Slate has 10x’d our output and our social media channels are performing better because of the consistency they’ve been able to establish!
Gemma Donahoe
Social Media Producer at Mamamia
Branded Templates
Design it once. Let the whole team fill it.
Branded Templates turn the PSDs your designers already make into layouts anyone on the team can fill. Lock the layers that define your brand, leave editable the ones that change, and ship game-day graphics, announcements, and videos without a design request or a review on every post.
Features
Built from the PSDs your designers already make
Upload a layered Photoshop file and it becomes a template in Slate. No rebuilding in a new tool, no simplified version of the real design.
Lock what matters, free what changes
Designers decide which layers stay fixed and which the team can edit: the logo and layout stay put, the photo, headline, and score swap out. Brand consistency without a review step.
Swappable layers for every variation
Game day, matchup, quote card, sale, announcement. Set up the layer options once and the team picks the right variation instead of asking for a new file.
Fill a template on web or phone
Open the template, drop in the media, type the text, export. Works the same in the browser and in the Slate mobile app, so the post can go out from the arena or the office.
Templates that work with video
Templates aren’t only for stills. Drop a clip into a video template and it picks up the overlay, caption style, and intro and outro your brand uses.
Carousels and custom sizes
Templates for stories, feed, carousels, custom-sized boards, and the email headers and thumbnails that live outside social. One brand system, every format your channels need.
Ask Rio to edit a video with your templates
Ask Rio for a cut and it lands with your fonts, presets, overlays, and caption style already applied from Brand Hub. The brand system does the brand work; Rio does the cutting.
Everything you need to templatize
PSD import with layer support
Locked and editable layers
Swappable layer options
Smart photo and video slots
Brand fonts and text presets
Carousel and multi-slide templates
Custom dimensions
Same templates on web and iOS
What would have taken days, I finished in just a few hours without sacrificing quality using Slate.
Angela Leaf
Product Communications at Atlassian
It is clear Slate was made by people who understand the needs of social media teams.
Sarah Morse
Director of Social at Vanity Fair
Slate helps our social team move faster without relying on a designer. We’re now producing 5x more videos a week, testing and optimizing in real time.
Chas Truslow
Global Head of Organic Social, Burton at Burton
Slate is a total game changer for our content team
Adena Jones
Director of Social & Digital at New York Knicks
This tool is incredible. This is actually incredible.
Julia Stern
Social Media Lead at Amazon
We did one season without Slate and it changed our lives when we got it.
Daniel Venn
Social Media Manager at St. Louis Cardinals
We couldn’t have done everything we’ve done without Slate. Our social engagement is up across the board, and more of our team can now contribute creatively.
Slate helps us move fast. When the Knicks won the NBA Championship, I captured their return to New York and edited it in Slate. FOS was first to post, and that speed made all the difference.
Christine Thuruthiyil
Director, Social at Front Office Sports
Slate is a tool that allows us to move very quickly and on brand when it comes to social creation.
Make it together
Designers build the system. Social fills it in. Nobody waits on a file, and nobody ships something off-brand. That’s the deal templates make between the two teams.
Request a demo- Timestamped video feedback
- Frame-level comments
- Real-time project comments
- External review links
- Project status updates
More about Branded Templates
What are Branded Templates?
Branded Templates are designer-built layouts, imported from Photoshop, that your whole team can fill in Slate. Designers lock the layers that define the brand; social swaps the photo, the text, and the data and exports in seconds.Who are Branded Templates for?
Designers who are tired of being the bottleneck, and social teams who are tired of waiting on them. One designer sets up the system; coordinators, interns, reporters, and regional teams fill it. Sports clubs, newsrooms, agencies, consumer brands, and universities use templates for exactly this handoff.Do I need Photoshop to make a template?
A designer creates the template as a layered PSD and uploads it to the Brand Hub. After that, nobody on the team needs Photoshop; they fill the template in Slate on web or iOS.What can the team change in a template?
Only what the designer leaves editable: typically the photo or video, headline, names, numbers, and any layer set up with swappable options. Logos, layout, and brand elements stay locked.Do templates work for video?
Yes. A video template applies your overlays, caption style, and intro and outro cards to any clip dropped into it.Can templates be used on mobile?
Yes. Every template in your Brand Hub is available in the Slate mobile app (iOS and Android), so the same game-day graphic can be made courtside or at a desk.How is this different from Canva templates?
Canva templates are editable by anyone, in every layer. Slate templates come from your designers’ own PSDs, with brand layers locked, and live in a shared Brand Hub with permissions, so the brand stays in the hands of the people who own it.
There's even more to Slate
Video and graphics in one on-brand editor with AI built in, on desktop and mobile. Built for the pace of social.
Shared projects, external review links, frame-level comments, statuses, and approvals, all where the content gets made.
Fonts, colors, templates, presets, and licensed audio in one place, applied automatically in every project.
Media Hub
NewA shared media library, connected to your sources, one click from every project.
