The Designer

Show it you once

The Designer's photo studios make pictures of you. You show it your face once, with three quick photos, and every studio uses them, so each picture comes back as you. Open Apps and tap The Designer. You need to be signed in.

Your photos stay on your phone. Each look takes a copy to the studio, kept with that look; deleting the look removes it.

Take your three photos

The first time you open the Designer, a card says First, show me you.

1. Tap Show me you.
2. Put your face in the oval. When Light, Sharp and Still all show a check, the camera takes the photo by itself.
3. To take it yourself, tap the shutter button. To use pictures you already have, tap Pick from Photos.
4. Keep going until the three slots are full. Three is best.
5. When you see That's you., tap Done.

If a photo has no face in it, the sheet says No face found in this one. Tap Take another, or Keep it to use it anyway. The same sheet has the switch Keep my skin real (No smoothing, no filter).

To change your photos, open ⋯ and choose You. Tap a photo to take it again, or tap Remove my photos from this phone.

Make your first look

Under What to make, each door is a studio. These are the photo studios:

1. Tap a studio.
2. Tap an example you like.
3. Read the button: Make it me, with the price in credits. In Memories it reads Make it mine.
4. Tap it. In Memories, choose the old photo you want restored.

In Wedding, Trip and Moments, tap Add who's with you before you make. Add photos of them, switch on They agreed to this (Only people who said yes) and tap Add them. The button then reads Make us.

You can also describe a photo of you in the box at the bottom, Describe a photo, or bring one, or tap + to bring a picture you like. Your product has its own door, Products.

To make several looks at once, tap the round button on each example of you that you want. On the Designer's first screen, Make opens Your set, which lets you take any look out; its own Make button shows the total price. Inside a studio, Make shows the total price and starts at once.

While it develops

Your looks develop like prints. The screen shows Reading your photos, Setting the scene, then Developing 1 of 3 for a set of three. Keeps going if you leave. You'll get a note. When the look is ready it opens by itself; if you left, Nourva tells you Your look is ready.

The price shows on the button before anything is spent. If a look does not come out, the screen says Not charged., and Try again shows its price before you tap it. If your credits fall short, A little more credit shows what the look needs and what you have. An hourly limit on making looks also exists; the app tells you when you reach it. See Credits.

Hold, change, use

On a finished look:

• Compare: when the screen shows Hold to see your photo or Hold to see the original, press and hold the picture to see the photo it came from.
• Change it in words: type in Say a change…. The price appears above the box; the change makes a new look, and this one stays.
• Use it: five sizes, free: Profile photo, Post, Story, Wallpaper and Print. Tap one to share it, or tap Share all 5.
• Save: opens your phone's share sheet so you can keep the file.
• More: the ⋯ button offers Make it move and Another look, each with its price, and Delete, which asks first.

Your work

Open ⋯ and choose Your work. Your recent works from the photo studios stay there for a while; a new one takes the place of the oldest. What you make in the other studios is listed below them, under From the Studio, where your latest works stay for a while. A work still on its way shows Developing; tap it to watch it.

To remove a work, open it, tap ⋯, choose Delete and confirm. Undo appears for a moment if you change your mind.

Open Products

Products turns one phone photo of something you make or sell into finished product shots. You pick the scenes, Nourva places your product in each one, and you can add a cut-out, a short film and marketplace sizes. You need to be signed in, and the work uses credits.

1. Open Apps in the bottom bar and tap The Designer.
2. Under What to make, tap Products.

You can also start from the Designer's home: tap + beside the box, choose Camera or Photos, pick your photo and, under What shall we do with it?, choose Product scenes with it.

