Create a template

Every template starts on the Templates page. This page shows the ways to start a new template and how to manage the ones you have.

The Templates page

In the sidebar, click Templates. Each card shows a preview of the template’s first page, its name and when it was last changed. A new template says “No preview yet” until you save it for the first time. Each save updates the preview.

Each card has these actions:

To	Do this
Open the template	Click the preview or Edit.
Rename it	Click the name, type a new one and press Enter. Esc cancels.
Test it or get its API request	Click Integrations. It opens Integrations, API & Forms for the saved template, without opening the editor. See Test render.
Delete it	Click Delete and confirm. You can’t undo this.

If you have view-only access, the cards show Open instead of Edit, and you can’t create, rename or delete templates. See Team and roles.

Start a new template

1. On the Templates page, click New Design. The New design dialog opens.
2. Click a size. The sizes are grouped by platform. The Instagram Portrait post (1080 × 1350) is picked when the dialog opens.
3. Choose how to start: Starter layout or Blank canvas.
4. To make several pages at once, tick Carousel (see below).
5. Click Create design. The template opens in the editor.

The new template is named after its size, for example “Instagram · Portrait post”. You can rename it at any time.

Sizes

Group	Sizes in pixels
Instagram	Square post 1080 × 1080, Portrait post 1080 × 1350, Story / Reel 1080 × 1920, Landscape post 1080 × 566
Facebook	Post 1200 × 630, Story 1080 × 1920, Page cover 851 × 315, Event cover 1920 × 1080, Feed ad 1200 × 628
X	Post 1200 × 675, Header 1500 × 500
LinkedIn	Post 1200 × 627, Square post 1080 × 1080, Profile banner 1584 × 396, Carousel slide 1080 × 1350
YouTube	Thumbnail 1280 × 720, Channel art 2560 × 1440, Shorts cover 1080 × 1920
TikTok	Video cover 1080 × 1920
Pinterest	Pin 1000 × 1500, Story pin 1080 × 1920
Threads	Post 1080 × 1350
Web & email	Open Graph image 1200 × 630, Email header 600 × 200
Display ads	Medium rectangle 300 × 250, Leaderboard 728 × 90
Print & PDF	A4 portrait 794 × 1123, A4 landscape 1123 × 794, US Letter portrait 816 × 1056, US Letter landscape 1056 × 816

The print sizes are the paper size at 96 pixels per inch, which is how JamFrame lays out PDF pages.

For any other size, use Custom at the bottom of the list. Click the box, then type the width (W) and height (H) in pixels. Both must be whole numbers from 1 to 10,000. Custom starts at 1080 × 1080.

You can change the size later in the editor, and each page of a template can have its own size. See Canvas settings in the editor tour.

Starter layout or blank canvas

• Starter layout gives you a photo, a small accent bar, a headline and a subline. The photo, headline and subline are already dynamic fields with the keys photo, headline and subline, so you can render the template straight away. On wide sizes, such as banners, the photo sits on the right of the text. On other sizes the photo fills the top and the text sits at the bottom.
• Blank canvas gives you an empty white page.

Carousel

A carousel is a template with several pages of the same size. Each page becomes one image.

1. Tick Carousel.
2. Type the number of pages, from 2 to 10. It starts at 5.

Each page gets a text layer with the key title, filled with “Slide 1 title”, “Slide 2 title” and so on. With Starter layout, each page is the starter layout, and its headline is the title field. With Blank canvas, each page has one centered title. The template is named like “Instagram · Portrait post carousel (5 pages)”.

You can add more pages later, up to 20 in one template. To set a different title on each page when you render, see Pages and carousels.

Let AI design it

The New design dialog also has a New design with AI section. Describe what you want, and AI builds the template at the size and page count you picked. See Design with AI.

Copy an existing template

1. On the Templates page, click New template from template.
2. Choose a tab:
   • Your templates: the templates in this workspace.
   • Ready-made templates: finished designs to start from. Use the chips to filter them by category.
3. To find one, type in Search by name.
4. Click a template.

JamFrame makes a copy and opens it in the editor. The original stays as it is. A copy of one of your own templates gets the original name with “(copy)” at the end.

Explore templates

Under your templates, Explore templates shows the ready-made templates. Use the chips to filter them by category. Click one to open a copy in the editor. The first card, Start from scratch, opens the New design dialog.

When you have no templates yet

A new workspace shows a No designs yet card with two short steps and these buttons:

• Create your first design opens the New design dialog.
• ✦ New design with AI opens the same dialog with the AI section open.
• New template from template lets you copy a ready-made template.

On a wide screen, a moving wall of ready-made templates shows next to the card.

What next

• Find your way around: Editor tour.
• Choose which parts change in each render: Dynamic fields.
• Add and manage pages: Pages and carousels.