on the ‘DRAFTS’ Floppy Disk Icon to save to your work or tap on the ‘SHARE’ with the export up icon at the top right of your screen to save to your device. Now your content is ready to share directly to your social media channels or send to your PLANOLY app to to schedule!