Bring your product

1. Tap Bring your product and choose a photo with your phone's own chooser. Or tap + beside the box and choose Take a photo or Choose a photo. A phone photo is enough; several angles are better.
2. Wait while the app shows Looking at your product…. Under Here's what I see, it says what the product is, the text printed on it, what must stay the same and its colours.
3. Leave Keep the label exactly on to keep the letters, logo and colours untouched. It starts on for every photo.
4. Tap Add angles to add more photos of the same product from other sides. The row shows how many you added, for example 1 of 2 added.
5. If the reading missed something, type it in the box, Tell me what I missed. Every scene and the cut-out follow it.
6. Tap Scenes.

Not ready with a photo? Type a scene in the box on the first screen, for example «on wet stone, morning light». It waits for your photo, then joins your scenes. Under Start from an example, a tile keeps that example's setting, never its product, and then asks for your photo.

Choose scenes and extras

The next screen asks Where should it be? Some scenes and the cut-out are ticked the first time you open it. Tap any of them to change your picks.

• Tap a scene to pick it or drop it: Studio white, City, golden hour, Powder burst, By the sea, Marble kitchen, Wet slate.
• Or describe your own in the box, Or describe a scene….
• You can mix ready-made scenes and your own; the app tells you when you reach the limit. To remove a scene of your own, tap it and confirm.

Under Also, tick what else you want:

Above the button, the screen shows how many photos you are making and about how long they take. The button carries the price, so you see it before anything is spent.

Then tap Make with your number, for example Make 4. It keeps going if you leave the screen. When it is done, tap Open.

After it is made

Your photos open together. Tap one to see it full screen.

• Save all opens your phone's share sheet with every file, so you can save them together. When there is only one file, the button reads Save.
• Make it move, with its price, makes a short film from your first scene photo. It stays on screen until you have a film.
• The box Say a change… changes every scene photo at once, for example «less shine on the label». The cut-out stays as it is, and the price shows in the box. The changed photos arrive as a new set.
• Under the ⋯ button, Describe another scene instead turns the box into a way to add one more scene from the same photo. Marketplace sizes makes the three sizes of your first scene photo, with no credits, and opens the share sheet. Share and Delete are there too; Delete asks first, and a deleted work cannot come back.

Prices, limits and what is kept

• The price is on the button before anything is spent, and it includes the cut-out and the film if you ticked them. As the screen says, A photo that doesn't come out is never charged.
• Reading your photo is free, within a daily limit. When you reach it, the app asks you to try again tomorrow.
• The Designer has an hourly limit and a daily limit. The app tells you when you reach one.
• The photo you bring stays yours and is removed from our servers after a short time.
• Your finished work is under ⋯ › Your work at the top of the Designer, under From the Studio, where your latest works stay for a while.

From four facts to an identity book

Use Brand in the Designer when you start a business or give one a new look. Nourva studies your market first, draws logos from that study, builds a brand kit around the logo you pick, and lays out an identity book.

You get:

• A market study with real sources.
• Logos to choose from, drawn from the study.
• The logo in four versions, each its own file.
• Colours with HEX, RGB and CMYK codes.
• Type, voice, rules and what never to do.
• A complete identity book as a PDF.

You need to be signed in. Each step spends credits, and its price is on its button. A part that does not come out is not charged. See How credits work.

Give the facts

1. Open Apps, choose The Designer and tap Brand under What to make. Start a brand opens.
2. Fill in Name, What you make, For whom and Where.
3. Optional: under How it should feel, choose any of Warm, Playful, Minimal, Bold, Elegant and Natural.
4. Optional: under An old logo or a sketch (optional), tap Add and choose your pictures. The study learns from them.

You can also type the facts in the bottom box: each message fills the first empty one. Once all four are in, anything more you type is kept for the study under You also told me.

If a fact is missing when you go on, the screen says Fill in the name, what you make, for whom and where first.

If you already have a kit, Brand opens it instead. To begin another brand, tap ⋯ More › Start a new identity.

The study and the logos

1. Under How many logos, tap the minus or plus button to choose how many logos you want. The price follows the count.
2. Tap Make the identity.

The study comes first, and the logos are drawn from it on their own. The line Your identity shows each step: Study, the logos, The kit and The book. A running step keeps going if you leave, and the next one starts as soon as the Designer is open.

