Start a presentation
- Open Studio and pick Presentations in the rail on the left.
- Choose New Presentation, name it, and the deck opens on a blank first slide.
- Open it again later from its card. The card shows the first slide once the deck has saved.
Add to a slide
The rail on the left holds Text, Assets, Shapes and Layers. An open panel runs to the bottom of the window; the small pill on its right edge (or ⌘ /) collapses it, and ⌘ / brings the last one back.- Text lists your brand’s text styles: Title, Subtitle, Heading, Subheading, Section header, Body, Quote and Caption. One click places the style on the slide. The gear opens Edit text styles, where each style gets its font, name, size, bold and italic. Fonts come from your Brand Kit first, then any font you upload, then a set of popular fonts. Styles set to the brand font follow the kit’s roles: the bold styles (Title, Heading, Section header) use the kit’s heading font, and the lighter ones (Subtitle, Subheading, Body, Quote, Caption) use its body font when the kit has one. In Edit text styles such a style reads Brand font (heading) or Brand font (body), and its Bold toggle moves it between the two; a kit with one font file uses it for every style. Pick a font for a style to keep it independent of the kit.
- Assets opens the same Add to slide window you know from Studio’s “Add a reference”: Brand (open a kit to pick from its logos, products, photos and collections), Inspirations (pick a collection above the grid to narrow it, All to widen it again) and Generations, each with search and load more, plus Upload for a picture from your device. Tick any number, then Add: every pick lands on the current slide, fitted and centred, and a batch arrives as a stack you can spread out. Videos are left out, because a slide holds still pictures.
- Shapes adds a rectangle or a circle.
Edit what is on the slide
Click an element and the toolbar above the slide shows its controls: font, size, color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, uppercase, left, centre and right alignment, letter spacing and line height, transparency, Position (align to the slide, move forward or back), lock, duplicate and delete. Double-click a text to type into it. Drag to move; the slide snaps and shows guides as in a design tool. Every change is one undo step. Changing Font size keeps the text box’s width and adjusts its height to fit the text, including wrapped lines. Line height scales with the font so the selection box continues to surround the text. Text that already grows in both dimensions keeps that behavior. Auto-layout frames reflow around the new text height. Font size, line height and bounds undo together. If an older size edit left a box too short, enter the current font size and press Enter to remeasure it. Reducing the font, for example from 300 px to 15 px, shrinks the box immediately. Any active text edit is committed before changing the size, so leaving text editing cannot restore the old oversized box.Remove a picture’s background
Select a picture on the slide and press Remove background at the start of its toolbar. While it works, a white veil pulses over the picture and a small badge sits at its corner; a few seconds later the same picture comes back without its background, in the same place and at the same size. It costs 1 credit. Undo brings the original back. The cutout is sized for the slide, so the presentation stays within its save limit. If it fails, a note under the button says why: out of credits, no editor access, or a connection problem. For the finest hair edges, Studio’s Background Remover node also offers Pixelcut.Split a picture into layers
Select a picture and press Split into layers in its toolbar, next to Remove background. Memo takes the picture apart with Seedream 5.0 Pro Layerize: every part of it, such as a title, a person, a product or a logo, becomes its own picture, placed exactly where it was, and the original picture keeps its place and size but now shows the empty background behind them. You can then move, resize, hide or delete each part, or put new text where the old text was. Before anything runs, a small window shows the price: 9 credits per layer, the background included, up to 153 credits for the most a picture can give (17 layers). The model decides how many layers a picture has, so you pay for the ones that come back: a poster with a title, a line of text, a drawing and a logo gave 5 layers, 45 credits. It takes about one to two minutes; the picture shows the working veil meanwhile, and Memo asks before you leave the page, because a split that is already running is still charged. When it finishes, a note says how many layers were made and what they cost, and the Layers panel opens on them. Undo brings the original picture back in one step. Text comes back as a picture of the text, not as text you can type into. The picture must be at least 512 × 512 pixels. A rotated picture, a locked one, or one inside an auto layout shows what to change first, before anything is charged. If the workspace cannot cover 153 credits, nothing runs. Each layer is sized for the slide, and pictures nothing shows any more (the original after a split, or after Remove background) are left out of the saved presentation, so it stays within its save limit.Selecting and lining things up
- Drag on empty slide space to draw a selection box; everything it touches is selected (hold Shift to add to what is already selected).
