Once you approve the outline, Napkin starts building your presentation. It builds the structure, the story, and the visuals together, based on everything you have told it so far.
Picking a brand style
Before it builds your presentation, Napkin shows you a few style options based on what you are making. This helps your first draft look good from the start, not plain or generic. Choose one style to begin with. If you do not like it later, you can change it, or customize the colors yourself. See Applying Your Brand to learn how to change your style or colors.
Building slide by slide
Napkin builds one slide at a time. It does not build the whole presentation at once. For each slide, it shows you a few layout options to choose from.
Move your mouse over an option to preview it. Click it to add it to your slide.
Click Pick for me if you do not want to choose. Napkin will pick a layout for you.
Click Pick the rest for me to let Napkin finish every other slide on its own.
If you want something specific on a slide, tell the agent, for example, "make a staircase analogy here." Napkin will suggest layout options based on what you asked for, and you can choose the one you like.
After each slide is made, Napkin asks you what to do next. You can build the next slide the same way, one at a time. Or you can ask the agent to create the remaining slides. This finishes every other slide in your presentation at once, without asking you to choose a layout each time.
While Napkin builds, the chat shows what it is doing, for example "Creating slide 2 of 4". If one step takes more than 20 seconds, it adds "Taking longer than usual". That alone does not mean something went wrong.
What to expect
If you run out of credits while your presentation is being made, your completed slides remain in the deck. You can upgrade your plan, wait for your credits to refresh, or buy top-up credits on Pro, then continue building the remaining slides.
While the agent works on a reply, a Stop icon appears. Click it to end the reply at the next safe point. Napkin keeps what is already done. If you type a message in the meantime, it waits in the chat with the note "Sends when the agent finishes". Click Send now to send it right away, which stops the agent. Click the Remove (x) icon to take it back. These controls are not shown while Napkin builds slides.
If a slide gets stuck, or does not turn out the way you expected, see Troubleshooting Common Issues. It covers simple fixes for common problems.
Once your presentation is built, you can edit its text, layout, and other supported elements. Images and parts included in an Effect are not individually editable. See Editing Your Presentation to learn how to change the text and layout of your slides. See Applying Your Brand to learn how to change the style or colors of the presentation.