The study page shows Who it is for, The name, Look-alikes, The market, Where it will live, A palette to start from, What this was read from and Three directions to start from. Tap a source to read it in the app.

To ask about the study, type in the box. It answers from the study only.

Why did you choose these colours for a bakery in Riyadh?

To pay for the study alone, tap Only the study for now on Start a brand. When you want the logos, the study page offers to draw them, in the number you choose.

Pick a logo, then get the kit and the book

The logos page says Pick one to three to carry forward.

1. Tap one to three logos. Each picked logo shows its number. A fourth tap shows Pick up to three.
2. Optional: type in the box how to merge your picks, or a change to a single pick.
3. Tap Make the kit and book.

B’s cup with F’s letters

With two or three picks, or one pick and a note, Nourva first makes one finished logo from them. Then it saves the kit and writes the identity book, and the pages are laid out. Tap Save as PDF to open your phone’s share sheet, or tap ⋯ More › Share the pages as pictures.

Below the pages is the kit.

Change the kit or the book

• Type a change in the box on the book page, Change the logo…. Nourva makes a new logo from the one you have, then the kit and the book again. The box shows the price.
• ⋯ More › Edit the colours lets you rename, add or remove a colour, or change its code. A code is # and six letters or digits, like #1A2B3C. Tap Save the colours and the pages are laid out again.
• ⋯ More › Change the type opens Your fonts. See Find and keep a font.
• ⋯ More › Change the book’s words asks What to change. Tap Write it again.
• Write the book again, under The book in words, writes the book once more, at the price beside it.
• ⋯ More › Your kits lists your kits. Tap one to use it, or tap its bin to delete it.

A logo from a sketch

A sketched logo comes back as a clean, flat logo.

1. On the Designer’s home, tap + in the box at the bottom and choose Draw.
2. Sketch with your finger, or tap Photo of a sketch to bring one you drew on paper.
3. Optional: say what it is in What is it? (optional).
4. Tap Make it real. The price is on the button.

For a whole brand around your sketch, add it on Start a brand instead.

A vector logo

A vector logo stays sharp at any size, from an app icon to a shop sign. On the book page, under The logo, you have two ways. Both wait until the kit has a logo.

1. Tap Trace it in vector. It is free, as many times as you like.
2. Compare Your logo with Traced, and tap the minus or plus button beside Colours until it looks right.
3. Tap Save to your kit, or tap the share button to send the file.

Draw it in vector is for a gradient mark, and it costs credits. The price shows beside it. When it is ready, tap Save. To change it, type in the box, which shows the price.

One link, answered from any phone

Use Invitations in the Designer for a wedding, a birthday, Eid or any day that matters. Describe the day, and Nourva makes the pieces you pick: a card, a story, a film with music, and an answer page.

Your guests open the link and answer on the page. They need no app and no sign-in. You read every answer in Replies.

You need to be signed in. Making an invitation spends credits, and the price is on the button before you tap it.

Make the invitation

1. Open Apps in the bottom bar, choose The Designer, and tap Invitations under What to make.
2. Pick the occasion: Wedding, Engagement, Birthday, Graduation, Baby, Eid, Gala or Dinner.
3. Tap Who, then type the names in the box at the bottom of the screen.
4. Tap Where, then type the place in the box.
5. Under When, pick the date and the time.
6. Under Languages, choose the languages you need; the app tells you when you reach the limit. Your app's language is chosen at first.
7. Under Style, choose Classic, Modern, Floral, Playful or Minimal.
8. To add anything else, type it in the box, such as “gold foil, no flowers”.
9. To give Nourva a look you love, tap + and choose Take a photo or Choose a photo. Its colours and mood go into the design, never its people.
10. Tap Next. If a field is empty, the screen says Add who, when and where first.
11. Choose what to make: Card, Story, Film · with music and Answer page. All four are on at first. Switch off the ones you do not want.
12. Tap Make it. The button shows the price.

