Visuals is your branded image and slide composer. You use it to create single images or multi-slide carousels – each with a photo in the background and your brand text on top. Everything you see is a live preview: that's exactly how the finished image will look.
Visuals is included from the Pro plan and lives in the menu under More tools → Visuals – on desktop also in the icon bar on the left. A visual with just one slide is a single image; several slides make a carousel.
Visuals is still in beta – we're expanding it continuously. If something's missing or feels off, we'd love your feedback.
Creating a visual
Open Visuals from the menu and click New visual. It doesn't start empty but as a finished title page with sample text – so you can see straight away how a slide is put together, and simply replace the text with your own. You land straight in the editor – as everywhere in maebe, with the workspace and preview on one side and the settings on the other. Everything you change saves automatically – the bar at the bottom always shows whether it's saving or everything is safely stored. That's also where you'll find the Save button: one click stores the current state and refreshes your visual's preview image in the overview.
Choosing the format
At the very top you pick the format – the aspect ratio of your image (e.g. square 1:1, portrait 4:5 or 9:16 for stories). The small tiles show you the ratio directly. Choose the format to match the platform you want to post on.
Setting the background
- Upload a photo: Add an image that fills the slide. You can also pull photos from one of your media pools.
- Position the crop: Drag the photo with your mouse or finger to the right spot – that's how you decide which part of the image is visible.
- Zoom: Use the slider to enlarge the photo if you want to get closer.
Layout & text
Pick a layout template – for example a title page, a big number, a numbered step, a quote, a chapter page or a closing page. The preview tiles show each template with sample texts; use the arrows to browse all types. When you pick a template, maebe fills the still-empty fields with those samples – so you instantly see which field does what, and simply replace them with your content. Your own texts are always kept when switching templates.
The input fields look like what they produce: the headline large, the kicker small in capitals, the big number bold. Clear a field and it tells you again what it's for.
- Emphasize a word: Put a word in the headline between asterisks – like
*this*– and it appears in an elegant italic typeface from your brand.
Fine-tuning the look
In the style area you pick the accent colour and the text colour from your brand kit – or a free colour. Below that sit three switches:
- Text position: Should the text sit in the middle of the slide or at the bottom?
- Brightness: Match the text to your photo – light text on dark images, dark text on light ones.
- Gradient: Lays a soft gradient under your text so it stays readable on any photo – at the bottom, across the whole slide, or not at all.
To learn how your brand kit works, see Brand Kit.
Building a carousel
The thumbnail row right below the preview is your entire slide navigation. Click a tile to jump to that slide, and use drag & drop to change the order.
- Add a slide: The coloured + tile at the end of the row creates another page (up to 10 slides per visual – the Instagram carousel maximum). A new slide inherits all settings from the current one (layout, colours, text) – only the background image stays empty so you can drop in a fresh photo right away.
- Delete a slide: A small bin icon sits in the top-right corner of the tile you currently have open. The last slide can't be deleted – a visual always has at least one page.
That's how you build a consistent, cohesive carousel in just a few steps.
Done – what next?
Once you're happy, you have three options in the top right:
- Download: Download the current slide or all slides as high-resolution images.
- Plan a post with it: maebe creates a draft with your slides directly – from there it continues as usual through approval and publishing.
- Save to pool: Store the finished images in one of your media pools to use later.
Your visual stays saved and can be edited again any time – so you can adjust it later and export it once more.