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Start a project and pick a page size
Everything in Crevano begins with a page of a real size. Pick one that matches what you intend to do with it — an 8.5 × 11 inch sheet if it is going to a printer, a pixel size if it is going on a screen — and the app can tell you the truth about resolution later.
Steps
- Open the studio. You land on your gallery — the shelf of projects you have already made. It is empty the first time.
- Click + New project at the top right.
- Give it a Name. You can change this later, and you can leave it blank.
- Optional: put a word in Collection — Travel, Health, Work. It groups projects on the gallery shelf. It is free text; there is no fixed list.
- Pick a size from the tabs. Popular covers most of it. Print, Social, App stores and Wallpaper hold the exact sizes each platform asks for. Custom lets you type a width and height in inches, centimetres, millimetres, picas, points or pixels.
- Under Document, set Pages if you already know you need more than one. You can add pages later, so 1 is a fine answer.
- Set Bleed. Choose None for anything staying on screen or being trimmed at home. Choose 0.125in if a commercial printer is going to trim it. See Bleed and margins for print.
- Click Create project.
Choosing a resolution
Custom sizes also have a Resolution: 72 ppi for screen, 150 for a draft, 300 for print. The presets set this for you — the print sizes come in at 300, the social and wallpaper sizes at 72.
This number is not decoration. It is what the app measures your photographs against, so a photo that would print soft can say so while you are still working. Set it honestly.
> Note > Pick the resolution now. The page size can be changed at any point from Page Setup, > but the resolution is set when the project is created and there is no control to change it > afterwards. If you need a different one, start a new project.