Questions about AI design for social media
Straight answers about AI images, social media sizes, bulk content, watermarks, video, using your brand and credits.
Getting started
What is Cutlin?
Cutlin is an AI studio in one chat: it makes images, social media posts, stories, videos, vectors, captions and brand identities from a written prompt. A brand you use in Cutlin is a Melon Cut Guidelines brand - its logos, colours, fonts and rules are kept there, at meloncut.com/yourbrand on a paid plan - and Cutlin reads those guidelines to keep its results on-brand.
Is Cutlin free?
Partly. Watermarking your photos with your logo is free for anyone signed in, with no plan and no credits. Everything made with AI needs a paid plan; every plan has every feature and differs only in monthly credits. The brands you use are kept in Melon Cut Guidelines, which has a Free plan of its own for private guidelines.
Do I need design skills to use an AI design tool?
No. An AI design tool works from a plain-language description, so you don't need layout software or design training to get a usable result. What helps is knowing what you want: the message, the audience and your brand. In Cutlin you describe it in words, and the sizes, safe areas and your brand's look are handled for you.
What is the difference between Cutlin and Melon Cut Guidelines?
Cutlin makes things: it is an AI studio for images, social posts, stories, videos, vectors and brand identities, paid for with monthly credits. Melon Cut Guidelines keeps things: it stores a brand's logos, colours, fonts and rules and, on a paid plan, publishes them at meloncut.com/yourbrand. It is priced per brand with a Free plan. Together, Cutlin uses your guidelines to stay on-brand.
Should I use an AI design tool or hire a designer?
It depends on the job, and many teams use both. A designer brings strategy, original ideas and judgement - worth it for a new identity, a major campaign or print work. An AI design tool is quicker and cheaper for everyday content: posts, stories, product shots and variations. A common setup is a designer defining the brand and AI making daily content from it.
AI images
What is an AI image generator?
An AI image generator is a tool that creates a new picture from a written description, called a prompt. It has learned from many images how subjects, light and styles look, so it can draw a scene that never existed. Cutlin generates pictures with GPT Image or Nano Banana 2.1, each in Fast or Quality, at the size you choose from a list tagged with the platforms that use each one: posts, stories, link shares and more.
How do I write a good AI image prompt?
Say what you want to see, where, and in what style. A good AI image prompt names the subject, the setting, the light or mood, the style - photo, illustration, flat graphic - and where it will be used. Be specific about anything that must appear, such as exact words or a product. Then refine one change at a time instead of rewriting everything.
Which AI models does Cutlin use?
Like most AI design tools, Cutlin uses different models for different jobs, and picks the best for each request from the ones ticked in Settings. Pictures are made with GPT Image 2.6 or Nano Banana 2.1, at the speed set in Configuration: Fast for quick pictures, Quality for the highest detail. Videos are made and changed with Kling 4.0, Gemini Omni 1.2 or a model on Higgsfield, such as Seedance 2.5 or Wan 3.0, in a style you pick or on Auto. Vectors use Recraft's vector models.
What image sizes can AI generate?
Many AI image generators make only a few fixed shapes: usually square, portrait and landscape. Cutlin lists its sizes in one place, each tagged with the platforms that use it - Portrait 4:5 at 1080 × 1350 for an Instagram post, Link picture 1.91:1 at 1200 × 628 for a link share - and also takes a custom size or keeps an attached picture's size. Each picture comes back at exactly the size chosen.
Can AI make images with a transparent background?
Yes. Some AI image generators can make a picture with a transparent background from the start, so the subject can be placed on any colour or design. In Cutlin you switch on a transparent background when you generate, and the picture is made with no background at all, ready to place on other designs.
How do I get better quality AI images?
Give the AI more to work with, then make the final version properly. Write a specific prompt, attach reference pictures, ask for the size you will actually use, explore with a quick model and make the final picture with the most detailed one, refining with small follow-up changes. In Cutlin, Auto keeps to Fast while you explore; set Speed to Quality in Configuration, or ask for the most detail, for the final picture.
Can I edit an AI-generated image?
Yes. Most AI image tools let you change a result by describing the change, and the file can be edited like any other picture. In Cutlin each new prompt changes the latest result, you can carry on from any earlier one, and the free Watermark tool puts your logo on the pictures you keep.
Bulk creation and plans
Can AI generate images in bulk?
Yes. In Cutlin one prompt makes up to 4 pictures, and a request for several things - a week of posts, a set of stories - becomes a plan of up to 30 items. You see every item and the credits before anything is made, remove what you don't need, and make them all at once.
How do I create a month of social media content fast?
Plan first, then make everything in one sitting: choose a few content themes, map them to dates, and create the posts, stories and captions together instead of one a day. In Cutlin, one request - or an attached content calendar - becomes a plan of up to 30 items, each with a caption, made 3 at a time.
Can AI turn a document into social media posts?