While the pieces are made, the screen says It keeps going if you leave. If you stay, the Ready screen opens when it is done.

When it is ready

The Ready screen shows each piece: The card, The story, the film and Answer page. Tap the answer page to see it as your guests will. The words shows the text in each language you chose, so you can read or copy it.

• Send to guests opens your phone's share sheet with the card and a line asking guests to answer from the link.
• Print makes a PDF of the card and opens the share sheet.
• Save under the film keeps one file with the names, the date and the music in it.
• More (⋯) has Save for every piece, and Delete.

To change how it looks, type the change in the box at the bottom, Say a change…:

a softer gold

The change goes to the pieces you made, for the price shown in the box. The answer page is not made again, so your guests keep the same link and their answers.

See who is coming

When you made an answer page, tap Replies on the Ready screen. The screen Who's coming. counts Coming and Can't come, and Guests: the people coming with those who said yes. Each row shows a name with Coming, Coming · 2 guests or Can't come, and the guest's note.

• Tap Refresh to load new answers.
• Type in the box to find a guest. A name works, and so do Coming and Can't come.
• Tap Remind to send the link again through the share sheet.

To see who has not answered, tap Add your guest list, then Type the names or Paste from the clipboard. Put one name on each line, or separate them with commas. The app tells you if a list is too long.

With a list, the third count becomes Waiting, and the names still to answer show Not answered yet. A Remind button above the box shows how many are left, and you can ask the box “who hasn't answered?”. Clear the list asks first, and the answers stay.

What your guests see

The page shows the headline, the names, when and where, and the invitation's note, in the first language you chose. The form under it asks:

• Will you come? with Yes, I'll be there or Sorry, I can't.
• Your name.
• Guests, for the people coming with them.
• A note (optional).

After Send, the page says Thank you. Your answer is in. From the same phone, a guest can tap Change my answer. If someone already answered with the same name from another phone, the page asks for a surname too. The form's own words are in English.

Limits and good to know

• The answer page stays open for a limited time after it is made. Then guests see This invitation is no longer open.
• A page holds a limited number of answers. After that, guests see This invitation has no room for more answers.
• Answers sent too quickly from one place are limited. A guest who sees Too many answers from here in the last hour. can try again after a while.
• You pay only for the pieces that come out. If a piece cannot be made, the app says so and it is not charged.
• The Designer keeps your latest works. When newer works push an invitation out, its answer page closes with it.

Three things you can make

In the Designer you can make a post from your own words, a promo film that Nourva writes, films and scores, and sound on its own: music, a voice line or a sound logo. All three start under What to make.

1. Tap Apps on the bottom bar, then tap The Designer.
2. Under What to make, tap Posts or Promo.

You need to be signed in and online. If you have a brand kit, your posts and promos use it: its name, its colours and, on a post, its logo. To start one, see Start a brand.

Make a post

A post is a finished image with your words on it, made once for each size you pick.

1. Tap Posts. The post sheet opens.
2. Under What it is about, say in a few words what the post is for.
3. Under Your words, type what should appear on the post, one line for each phrase. Leave it empty for a post with no words.
4. Under Sizes, choose one to three of Instagram 4:5, Story 9:16 and X 16:9.
5. Tap Make. The button shows how many posts you get, one for each size, and their price in credits.

Announce our oat cortado, out this week, warm morning light

Make a promo film

Say what the promo is for. Nourva writes the script, films the shots and scores the music.

1. Tap Promo.
2. Under Length, choose 6, 15 or 30 seconds. Each length shows its price.
3. Under Shape, choose Vertical, Square or Wide. Square is for 6-second films only.
4. For 15 and 30 seconds, under Sound, turn Music, Voice and Sound logo on or off. A 6-second film makes its own sound, so there is nothing to choose.
5. Tap the language row to choose the language of the words on screen and the voice.
6. In the box that asks What is this promo for?, type what the promo is for.
7. Tap Make it. The price sits beside it.

