Getting Started

Install Magerie, paint a first stroke, meet the board.

Magerie is all of 2D on one infinite board. Paint like Procreate. Wire effects like a node editor. Lay out vector Frames. Cut video on a timeline. Everything feeds everything else, live.

Install#

Magerie is coming to Steam Early Access. If you already own a licence, the download is on your account page.

  • macOS: open the .dmg, drag Magerie to Applications. macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon.
  • Windows: run the .exe. Windows 11, x64. SmartScreen may warn on a new app: click More info, then Run anyway.

Your first stroke#

  1. Press Tab. The Omni menu opens.
  2. Type "image", pick Image. That is your canvas.
  3. With it selected, press B.
  4. Paint.

[ and ] size the brush. Cmd/Ctrl + Z undoes.

Paint on anything#

Every canvas is a node. Wire it into a blur, a color adjustment, any effect, and the result updates as you paint. Paint on a canvas anywhere in the chain and the change flows downstream. Nothing is final until you export.

That is the whole idea: painting and effects on the same board, reacting to each other.

Day-one shortcuts#

Action Shortcut
Omni menu (add anything) Tab
Brush / Eraser / Smudge B / E / S
Brush size [ / ]
Undo / Redo Cmd/Ctrl + Z / Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Z
Zoom to selection F
Group into a subgraph (Pointer, V) Cmd/Ctrl + G

Full list: Keyboard Shortcuts. Remap any of them in Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts.

Where to next#