# Rebrand a deck

Rebrand takes a slide deck someone else made and moves it onto your design system. It reads every slide, works out what each object on it is, and proposes each slide again on your design system's own layouts, in its colours and its typeface. Nothing is final until you decide: every change is a suggestion you can see, compare and answer before anything is written.

Rebrand works on your device. The deck is read here and is not uploaded, and the original file is never changed.

## Two ways to rebrand

Rebrand offers two modes, and you choose one before you open a deck.

| Mode | What it does | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| **Renovate the layout** | Rebuilds each slide on your design system's slide master: its layouts, colours, typeface and marks. | The deck should look like it was made in your design system from the start. |
| **Keep the design** | Keeps every slide where it is and swaps in your theme, colours and fonts. | The layout is fine and only the look needs to change. |

Most of this page is about Renovate the layout, because that is where the review happens. [Keep the design](#keep-the-design) has its own section at the end.

## Try it with the sample deck

Open **Rebrand** from **Utilities**. The first screen asks for a deck, and says which design system it will go into.

![The Rebrand screen before a deck is chosen: the mode, the drop area with Choose a deck, and the link to the sample deck.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand&width=1440&height=900&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-intake&waitSelector=.rb-drop&cropSelector=.rb-intake-inner&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D)

No deck to hand? Choose **No deck to hand? Try the sample deck**. It opens a made-up deck, a night market's review of its season, in its own old colours, fonts and lantern logo. The screenshots on this page all use it, so you can follow along step by step.

## Open your own deck

There are three ways in:

- Choose **Choose a deck** on the Rebrand screen and pick a `.pptx` or PDF file. You can pick several at once, and they are read one after another.
- Drop a deck anywhere in Lolly and choose **Rebrand** from the choices that appear.
- Open a `.lolly` file that holds a Rebrand project, and choose **Open in Rebrand**.

While the deck is read, a line says what is happening, for example "Reading slide 12 of 30", and the slides fill in underneath. A 30-slide deck takes about five seconds.

If your design system has no slide master of its own, the Rebrand screen adds "with the neutral slide master" and the deck goes onto a plain one instead. [The Brand Studio](/info/brand-studio.html) is where a design system gets its masters, logos, colours and fonts.

## The review screen

When the deck is read, the review screen opens.

![The review screen with the sample deck: the review list on the left, the proposed slide in the middle with the original above it, the decision panel on the right and the slides along the bottom.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand%3Fsample%3Dharbourside-night-market&width=1440&height=900&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-review&try=1&waitSelector=.rb%5Bdata-drawn%5D&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D)

It has five parts:

1. **The review list**, on the left: the things Rebrand wants you to look at, one card each.
2. **The slide**, in the middle: the **Proposed** slide, large, with the **Original** small above it.
3. **The decision panel**, on the right: what you can do with whatever is selected.
4. **The filmstrip**, along the bottom: every slide in the deck, in order.
5. **The footer**: how many slides and cards are left, the **Report**, **Accept all suggestions** and **Open in Design**.

### Suggestions and decisions

The Proposed slide already shows every suggestion applied, so you can see where the deck is heading before you change anything. A suggestion is not a decision. Nothing leaves Rebrand until you have answered each card, or chosen **Accept all suggestions** to take them all as shown.

Every change you make is answered with **Undo**, next to the counts in the footer and in the top bar.

## Work through the review list

![The review list for the sample deck, grouped into Needs attention, Suggestions and Layouts.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand%3Fsample%3Dharbourside-night-market&width=1440&height=900&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-queue&try=1&waitSelector=.rb%5Bdata-drawn%5D&cropSelector=.rb-queue&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D)

A card stands for one kind of object across the deck, so you answer the old logo once rather than on every slide: "Replace marks on 8 slides". The list has three groups:

- **Needs attention**: something Rebrand is unsure of, or something that needs your choice, such as what should replace the old logo.
- **Suggestions**: what Rebrand proposes for everything else, such as removing the old page decoration.
- **Layouts**: the layout Rebrand suggests for slides whose shape it recognised. **Match** applies them all at once.

Each card is in one of three states: **Needs attention**, **Not reviewed** or **Accepted**. The tabs at the top switch between **To review**, **All slides** and **Removed**, which lists everything taken out so you can keep it after all.

## Compare the original and the proposed slide

![The sample's second slide shown Both ways: the original deck's slide beside the proposed one in the design system.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand%3Fsample%3Dharbourside-night-market&width=1440&height=640&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-compare&try=1&waitSelector=.rb%5Bdata-drawn%5D&drive=click%3A.rb-cmp-seg%20%5Bdata-side%3D%22both%22%5D%3Bwait%3A1200&cropSelector=.rb-compare&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D)

Choose **Original**, **Proposed** or **Both** above the slide. To glance back at the original without changing the view, hold the slide, or hold the backslash key (\\).

Click any object on the slide to decide on it. The caption under the slide gives the layout in use and points out anything to check, such as text that no longer fits its box.

