Hi there,

We’ve just released a highly requested addition to our design toolkit that will make your branding workflows smoother than ever: the Eyedropper tool!

This feature is designed to give you absolute precision when selecting colors, ensuring your generated visuals remain perfectly consistent with your brand assets or reference images.

What’s New?

• Pixel-Perfect Selection: Grab any color directly from your canvas with total accuracy. No more copying and pasting hex codes from external windows.

• Brand Consistency: Easily match text, shapes, or button colors to specific elements within your uploaded images or logos.

• Faster Iteration: Speed up your design process by sampling colors on the fly, allowing you to experiment with different palettes in seconds.

How to Use It

1. Open the Design Editor: Navigate to any of your designs or templates within a project.
2. Select a Layer: Click on the text, shape, or element you wish to recolor.
3. Open the Color Picker: In the right-hand "Style" or "Text" panel, click on the color square
4. Activate Eyedropper: Click the new Eyedropper icon next to the hex code input
5. Sample Your Color: Hover over any part of your canvas and click to instantly apply that color to your selected layer.

Now you can match your creative vision with surgical precision, keeping your designs on-brand every single time!

Enjoy a more precise and efficient creative experience!

Hi there,

Ready to add a touch of storytelling and focus to your animated designs? We’re thrilled to introduce a highly-requested addition to our animation toolkit: the Typewriter effect!

This new feature allows you to reveal your text layer by layer, mimicking the classic look of a typewriter. It’s the perfect way to grab attention, build suspense, or simply add a sophisticated, dynamic feel to your headlines and quotes.

What’s New?

• Typewriter Reveal: Animate your text so it appears character by character. This is ideal for highlighting key messages and ensuring your audience reads every word as it appears.
• Granular Timing Control: Because this is integrated into our full animation timeline, you can control exactly when the typing starts and how fast it progresses using keyframes.
• Professional Polish: Move beyond simple fades. The typewriter effect adds a layer of professional motion that makes your social media stories, ads, and banners stand out from the crowd.

How to Use It

Adding a "spin" to your words is simple and follows our standard animation workflow:

1. Open an animated design in the Abyssale Design Builder.
2. Select the text layer you wish to animate.
3. In the right-side panel, navigate to the "Animation" section and click "Add Effect".
4. Select the new "Typewriter" effect from the list.
5. Adjust on the timeline: Drag the keyframes to set the start and end points of the typing sequence to perfectly time it with your other design elements.

Now you can create more engaging, narrative-driven content with just a few clicks. We can't wait to see how you use this to tell your brand's story!

Enjoy a more dynamic and expressive creative generation experience!

Hi there,

We’ve just rolled out a enhancement to one of our most-used workflow features! You can now duplicate any existing design into a Print format

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Previously, duplication was limited to switching between Static and Animated designs. This new update bridges the gap between digital and physical, allowing you to turn your web-optimized creatives into high-quality, print-ready assets in just a few clicks. Whether you're moving from a social banner to a flyer or a digital ad to a professional brochure, your workflow just got a lot more versatile!

What’s New?

• Static/Animated to Print Conversion: You are no longer restricted to digital formats. You can now clone any design and instantly convert it into a Print Multipage or Print Multi-format design.
• Automatic Print Spec Integration: When you duplicate to Print, you gain immediate access to professional settings like CMYK color profiles, bleed and crop marks, and units in inches or millimeters.

• Streamlined Asset Reuse: Stop rebuilding templates from scratch for different mediums. Use your existing digital brand assets and layout logic to jumpstart your print production.

How It Works

Transitioning your designs from screen to paper is straightforward:

1. Select your Design: Open the project dashboard and find the design you wish to duplicate.
2. Click Duplicate: Click on the three dots (...) menu on your design card and select "Duplicate."
3. Choose Print Type: In the duplication modal, you will now see the option to select Print as the design type.
4. Configure & Save: Choose between Multipage (for brochures) or Multi-format (for flyer packs), name your new design, and hit "Duplicate design."

Your new print design will open in the editor, ready for you to define your bleed areas and generate a professional, print-ready PDF!

Enjoy a more connected and efficient creative generation experience across all your media!

Hi there,

A focused improvement for anyone using Auto Focus with the General detection model. We've brought the same Zoom Level control that was already available on the People model to the General model — giving you consistent, precise control no matter what you're framing.

What's New?

The General model previously locked the zoom to the maximum, cropping tightly to the edges of the detected object with no room to breathe. Now you're in control.

After running detection and selecting your focus tags, you'll find a new Zoom Level selector with four options:

• Off — no zoom applied, the full image is used as-is.
• Low — a subtle crop that keeps plenty of context around the detected subject.
• Medium — a balanced crop for most use cases.
• Max — the previous default behavior, cropping tightly to the edges of the detected object.

