Starred and community — keep, reuse and share what you tune

Nothing needs saving separately. Whatever you tune is already kept in the artifact you tuned it in, so there is nothing to name and no second place to manage. A star marks the ones you want again, and posting an artifact shares what is inside it.

Every menu that offers a kind of thing — the looks on Effects, the cards on Animate, the shapes on Shape — reaches your stars and the community's posts of that kind from the search at the start of its strip.

What you can star

Any setting you have made your own, each usable in the artifacts that accept that kind:

• Visual effect — a picture treatment with every setting you dialled in, like a grade, a blur, a distortion or a weather look such as snowfall with its density, speed and wind. Use it in Images, Videos and Documents. A starred look keeps its Lookup table, so it reads the same wherever you use it, and a starred Recolor or Retouch keeps the colour it picks out — but not the area you drew it over, which belongs to where it was placed. A weather look goes on a picture, a clip or a group — never on a mark or a caption.
• Shape — a shape with its fill, outline, corner rounding and any shape-specific adjustments. Use it in Images, Videos and Documents.
• Text look — the type a text item, a caption or a Document's text box wears: its size, weight, capitals, colour and outline. Use it on text items, captions and text boxes alike, and on a table's words; in a Document, a header's or footer's type and the body text wear one too, from the look card in the header and footer window and on the Style menu. Every look card shows the sample word Abc in that look. Those two Document cards put a look on and find your starred ones, but carry no star of their own: star a look from a text box's or a table's card.
• Animation — how an item arrives, moves and leaves, with every setting you dialled in. Use it in Videos, on a clip, a drawing, a caption or a group alike; in 3D models, which take the movements in it that can loop; and in Apps, as a class their pages play. A 3D model or an App names anything it left behind. Anything in it that moves to the sound follows the whole soundtrack of the video you use it in, even if it followed a single track where you tuned it.
• Effect — an audio character effect: the recipe that turns a track into a robot, a phone call, a haunted room or a worn-out tape. Where it covers the track, how strongly it applies and what a duck listens to stay with the track. Use it in Audio.
• 3D filter — a 3D model's whole surface: its colour, finish, pattern, glow and transparency, exactly as you tuned them. Use it in 3D models.
• Theme — an App's formatting: its colours, type, spacing, corners and motion. Your App's own name, tagline and images are its identity, so they stay with your App, and so do the animations it added to its Animations row.
• Dashboard — one of an App's Traffic, Health or Money dashboards, with its blocks in order. A block that counts a list or an event by name shows that it has none until the App it lands in has one.
• Feature — a working part of an App: the pages, lists, emails and files it adds, installed together. A Feature never carries prices: an access group it adds arrives unpriced, and what it costs is set in the App it is installed into.
• Edge — the edge drawn round an item from its Border menu, with every setting you tuned. Use it in Images, Videos and Documents.
• Cut shape — the shape a picture, a clip, a 3D object or a group is cut to on its Border menu. Use it in Images, Videos and Documents.
• Mark — the circle, box, underline or arrow an item wears round itself, with its colour and settings. Use it in Images, Videos and Documents.
• Blend — how an item lands on what is beneath it, and how strongly. Use it in Images and Videos.
• Copies — an item drawn many times over, each copy stepped from the last, with its layout and settings. Use it in Images, Videos and Documents.
• Timewarp — a group's play with time, with its settings. Use it in Videos, on a group or on a clip, which becomes a group of its own.
• Brush — what a drawn stroke is drawn with: its brush and the settings of its Recipe. Use it on drawings in Images, Videos and Documents.

On a video, an edge, a cut shape, a mark, a blend, Copies and a Timewarp keep the curves you drew over their settings too.

You can also star a whole item, a group or a whole artifact.

Star a setting where it lives

Press the search at the start of a strip. The star at the end of its Starred row stars what your selection holds right now. It is filled while that is starred, and pressing a filled star removes it. There is nothing to name: a star goes by its card's own name.

