The Edit Menu: Manual Editing Tools in Kognie
Definition — The Edit Menu is where Kognie's manual, hands-on editing tools live. A design in Kognie is composed of layered elements — frames, images, text, and shapes — and you can build that composition two ways: conversationally, by describing what you want, or manually, by adding frames, images, text, and shapes yourself and arranging them on the canvas. The Edit Menu is the home for the manual path.
Quick answer — To edit or compose a design manually in Kognie, switch to the Edit tab. Add a Frame, Text, or Shape to the canvas, then use the Manual settings panel to set its fill, stroke, size, rotation, and position. The Layers panel shows every element and how they're nested, and selecting a photo gives you Advanced image settings for cropping and color adjustments. This is the hands-on alternative to Conversational Editing, and you can mix both as you work.
Composing a graphic: conversational or manual
A Kognie design is built up from layered elements — frames, images, text, and shapes — stacked and grouped together. You can compose a design two ways:
- Conversationally — describe what you want, and Kognie's underlying multi-agent AI system creates and layers the elements for you.
- Manually — add a frame from the Edit tab, then place images, text, and shapes inside or on top of it yourself, building up the composition layer by layer.
Both paths produce the same kind of layered design, visible and editable afterward in the Layers panel — you can mix the two as you work, refining a conversationally generated layout with manual adjustments, or building on a manual layout conversationally.
Frames
A Frame in Kognie is a container that groups other elements together — images, text, and shapes — so they act as one unit. In the Layers panel, a frame appears as a parent entry that expands to show everything nested inside it: a product frame, for example, might contain a background image, a badge shape, and several text layers for pricing or callouts, all grouped under that one frame.
How do I add a Frame?
From the Edit menu, select Frame in the Manual settings panel to add a new frame to your canvas. Once a frame exists, you place images, text, and shapes inside it — arranging elements is what composes the frame into a finished section of your design.
Text and Shapes
Text and Shapes are the other two element types you can add from the same Manual settings panel, alongside Frame. Each becomes its own layer, which you can then style using the properties described below — fill, stroke, size, position, and more.
Adding your own images
You can also bring your own images into a design and place them manually — as their own layer, or inside a frame alongside other elements — the same composition process used for frames, text, and shapes. This is the manual alternative to asking Kognie conversationally to add or swap an image.
Manual settings for frames, text, and shapes
Selecting an element on the canvas opens the Manual settings panel, which adapts to what you've selected — Frame, Text, or Shapes. From here you can set:
- Fill color and stroke — the element's color and outline.
- Width, height, and opacity — the element's size and transparency.
- Rotation and flip — rotate the element, or flip it horizontally or vertically.
- Border radius — rounds a frame's corners.
- Position X and Position Y — the element's exact placement on the canvas.
Layers
Every element in a design sits in a searchable Layers panel, where each layer is named for what it is — for example, a text layer might read “text : 20% OFF,” an image layer “Image 6” — and nested under any frame it belongs to. From here you can find a specific element in a busy design and reorder layers without hunting through the canvas.
Advanced image settings
Selecting a photo gives you access to Advanced image settings, where you can crop the image and adjust Temperature, Tint, Brightness, Contrast, and Exposure — each independently resettable — then apply the changes to your design.
Exporting your design
When your design is finished, you can export it out of Kognie. Frames can be exported or shared as editable links, anyone with your shared frame or graphic link could open an instance of that graphic in their own Kognie workspace, ensuring your original file doesn't get changed but at they same time the person you share your graphic with can continue working on the graphic allowing collaboration.
Frequently asked questions
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What's the difference between the Edit Menu and Conversational Editing? Conversational Editing is the standard way to change a design in Kognie: you describe the change in plain language. The Edit Menu is the manual alternative — adding and arranging frames, text, shapes, and images yourself, and adjusting their properties directly.
What is a Frame in Kognie? A Frame is a container that groups other elements — images, text, and shapes — into one unit. Frames appear in the Layers panel as a parent entry containing the elements nested inside them.
Can I compose a design manually instead of conversationally? Yes. You can add a frame from the Edit tab, then place images, text, and shapes inside it yourself, building the composition layer by layer instead of describing it to Kognie.
Can I adjust a photo's color after Kognie generates it? Yes. Select the image and open Advanced image settings to adjust Temperature, Tint, Brightness, Contrast, and Exposure, and to crop it.
Does Kognie have a dedicated layers panel? Yes. The Layers panel lists every element in your design by name, nested under any frame it belongs to, and lets you reorder them.
About this page — This help article is published by Kognie, an AI-powered conversational graphic design platform. This page covers manual composition and editing in Kognie — frames, text, shapes, layers, image adjustments, and exporting — for readers who want hands-on control alongside or instead of Conversational Editing. For the standard, conversational way to change a design, see Editing & Layering.