Frames & Artboards
Lega documents can hold multiple frames — independent artboards for a whole campaign's worth of formats in one project. Here's how creating, arranging, and exporting per-frame works.
Real design work is rarely one image. A social campaign needs a feed post, a story, and maybe a banner. A pitch deck needs a dozen slides that share a visual language but differ in content. Lega handles this with frames: independent artboards that live together inside a single project, so you're not juggling separate files for what is, conceptually, one piece of work.
What a frame is
A frame is an artboard — a fixed-size canvas region with its own layers, its own background, and its own layout. Every layer you create belongs to exactly one frame. A single Lega document can hold as many frames as you need, and they sit side by side on the same infinite canvas, so you can pan between them, compare them visually, and work on one while glancing at another.
This is different from a tool that only ever gives you one canvas per file. In Lega, "a project" and "a single image" aren't the same concept — a project is a workspace that can contain an entire campaign's worth of formats.
Creating and arranging frames
New frames are added directly on the canvas — you're not switching into a separate "pages" mode or a different part of the UI. Because frames are positioned in the same coordinate space, you can lay them out however makes sense for how you think about the work: a row of variants for the same post, a grid of slides in deck order, or a loose cluster of exploratory options.
Arrangement is purely visual and doesn't affect anything functional — frame order in space has no bearing on generation, export, or how the AI treats them. Use it for whatever helps you navigate: keeping related sizes near each other, or grouping a campaign's formats so you can eyeball consistency at a glance.
Each frame can be generated, edited, and regenerated independently. Asking the AI to generate a new version of one frame doesn't touch the others, so you can iterate on a single format — say, resizing your feed post's headline treatment for a story — without disturbing everything else in the project.
Viewport controls for multi-frame work
Working across several frames means moving between "focus on one" and "see everything" fairly often. Lega's viewport controls are built around that: you can reset zoom to fit the frame you're actively working in, or fit the whole canvas so every frame in the project is visible at once. That second view is the one worth using regularly in multi-frame projects — it's the fastest way to spot a frame whose sizing, spacing, or color treatment has drifted from the rest.
Why multiple frames instead of multiple files
Keeping a campaign's formats in one project instead of scattered across separate files has a real practical payoff: shared context. If you're refining copy, adjusting a color, or swapping an asset across a set of related pieces, having them all reachable in one place means less round-tripping between files and less risk of one format quietly falling out of sync with the rest. It also means your project history — see Undo/Redo & History — covers the whole campaign, not just whichever single artboard happens to be open.
Exporting from a multi-frame project
Frames export independently. When you're ready to ship, you choose which frame (or frames) to export and in what format — you're not forced to export the entire project as one flattened output. This is covered in detail in Exporting Your Design, including format options, resolution, and what changes if you're on a free tier.
Getting started with frames
If you're setting up a project for the first time, the fastest way to get a feel for frames is to walk through Creating Your First Design, which covers generating your first frame end to end. Once you're comfortable with a single frame, adding a second — say, a story-sized variant of a post you've already built — is the natural next step, and it's exactly the same "add a frame, generate or build into it" workflow repeated.
For a worked example of using frames for a specific format, see How to Design an Instagram Carousel with AI, which walks through building a multi-slide carousel as a set of frames in one project.