• An effect or an animation — once you have changed it from its card, open Recipe from the container at the right end of Effects or Animate: the first button on that container's bottom row is the same star.
• A mark, a blend, Copies or a Timewarp — each is a layer of its own in that same container, on Effects (on a video, Copies are on Animate): pick its layer and open its Recipe, and the star is the first button on the row.
• A cut shape or an edge — the same, from the container at the right end of the Border menu.
• A brush — on a drawing's Freeform tab, pick a stroke and open its brush's Recipe: the star is the first button on that row.
• A shape — the search on its Shape menu.
• A text look — press the card on a Text tab to open the strip of looks, then use the search on that strip. On a caption's Captions tab, pick a speaker in its speakers container: the look's star is on that container's bottom row, and in that speaker's Recipe.
• A 3D look — Material in the 3D editor: the star on its card, once the look is your own.
• An audio effect — open a track's Sound menu, press the sliders icon on the effect's box to open its Recipe, and tune it. The star stands beside Close on the right.
• An App's theme — the search on the reel of themes in Develop › Format.
• An App's dashboard — press Arrange on Traffic, Health or Money, then the search on its Layouts reel.
• An App's feature — in Develop › About, under What to build › Features, the star on an installed or built feature's row.

Star a whole item, group or artifact

A star can also keep the whole thing, with its settings and effects on it, but not where it sits:

• A text, a table, a picture, a 3D object or a clip — the star on the card at the right end of its first tab. A video's sound takes the same star, on the waveform card of its Audio tab.
• A shape, a blur or a Document's line — the star at the end of a row on its first tab.
• A mask — the star on the bottom row of the container at the right of its Mask tab.
• A caption — the star on the bottom row of its speakers container, while no speaker is picked; with a speaker picked, the star there is that speaker's look's.
• An emoji — the star on its card, which stands beside the search once the emoji has something of its own, such as an effect.
• A drawing — the star at the end of a row on its Freeform tab.
• A song's tracks and clips — there is no star in Audio: they come from songs other people post, through Add → Import → Starred and community.
• A group — the first button on the bottom row of the Group menu, with no member picked.
• An artifact — Star on its card's menu in Artifacts, which reads Remove star once it is starred. You can also star the artifact an item holds, from the Starred row in the search on that item's first tab. An artifact someone shared with you offers no star.

What cannot be starred

• What is just the catalog's own — a plain emoji, an empty text, a preset you have not changed. It is already on every strip, so either no star is offered or pressing one says it carries nothing of its own.
• An App's brief and its assistant — these are instructions to an AI, the one that builds your App and the one your visitors talk to, so they stay with their App. They cannot be starred, listed or posted. Ask AI can still design one for the App you are in.

Pick something you starred

The search on a strip opens to its rows: All, Starred and Community. A picker of your own artifacts reads Mine, Starred and Community. All is the strip as it stands, with your stars at its end. Starred lists your stars of that kind from every artifact you own, and Community what other people have posted of it. A row stands only where it has something to offer, and a strip with no rows opens straight to a box to type in. The emoji menu's search jumps between its categories instead, and your starred emoji lead its grid.

Under the rows sit three marks: the expand arrows, which add a box to type a name into and lay the cards out as a larger grid; Ask AI, the MotherFluxer mark; and the close. Closing the search keeps what you chose until you leave the menu, and a small funnel at the foot of the closed column says the strip is narrowed.

A pick places a copy that is linked to nothing. Its files come with it, and nothing you later do to the starred one reaches it. While the copy still matches a star, that star's card stays lit and the star reads filled, and pressing it takes that star off. Change the copy and the card unlights; star the changed one and you have a second star, with the first untouched.

• Effects, shapes, text looks and materials — a pick lands on what you have selected. A starred effect goes on the layer you are on, or as a new layer on what it treats.
• Marks, blends, Copies and Timewarps — the search on Effects (on a video, Animate for Copies) lists each kind in a section of its own, and only the kinds the item can wear. An item wears one mark, one blend and one set of copies, so a pick replaces the one it has, and asks first. A Timewarp lands on the group the way its card does: on the Timewarp layer you are on, asking first if you tuned it, or as a new one at the playhead.
• Cut shapes and edges — the search on the Border menu: a pick lands on the layer you are on, asking first if you tuned it, or as a new layer after + layer.
• Brushes — the search at the start of a drawing's brush row: a pick puts that brush and its settings on the stroke you picked, on every stroke under All, or on the pen for the strokes you draw next.
• Animations — a pick replaces that item's animation. In an App, the search on the Animations row, under Motion in Format, adds one to the row.
• An audio effect — a track's Sound menu: press Add effect, and your stars lead the list, each with a play button so you can hear it on the track before you add it.
• An App's theme or dashboard — a pick replaces what that setting holds, and the running App shows the result at once. A dashboard's Starred lists only dashboards of the same kind.
• An App's feature — the + on Develop › About › Features opens Add a feature, where one reel lists Our features, your starred features and the community's. A press opens its install: it names what it adds and anything that must be turned on, and Install adds it.

