# Slide Studio & Diagram Studio Build presentation decks and whiteboard diagrams inside the same project as your video, image, and audio work — then present fullscreen, export to PowerPoint or PDF, or send a diagram straight into your Media library. **On this page** - [What they are](#what-they-are) - [Before you start](#before-you-start) - [Slide Studio](#slide-studio) - [Open it](#open-it) - [The workspace](#the-workspace) - [Building your deck](#building-your-deck) - [Speaker notes](#speaker-notes) - [Presenting](#presenting) - [Exporting the deck](#exporting-the-deck) - [From Write: Send to Slides](#from-write-send-to-slides) - [Diagram Studio](#diagram-studio) - [Open it and manage diagrams](#open-it-and-manage-diagrams) - [Drawing](#drawing) - [Exporting to your Media library](#exporting-to-your-media-library) - [Tips](#tips) - [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) - [Related pages](#related-pages) --- ## What they are **Slide Studio** is CoreReflex's deck builder. A deck is an ordered set of slides on the same design canvas the Image Studio uses — every slide is a full 1920×1080 layout you can arrange freely. From one panel you manage slides, jot speaker notes, present fullscreen, and export the whole deck as a PowerPoint file, a multi-page PDF, or a zip of images. **Diagram Studio** is the whiteboard room. It's a freeform sketching canvas for flowcharts, wireframes, storyboards, mind maps, and client workflows. Diagrams live inside your project, and a finished sketch exports as a PNG or SVG directly into your Media library — ready to drop onto the video timeline or into a design. Both are **modes of the one studio editor project**, not separate apps. The mode switcher in the studio bar at the top of the editor (Video · Audio · Image · Brand · Slides · Diagram · Write · Workflow) flips between rooms of the same project — your decks, diagrams, designs, and timeline all share one file library, one undo history, and one Save. --- ## Before you start - Sign in at [editor.corereflex.com](https://editor.corereflex.com) — it's the same account as the [dashboard](https://corereflex.com). See [Getting Started](getting-started.md) if you're new. - Open (or create) a project. Everything you build in Slides and Diagram mode belongs to the project that's open. - Know the two universal controls in the toolbar under the studio bar: **Undo / Redo** work across every mode, and the **Save** button stores the whole project — decks, diagrams, notes, and all — to your workspace. --- ## Slide Studio ### Open it 1. Open the editor and click **Slides** in the mode switcher at the top. 2. On your first visit, Slide Studio creates an **Untitled deck** for you automatically, with one blank white 1920×1080 slide. You're ready to build immediately — no setup dialog. ### The workspace Slide Studio is a dockable workspace with three parts: | Area | What it's for | |------|---------------| | **Center — the canvas** | The active slide at full fidelity. Click elements to select them; drag to move; use the corner and edge handles to resize and the rotate handle to spin. Click empty space to deselect. | | **Layers panel** (left by default) | Every element on the active slide, front-most on top. Drag rows to restack, toggle the eye to show/hide, toggle the lock to protect an element from edits, double-click a name to rename it, and use the row controls to duplicate or delete. | | **Properties panel** (right by default) | The deck controls: the slide list, add-to-slide tools, **Present**, **Speaker notes**, and **Export deck**. | Panels aren't fixed furniture — drag a panel's header to move it to another edge, collapse it, or resize the zones. Your arrangement is remembered. ### Building your deck **Slides** - The **Slides** section lists every slide in order (Slide 1, Slide 2, …) with a count in the header. Click a slide to open it on the canvas. - **＋ Slide** adds a fresh blank slide at the end of the deck and opens it. - **⧉ Duplicate** copies the current slide — the copy lands immediately after the original, so it's the fastest way to reuse a layout. - Click **✕** on a slide row to delete it. A deck always keeps at least one slide, so the delete control disappears when only one remains. **Adding content** - **＋ Text** drops a bold, centered text box onto the slide. - **＋ Shape** drops a rounded rectangle you can recolor by layering, resize, and use as a background block, divider, or badge. - **Paste from Image Studio.