How It Works

1. Select an image layer and click Modify with AI in the properties panel.
2. Choose Auto Focus and select the General detection model.
3. Click Launch Detection and select the tag(s) you want to focus on.
4. Pick your preferred Zoom Level — Off, Low, Medium, or Max.
5. Click Apply AI Focus to save your settings.

The zoom configuration applies automatically to all future generations for that layer, whether via API, Spreadsheet, or Quick Generation.

Hi there,

A small but mighty improvement for all API users out there. We've made it significantly easier to find and use the right font ID when customizing layers through the API.

The Problem We Solved

When generating visuals via the API, you can override the font of any text layer by passing a font ID in your request. Simple in theory but finding the right ID was anything but. Your only option was to call a dedicated API endpoint to retrieve the full list of fonts on your workspace, then dig through the results to find the one you needed.

No way to do this directly from the platform.

What's New?

You can now copy the ID of any custom font directly from the Creative Hub with a single click. No more API calls just to find a font reference.

How It Works

1. Head to the Creative Hub and navigate to Manage Fonts.
2. Open the font family you need.
3. Click the "Copy Font ID" button at the top of the page.
4. Paste it directly into your API request — done.

Good to Know

• This works for custom fonts you've uploaded to your Creative Hub only.
• For native fonts (Google Fonts included in the platform by default), you'll still need to retrieve the full font list via the GET /fonts endpoint.

A small click that saves a lot of back-and-forth!

Hi there,

We've just made the Quick Generation workflow even smoother with a quality-of-life improvement that saves you a few clicks every time you want to tweak a result.

What's New?

When you generate a visual using the Quick Generation method, you'll now see an "Edit visual" button directly in the preview. Spot something you'd like to adjust, the image position, a text element, or any other detail, and you can jump straight into editing without ever leaving the workflow.

Previously, if you wanted to modify a generated visual, you had to exit the workflow, navigate to the Generated Visuals page, locate the right visual, and then open it for editing. Those days are over.

How It Works

1. Generate your visual using the Quick Generation workflow as you normally would.
2. In the preview, click the "Edit visual" button that now appears directly on the result.
3. Make your adjustments in the Light Editor, reposition your image, tweak your text, or refine any layer.
4. Save your changes to update the visual and automatically create a new version.

A Few Things to Know

• The "Edit visual" button is available on static visuals only, animated, video, and PDF outputs are not supported.
• This feature is accessible to users with a Light Operator role or higher.

No more interrupting your creative flow just to polish a detail. Generate, preview, and refine — all in one place.

Hi there,

We're thrilled to roll out a powerful new capability to the Abyssale Design Builder: Masked Groups!

We know that building polished, complex creatives requires fine control over what's visible and until now, achieving that meant destructive edits or awkward workarounds. Today, that changes. You can now clip any group of layers to a custom shape, revealing only what matters, without ever touching the underlying content.

What's New with Masked Groups?

• Non-Destructive Clipping: Define a mask shape that controls the visible area of every layer inside a group. The layers themselves remain fully intact and editable at all times — no pixels are permanently removed.

• One-Click Conversion: Turn any existing group into a Masked Group instantly. Simply select your group and click Convert to Masked Group in the right panel. A mask layer is automatically added at the top of the group stack.

• Flexible Mask Shapes: Choose between a Rectangle (perfect for banner crops, image frames, and card layouts) or a Circle (ideal for avatars, circular thumbnails, and badge-style designs). Switch between shapes at any time without losing your position or size adjustments.

• Full Artboard Control: Move, resize, and rotate the mask directly on the canvas using drag handles, just like any other layer. The visible clipping area updates in real time.

• Pixel-Perfect Panel Editing: For precise adjustments, set exact X, Y, Width, Height, and Rotation values directly from the right panel.

• Works on Everything: Masking applies to any layer type, images, shapes, and texts, all clipped by the same mask within the group.

• Fully Stackable: A Masked Group behaves like a regular group in the rest of your design. Move it, nest it, or apply transformations to it as a whole.

How It Works

Using Masked Groups is straightforward:

1. Group your layers: Select the layers you want to clip and press Ctrl / Cmd + G, or click Group Layers in the right panel.
2. Convert to Masked Group: With the group selected, click Convert to Masked Group in the right panel. A mask layer instantly appears at the top of the group.
3. Choose your shape: Select the mask layer and pick Rectangle or Circle from the shape option in the right panel.
4. Position & resize: Drag the mask on the canvas, or enter exact values in the panel to frame your content exactly as you want it.
5. Edit freely: Your original layers remain fully editable inside the group at all times.