Add a starred item or group

In an Image, a Video or a Document, Add → Browse lists Upload, Artifacts and Starred and community. Starred and community opens a chooser of your starred items and groups and what the community has posted of them, by kind; All lists your stars beside the Add tiles. A pick places the whole thing with its settings on it, selected, and closes the menu. A caption placed this way starts at the playhead and keeps its own timing, without the recording its words were timed on.

When a star changes or goes

A star is on one thing, in the artifact it lives in:

• Editing it there changes its star, and nothing else. Copies you placed elsewhere stay as they are.
• Removing it from that artifact takes its star with it, and so does tuning it back to exactly what the catalog offers.
• Deleting an artifact takes the stars inside it, and its delete confirmation says how many.

Share by posting

Posting an artifact shares everything inside it. There is nothing to tick: its looks, its items and its groups all appear under Community in the matching menus, each a one-tap copy with its files. A plain item with nothing of its own is left out, and an App's brief and assistant are never shared.

Unpublishing takes them all out of Community. Copies people have already placed stay, because each one is theirs.

Post one setting on its own

Press the search on a strip and use the button at the end of its Community row. A confirmation, Post to Slop, says that anyone in the community will be able to see it and copy it; when it is up you will see Posted. It goes up as you last had it, on its own.

That button stands where a strip's search can post what your selection holds. An audio effect, a feature and an App's added animations have no such row: they are shared by posting the artifact they are in.

These posts are not in the Community page's feed, which lists the main artifact types; people reach them from the Community row of the chooser for that kind, and your own ones still list under Your shared work in your Profile's Posts section.

Use what other people shared

Press the search on a menu and choose Community. Popular shows what people are favoriting lately and New what was posted most recently, each of that menu's own kind, and typing a name searches everything posted of that kind. In an App, the community offers themes, features, dashboards and animations.

One press on a card copies it and uses it on what you have selected. It's a copy, not a link: it is yours from that moment, and it doesn't change if the person who posted it edits or removes theirs. The star on a Community card favorites its post. To keep that one thing precisely, place it and star your copy.

The picture, video, 3D model and sound menus do the same with whole artifacts people have posted: under Community, a press copies it into your own artifacts at full quality and puts it on your item. A sound's search lists the community after your own sounds.

Copying out of an artifact someone shared with you, rather than one they posted, needs edit access to it. A copy is a way to take the work out of that artifact, so nothing in one you can only view can be copied, while anything inside a posted artifact can be copied by anyone.

A shared Feature is shown by what it adds — how many pages, lists and emails, or Built by the assistant when it brings no pieces of its own. Its code is never run or shown there: it runs only inside an App whose owner installs it. A copy you take arrives without the guidance its author wrote for the AI that builds an App.

Ask AI to design one

Ask AI is the MotherFluxer mark in a search. Press the expand arrows, type what you want — "a deep crimson heart with a soft white outline", "warm cream editorial colours", "heavy snow drifting left" — and press the mark: it designs one and puts it on what you have selected at once, and Undo takes it back. It starts from what your selection holds now, so you can also ask for "much deeper points and a thicker outline". On a dashboard's Arrange window it starts from the dashboard as it stands.

With no word typed, the mark opens Discuss in Smart Edit, on a line about what you were looking for.

In an Image or Video editor's Add → Browse → Starred and community, the same mark makes a whole item: press the expand arrows, type what you want — "a red title that says SALE", "two gold stars" — and press the mark. It makes a text, an emoji, a shape, a blur or a table, or a group of them, with their looks and edges, and places it on your work as one step that Undo takes back. In a Document it makes an emoji, a shape, a blur or a group of them.

Ask AI can't design a Feature: a feature is built in an App, so its mark always opens Discuss.

Designing one uses credits, like any other AI request. If a design comes back unusable, you are told and nothing lands.