No prompt box, no generated images, no AI fill. Open a layered poster template, set your own type, and export for print.
Each one opens as editable layers: real text, vector shapes and image frames. Move anything, change the type, swap in your own photo.
Search for a poster maker today and most results are prompt boxes that hand you a picture you cannot really edit. Bitgrain goes the other way. There is no generative AI anywhere in it. You start from a layered layout and every decision on the page is yours.
Bitgrain has no text to image, no prompt box, no AI fill, no AI copywriting and no generated backgrounds. Nothing on your poster is invented by a model.
One honest caveat: the background remover in the photo editor uses a small machine learning model that runs on your device to find the edge of a subject. It does not create anything, it only cuts out what is already in your photo, and you never have to use it.
Every effect, from halftone and dither to risograph and film grain, is a classical image processing algorithm. The same settings give the same pixels every time.
Venues, galleries and festivals increasingly ask whether artwork is AI generated, and some competitions and publishers will not accept it. A poster built from layers, with type you set and photos you took, has a clear answer.
There is also the practical side. A generated image arrives as flat pixels with garbled text. A layered poster lets you fix a typo in the date, move the lineup up five pixels, or make an A3 and a square version from the same file.
Start with the hierarchy. One thing should be loudest, usually the event name or the headliner, then the date, then the venue, then everything else. The templates above are built that way, so keep the structure and change the words.
Use your own photograph if you have one. Run it through a halftone or riso effect in the photo editor and it will sit on the page like printed ink rather than a pasted snapshot.
Keep to two typefaces and two or three colours. Most posters that feel designed are restrained, not busy.
A3 and A2 are the common print sizes for gig and event posters, and 18 by 24 inches is common with US printers. For Instagram, 1080 by 1350 is the portrait size that takes the most room in the feed, and 1080 by 1920 works for stories.
Export PDF for the printer, PNG or JPG for social. Use Resize in the studio to make the other formats from the same poster.
There is no generative AI. The only machine learning is an optional on-device background remover in the photo editor, which cuts out a subject and creates nothing new.
Yes, to use. Every template and effect works on the free plan, with exports up to 1080 pixels and a small watermark. Pro exports at full resolution for print.
Yes. Add your own photos, logos and illustrations to any template, or start from a blank page.
Yes. The studio includes fonts for Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gurmukhi and Urdu, as well as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Thai and Hebrew.