** The design clipboard is shared across the studios: build a styled element in **Image** mode (where the full text editor lives — content, font size, color, bold/italic, alignment — plus your project images), copy it with **Cmd/Ctrl+C**, switch to **Slides**, and paste it onto a slide with **Cmd/Ctrl+V**. This is also how images get onto slides. What a text box *says* is edited in Image mode or in the Write document that generated the deck — Slide Studio itself is where you arrange, restack, and present. **Canvas shortcuts** (click the canvas first so it has focus) | Shortcut | Action | |----------|--------| | Drag on empty canvas | Marquee-select multiple elements | | Arrow keys | Nudge the selection 1 px (**Shift** = 10 px) | | **Delete** / **Backspace** | Delete the selection (locked layers are protected) | | **Cmd/Ctrl+A** | Select everything visible and unlocked | | **Cmd/Ctrl+C** / **Cmd/Ctrl+V** | Copy / paste elements — repeat pastes cascade so copies never hide behind each other | | **Cmd/Ctrl+D** | Duplicate the selection in place | | **Cmd/Ctrl+]** / **Cmd/Ctrl+[** | Bring to front / send to back | | **Esc** | Deselect | Every change is undoable with the toolbar Undo/Redo, and the deck saves with the project. ### Speaker notes Each slide carries its own private notes: 1. Select a slide. 2. Type into the **Speaker notes** box in the Properties panel. Notes are for you — they never appear on the slide, on the presentation stage, or in any export. They're stored with the slide, so they survive duplication-free (a duplicated slide copies its notes too), travel with the deck, and land in your project when you save. Each editing session becomes a single undo step, so one Undo removes the whole note edit rather than one letter at a time. ### Presenting 1. Click **▶ Present** in the Properties panel. The show starts **from the slide you have open**, so you can jump straight to the section you're rehearsing. 2. The deck takes over the whole screen. If your browser blocks fullscreen, the presenter still runs as a full-window overlay — navigation is identical. **Navigating the show** | Input | Action | |-------|--------| | Click anywhere · **→** · **↓** · **Page Down** · **Space** · **Enter** | Next slide | | **←** · **↑** · **Page Up** | Previous slide | | **Home** | Jump to the first slide | | **End** | Jump to the last slide | | **Esc** | End the show | - A **slide counter** (e.g. `3 / 12`) sits in the bottom-right corner. - Advancing past the last slide ends the show — the universal presenter convention. - The next slide's images are preloaded in the background, so advancing is instant. - When you exit, you land back in the editor **on the slide you ended on** — handy for fixing the exact slide you stumbled over mid-rehearsal. Speaker notes are not displayed while presenting; review them in the panel before you go on. ### Exporting the deck In the **Export deck** section, pick a format and click **⬇ Export**. The file downloads straight to your computer, named after the deck. | Format | What you get | |--------|--------------| | **PPTX** | A genuine PowerPoint file that opens in PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides. Each slide is one full-slide picture rendered at 2× resolution, so it looks pixel-identical to the editor everywhere. It's built to *present anywhere*, not for re-editing — the text isn't editable inside PowerPoint. | | **PDF** | One multi-page PDF, one page per slide — the natural deck deliverable for email and review. | | **PNG / JPG / WebP / SVG** | A `.zip` containing one numbered file per slide (`slide-01`, `slide-02`, …) — PNG/JPG/WebP as pixel-perfect stills, SVG as real vector artwork. | Oversized custom decks are automatically scaled to fit PowerPoint's maximum slide dimensions, so an exported PPTX always opens cleanly. ### From Write: Send to Slides The fastest way to a full deck is not to build it slide by slide — it's to write it: 1. Switch to **Write** mode and generate or open a document. 2. Click **→ Send to Slides**. 3. CoreReflex builds a deck from the document — a centered title slide, then one slide per heading with the text beneath it as the body — and drops you into Slide Studio with the deck open. If your workspace has a promoted brand kit, the deck arrives tinted on-brand: a primary-colored title slide with automatically readable text and a brand accent bar across each slide. To reword the deck, edit the document in Write and send it again — the words live in the document. Full details in [Writing & Content](writing-and-content.md). --- ## Diagram Studio ### Open it and manage diagrams 1. Click **Diagram** in the mode switcher. 2. Click **+ New** in the left rail to create a diagram, or click an existing one to open it. The left rail lists every diagram in the project, most recently edited first, with its element count. A **· in Media** tag appears once a diagram has been exported to your Media library. - **Rename** a diagram by typing in the name field at the top of the canvas. - **Delete** it with the Delete button in the same header strip. - Diagrams persist **per project** — switch projects and each one keeps its own set. ### Drawing The canvas is a full whiteboard with a hand-sketched feel, skinned to match the studio's dark look: - **Draw freely** — shapes (rectangles, ellipses, diamonds), arrows and connector lines, a freehand pen, text labels, and