Start from a template
Starting from an empty canvas means getting stuck on where to put the very first block. It is faster to press Templates in the toolbar, pick something close to what you want, and replace the contents.
Templates already have their layout and colors worked out. Delete the blocks you do not need and keep the rest. If you really want to start from nothing, use Clear all blocks.
Build it out of blocks
Everything in makeinfo is a block. Add one by clicking it in the list on the left.
| Block | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Cover | The opening screen. Puts the product name over a main image. |
| Product cards | Laying out several products. Photo, name and price as one set. |
| Gallery | A grid of photos only. |
| Price list | Items and prices lined up in columns. |
| Event info | Fixed fields like booth number, date and venue. |
| Heading + body · Text | Explanatory paragraphs. Specs, notes, warnings. |
| Image | A single photo placed as is. |
| Decoration | Lines and shapes. |
| Title | A heading treated as artwork. Covered separately below. |
Blocks move freely. You can reorder them in the list or group them into a folder to keep related things together. Move the parent and everything inside comes along.
Line things up — do not eyeball it
The most common reason a page looks amateurish is that the left edges of blocks are off by a few pixels. You barely notice it up close, but the page as a whole looks untidy.
Two tools help.
- Snapping — blocks stick to the canvas grid and to the edges of other blocks, like magnets. Drag one close and it lands in place.
- Snap to blocks — drop a block on one of the four edges of another and it aligns. Left or right puts them side by side sharing the row width evenly; top or bottom stacks them in a column, inheriting the x position and width. It only catches near an edge, so passing through the middle of a block does nothing.
For fine adjustments, select a block and use the arrow keys — one pixel per press.
Adjusting a single block
The panel on the right adjusts only the selected block.
- Content size — scales that block's text and spacing together. Scaling text alone makes the spacing feel cramped as it grows, so both move at once.
- Per-part size — set sizes element by element inside a block: make the product name bigger while leaving the price alone.
- Free transform — turn it on and the contents stretch and squash like a picture. Shrink the box and the text inside shrinks with it. Same behaviour as free transform in PowerPoint or Photoshop.
The resize handles do not touch text scale. Dragging a handle shrinks the box while the contents stay put, so shrinking below the content size clips it. Free transform is what you use when you want the contents to shrink too. For a block with photos there is another option: set the photo ratio to Fit to box and only the photo shrinks to the block height while the text keeps its size.
Set colors and fonts once, in the theme
Choosing a color per block means touching every one of them when you later want to change the overall look. Set the base colors and fonts under the Style tab and every block follows.
When one block needs to differ, make an exception with Override for this block. Following the theme by default and keeping exceptions rare is what makes a color change easy later.
You can also upload your own fonts. On export, only the parts needed for the characters you used are packed into the file, so the typeface stays the same when the file is opened on another computer.
Title studio
Gradients, outlines, shadows, a different typeface per line — a display heading has a lot to adjust. That is why the title block opens full screen.
Headings made here stay as real text, so you can fix the wording later. Starting from one of the ready-made styles and only changing the colors is the quickest route.
Keyboard
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrow keys | Move the selected block by 1px |
| Ctrl + Z | Undo |
| Ctrl + Shift + Z | Redo |
| Ctrl + C / V | Copy / paste |
| Ctrl + D | Duplicate in place |
| Ctrl + G | Group into a folder |
| Ctrl + ] / [ | Bring forward / send backward |
| Delete | Delete the block |
Undo is grouped by gesture. One drag is one step, and typing is grouped by sentence rather than undoing a character at a time.
Saving is automatic — but it lives in this browser only
Your work saves itself, and the last project opens again next time. There is no save button to press.
What matters is where it saves: inside this browser. Nothing goes to a server. So your work disappears if any of these happen.
- You clear the browser's browsing data or site data
- You worked in a private window and closed it
- You open the site on another computer or another browser (it simply will not be there)
So export a full PNG once you are done. That file is your working file. It is also the one file you carry over to another computer.
Four export formats
| Format | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Full PNG | The only format you can reopen. Text, layout, photos and fonts are packed inside the image. When there are many photos you get the image and the project data as a single zip. |
| Split PNG | For uploading. Cut into several pieces at the maximum height and bundled as a zip. Each piece holds only part of the whole, so it cannot be reopened. |
| For showing and printing. Pages break by the same rules as splitting. | |
| PSD | For finishing in Photoshop. One layer per block. Text is flattened into pixels. |
One thing to remember — the file you upload and the file you keep are different files. If you uploaded split PNGs, keep a full PNG as well.
To open something, drag it in. A full PNG or a project zip restores the whole project, an ordinary image becomes an image block, and a PSD becomes one block per layer.
If you need to draw
For a quick drawing or a photo touch-up, open the drawing editor at the bottom left. It opens in a new tab and hands the result back as an image block, so you do not have to move between programs.