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 Social Graphics
Carousels, thumbnails, matchups, quote cards. Designed once, filled by the whole team.
The graphics a social team ships every week: connected carousels, YouTube thumbnails, matchup and score graphics, quote cards, Reels covers. Designers build each one once as a locked template from their own PSD; everyone else fills it in seconds on web or phone, in every ratio the platforms need. The graphics come out on brand because the brand is locked, not because someone checked.
What teams make
Connected carousels
Build a swipe-through where one piece of art runs across every slide, with text and logos placed per frame, and export the set sized for the feed. No slicing in Photoshop, no misaligned seams.
YouTube thumbnails
Cut-out subject, bold title, brand frame, exported at 1280×720 from a template your designer built once. Teams that used to make these in Figma make them in Slate in a minute.
Matchups, scores, and game-day graphics
Lineups, final scores, standings, player milestones. Sponsor marks locked, photo and numbers open, filled from the phone between plays.
Quote cards and announcements
The exec quote, the hire, the launch, the earnings line. A layered PSD with the type and layout locked; the team changes the words and the headshot.
Reels covers, Story graphics, and every ratio
4:5 feed, 9:16 Story, 3:4 grid, 1:1, and custom boards from the same source, with platform safe zones so nothing sits under a button.
Remove a background, relight a shot, done.
Slate’s AI image tools cut a subject out of a photo, relight it with Studio Light or Sunlight, and drop it onto the template. The retouching step that used to need a designer, inside the template.
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.
Customer Stories
Burton’s Shortcut to Faster, Smoother Social Content
Burton’s social team now edits, captions, and publishes videos in-house, saving time and scaling output with Slate.
Burton’s Shortcut to Faster, Smoother Social Content
Burton
Consumer Brands
More on branded social graphics
What kinds of social graphics do teams make in Slate?
Connected carousels, YouTube thumbnails, matchup and score graphics, quote cards and announcement graphics, Reels covers, Story graphics, and custom boards. Each one starts as a template a designer built from their own PSD, and the team fills it on web or in the Slate mobile app.How do connected carousels work?
Design the carousel as one wide artwork in Slate’s carousel template, place text and logos per slide, and export the set as individual slides sized for the platform with the artwork continuous across the seams.Can I make YouTube thumbnails?
Yes. Build a thumbnail template at 1280×720 with the subject cut-out, title, and brand frame as layers. The team swaps the photo and the title; the AI background removal handles the cut-out.Do I need Photoshop?
Your designer uses Photoshop once, to build the template. Nobody else does. Everyone on the team fills templates in Slate, and the brand layers stay locked.How is this different from making graphics in Canva?
Canva templates are editable in every layer by anyone, which is how brands drift. Slate templates come from your designers’ own PSDs with the brand layers locked, live in a shared Brand Hub with permissions, and sit next to your video editor and media library.