## Decide on an object

![The decision panel for the old logo: Keep, Replace or Remove, and whether to apply the choice to all eight marks or only this one.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand%3Fsample%3Dharbourside-night-market&width=1440&height=900&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-decide&try=1&waitSelector=.rb%5Bdata-drawn%5D&cropSelector=.rb-decide&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D)

The decision panel's heading says what is selected, such as "Mark on slide 2" or "Slide 3 of 9". Under **Decision**:

- **Keep**, **Replace** or **Remove** the object.
- **Replace** offers what to put in its place: **Use the design system mark**, **Choose a picture** or **Add a labelled stand-in**, and for a photo **Treat with Filter** or **Treat with Darkroom**.
- **Apply to** chooses between every object of this kind in the deck and only this one. Objects you have changed by hand keep your change unless you tick the box that includes them.

If Rebrand read some text and is unsure of it, a **Text** field shows what it read, so you can correct it.

Further down the panel:

- **Objects** lists everything on the slide and what will happen to each one.
- **Colours** shows each colour the deck used, grouped by what it does (backgrounds, text, accents, chart series), and the design system colour it becomes. Change any of them, lock one, or choose **Shuffle** for another arrangement.
- **Fonts** shows which typeface replaces each of the deck's.
- **Background** sets this slide, or the selected slides, to Light, Dark or Brand colour.

## Choose a layout for a slide

![The layout chooser for the sample's third slide, with its three cards: the layouts that fit it first, then every layout by kind.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand%3Fsample%3Dharbourside-night-market&width=1440&height=900&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-layouts&try=1&waitSelector=.rb%5Bdata-drawn%5D&drive=click%3A.rb-thumb%3Anth-of-type%283%29%7Cat%3D0.5%2C0.3%3Bwait%3A900%3Bclick%3A.rb-decide%20%5Bdata-act%3D%22change-layout%22%5D%3Bwait%3A1200&cropSelector=.rb-lc-pop&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D.arch-groups%7Bbackground%3Anone%21important%7D)

Choose **Change layout** in the decision panel, or the layout name on a slide in the filmstrip. The chooser shows:

- **This slide**: the current layout, the one Rebrand suggests, others that also fit, **Original arrangement** (everything stays where it was, in the design system's colours and typeface) and **Keep as a picture** (the slide stays exactly as it was, as one picture).
- Every other layout, grouped as **Titles**, **Text**, **Boxes**, **Pictures**, **Data** and **Steps and lists**.
- **Search layouts**: type what you want, such as "4 boxes" or "two content".

Point at a layout to preview it on the slide; click to use it. A switch counts the other slides of the same shape, for example **Also the 2 slides like this one**, and applies your choice to them too. **Match** proposes a layout for every slide Rebrand recognised in one step, and never changes a layout you chose yourself.

A slide with more than its new layout holds continues onto another slide. The caption then reads "Part 1 of 2", and the report lists what moved.

## Pick a deck theme

![The deck theme choices, each drawn with the sample's first slide: Light and Dark, then the design system's looks.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand%3Fsample%3Dharbourside-night-market&width=1440&height=900&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-theme&try=1&waitSelector=.rb%5Bdata-drawn%5D&drive=click%3A.rb-theme-btn%3Bwait%3A2500&cropSelector=.rb-theme-pop&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D)

The theme button in the top bar shows the deck's colours. Open it to choose **Light** or **Dark** for the whole deck, **Brand colour** where the design system has one, or one of its **Looks**. Each choice is drawn with your own first slide. If a theme would make some text hard to read, the choice warns you before you apply it, and **Background** in the decision panel changes a single slide.

## Arrange the slides

![The filmstrip of the sample deck: nine slides in order, the second one selected.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand%3Fsample%3Dharbourside-night-market&width=1440&height=900&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-filmstrip&try=1&waitSelector=.rb%5Bdata-drawn%5D&cropSelector=.rb-strip&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D)

The filmstrip is the deck in order. Drag a slide to move it. Its menu (the three dots, or Shift+F10) offers **Change layout**, **Leave out** or **Include**, **Move earlier**, **Move later**, **Move to position**, **Reset slide** and **Open in Design**. **Select several** lets you change or move many slides together.

A slide you leave out is not deleted: it stays in the project, and **Include** brings it back.

Press **?** to see every keyboard shortcut. The ones you will use most:

| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Arrow keys, K and J | Previous and next slide |
| Shift and an arrow | Select more slides |
| Alt and an arrow | Move the slide one place |
| L | Change the layout |
| \\ | Hold to show the Original |
| Ctrl or Cmd and Z | Undo |
| Esc | Back to one slide |

## Finish in Design

![The Rebrand report for the sample deck: what was removed, what was placed, and the counts.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand%3Fsample%3Dharbourside-night-market&width=1440&height=900&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-report&try=1&waitSelector=.rb%5Bdata-drawn%5D&drive=click%3A.rb-foot-report%3Bwait%3A1000&cropSelector=.rb-report-sheet&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D)

When the review list is empty, **Open in Design** turns into the main button. If cards are still waiting, Rebrand asks whether to accept them as proposed first. Choosing **Accept all suggestions** beforehand does the same in one step, and **Undo** takes it back.

