Clip user guide

The Clip user guide: how the AI design studio works, from the infinite canvas and AI generation to brand kits, exporting, teams and billing.

• Signing upHow to create a Clip account, what the free plan includes, how to choose a paid plan, and how to join an existing team instead.
• Getting startedA five-minute Clip walkthrough: create a project, generate your first image on the canvas, edit it with AI, or simply ask the chat to do it.
• Canvas basicsHow the Clip canvas is laid out and how to work on it: moving around, the minimap, selecting, undo and saving, background, and light or dark mode.
• Canvas toolsEvery tool on the Clip canvas tool rail, including select, mark, upload, frame, shapes, pencil, text and the five AI generators, with keyboard shortcuts.
• Text & typographyAdding and styling text on the Clip canvas: the text toolbar, rich text inside a block, how text works with the AI, and using brand typefaces.
• Frames & layoutTurn a Clip canvas into posts, pages and decks with frames, auto layout, aligning and distributing, stacking order and grouping. All of it is free.
• Organizing your canvasFind and manage everything on a busy Clip canvas: the layers panel, naming, search, marks, locking, the right-click menu and flattening to an image.
• Creating imagesGenerate images on the Clip canvas: writing prompts, reference images, settings, style presets, choosing a model, and making several at once.
• Creating videoGenerate short video with synchronised sound in Clip: start frames, settings, prompts, reference media, cost and render time. Paid plans.
• Creating 3D modelsTurn a text description or a photo into a textured 3D model in Clip that you can rotate, inspect and download as GLB. Settings, cost and results.
• Creating audioGenerate voiceover, narration, dialogue and music in Clip: the three modes, writing text for speech, choosing voice and delivery. Paid plans.
• The content writerClip's content writer drafts captions, ad copy, carousels and scripts as editable documents on the canvas. Briefs, pricing and working with drafts.
• Choosing a modelWhen and how to pick a different AI model for images, video, 3D or audio in Clip, how to read the model picker, and how its prices work.
• Style presetsStyle presets give every image in a campaign the same look. How to pick one, the two places to apply it, what it changes, and how it works with brand kits.
• Editing imagesAn overview of Clip's AI image toolbar: what each edit costs, the rules worth knowing, customising the toolbar, and why some tools don't appear.
• Retouching & cutoutsClip's four most-used AI image edits: Edit Now to describe a change, Eraser, Remove BG for cutouts, and Upscale. What each does and costs.
• Reshaping imagesAI edits that reshape an image in Clip: Expand, Multi-angle, Move object, Edit text, Create Layers and Vectorize, with what each costs.
• Free editing toolsThe image tools in Clip that cost no credits on any plan, including the free one: Crop, Rotate & Flip, Adjust, Rename and Details.
• Design chatClip's design chat plans a job, runs the generations and places results on your canvas. Writing requests, attachments, thinking modes and spend approval.
• Brand kitsKeep AI output on-brand in Clip with a brand kit of logos, colours, fonts, tone of voice and references. Creating one, its sections and attaching it.
• Brand kit copilotThe brand kit copilot fills in a Clip brand kit through conversation. How to start it, approve its proposals, and what to keep for yourself.
• Importing brand guidelinesUpload an existing brand guidelines PDF, Markdown or text file and Clip extracts it into a brand kit, which you review before anything is applied.
• Stock photos & uploadsBring your own images and video into Clip by upload, drag and drop, paste or link, use stock photos, and feed any asset into the AI tools.
• The video editorClip's video editor turns generated clips into a finished video: opening it, the layout, assets panel, preview, what goes on the timeline, and saving.
• Timeline & clipsEditing on the Clip video editor timeline: adding clips, moving and trimming, snapping, tracks, clip properties, cropping and keyboard controls.
• Rendering & deliveryRender a Clip video edit to a single file: choosing resolution and format, render cost, what happens while it renders, and managing your edits.
• ExportingGetting work out of Clip: downloading a selection as PNG, JPG or SVG, or exporting the whole canvas as a layered PSD or print-ready PDF.
• Version historyClip keeps up to twenty automatic snapshots per project. How to view an earlier version of your canvas and restore it. Free on every plan.
• Projects & workspacesHow projects and workspaces are organised in Clip: finding, creating and managing projects, setting up workspaces, visibility and credits.
• Organizations & teamsWorking as a team in Clip: inviting people, roles, workspace membership, the organization's pooled credit balance, and belonging to several organizations.
• Credits & billingWhat costs credits in Clip and what's free, the three kinds of credit, plans, changing plan, topping up, tracking spending and refunds.
• Account & settingsClip account settings: your profile, signed-in devices, preferences, workspaces, organizations, billing, notifications and signing out.
• Keyboard shortcutsEvery Clip keyboard shortcut for canvas navigation, tools, editing, layer arrangement, panels and chat, on Windows and Mac.
• TroubleshootingFixes for common Clip problems: missing controls, stuck generations, an empty canvas, project load errors, failed downloads, and unexpected credit use.
• Roadmap — what's coming to ClipWhat's coming to Clip next: canvas collaboration, avatars, worlds, apps, the Clip MCP, connectors, skills, and Fashion, UGC and Advertising studios.