A 15-second promo for my bakery's new cinnamon rolls, cosy and warm

The words on screen are always there, for anyone who cannot hear the film. If the promo should mention a price, a date or an offer, write it in your box: the script is written not to invent one. While the film is made, the page says It keeps going if you leave., so you can leave it and come back.

Sound on its own

To make sound without a film, tap Just sound on the promo screen and pick one. The menu shows each price before you choose.

Music and voice are typed in the box at the bottom of the screen, the same box you use everywhere in the app.

Save the film

When the promo is done, it opens in a player with its words and captions. Tags above it list what the film carries: Words on screen, and Music, Voice or Sound logo when they were made.

1. Tap Save. A sheet called Making one film opens, and the clips, the words and the sound are joined into one file.
2. Keep the screen open until the bar is full.
3. When Your film is ready appears, tap Share to send or save the file.

Stop on that sheet ends it and keeps nothing. Under Share, Captions file gives the captions as a file of their own, and Save in parts gives each clip and each sound as a separate file to edit elsewhere.

If the app leaves the screen before the film is joined, the sheet says it stopped. Tap Try again with the screen open, or tap Save in parts.

Tap Sizes to save the film in another shape: Vertical, Square, Portrait or Wide. The film is cropped to fill the frame, never letterboxed. To watch a promo again with its captions, open it from Your work and choose Play, with captions in its menu. Your work keeps your latest works for a limited time, so save what you want to keep.

Price, limits and problems

Everything here runs on credits, and the price shows before you spend. Credits Nourva gives you work on any plan. Professional, Ultimate and Max can also buy more.

• Parts that do not come out are not charged.
• Stop on the making page asks first. What is done stays, and nothing more is charged.
• A request can be turned down. The app says so: It was turned down. Other words may work.
• There is an hourly limit and a daily one. The app tells you when you reach either: You reached today's Studio limit. It opens again tomorrow.

What the Apps seat holds

The Apps seat holds three rooms of their own, apart from Chat. The Designer makes pictures, brands and short films. The Financial Market shows prices, charts and analysis. Nourva Drop moves your files between your phone and your computer. Go there when you want to make something, follow a market or send a file.

The rooms are the same on iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets.

Open a room

1. Sign in to your Nourva account.
2. Tap the Apps seat, the fifth icon in the bar at the bottom, after Hiring.
3. Tap the room you want under Your spaces.

The large The Designer door comes first, with the line 12 studios. From a photo to a whole brand. Two rows follow: Financial Market (Prices, charts and analysis) and Nourva Drop (Your files, across your devices). On iPad with a keyboard, ⌘5 opens the seat.

If you are not signed in, a tap on a room opens a card, Sign in to power this, with one Sign in button. Chat and Settings stay open.

The three rooms

The Designer

Start from a door under What to make. The first time, the Designer asks First, show me you.: three quick photos, once, and every studio uses them. They are Kept on this phone. Looks develop while you wait, and the work Keeps going if you leave. You'll get a note. Your work in the ⋯ menu keeps your latest works from the photo studios, and under From the Studio your latest other works, each for a while. The + menu, Bring anything, adds a Camera shot, Photos, Files, a sketch with Draw, A logo or A font.

The Financial Market

Markets shows each exchange's hours in your time, then the Heatmap, Movers, Sectors, Crypto, Currencies & commodities and Top stories. Open a symbol for its chart. Its Nourva's read is tagged Engine · not advice. The Analyst gives one answer at a time. Some venues delay their feed, and the screen says so. Alerts arrive as notifications: Nourva watches prices and never places trades.

Nourva Drop

Link your computer once. After that, each file is sealed on your phone before it leaves, and only your linked device can open it.

