A batch of social posts in minutes with AI

One campaign message usually needs to show up in a dozen places — a feed square, a 9:16 story, a landscape banner. The trick to producing a batch fast is to do the brand and layout work once, then let the Assistant spin the variants for you.

The batch mindset#

A good social batch isn't ten unrelated designs. It's one idea, dressed for different placements. So the goal is to nail the look and the message a single time, then resize and re-copy — not restart from a blank canvas each time. Popcorn Editor makes that easy because every post can live as its own Canvas inside one design, and the Assistant can populate each of them.

Start from a size preset#

New designs start life as Untitled. When you create one, the size presets group the common social formats under a Social category — Instagram post, Instagram square and Instagram story / Reel among them — so you're on a correctly-sized canvas from the first click.

You can also start from the home prompt box. Its suggestion chips include Instagram sale post, which drops you straight into the editor with the Assistant primed to build.

Pin your brand kit first#

Consistency is the entire point of a batch, so pin a brand kit before you prompt. Open Assistant options (the sliders icon at the bottom of the Assistant) → Brand kit → Brand, and choose your kit. From then on every post the Assistant builds uses the same colors, fonts and voice automatically — you never have to restate them. Pick No brand to clear it.

If you don't have a kit yet, build one first — it pays for itself the moment you make your second post. See Build a brand kit and stay on-brand and On-brand with brand kits.

Prompt for the first post#

Get one post right, then multiply it. A strong single-post brief gives the Assistant the message, the offer, any handle or hashtag, and the vibe:

Design an Instagram square post for a summer sale.
Message: "Up to 40% off — this weekend only."
Include: our logo top-left, a bold headline, a rounded "Shop now" button,
and space for a product photo on the right.
Handle: @northshore.goods   Hashtag: #NorthShoreSummer
Style: bright, energetic, confident — on-brand colors and fonts.

Flip on Refine my prompt in Assistant options if you want each prompt polished into a tighter brief before it sends; it may ask a quick clarifying question or two first.

Spin variants#

Once the first post looks right, ask for alternates in small follow-up turns:

• "Give me three headline variations."
• "Make a square version for feed and a 9:16 version for stories."
• "Swap the product photo for a flat-color background."

Each request becomes its own Canvas, so your variations accumulate side by side instead of overwriting one another. Keep prompts short and iterative — one change per turn reads more clearly than a paragraph of instructions.

Work across multiple canvases#

Add a Canvas per post so the whole set lives in a single design. The Canvases list (above the Layers panel) lets you add, duplicate and jump between them, and the Assistant can build into whichever one is active. Select a canvas, prompt an edit, move to the next — your batch grows as one tidy document rather than a folder of loose files. There's more in Working with multiple canvases.

Keep them recognizably a set#

The posts should look like siblings. The fastest way to guarantee that is to reuse the shared framing and only change the copy and imagery. Turn a repeated layout — a logo lockup, a footer, a button style — into a Block, and reuse it across canvases; edit the main block once and every copy updates. Combined with the pinned brand kit, that keeps the whole batch visibly unified. See Blocks for how reusable components work.

Export the batch#

When the set is ready, export it all at once. Use Share → Download (or the File menu) to open the Export dialog. For social, pick a raster format — PNG, JPEG or WEBP. The Canvases section at the top shows how many are selected (for example 4 of 4 selected), and exporting more than one canvas writes one file per canvas, bundled so you download the whole set in a single step.

Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded to a server to render. For the full rundown, see Exporting multiple canvases.

Speed tips#

A few habits keep a batch moving:

Do the thinking once, let the Assistant do the repetition, and a full campaign's worth of posts comes together in minutes rather than an afternoon.

Next: lock in the consistency that makes batching work with Build a brand kit and stay on-brand, then master the output step in Exporting multiple canvases.