September 8th, 2026
Improved
The image and carousel editor got a new canvas. Everything you could do before still works the same way, but a lot of it now happens right on the design instead of in the side panel. Here's what changed and how to use it.
Double-click any text and start typing where you clicked. Select a few words and the toolbar switches to Formatting selected words: bold, italic, color, size and the new highlighter apply to that selection only. So "Save 50%" with just the number in orange is a two-second job now, and it exports exactly like that. Cmd/Ctrl + B and I work on the selection too. The box keeps its size and its handles while you type, and only grows when you add a line.
Select an image and you get Swap, Crop and Corners above it. Crop dims what's outside the frame, shows a thirds grid, and lets you drag the photo around inside it. Done keeps it, Reset brings the whole image back.
Select two or more elements and press Cmd/Ctrl + G to group them; from then on they move, resize and delete together (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + G ungroups). Lock anything that's placed and shouldn't move. The new Layers button at the bottom lists every element top to bottom: click to select, drag to reorder.
The add bar at the top drops a text (or press T), an image, a rectangle / ellipse / pill, or a background onto the current slide. Shapes have an Add label button that puts a readable text in the middle and keeps it grouped with the shape. Click the background itself and you get your brand colors and gradients as swatches.
Every toolbar ends with a sparkle. Click it and a small menu opens: a field for your own request at the top, and underneath, quick actions that fit the selection, each with its own icon (Rewrite, Shorter, Punchier or Fix grammar on text; Regenerate, Match brand colors or Remove background on an image; Suggest a color on a shape; Harmonize colors when several things are selected). Click one, or use the arrow keys and Enter. Start typing and your own request moves to the top of the list, so Enter sends that instead. The toolbar shows "Krumzi is working on it" while the agent edits, and the toast at the end has an Undo that discards that whole turn.
The add bar's Shape button opens the full picker: Blob, Wave, Rectangle, Circle, Star and Pill, a grid of variants, and a Regenerate roll. A new QR code button takes a link or text. The background's More menu now puts your brand colors, gradients and meshes first, bigger, with the presets below.
Right-click any element for the quick menu: Edit text, Crop, Fit or Fill the slide, Add label, Duplicate, Copy, Paste, Delete, layer order, Align, Lock, Group, and the full Design panel. Empty canvas gets Paste, Select all, Add text, Upload an image and Edit background.
Carousels now open with every slide side by side, edge to edge, the way someone will actually swipe through them. A headline that runs across two slides looks like it will in the export instead of getting cut off at the edge of a window.
Click any slide to start working on it. The one you are on has its number in purple, and the toolbar, the layers card and the background all follow it. Move along the strip with the arrows or the dots in the slides pill, or with Page Up and Page Down. Fit (Cmd/Ctrl + 0) frames the whole carousel, and the percentage button in the zoom pill drops you to 100% centered on the slide you are on.
Prefer one slide at a time? The button on the left of the slides pill switches between the two, and so does clicking "2 of 5".
Scroll to pan, Cmd/Ctrl + scroll or pinch to zoom at the cursor, Space + drag to move around. A zoom pill at the bottom has Fit and Cmd/Ctrl + 0 fits too.
Orange smart guides snap to slide edges, centers and other elements. Hold Alt/Option to drag without snapping, Shift to lock an axis.
Multi-select with Shift + click or a marquee; resize the whole selection at once; Align and Distribute live in the toolbar.
Every gesture is one undo step and the undo button says what it will undo. Deleting shows an Undo toast.
The slides pill also adds, duplicates and deletes slides, and a single image gets a "Make it a carousel" button.
The AI learned all of it too: ask it to group elements, lock the logo, color one word, or crop a photo, and it uses the same controls.
The side panel is still there for the deep controls, under More → All options or from the left navigation. And if anything feels off, the old canvas is one setting away on our side, so tell us.