1. On the computer, open Nourva Drop and choose Link a device. It shows a code.
2. On the phone, tap Link your computer, or open Devices and tap Link a device.
3. Enter the Six-digit code and tap Link the device. The code is Valid for five minutes · single use.
4. Tap Throw a file and choose From the phone's files, Photos or video, or Text or a link.

Credits and sign-in

Every room needs a signed-in account. A guest meets the sign-in card.

Paid work in the Designer shows its price in credits on the button before you tap it. A picture that does not come out is not charged. When you hold too few credits, the Designer says A little more credit and shows what the work needs and what you have.

Starter includes no credits; credits Nourva gives you work on any plan. Professional, Ultimate and Max come with credits and can buy more. See How credits work.

Take a tour

Each room has a guided tour. Tap ⋯ at the top of the Designer, the Financial Market or Nourva Drop and choose Take a tour, the first row of the menu.

Fonts in the Designer

Fonts is where the Designer finds a typeface for your brand. Search a free library, find the closest match to lettering you saw somewhere, or bring a font file you already have. A font you keep goes into your brand kit, and the posts you make carry it.

1. Open Apps and tap The Designer.
2. Under What to make, tap Fonts.

You can also tap + in the Designer and choose A font; it opens the same screen. You need to be signed in to use Fonts.

Search the free library

The screen says Search the free library, or bring your own. Every font in it is free.

1. Tap a category: All, Serif, Sans-serif, Display, Handwriting or Monospace.
2. Or type a name in the box, Search a font name…. Results update as you type.
3. Scroll the list. Each row shows a short phrase set in that font, its name, its category and how many weights it has, for example 3 weights.

If you type the name of a well-known paid font, Nourva puts the nearest free one at the top of the list and tells you: The closest free match to “…” is …. When nothing fits, you see No fonts found.

Find a font from a photo

Use this when you like the letters on a sign, a label or a poster and want a free font that looks like them.

1. On the Fonts screen, tap From a photo.
2. Tap Add a photo and choose a picture with the lettering in it.
3. Wait while it shows Reading the lettering….
4. Under Lettering found, tap a match.

The matches are free lookalikes only, never a copy of the original file. The photo you add leaves Nourva's servers after a short time. A daily limit applies: when you reach it, the screen says That's enough for today. Try again tomorrow.

Keep a font in your brand kit

Tap any font in the list or in a photo's matches. If you have no brand kit yet, Nourva says You need a brand kit first. and offers Open kit. With a kit, a sheet titled Use … for… opens with three choices:

Under Display type and Body text, the sheet shows the font in that role now, or Not set. A font that is already your display or body font cannot be kept a second time: Nourva says That font already has a role in your kit.

Your kit keeps a limited number of fonts without a role, and the app tells you when it is full. To free a place, open Your fonts, tap the kept font and choose Let it go, then tap Let it go again to confirm. The same menu can give a kept font a role: Display type or Body text.

Bring your own font

You can use a font file you have the right to use. It works with OTF, TTF, WOFF or WOFF2 files, and Nourva uses it only in what you make.

1. On the Fonts screen, tap Your fonts.
2. Turn on I have the licence for this font. Nourva never shares or sells it.
3. Tap Add a font file and choose the file.
4. In the Use … for… sheet, choose Display type, Body text or Just keep it.

You can also reach Your fonts from your brand kit: tap ⋯ and choose Change the type, or tap a font under Type. If the switch is off, Nourva says Turn on the licence switch first. Without a brand kit, the screen says Save a brand kit to give it its own fonts.

Use it in posts and your brand

When you have a brand kit, every post you make uses it, and the kit's two fonts guide the style of the lettering. Your kit lists them under Type, as Headlines and Smaller text.

When no font has the word you want, Nourva can draw it as custom lettering in different styles.

1. On the Fonts screen, tap A word no font has.
2. Type the word in the box and send it.
3. Tap Draw it. The button shows the price in credits.

To give the word a feel, type it in the box instead of tapping Draw it, such as “rounder, like a sunrise”, and send it; Nourva draws the word with that feel.