Presets and templates: save a look once, reuse it everywhere

Start from a template, not a blank canvas

A recurring announcement is easier when the composition already exists. Tokokino ships a template catalogue with still and animated starting points: browser and device showcases, glass and ASCII treatments, multi-phone stages, and motion pieces like Product Reveal, Slide Reveal, and 3D Tilt. Each one is a complete arrangement of frames, backgrounds, text, and timing with sample content standing in for yours.

Open the editor and press the Templates button in the top bar. Image templates are grouped separately from animation templates, and animation templates play a short preview clip on hover so you can see the motion before committing. Pick one, replace the sample screenshot with your own, and adjust the headline. The template supplies the composition; your content supplies the point.

A template can also be opened directly with a link shaped like /app?template=product-reveal. That is useful when you want to send a teammate a starting point rather than instructions. One constraint to know: animated templates need a bigger screen. On a phone-width viewport the editor blocks them and asks you to open the link on desktop or a tablet, since there is no timeline UI to edit them with there.

Save the look as a custom preset

Templates are shared starting points. A custom preset is your own look, saved from a canvas you already styled. Suppose you framed a release screenshot in a browser mockup on a dark gradient with a particular shadow and label style, and next month brings another release. Instead of rebuilding that treatment, save it and apply it to the new screenshot in two clicks.

With the styled canvas active, open the Save menu in the top bar and choose Save as preset. Give it a short name (up to 60 characters) and confirm. Saving also jumps the Present panel to its Custom tab, which is where your presets live. Next time, open that tab, click the preset, and the current canvas takes on its geometry and styling.

A style preset saves the look, never the pixels. It records the frame, background, shadow, border, lighting, overlays, text and annotation layers, plus the layout geometry (tilt, scale, slot positions). Your screenshot, video clips, and crop stay out of it, which is exactly why one preset works across unrelated projects. Clicking a preset marks it active; editing the canvas afterwards keeps your changes and simply drops the active marker.

Rename or delete a preset from its card menu when the series moves on. If a preset stops matching after an app update, the fix is to style one fresh canvas and save it again under the same name rather than patching the old record by hand.

Save the project as a cloud draft

A preset saves a look. A draft saves the whole project: every canvas, screenshot, recording, text layer, and timeline, exactly as you left it. When the announcement can wait until tomorrow, or when you want to continue on another machine, save a draft instead of exporting and closing.

Open the Save menu and choose Save as draft (in Animate mode it reads Save as animate draft). Give the project a name and it uploads to your account. To return, open the File menu and choose Open project: the dialog groups drafts into Screenshots, Videos, and Animate tabs so a motion project is easy to tell apart from a still. Pick one up weeks later and everything is editable, including the media.

Drafts need a signed-in account because they live in cloud storage, against your 1 GB Saved projects pool. Even so, the editor autosaves locally in your browser as you work, so a refresh never loses the current canvas before you have saved anything. A single draft holds up to 15 MB of project state with a thumbnail up to 1 MB, which covers screenshot-heavy compositions with animation and video.

Presets that move: Animate mode and video

Presets are not limited to stills. Open Animate mode and the same Save menu offers Save as animate preset instead. An animate preset records everything a style preset does, plus the timeline: duration, clips, and the easing between them. Apply it to another canvas and the new content inherits the whole sequence, from overview to close-up, with your own screenshot riding along.

Animation templates work the same way from the other direction. They arrive with keyframes already placed, so your first job is to scrub the timeline and see what changes, then swap in your media. Keep the easing curve when the movement already feels right; adjust a clip when your interface needs a different focal point. A zoom that lands on a chart in the sample may need to land on your sidebar instead.

Video follows a adjacent path. A recording or GIF can sit where a still would, inside the same frames and backgrounds, and trimming or muting it does not disturb the styling around it. Video projects save as their own draft type, and Animate mode can direct motion around the recording just as it does around a still. What a preset deliberately leaves out is the media bytes themselves: no preset carries your video clips, so applying an animate preset never overwrites the footage it lands on.

Storage: what counts and what does not

Two different things are stored, and they draw from different pools. Drafts are your saved projects: the full editor state plus a thumbnail, kept for signed-in users against a 1 GB Saved projects pool. A single draft can hold up to 15 MB of state with a thumbnail up to 1 MB, which comfortably fits screenshot-heavy compositions with animation. The editor also autosaves locally in your browser as you work, so a refresh does not lose the current canvas even before anything is saved to the account.

Custom presets are unlimited. They live as small style records (each capped at 1 MB, and in practice far smaller since they hold settings, not images), so saving twenty variants of a launch look costs nothing measurable. Open the Storage dialog any time to see the meters: Saved projects and Shared images each show used against limit, while Custom presets shows an infinity mark.

Shared images draw from their own separate 1 GB pool, independent of drafts. If either meter runs hot, remove old drafts or shares you no longer need. If you genuinely need more room, email hello@theshiva.xyz from the link inside the Storage dialog to ask for a higher limit.

Screenshot placeholder: the Storage dialog with the Saved projects, Shared images, and Custom presets rows visible. Replace this callout with the final screenshot.

Build a reusable series in five steps

Put the pieces together for a monthly release series. Style the first announcement until it looks right: frame, background, label, shadow. Save it as a preset with the series name. For the animated version, build the timeline once and save that as an animate preset too.

1. 1.Open a template closest to the composition you want and swap in your screenshot.
2. 2.Adjust spacing, labels, and colour until the first image reads well at its real size.
3. 3.Save the look from the Save menu, then confirm it appears in the Custom tab.
4. 4.Next release, apply the preset to the new screenshot instead of restyling from scratch.
5. 5.Save the whole project as a draft so the series stays reopenable across devices.

From here the workflow compounds: each new visual starts closer to finished, and the preset library becomes the record of how your product presents itself. Open Tokokino and save your first preset; the changelog notes preset and template additions as they ship.