I\u0027m a graphic designer and have been playing with the free version of Baseline for a bit. I would like to get this for my clients, and I understand that giving clients access to design their own art is on the horizon, but have a few other questions:\u000a\u000a1) Are you planning on allowing users to post to their social media platforms directly from Baseline? (I\u0027m an ocoya and predis user and it\u0027s so much easier to be able to design the art and schedule the posts directly from the platform rather than exporting and uploading to a separate platform).\u000a\u000a2) Exciting that you\u0027re working on offering printing capabilities. In that case, I\u0027m assuming you\u0027ll add templates for printed items, like business cards, postcards brochures, and flyers? And I understand that multiple page documents are coming soon, so that\u0027s great news too.\u000a\u000a3) I see that you already have a place to create your own artwork of any size. It would be nice if you could also specify in inches for printed items (like 8.5 x 11, etc.). Is that doable?\u000a\u000a4) I know you said you were not planning to fully white label, but it would be great if we could at least brand the client portals and brand guides with our own brands \u003D\u003E CNAME + our own logo (maybe even favicons) to help our clients remember us.\u000a\u000a5) Brands \u002D I love that I can add custom fonts and have all the brand colors (and seems like the ai is now picking up on the first two colors which is great). I would like to be able to upload a few logos per brand \u002D horizontal, square, vertical, etc., and I think I asked this before, but would want a space for headshots, hero images, taglines, and company verbiage/personal bios that are used regularly, as well as social media @name, brand hashtags, etc.\u000a\u000a6) Design Interface \u002D need to be able to cut, copy and paste elements from the design editor, and also be able to move layers forward and backwards. Snapping into alignment is also a great feature. \u000a\u000a7) I don\u0027t know if you\u0027re planning on adding graph capabilities (bar charts, org charts, pie charts, etc), but that would be good for social posts and brand marketing materials. Any plans for that in the future? Also having famous quotes that are searchable and can drop into a format would be fun.\u000a\u000a8) Custom templates \u002D I\u0027d like to be able to set up custom templates for my clients to use within their own brand. Not for everyone, but just from me to them. So they\u0027d have a separate folder with the templates I create for them to customize. Is that possible? \u000a\u000a9) I absolutely agree with you that a true logo should be designed by a person, but it would be nice for people needing a fast/cheap/temporary logo to be able to also add a mark (I think it would be a nice feature to be able to choose from a library of marks to go along with the text logo\u000a\u000aI\u0027m planning on a full stack, so let me know whether these things are planned/coming soon, doable and what will be included in the tier 3 deal (or other tiers for others reading this.) \u000a\u000aLoving Baseline so far! Thanks!

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I\u0027m a graphic designer and have been playing with the free version of Baseline for a bit. I would like to get this for my clients, and I understand that giving clients access to design their own art is on the horizon, but have a few other questions:\u000a\u000a1) Are you planning on allowing users to post to their social media platforms directly from Baseline? (I\u0027m an ocoya and predis user and it\u0027s so much easier to be able to design the art and schedule the posts directly from the platform rather than exporting and uploading to a separate platform).\u000a\u000a2) Exciting that you\u0027re working on offering printing capabilities. In that case, I\u0027m assuming you\u0027ll add templates for printed items, like business cards, postcards brochures, and flyers?  And I understand that multiple page documents are coming soon, so that\u0027s great news too.\u000a\u000a3) I see that you already have a place to create your own artwork of any size. It would be nice if you could also specify in inches for printed items (like 8.5 x 11, etc.). Is that doable?\u000a\u000a4) I know you said you were not planning to fully white label, but it would be great if we could at least brand the client portals and brand guides with our own brands \u003D\u003E CNAME + our own logo (maybe even favicons) to help our clients remember us.\u000a\u000a5) Brands \u002D I love that I can add custom fonts and have all the brand colors (and seems like the ai is now picking up on the first two colors which is great). I would like to be able to upload a few logos per brand \u002D horizontal, square, vertical, etc., and I think I asked this before, but would want a space for headshots, hero images, taglines, and company verbiage/personal bios that are used regularly, as well as social media @name, brand hashtags, etc.\u000a\u000a6) Design Interface \u002D need to be able to cut, copy and paste elements from the design editor, and also be able to move layers forward and backwards.  Snapping into alignment is also a great feature. \u000a\u000a7) I don\u0027t know if you\u0027re planning on adding graph capabilities (bar charts, org charts, pie charts, etc), but that would be good for social posts and brand marketing materials.  Any plans for that in the future? Also having famous quotes that are searchable and can drop into a format would be fun.\u000a\u000a8) Custom templates \u002D I\u0027d like to be able to set up custom templates for my clients to use within their own brand. Not for everyone, but just from me to them. So they\u0027d have a separate folder with the templates I create for them to customize. Is that possible? \u000a\u000a9) I absolutely agree with you that a true logo should be designed by a person, but it would be nice for people needing a fast/cheap/temporary logo to be able to also add a mark (I think it would be a nice feature to be able to choose from a library of marks to go along with the text logo\u000a\u000aI\u0027m planning on a full stack, so let me know whether these things are planned/coming soon, doable and what will be included in the tier 3 deal (or other tiers for others reading this.) \u000a\u000aLoving Baseline so far!  Thanks!

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1) Yes we do plan creating some integration like that. Which ones and when is yet to be decided. \u000a\u000a2) Yes definitely, print features will come with print templates like business cards flyers, and so on, multiple page documents are coming along with that since that\u0027s definitely needed for those docs. \u000a\u000a3) I see that you already have a place to create your own artwork of any size. It would be nice if you could also specify in inches for printed items (like 8.5 x 11, etc.). Is that doable?\u000a\u000a4) Brand guides will get cname, and probably we will show who manages the brand, so that would hopefully satisfy your need. Later on we might explore some improvements to that but I don\u0027t want to over promise before getting there.\u000a\u000a\u000a5) More logo variants is coming very soon. Brand photography, story, values, and other things are also planned.\u000a\u000a6) You can move layerrs forwards and backwards by right clicking and sending it back or forward. Snapping, copy and other editor features are planned. I\u0027m working on collecting shortcuts to implement here: https://forum.baseline.is/t/keyboard\u002Dshortcuts/45/2\u000a\u000a7) Graphs are something I would like to do, and have on my todo list, but it\u0027s not something I will get to soon. First I will improve other things (like the editor itself mentioned above) before adding advanced features like that. Searchable famous quotes is a nice idea though!\u000a\u000a8) Once you can add members to your brand, I want to be able to tag designs with those brands and have them available to all members. This would allow you to do what you mentioned.\u000a\u000a9) Yeah this has been mentioned by some. It\u0027s not something I\u0027m against doing but I would just have to find the time to improve the logo maker. \u000a\u000aGlad to hear your are loving Baseline so far, feel free to join our forum at forum.baseline.is to add individual suggestions, it sounds like you are full of great ideas, so it would be good to have them listed in the Wishlist so others can vote and comment on them.\u000a\u000aCheers!

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