images, all from the toolbar at the top of the canvas. - **Style everything** — stroke, fill, and text options appear in a floating panel when something is selected. - **Canvas menu** — the menu in the corner offers **Clear canvas** and **Change canvas background**; the background color (and grid, if you turn it on) are saved with the diagram. - **Its own undo** — while you're drawing, **Cmd/Ctrl+Z** undoes strokes inside the whiteboard itself, independent of the editor's global undo. Your work is captured into the project automatically a moment after you pause drawing (and whenever you switch diagrams or modes) — nothing to confirm. As with everything in the editor, click **Save** in the toolbar to store the project to your workspace. ### Exporting to your Media library Unlike deck exports (which download to your computer), diagram exports land **inside CoreReflex**: 1. Open the diagram. 2. Click **Export PNG → Media** for a crisp 2×-resolution image with its background, or **SVG → Media** for scalable vector artwork. 3. The file is saved to your project's **Media** library — the same library the video timeline, Image Studio, and the rest of the project draw from. From there, drop the storyboard onto your timeline, place the flowchart into a design or a slide (via Image mode), or attach it to client work. Exports capture exactly what's on screen at that moment, including strokes you just drew. Each export saves a fresh file, and the diagram's rail entry gains the **· in Media** tag. An empty diagram has nothing to export — draw at least one element first. --- ## Tips - **Write first, design second.** For content-heavy decks, draft in Write mode and use **→ Send to Slides** — you get a structured, brand-tinted deck in one click, then polish the layout in Slide Studio. - **Make a template slide.** Lay out one slide with your background block, accent bar, and title placement, then **⧉ Duplicate** it for every new section. - **Use the shared clipboard.** Anything you can build in Image Studio — styled text, logos from your library, generated images — copies with **Cmd/Ctrl+C** and pastes onto a slide with **Cmd/Ctrl+V**. It also works slide-to-slide. - **Lock the furniture.** Lock background blocks and accent bars in the Layers panel so a stray drag never moves them while you arrange content on top. - **Present to rehearse.** Presenting starts from the current slide, and exiting returns you to the slide you ended on — jump in anywhere, find the weak slide, fix it, repeat. - **Diagram → timeline.** Export a storyboard or annotated frame as PNG to Media, then place it on the video timeline as a planning overlay or an explainer graphic. - **Pick the right deck export.** PDF for review and email, PPTX to present on someone else's machine, the SVG zip when a designer wants vectors. ## Troubleshooting - **Present didn't go fullscreen.** Your browser declined the fullscreen request (some do unless the click is "trusted"). The presenter automatically runs as a full-window overlay instead — every key and click works the same. Press **Esc** to exit as usual. - **The show ended when I pressed Esc once.** That's expected — Esc ends the presentation (in fullscreen, the browser leaves fullscreen and the show ends with it). - **I can't edit the words in an exported PPTX.** By design: each PPTX slide is a picture of your slide, so it looks identical everywhere. To change the words, edit the deck in CoreReflex (or re-send the source document from Write) and export again. - **Export failed.** Usually an image on a slide hadn't finished loading or its file is missing from the project. Wait a moment for assets to finish syncing (the activity bar shows progress), then export again. - **The ✕ delete control vanished from my slide list.** Only one slide is left — a deck always keeps at least one. Add a new slide first if you're replacing it. - **I sent a document to Slides twice and now see only one deck.** Each send builds a brand-new deck and opens it. After a page reload, Slide Studio opens the project's first deck — to get back to a later version, send the document from Write again (it builds a fresh copy from the current text). - **My diagram edits aren't in the cloud.** Drawing is captured into the open project automatically, but the project itself stores to your workspace when you click **Save** in the toolbar — same as your timeline edits. - **The diagram export buttons do nothing.** The canvas is empty — exports need at least one drawn element. ## Related pages - [Writing & Content](writing-and-content.md) — the Write studio and the **→ Send to Slides** / **→ Send to Script** handoffs. - [Editing & Mastering](editing-and-mastering.md) — the video timeline your diagram exports can land on. - [Getting Started](getting-started.md) — accounts, sign-in, and your first project. - [Proofing & Approvals (Pro)](proofing-and-approvals.md) — share an exported deliverable with a client for sign-off.