# 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 program timeline or into a design. Both are **produce rooms** of the one studio editor project, not separate apps. **Mode ▾** in the studio bar flips between Program, Audio tools, Mix room, and rooms like Slides and Diagram. Decks, diagrams, designs, and the program 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) with 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, with 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, with content, font size, color, bold/italic, and 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 arrive 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 isn't 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** with 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), with nothing to confirm. As with everything in the editor, click **Save** in the toolbar to store the project to your workspace. ### Generate a diagram with AI The **Diagram from code** panel (in the canvas toolbar) turns plain English into editable shapes, two ways: - **✨ Generate** writes Mermaid source from your description. Review or tweak the code, then **Insert diagram** drops it onto the canvas as shapes you can restyle and rearrange. - **✦ Editorial figure** skips the code step. The platform composes the layout itself under strict design rules: right-angle connectors, one accent, labels kept clear of lines, and a density budget (at most 9 nodes) so the figure stays readable. What lands on your canvas is still ordinary editable shapes. Prefer **Editorial figure** when the diagram is going into a deck, a doc, or client work and you want it presentation-clean on the first try. Prefer **Generate** (Mermaid) when you want to iterate on the structure in code first. You can also paste Mermaid you already have. The same generator is available outside the editor: `POST /api/diagram/generate` on the platform API, the SDK's `diagram()` method, and the `corereflex_diagram` MCP tool. Called that way it returns a brand-skinned SVG figure plus a new editable diagram project (`editorHref` opens it in Diagram Studio), with your workspace brand colors applied automatically when a brand kit exists. See [Agent tools](agent-tools.md). ### 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 program 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, so 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 → program.** Export a storyboard or annotated frame as PNG to Media, then place it on the program 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, and 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) covers the Write studio and the **→ Send to Slides** / **→ Send to Script** handoffs. - [Editing & Mastering](editing-and-mastering.md): the program 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) covers sharing an exported deliverable with a client for sign-off.