Overview

The editor at a glance

When you open a project, Craftwork Make fills the screen with your design surface and surrounds it with the panels you use to build and edit. Here's what each region does.

The canvas

The canvas is the open area in the center where you draw and arrange your design. Pan by holding Space and dragging (or scroll), and zoom with Cmd/Ctrl and scroll, or with the trackpad pinch gesture. Everything you place lives on the current page.

The toolbar

A floating toolbar sits at the bottom-center of the canvas. It holds your drawing tools:

• Frame
• Rectangle
• Oval
• Line
• Vector (pen)
• Text
• Slice

Pick a tool, then draw on the canvas. The toolbar also has a magic-wand toggle, Generate on canvas, which lets you draw a region and ask the AI to create something inside it (see Generating with AI), a shader button, and — at its right end — the toggle that shows or hides the inspector.

The side panels

Tabs at the top left switch what shows in the panel on the left side of the canvas. One panel is open at a time, and each floats over the canvas rather than pushing your design around:

• AI chat — describe what you want and let the AI build or edit it. This is the panel the editor starts on; after that it opens whichever panel you had open last (or none, if you closed it).
• Layers — the layer tree for the current page, plus your page list
• Assets — drag-and-drop graphics to place on the canvas
• Icons — searchable icons
• Community — projects shared as templates

Click the open tab again to close the panel and get the full canvas back — the tab is the only close control, so no panel spends space on one of its own. Drag a panel's inner edge to resize it — the width is shared by every panel, so switching tabs never resizes the sidebar (double-click the edge to go back to the default).

In the Layers panel, click a layer to select it, drag to reorder or re-nest, and double-click a name to rename it.

The Inspector

The inspector edits whatever you've selected. It's hidden by default — open it with the panel button at the right end of the floating toolbar, Cmd/Ctrl Alt 2, or from the command palette — and it floats over the right side of the canvas. The top section controls size and position; below that you'll find styling — fills, borders, shadows, and text settings for the selected layer. With nothing selected, it shows your theme styles. See Styling for the details.

The top toolbar

Across the top of the window:

• The panel tabs on the left
• Your project title, with a dropdown to rename, duplicate, or share the project. Your work saves on its own; if something hasn't been saved yet, a small amber dot appears next to the title — hover it for the reason.
• A light/dark theme toggle
• Your AI credit balance
• Your account menu

Where to go next

• Tools — draw frames, shapes, lines, vectors, and text
• Styling — fills, borders, shadows, and text
• AI — generate and edit designs with the AI