> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.getatelier.design/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Every control in the editor

> The complete reference — board controls, page controls, and everything that appears once you select something.

The pinboard editor has controls at three levels, and knowing which level you
are working at makes the whole thing legible:

* **The board** — the top toolbar. Pages, sharing, export.
* **The page** — the row under it. Zoom, duplicate, delete.
* **The item** — appears only once something is selected. Crop, erase, order,
  caption, alignment.

Most of what people cannot find is at the third level, because it is invisible
until you click something.

## The board — top toolbar

| Control         | What it does                                                                                       |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **1 / 3**       | Not only a counter — it opens the **pages panel**, where you see every page and jump between them. |
| **Pin**         | Pins the board to your sidebar under **Pinned**.                                                   |
| **Save PDF**    | Exports the whole board.                                                                           |
| **Share**       | Creates and manages the client link. Once a link exists the button reads **Shared**.               |
| **Add page**    | A new page in the same pinboard.                                                                   |
| **Add image**   | Upload images onto the current page.                                                               |
| **Add text**    | A free-floating label, placed anywhere on the canvas.                                              |
| **Arrow**       | Draws an arrow — for pointing at a detail, or joining a note to the thing it is about.             |
| **Undo / Redo** | Steps backwards and forwards through your changes.                                                 |

<Note>
  On a narrow window some of these fold into a **More** button. That is the
  toolbar running out of room, not a menu with anything different in it. Widen the
  window and they come back.
</Note>

## The page — the row underneath

| Control            | What it does                                                                           |
| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Page name**      | Click to rename. Names carry through to the PDF, so *BEDROOM — PAGE 1* beats *Page 1*. |
| **− / Fit / +**    | Zoom the canvas. **Fit** returns to the whole page. Zoom never affects the export.     |
| **Duplicate page** | Copies the page and everything on it.                                                  |
| **Delete page**    | Removes the page.                                                                      |

<Tip>
  **Duplicate page** is the fastest way to show a client two options. Copy the
  page, swap two or three pieces, and present them side by side rather than
  rebuilding a near-identical layout by hand.
</Tip>

## The item — select something first

Click an image and a toolbar appears beneath it, along with an **Add caption…**
field attached to the item.

| Control                | What it does                                                              |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Comments**           | The comment thread on **this item** — where your client's feedback lands. |
| **Details**            | The product record behind the pin, if it is linked to one.                |
| **Order**              | **Bring to front** or **send to back**. Which image sits on top of which. |
| **Flip**               | Mirrors the image horizontally.                                           |
| **Crop**               | Trims the image.                                                          |
| **Corner rounding**    | Rounds the corners.                                                       |
| **Erase**              | Removes background, or rubs parts out by hand — see below.                |
| **Align & distribute** | Lines items up. Comes into its own with several selected.                 |
| **Delete**             | Removes the item from the page.                                           |

Select a **text** item instead and the toolbar changes to suit it: **Bold**,
**Text style** and a **custom colour** in place of the image controls.

### Lining things up

**Align & distribute** holds the controls that make a board look composed
rather than nudged: align left, right, top, bottom, or on either centre line;
distribute horizontally or vertically so gaps come out even.

Select several items — not one — and the alignment is calculated across them.
There is also **align on page**, for centring a single item against the page
itself rather than against its neighbours.

### Two kinds of caption

There are two, they behave differently, and this is what trips people up:

* **Add text** in the top toolbar makes a **free label**. It sits where you put
  it on the canvas and stays there.
* **Add caption** on a selected item makes a caption **attached to that item**.
  Move the image and the caption moves with it.

Use a caption to name the piece. Use free text for notes about the room.

### Erase — two modes

The most useful control on the board, and the one nobody finds.

* **Remove background** — one click. Atelier separates the object from what is
  behind it. This is what turns a catalogue photo on a white studio backdrop
  into a cut-out you can layer over a rug.
* **Pixel eraser** — a brush. Rub out any part of the image by hand, and
  **restore** what you rubbed out if you go too far.

They work together. Run **Remove background** first, then fix what it got wrong
with the **pixel eraser** — a chair leg it clipped, a shadow it left behind.

<Note>
  Cut-outs are what make a board look composed rather than assembled. A row of
  rectangular product photos reads as a catalogue. The same pieces with their
  backgrounds removed, overlapping, reads as a room.
</Note>