Manage canvases

Create, find, rename, and organize canvases from the home page, or move a personal canvas to your team space.

Start each new piece of work on a new canvas. Creative OS automatically saves its nodes, connections, Agent conversations, and generated results. Return to the canvas home page whenever you want to continue earlier work.

Canvases appear in two places:

  • Personal canvases can only be opened and edited directly by you;
  • Team canvases can be opened and edited by members of the current team.

1. Create a canvas

  1. Open the Creative OS home page;
  2. Select New Canvas in the upper-right corner;
  3. Creative OS opens a blank canvas;
  4. Select the canvas name in the upper-left corner and enter a name you can find later.

Create a new canvas

You can also send Agent a task from the home page. Creative OS creates a canvas and keeps the conversation and Agent outputs there.

2. Find an existing canvas

Use Search, Filter, and Sort in the upper-right corner when the list gets longer:

What you needWhat to do
A canvas with a known nameEnter the canvas name in Search
Only canvases or only foldersOpen Filter and choose the content type
Canvases changed recentlyChoose Last modified and Newest first
Canvases created earlierChoose Date created and Oldest first
A different layoutSwitch between grid and list view

To find a canvas owned by your team, switch to Team canvases first. Personal and team canvases appear separately.

3. Rename a canvas

Select ··· on the canvas card, or right-click the canvas, then choose Rename.

Use a name you can find again, such as:

  • Outdoor speaker ad
  • Fragrance film storyboard
  • Character design test

If you have many canvases, including the product, client, or type of content makes Search more useful.

4. Organize canvases with folders

Select the folder button in the upper-right corner of the canvas home page to create a folder.

You can add canvases to a folder in three ways:

  1. Open the canvas menu and choose Move to…;
  2. Enter selection mode, choose several canvases, then select Add to folder;
  3. Drag a canvas card into an existing folder.

You can also drag one canvas onto another from the canvas home page to create a folder containing both.

Folders only organize the list. They do not change the nodes, connections, or content inside a canvas.

5. Move a personal canvas to your team

When you want teammates to edit the same canvas:

  1. Find the canvas under Personal canvases;
  2. Select ···, then choose Move to team;
  3. Check the destination team in the confirmation window;
  4. Select Move to team;
  5. Switch to Team canvases and open the canvas.

Members of the current team can edit the canvas after it is moved. If you later choose Move to personal, they will lose access.

6. Share or delete a canvas

From the canvas menu:

  • Choose Share by link to copy a link that lets other people view and clone the canvas;
  • Choose Delete to remove the canvas;
  • Use selection mode to move or delete several canvases at once.

Read the confirmation window before deleting. Download any image, video, or audio files you need to keep.

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