Graphic Maker

When the editor opens, pick what you are making: a YouTube thumbnail, a video cover or channel art, a poster, a Discord banner, or a square, portrait or story post (the design you were working on is offered first, and New asks again). Then pick a template for it or a blank design (video covers, channel art and story posts start blank) and change anything: every part of a template is an ordinary layer you can move, resize, restyle or delete. Add commanders, game art, stickers, widgets, backgrounds and text from the Library, or drop your own pictures straight onto the canvas. A transparent PNG gets a sticker border by itself.

Templates with a face slot take your face or VTuber model: pick a saved cutout or upload a picture in the template's details before it opens, or double-click the slot later. A photo has its background removed right in your browser, without being sent anywhere; a transparent PNG, such as a VTuber model or a mascot, goes in as it is.

Click a layer to select it (its transparent parts click through to the layer below), shift-click to add more, or drag a box around several. Drag to move, pull a corner to resize (Shift unlocks the shape, Alt resizes from the middle), and turn it with the round handle above: it settles at upright, at the 3, 5, 8 and 10 degree tilts thumbnails use, and at quarter turns. Hold Ctrl (Cmd on a Mac) while dragging to skip snapping to the centre, the thirds, the edges, your guides and other layers.

The toolbar's other tools work on the selected layer: Crop slides and zooms a picture inside its frame and moves the pop-out line, so a head can break out of a circle or hexagon; Perspective drags each corner for a tilted screenshot or card and skews it with the round side handles; Hand pans the canvas. Zoom with the percentage menu, Ctrl and the mouse wheel, or two fingers on a phone. The ruler menu adds guides, which you drag into place or off the frame to remove. On YouTube thumbnails the dashed box in the bottom-right corner is where the video length badge sits, and the editor warns you when text or a logo is under it. On channel art the dashed outline marks the middle part every device shows, and the editor warns you when text, a logo or a face reaches outside it.

Double-click a text to type straight on the canvas, and right-click a layer (press and hold it on a touch screen) for its menu. The keyboard does the rest: Ctrl+Z undoes, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V copy and paste, even into another design, the arrow keys nudge (Shift for 10), Delete removes and Escape steps back, with Cmd in place of Ctrl on a Mac. Press ? in the editor for every shortcut, or open Keyboard shortcuts in the toolbar's More menu. Your design saves in this browser as you work, and Open / Save keeps it in your account or in a file. Share makes a link others can view or remix.

Game art, commanders and fonts are free to use in your graphics. MetaRoK is a fan site, not affiliated with or endorsed by Lilith Games.