- While you drag an element, it snaps to the edges and centres of its neighbours and to the slide’s centre lines, with a guide line drawn while it does. When the gaps to the neighbours on both sides are equal, pills show that spacing, like Canva.
- Alignment lines disappear when you release the element or cancel the drag. They cannot be selected or dragged separately. Older saved page/frame guides are removed when a slide opens; the optional layout grid remains available with Control + G.
- Hold ⌥ with something selected and hover another element to see the distances between them.
- Control + G shows or hides the layout grid in every presentation. Slides without a template grid use the Memo grid: six columns with margins and gutters, plus an inset row. Imported templates keep their own grids. Grids start hidden whenever you open a presentation, stay off while presenting, and never appear in rendered exports or slide thumbnails. Leaving presentation mode restores your editor view. The shortcut does not change the document.
Auto layout and layers
Select two or more layers in the same frame and press Shift + A, or choose Auto layout in the selection toolbar or Layers panel. Memo creates an Auto layout frame inside the slide and moves the selected layers into it. It infers horizontal or vertical order and evens out the gaps using their average existing spacing. The slide frame stays fixed. Select the auto-layout frame to open Auto layout properties on the right. The card controls vertical/horizontal flow, width and height with Hug contents or Fixed sizing (Fill container is available inside another auto layout), a nine-position alignment control, gap and padding. Horizontal and vertical padding apply to pairs of sides; Independent padding exposes Top, Right, Bottom and Left separately. Typing a width or height makes that dimension fixed. Click a value to type, or use the up/down arrow keys to adjust it. Focus highlights the containing field. Press Enter or leave a numeric field to apply it. Drag an auto-layout frame directly on the canvas to select and move the whole group in one gesture. Dragging its contents keeps the children together. The Auto layout handle above the selected frame also moves the group. Shift constrains movement to one axis. The inspector’s Free position inside parent setting lets a nested frame move freely within its parent while keeping its own internal layout. To move a child separately, select it in Layers, double-click it inside the group, or ⌘/Ctrl-click it on the canvas. Drag it within the auto layout to reorder it, or pull the pointer beyond the layout’s edge to place it directly on the slide. Dragging back inside restores layout participation. The other children reflow with the move; one undo restores the original parent, position and order. Escape cancels the gesture. Double-click an already selected text child to edit its text. Drag the small rectangular gap value along the layout’s axis to adjust the spacing live. A thin grip marks the gap; when the gap is narrow, the value sits just outside the frame to keep the content clear. Alt makes the adjustment finer. Double-click the value, or focus it and press Enter, to type a gap directly. Arrow keys adjust it by one pixel, or ten with Shift. The control remains available at a zero gap. Releasing a drag records one undo step; Escape, losing window focus or cancelling the pointer restores the previous value. Entering an auto layout does not add a dashed outline around the presentation slide; nested-frame scope indicators remain available. Right-click an auto-layout row in Layers and choose Detach Auto Layout to remove the wrapper and leave its children in the parent at their current positions. This also works from the canvas right-click menu. Undo restores the wrapper, layout settings and ordering. Locked layers and rotated/flipped wrappers require unlocking or resetting their transform first. Undo restores the original layers, positions and ordering in one step after creation. Locked layers, rotated selections and selections across different parents show a message rather than changing the hierarchy. Open Layers in the left rail to see the current slide’s layer count and expandable tree: the slide frame, nested frames and auto layouts, text, images, shapes, and SVG/vector layers. Each row shows a small preview of its layer on a light checkerboard, so the parts of a split picture, or two layers with similar names, are easy to tell apart; a preview redraws when its layer changes. Click a layer to select it on the canvas, Shift-click to select a range, or ⌘/Ctrl-click to add or remove one layer from the selection. Freeform layers read from front to back; children of an auto layout follow their layout order. The buttons at the bottom bring the selection forward/to front or send it backward/to back. Row