Yes. An AI tool that reads documents can pull the key points from a brief, a report, a menu or a content calendar and turn them into posts with captions. In Cutlin, attach up to 10 documents - Word, PDF, text, Markdown or CSV - and ask for the posts you need; Cutlin plans them, up to 30 items.
Can AI write captions for social media posts?
Yes. AI can draft a caption for each post from what the post shows and what you asked for, which saves writing dozens by hand. Treat it as a first draft and check the facts, the tone, the hashtags and any claims. In Cutlin, every item in a content plan comes with its own caption, and Copy caption puts it on your clipboard.
Video
How do I make a video with AI?
Describe the video in a prompt, or give the AI pictures to animate, and it generates a short clip. In Cutlin you can make a video from text, from your pictures - the first opens it, the last closes it - or by changing a video you already have. Cutlin picks the model from those ticked in Settings; pick a style or leave it on Auto. One chat holds pictures and videos together, so you can ask for a video after a picture.
How long can AI videos be?
AI video models generate short clips, from a few seconds to about half a minute at a time. In Cutlin, Kling 4.0 makes 3 to 30 seconds and Gemini Omni 1.2 makes 3 to 15. For a longer video, join several clips in a video editor.
Can AI turn photos into a video?
Yes. Image-to-video AI animates a still picture or moves between several, inventing the motion in between. In Cutlin, attach your pictures: the first opens the video, the last closes it, and up to 8 more act as keyframes in between. Add your brand and the video gets a generated opening frame and an end card with your real logo.
Can AI edit an existing video?
Yes. Video-to-video AI takes a clip you already have and changes it from a description - a new style, a different setting, a changed detail - while following the original's movement. In Cutlin, attach an MP4 or MOV of up to 100 MB and 30 seconds and use Change the video; the result keeps the source's length and shape.
How do I make vertical videos for Reels and TikTok?
Make them 1080 × 1920 pixels, a 9:16 vertical, open with a hook in the first second, and keep words, logos and faces away from the parts the app covers: 8% from the sides, 14% from the top and 20% from the bottom. In Cutlin, choose the 9:16 shape, then Generate for social media sets the exact size and the safe area; the hook is yours to describe in the prompt.
Can AI videos include my logo?
Yes, but it should be your real logo file, not one the AI draws: video models can distort letters and shapes. In Cutlin, add your brand's @username to a video made from pictures and it becomes a branded video, with a generated opening frame and an end card showing your real logo file, centred.
Vectors and SVG
What is a vector image?
A vector image is a picture stored as shapes - points, lines, curves and fills - rather than a grid of pixels. Because the shapes are described mathematically, a vector scales to any size, from a favicon to a billboard, without blurring. SVG is the most common vector format on the web; JPEG and PNG are pixel formats.
How do I convert an image to SVG?
To convert an image to SVG, you trace it: software finds the edges and areas of colour in a PNG or JPEG and redraws them as vector paths. Logos, icons and flat illustrations with clear shapes convert best. Photos convert poorly, because their detail becomes thousands of tiny shapes. In Cutlin, attach a picture and ask for it as a vector.
Can AI generate SVG files?
Yes. Some AI models draw true vector graphics: shapes and paths you can scale and edit, saved as SVG. Others only make pixel images, which can be wrapped in an SVG file without becoming vectors. Ask Cutlin for a vector and it makes real, editable SVG from a description, with a choice of aspect ratio and number of results.
Your brand
Can AI create a brand identity?
Yes. AI can turn a description of a business into a starting brand identity: a logo, a colour palette, fonts and written guidelines. It is fast and useful for exploring directions, but you still decide what fits - review the logo closely, check that the name and mark are free to use, and refine it until it feels like yours.
How do I make AI images on-brand?
Give the AI your brand, not just a prompt: your colours, fonts, photo style and the rules for your logo. Describing them in every prompt helps, but results still drift. A tool that reads your published brand guidelines does it consistently. In Cutlin, add your brand's @username and every result follows its guidelines, with your real logo placed afterwards.
Can AI put my real logo on images?
Most AI image models can't reproduce a logo exactly: they redraw it, and letters, shapes or colours come out wrong. The reliable way is to generate the picture first and then place your real logo file on it. Cutlin does this when you add your brand: it picks the logo version that stands out best and never recolours or stretches it.
Pricing and credits
How do credits work in Cutlin?
Credits are how Cutlin measures AI work. Your plan gives credits every month, and each action uses some: a picture 5 with the Fast model or 15 with Quality, a branded one 30, and a video 60 for every started 5 seconds. Before a run, the studio shows what it costs and what you have left. Top-up packs add more credits at any time.
How many credits does an AI image cost?
In Cutlin an AI image costs 5 credits with the Fast model and 15 with the Quality model, which always works at its highest detail, whatever the picture's size. A branded image, made with your brand guidelines and your real logo, costs 30. The cost is per picture, so four pictures from one prompt cost four times as much. Watermarking your pictures costs nothing.
How many credits does an AI video cost?
