How do I use and pay for a Design Genie design?

Looking at drafts is always free. Money comes into it only when you publish an invitation on the design you picked.

Pick a design

1. 1In the studio, choose Use this design (or Use this one) on any draft of any round.
2. 2A sheet asks "Bring name to life?": Genie turns the painted cover into a short moving scene that loops when guests open the invitation. Choose Bring it to life or Not now, keep it still. Kept still, it can be brought to life later from your designs.
3. 3You continue on the create page with your design, exactly as with a catalogue design. See Use this design.

Bringing a cover to life usually takes 3 to 6 minutes; you need not wait, because the moving cover slots into your invitation by itself. Only the design you picked is brought to life.

Your private design

Every draft is its own premium design, owned by you, visible only to you and admins, and never listed in the catalogue unless an admin publishes it. Its pages follow your occasion's outline like any design. You can pick a different draft later; the pick simply moves.

What you pay

• The design is priced like every premium design, by its kind: a Signature or a Card invitation, Live (its cover plays a film) or Still. The brief page and the studio quote the price before you start, with the list price struck through while the launch discount runs. Wedding designs are charged at their list price.
• It is paid once, when you publish, unless your plan includes Design Genie designs; see Pricing and Buy a premium design.
• The free intro and effect Genie chose are part of the price. A premium intro or effect you switch to later is charged like on any design.
• Paying for it brings the invitation the premium upgrade, and earns you a banked brief; see Briefs and design credits.
• Publishing the same design to a second invitation is charged again, unless included.

In the catalogue

An admin may publish your design to the catalogue for other hosts. You get a notification, "Your design is in the catalogue". A design painted from your own photos is never published: it stays yours.