**Open in Design** opens the result as a new Design document, one artboard per slide, where you can edit anything further and export it as PowerPoint, PDF or pictures. Opening it again later makes a new revision; the first one is never overwritten.

![The sample deck opened in Design, each slide an artboard on the design system's slide master.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand%3Fsample%3Dharbourside-night-market&width=1440&height=900&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&chrome=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-in-design&waitSelector=.rb%5Bdata-drawn%5D&drive=click%3A.rb-foot-open%3Bwait%3A900%3Bclick%3A.modal%20%5Bdata-act%3D%22ok%22%5D%3Bwait%3A9000%3Bclick%3Atext%3DLanterns%20on%20the%20pier%3Bwait%3A600%3Bpress%3A%3D%3Bwait%3A300%3Bpress%3A%3D%3Bwait%3A300%3Bpress%3A%3D%3Bwait%3A300%3Bpress%3A%3D%3Bwait%3A600%3Bpress%3AEscape%3Bwait%3A1500&cropSelector=.tool-stage&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D.fc-ruler%2C.fc-ruler-corner%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D%5Bdata-box-id%5E%3D%22r.ppt-slides-slide1.xml%22%5D%2C%5Bdata-box-id%5E%3D%22r.ppt-slides-slide2.xml%22%5D%2C%5Bdata-box-id%5E%3D%22r.ppt-slides-slide8.xml%22%5D%2C%5Bdata-box-id%5E%3D%22r.ppt-slides-slide9.xml%22%5D%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D)

The **Report**, in the footer, accounts for every object in the original deck: the objects removed, anything not placed or not drawn, the layouts used and the counts for the rest. Anything Rebrand could not place on a slide is listed under **Not placed**, and waits on its own artboard in Design so nothing is lost.

## Keep the design

![Keep the design with the sample deck: the result large, the original inset, and Download .pptx beside it.](/t/url-shot?url=%2F%23%2Frebrand%3Fmode%3Dkeep%26sample%3Dharbourside-night-market&width=1440&height=900&dpi=96&waitMs=600&format=svg&walker=1&rasterDpi=96&filename=rebrand-keep&try=1&waitSelector=.rb-keep-layout%5Bdata-status%3D%22ready%22%5D&css=.float-cluster%7Bdisplay%3Anone%21important%7D)

Choose **Keep the design** on the Rebrand screen, or switch to it in the top bar. Rebrand swaps the theme, colours and fonts and says what it changed, for example "Changed 5 theme colours, 4 slide colours and 2 fonts". Compare the result with **Original**, **Result**, **Both** or **Wipe**, then choose **Download .pptx**, or **Open the result in Design**.

Keep the design works on PowerPoint files. A PDF cannot take this path, so open it with Renovate the layout.

## Decks made of pictures

Some decks are pictures of slides rather than slides: a scanned PDF, or a PowerPoint file with one picture per slide. Rebrand tells you ("All 15 slides are pictures") and offers **Read the text**, which recognises the text on each picture and rebuilds the slide from it, or **Keep as pictures**.

Reading the text uses a text recognition model on your device. The first time, Rebrand offers to download it and says how large it is; the download sends nothing from your deck. The rebuilt slides are marked "Rebuilt from pictures" in the review list, so you can check each one before it goes to Design.

## Your projects

Every deck you open becomes a project, saved on this device. **Recent projects** on the Rebrand screen reopens one where you left it, with every decision you made. To move a project to another device, choose **Download .lolly** from the project menu (the three dots in the top bar) and open that file there.

## From the command line

The same stages run from the command line and from AI agents: `lolly rebrand plan`, `compile` and `inspect`. See [Rebrand: renovate an old deck](/info/cli.html#rebrand-renovate-an-old-deck) in the CLI guide.

## Words you will see

| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Suggestion | What Rebrand would do with an object. Shown on the Proposed slide, but not final until you accept it. |
| Card | One entry in the review list. A card can stand for the same kind of object on many slides. |
| Needs attention | Rebrand is unsure, or needs your choice before it can go on. |
| Slide master | The set of layouts, colours and furniture a design system gives its slides. |
| Original arrangement | The slide's objects stay where they were, in the design system's colours and typeface. |
| Keep as a picture | The slide stays exactly as it was, as one picture. |
| Left out | A slide that will not go to Design. It is not deleted, and Include brings it back. |
| Not placed | Content that fits no layout. It goes to its own artboard in Design. |

## Good to know

- Rebrand reads `.pptx` and PDF files. A deck from Keynote or Google Slides works once it is exported as PowerPoint.
- Its suggestions, layout matches and recognised text are its best reading of the deck, not a guarantee. The review is there so you can check them, and the report shows every outcome.
- The original file is never changed, and deleting a project leaves the file alone.