In Cutlin an AI video costs 60 credits for every started 5 seconds, so a 10-second clip costs 120 credits. A branded video, made with your brand guidelines, costs 150 credits per started 5 seconds. The studio shows the exact cost before you start, and the rate is the same whichever video model Cutlin picks.
Do Cutlin credits expire?
Credits you buy in Cutlin's top-up packs - 500, 2,000 or 5,000 credits - don't expire. Your plan gives a new set of credits every month while it is active, including yearly plans, which give theirs month by month. The current plans, the credits each one gives and their terms are on the pricing page. With any AI tool, check how its monthly and bought credits differ.
Can I cancel my Cutlin plan?
Yes. You can cancel a Cutlin plan at any time, and it stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for; nothing more is charged after that. You can also change plans: a bigger plan starts right away and you pay the difference for the rest of the period, while a smaller one starts at your next renewal.
Using AI content
Do I need to label AI-generated content on social media?
Sometimes. Platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and TikTok have their own rules for labelling AI-generated content, especially realistic images, video or audio that people could mistake for real people or events. The rules differ by platform and by country and change often, so check each platform's current policy and local law before you post. When in doubt, label it.
Does Cutlin add a watermark to images?
No. Cutlin doesn't add a watermark to the images you create, on any plan. The Watermark tool is one you choose to use, and it is free for anyone signed in: it places your own logo on as many pictures as you add, as a single mark or a tiled or diagonal pattern. When you generate with your brand, your real logo is placed - yours, not Cutlin's.
Can I use AI images in ads?
Often yes, as long as the ad follows the platform's advertising policy and the law where it runs. Ad platforms such as Meta and TikTok review what an ad shows and says: misleading claims, realistic depictions of real people or events and other brands' logos are common problems, and some cases need an AI disclosure. Check their current policies before you launch.
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Social media
What size is an Instagram post?
Make Instagram feed posts 1080 × 1350 pixels, a 4:5 portrait. It is the tallest shape the feed shows in full, so it takes up more of the screen than a square. Keep logos and text 13% from the sides and 12% from the top and bottom so the profile grid doesn't crop them.
What size is an Instagram story?
Make Instagram stories 1080 × 1920 pixels, a 9:16 vertical that fills a phone screen. The app shows your profile name at the top and the reply bar at the bottom, so keep text, logos and faces 8% from the sides and 14% from the top and bottom. Cutlin's Generate for social media makes stories at exactly this size, with this safe area.
What size is an Instagram Reel?
Make Instagram Reels 1080 × 1920 pixels, a 9:16 vertical video that fills the phone screen. The caption, account name and buttons sit over the lower part of the video, so keep words, logos and faces 8% from the sides, 14% from the top and 20% from the bottom. Cutlin's Generate for social media remakes a video at this size and safe area.
What size is a Facebook post?
For a Facebook feed post, use 1080 × 1350 pixels, a 4:5 portrait. It fills more of a phone screen than a square or landscape picture, and the same file works on Instagram. Keep text and logos 13% from the sides and 12% from the top and bottom. Cutlin's Portrait 4:5 size, tagged Facebook post, is exactly this size.
What size is a TikTok video?
Make TikTok videos 1080 × 1920 pixels, a 9:16 vertical that fills the phone screen. TikTok lays its caption, username and buttons over the video, so keep words, logos and faces 8% from the sides, 14% from the top and 20% from the bottom. Cutlin's Generate for social media remakes a video at this size and safe area.
What is a safe zone on social media?
A safe zone is the area of a post, story or video where important content won't be cropped or hidden behind the app's buttons, names and captions. Keep text, logos and faces inside it. Cutlin's Generate for social media uses 13% from the sides and 12% from the top and bottom for 4:5 posts, 8% and 14% for stories, and 8%, 14% and 20% for vertical videos.
How do I make social media posts with AI?
Describe the post you want - the message, the product, the mood - in an AI design tool set to the right size, then review and refine it. In Cutlin, choose the Portrait 4:5 size, tagged Instagram post, for a 1080 × 1350 feed post, add your brand's @username, write your prompt and press Check for social media before you download.
How do I keep social media posts on-brand?
Write the rules down and apply them every time: the same colours, fonts, logo placement and tone of voice on every post. Brand guidelines make that possible. Publish yours in Melon Cut Guidelines, then type your brand's @username in Cutlin: its colours, fonts and style guide every post, and your real logo file is placed on it.
How can I check a post before publishing it?
Check the size and shape, what will be cropped or covered, every word in the picture and the platform's content rules, then read the caption. In Cutlin, Check for social media, under every picture, checks a post's size, shape and content and whether anything is cropped on the Instagram grid, then says it is compatible or lists what to fix.
How do I plan social media content for holidays?
List the days that matter to your audience, decide which deserve a post, and make the content a few weeks ahead in one batch. In Cutlin, What's coming up lists international and Lebanese days worth posting about; Add to prompt puts one into your request, and Cutlin can plan the posts and stories for it.