AI design and brand guidelines for small businesses
You run the business; the posts still need doing. Keep your logo, colours and fonts in one place with Melon Cut Guidelines, then describe what you need in Melon Cut Design and get posts, product photos and short videos that look like your brand.
- pictures from one prompt
- 4
- posts sized for the feed
- 1080 × 1350
- brands on the Guidelines Free plan
- 10
Sounds familiar?
- No designer, and no time to learn design software
- A logo file lost somewhere in an old email thread
- Running out of ideas for what to post this week
- Product photos taken on a phone, on a cluttered table
What you can make
- An opening-hours post in your colours, with your real logo in the corner
- A phone photo of a product turned into a clean packshot on your brand colour
- A post for a day worth marking this month, picked from What's coming up
- A short vertical video announcing a new service
- Your logo, colours and fonts on one page for the print shop making your flyers
How small businesses use Melon Cut
Put your brand in one place
Add your logo, colours and fonts in Melon Cut Guidelines. The Free plan keeps private guidelines for up to 10 brands.
Describe what you need
In Melon Cut Design, write the post in plain words and add your brand's @username. Design needs a paid plan; see the pricing page.
Check and download
Press Check for social media, fix anything it flags, and download.
Start with your brand
Most small businesses have a logo and a couple of colours, but nothing written down. Melon Cut Guidelines gives them a home: your logo files, colour codes, fonts and a few rules, at one link you can send to a printer, a sign maker or a freelancer.
The Free plan covers private guidelines for up to 10 brands and works with Melon Cut Design. Public guidelines at your own address come with a paid plan.
Content without a designer
Describe a post the way you would to a friend - "a post for our new lemon cake, bright and summery" - and get up to 4 options. The studio shows what a run costs before it starts, and each result shows the credits it used.
Phone photos can be cleaned up too. Remove a cluttered background, place the product on your brand colour, or sharpen its details.
Ideas when you are stuck
What's coming up lists international and Lebanese days worth posting about. Add one to your prompt and the post is half written.
The features they use most
- Brand guidelines Brand guidelines maker Build guidelines on the page itself, on the web or in the apps.
- Social media Social media post generator Feed posts at 1080 × 1350, made inside the safe area.
- Edit images Product photo generator Clean, centred packshots on the background colour you pick.
- Create images Holiday content calendar More than 70 international and Lebanese days, one click from a post.
- Edit images Logo watermark Your logo in 9 positions, sized and faded as you choose.
Is Melon Cut free for small businesses?
Melon Cut Guidelines has a Free plan with private guidelines for up to 10 brands. Melon Cut Design needs a paid plan - there is no free plan for Design - and prices are on the pricing page.
Do I need design skills?
No. You describe what you want in plain words, and edits such as removing a background are a single step.
People also ask
- Getting started Is Melon Cut free? Partly. Melon Cut Guidelines has a Free plan: you can keep private draft guidelines for up to 10 brands and use them with Melon Cut Design. Paid Guidelines plans, priced per brand, add public guidelines and a custom username and address. Melon Cut Design, the AI studio, needs a paid plan; every plan has every feature and differs only in monthly credits.
- Getting started 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 Melon Cut Design you describe it in words, and the sizes, safe areas and your brand's look are handled for you.
- Getting started 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.
Make this week's content today
Posts, product photos and videos without a designer.