Now you can create circular thumbnails, framed image reveals, and precisely cropped layouts in seconds, all without flattening a single layer.

Enjoy a more powerful and flexible design experience in your Abyssale workspace!

Hi there,

We’re thrilled to roll out a minor workflow enhancement to the Abyssale Design Editor: Smart Drag & Drop Uploads!

We know that speed is everything when you're creating at scale, so we’ve eliminated the need to hunt through menus just to add your assets. Now, bringing your images, logos, and even audio or video into your design is as simple as a single motion.

What’s New with Smart Drag & Drop?

• Instant Asset Import: Simply grab any file from your computer and drop it directly onto the canvas. No more clicking "Upload" buttons or navigating through file pickers.

• Intelligent Layer Selection: Abyssale now recognizes the file type you're dropping and automatically proposes the right layer type.

• Images & SVGs: Choose to import as a standard Image or a specialized Logo layer with a single click.

• Video & Audio: Dropping a media file automatically initializes the Video or Audio player layers, complete with timeline integration.

• Contextual Upload Modals: For files like SVGs, a quick pop-up will ask if you'd like to treat it as a logo or an image, ensuring your layer manager stays organized from the start.

How It Works

Using the new Drag & Drop feature is straightforward:

1. Open the Design Editor: Navigate to any of your formats in the design.
2. Drag Your File: Select an image, video, or audio file from your local folder.
3. Drop & Define: Drop the file onto the canvas. A "Drop your file here" overlay will appear.
4. Select Layer Type: For images and vectors, select your preferred layer type (e.g., Import as a logo) in the modal that appears.

Now you can populate your templates in seconds and keep your creative momentum flowing!

Enjoy a faster, more intuitive design experience in your Abyssale workspace!

Hi there,

We’re thrilled to roll out a major upgrade to our Abyssale Intelligence toolkit: the new People Model for Auto Focus!

We've heard your feedback and have officially replaced the previous "Face" model with a much more powerful, AI-driven engine designed specifically for human subjects.

Where the old model only focused on the face, this new update gives you complete control over how your subjects are framed and presented, ensuring perfect compositions across every design variation.

What’s New?

• Advanced Portrait Framing: You are no longer limited to just a face crop. Choose exactly which part of your subject to highlight: Face, Head, Shoulders, or Full Body.

• Precision Zoom Control: Adjust the intensity of the crop with Low, Medium, or Max zoom levels, or turn it Off to match the detection area exactly.

• Multi-Subject Priority: If your image features multiple people, you can now tell the AI who matters most. Focus on the Largest subject, the Centered subject, or keep All subjects in the frame.

• Automated Scaling: Once configured, these rules apply automatically to all future variations created via API, Spreadsheet, or Quick generation.

How It Works

1. Select an Image Layer in your design and click Modify with AI in the property panel.
2. Choose Auto Focus from the AI tools list.
3. Select the People Detection Model.
4. Pick your desired Portrait Framing (e.g., Shoulders) and Zoom Level.
5. Click Launch Detection to preview, then Apply AI Focus to save your settings.

This update is designed to save you hours of manual cropping while maintaining a professional, branded look for every headshot or lifestyle image in your campaigns.

Ready to give your portraits the spotlight they deserve?

Hi there,

We’ve just given one of our oldest features a massive makeover! Originally introduced years ago, the Text auto resize feature has been a bit limited until now.

We’ve completely rebuilt it to give you total control over how your copy fits your designs, ensuring your banners look professional no matter how much the text length varies.

What’s Improved?

Abyssale now offers a full suite of presets and constraints to help you maintain layout harmony automatically:

• Three New Resize Presets: Choose exactly how your text reacts. Use Shrink to fit to scale down only when needed, Always fit to dynamically fill the container, or Keep text size for strict brand consistency.
• Max Lines Control: You can now define a maximum line limit to prevent long copy from expanding vertically and breaking your layout.
• Visual Text Harmony: This smart feature ensures line lengths are similar (within a 20% variance), micro-adjusting character spacing and font size to create a perfectly balanced "block" of text.
• Smart Truncation: As a final fallback, you can enable Truncate text to automatically add an ellipsis (...) if the copy simply cannot fit after all resizing attempts.

How to Use It

1. Select a Text or Call to Action layer in the Design Builder.
2. In the right-hand settings panel, toggle Text auto resize to ON.
3. Choose your Type (Preset) from the dropdown menu.
4. Expand Additional constraints to fine-tune your Max lines, Harmony, or Truncation preferences.

Now you can confidently iterate on your designs, knowing your message will always fit perfectly!