How can we help?

26 plain answers — printing, photos, text, layers, and your files.

Getting started

Do I need an account?
There is no login and no password. You give a date of birth and an email address once at the door, and after t…
Keyboard shortcuts
The full list. On Windows and Linux press Ctrl wherever this page says Command, and the app rewrites its own m…
Start a project and pick a page size
Click + New project, choose a size from the presets or type your own, then click Create project. The size you …

Crop a photo
Select a photo and press C, or click Crop in the Photo toolbar. Drag the corners of the window to choose what …
Move a photo inside its frame
Press H for the hand tool, then drag on the photo. The frame stays where it is and the picture slides undernea…
Photo frames and borders
Select a photo and pick a shape from the Frame list in the Photo toolbar — circle, arch, hexagon, heart and ei…
Upload your own photos
Open Uploads in the left rail, drag your files in or click to choose them, then click a thumbnail to drop it o…

Add text and style it
Click Text in the left rail and choose a heading, a subheading or body text. Double-click any text on the page…
Add your own font
Open Brand in the left rail, click + Upload a font under Brand fonts, choose a .ttf, .otf, .woff or .woff2 fil…
Word stickers, phrases and clip art
Open Elements in the left rail and pick Clip Art, Phrases or Stickers. Click one to drop it on the page, or dr…

Change the background
Click Elements in the left rail, then the Backgrounds tile. Pick a texture, pick a colour, or click + Add colo…
Change the page size
Open Page Setup in the left rail, type a new width and height, pick your units and click Apply size to this pa…
Fill a shape with a gradient
Select a shape, then click the ∅ button beside Fill 2 to switch the gradient on. Pick the second colour, set t…
Use layers
Turn the panel on with View → Layers panel. Click a layer to make it active, click the eye to hide it, and cli…
Work with more than one page
Use the thumbnail strip along the bottom. + Add page adds a blank one after the current page, + Duplicate copi…
Round the corners of a rectangle
Add a rectangle, select it, and type a number into Corners on the Shape toolbar. It is a percentage of the sho…

Bleed and margins for print
Bleed is extra artwork outside the page for the printer to trim into, so a colour that runs to the edge really…
Export formats, and which one to choose
File → Save as… offers .crev, PNG, JPG, PDF, SVG and WebP. Use .crev to keep editing, PDF for a printer, PNG f…
Print your design
Click the printer button in the top right, or press ⌘P. Crevano checks your photo resolutions first, then hand…
Why a photo prints soft, and how to fix it
A photo has a fixed number of pixels. Make it bigger on the page and those pixels spread thinner. Crevano show…

Open a project you saved
Click Open project… in your gallery header, or File → Open a file… inside the editor. It takes .crev files, an…
Save and back up your work
Press ⌘S to write your project out as a .crev file. That file is the copy you own — keep it somewhere safe, be…
Where your work is saved
In this browser, on this device. Nothing is on a server, which means nobody else can reach it — and also that …

Install Crevano on your device
Click Install app in your gallery header, or use your browser's install option. It gets its own window and its…
My projects have disappeared
Your gallery is empty because it reads this browser's storage on this device. Nine times out of ten the cause …
Which browser to use
Everything works everywhere. Chrome and Edge on a computer add two real conveniences — saving straight into a …