controls hide/show and lock/unlock layers; double-click a name to rename it. These changes support undo and save with the presentation. Canvas gap markings are editing guides and stay out of exported files. Drag a layer row above or below a sibling to change its order. An insertion line shows the drop position. In the slide’s stack, rows at the top are in front: dropping a picture below an Auto layout places it behind that whole group. Dropping beside an expanded group’s child uses the enclosing sibling group rather than nesting the picture. Inside an auto layout, moving rows changes their flow order. You can drag multiple selected siblings together, or focus a layer name and press Alt + Up/Down to move it one row. Each move is one undo step and saves with the deck. Locked layers and the fixed slide frame cannot be dragged. Use canvas dragging to move a child between frames. Layer names edit inline within their row: double-click a name, type, then press Enter or leave the field to save; Escape cancels. The slide frame’s name is a label in this panel, and its arrow expands or collapses its contents.The slide itself
Click an empty part of the slide and a Slide toolbar appears. The colour dot opens the brand colours and a custom colour picker for the slide’s background. Background opens the same picker for one picture, which fills the whole slide behind everything on it; Replace background and Remove appear once one is set. The slide never moves, resizes or deletes.From a connected agent
A connected agent can build and revise the same decks: it sends slides as content (a layout per slide with title, body, bullets, pictures from your kit, generations or inspirations), Memo lays them out in your Brand Kit’s fonts and colours, and the deck appears under Presentations ready to edit by hand. The agent gets previews of every slide and fixes what overflows before it hands you the link; later edits are refused when you changed the deck in the meantime, so nothing of yours is overwritten. See Connect your agent.Two views
The editor keeps a light gray workspace around every slide in both themes. Slide colours stay as you set them. Selection controls float over the workspace below the top bar. The controls at the bottom right hold the zoom slider, a percentage you can type, the page counter, the view switch and Present. The default view shows one page with the page strip under it. The view switch stacks every page in a column instead, so you scroll from one to the next, like Canva: each page has its number and its move, duplicate and delete buttons above it, Add page sits under the last one, and clicking a page makes it the one you edit. Zoom there sets how wide the pages are (⌘ + scroll works too).Pages
The strip at the bottom shows every slide. Add page adds a blank slide of the same size. Hover a slide for the duplicate button. To delete a slide, click it and press Backspace or Delete. The zoom slider at the bottom right zooms in and out; click the percentage to fit the slide again.Present and export
The present button at the bottom right fills the screen with the slide. Use the arrow keys to move between slides and Escape to leave. Export in the top bar offers:- PDF: the whole deck, one page per slide, exactly as drawn.
- PowerPoint: the whole deck, with the text still editable. Fonts travel as names, not files, so a machine without your brand font substitutes another.
- PNG: the slide you are on.
- Figma file: the deck as a
.figthat opens in Figma.
Import a Figma template with an agent
Give your connected agent the Figma link and the presentation brief. The agent loads Memo’s Presentation builder skill and its Figma import reference. It reads the source through your Figma connection, keeps the slide layout and editable text, supplies the exact font styles and images, and callsimport_presentation.
If the Figma connector reaches its quota, the agent can use File → Save local copy in an accessible Figma Slides browser session and import the native .deck export. The same access permissions apply. This preserves the source layers and embedded images without rebuilding each slide. Live Figma widgets remain static previews, and image compression is disclosed.
An import stores its source link and a retry receipt. Repeating the same operation reuses the saved project. It does not overwrite a presentation you have already edited. Missing source permissions, Figma account limits, unavailable font files and unsupported visuals are reported explicitly. Interactive Figma objects require an explicit static conversion or omission; they do not become interactive Memo objects.
The agent checks every slide in preview batches, opens the saved deck in Studio, and verifies edits survive a reload before handing it over. A successful import is not a claim that every slide has been visually reviewed.