How three design sizes and Sermon Kit exports work

Church Media Kit Studio has three post sizes: 1080×1350 (4:5 portrait), 1080×1080 (1:1 square) and 1080×1920 (9:16 story). A Sermon Kit is the saved set of editable designs, captions and posting guidance made from one sermon. Each page in it is one design in one size. A page is not converted into the other two sizes for you, so you check each size you plan to post.

When you press Export, you pick a file type and which pages to download. One page downloads as one image. Two or more pages download as one ZIP of images. The export contains images only: no captions, hashtags or alt text, and nothing is posted for you. The design editor and its downloads are free with any account, and paid plans start at US$29.95 a month; see the pricing page for current terms and the Studio feature page for the editor.

The three design sizes

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These are the sizes of the design page in the editor. The Export dialog shows the pixel size of the file it will make, and you can raise or lower it with a scale slider, so open the downloaded file and check its size before uploading.

Feed portrait at 1080×1350

The 4:5 size gives a static design more vertical room than a square. That extra room can help a sermon quote, a short teaching point, or an announcement breathe without forcing every element into a compact block.

It also creates more room for a bad crop. A wide source photo may lose the subject at one side when it is placed in a portrait frame. A long quotation may fit inside the editor but become tiring on a phone. A heading that looks balanced at desktop scale may wrap into an awkward stack when viewed small.

Review the crop and the words together. If the image has a face, gesture, pulpit, scripture reference, or another meaningful detail, make sure the portrait composition keeps it.

Then reduce the page to about the size it will occupy on a phone. If a volunteer has to zoom in to check the sentence, the design is not ready.

Square at 1080×1080

The 1:1 size is useful when a balanced, compact composition fits the message. It can work for a brief quotation, a simple invitation, or a single teaching idea. It is also a useful fallback when a destination or downstream workflow expects a square asset.

Square is not a universal safe format. A destination may show a different profile-grid crop, add interface controls, or give portrait content more room in the feed. The same photograph may need a new focal point when moving from 4:5 to 1:1. The same copy may need fewer words or a different line break.

Do not treat the square page as a centre crop of the portrait page unless someone has inspected the result. The meaningful part of a photograph can sit near an edge. A scripture reference can disappear below a crop. A carousel marker can land where a platform places its own icon.

Story graphic at 1080×1920

The 9:16 size is a tall static graphic, not a video. Its shape alone does not prove that a destination accepts the file or publishes it as intended.

Keeping essential words away from the top and bottom edges is a sensible starting point, because apps place their own controls there. Before posting, open the current preview for the actual destination on a phone. Check whether its interface covers any text, logo, face, or call to action, then adjust the design to match what the preview shows.

Does one design automatically become all three sizes?

No. Treat each size as its own page.

A layout that works at 1080×1350 does not become a good 1080×1080 or 1080×1920 layout just because the boundary changes. The image may need a new crop. The heading may need a new position. A long quotation may need a shorter excerpt. Decorative elements that frame a square can leave a story graphic feeling empty. Elements near the bottom of a story can collide with destination controls.

So the practical question is not "does it have three sizes?" It is whether your team can review the pages it needs in each size. Check this on your own design before you rely on it.

What Export downloads

Export opens a dialog with two choices: which pages, and which file type.

The dialog also offers two PDF types for print (PDF Print and PDF Copier). They suit paper handouts and bulletins, not social posts, so this guide leaves them out.

Choose JPG or PNG

JPG is labelled "Best for sharing" and has a Low, Medium or High quality setting. PNG is labelled "Best for complex images, illustrations". PNG also lets you turn on a transparent background, but not when a page has a background image. The dialog marks one type as "Suggested" based on the pages you select. A teammate who last week downloaded a JPG may see PNG suggested this week for a different page. Both are valid, so make the choice on purpose.

Choose the pages

The page selector starts with all pages selected. You can narrow it to the current page, tick individual pages, or type a page range. Selection is still a publishing decision. If a seven-page kit contains five approved pages, export those five. Do not include a page merely because it was selected by default. A page that is still loading or marked as needing review cannot be exported until it is ready, and the dialog tells you how many selected pages are held back.

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What the ZIP contains

The ZIP holds one image per selected page and nothing else. It does not include a posting plan, captions, hashtags, alternative-text files, folders grouped by post, a PDF, an SVG, a PSD, video, or an editable source document.

Review sequence before download

A clean export can preserve a bad decision perfectly. Review the content and order before pressing Export.

Start with the source. Compare direct quotations with the authorized sermon source. Check enough surrounding context to know whether the excerpt keeps the speaker's point. Remove quotation marks from a paraphrase. Verify scripture references, names, dates, service times, event details, and calls to action against a current source.

Then read multi-page content in order. A teaching carousel may fail if page three assumes that page two was included. A final invitation may make no sense without the preceding explanation. Check the selected set, not merely the full document.

Next, inspect each page as a design in its own right. Check the image crop, text fit, contrast, spacing, and reading order. Passing a contrast ratio does not make a dense graphic readable, so use the expected phone size and ask a second person to read it without coaching.

If a page shows a photo of a child or youth, confirm your church's permission practice first. Keep full names, schools and locations out of the caption and alt text.

Finally, decide where the file is going. Feed, profile grid, Story, scheduled composer, and direct upload can show different previews, and platforms change them over time. The destination preview is the last useful place to catch a crop or interface collision before a post goes live.

Check the downloaded files before handoff

Treat export as the start of a file check, not the end of approval.

For a JPG or PNG, open the downloaded image outside the editor. Confirm that the expected page appears, the whole design is present, the correct font rendered, remote or uploaded images loaded, and no selection handles appear. Zoom out to phone size and zoom in enough to spot a missing glyph or broken image.

For a ZIP, extract it and count the images. Compare that count with the pages you selected. Open the first, last, and any page with a complex image or unusual font. Then check the order in which the receiving teammate or destination will use them.

Keep the final caption, hashtags, and alternative text with the handoff in your church's approved system. They are not in the downloaded images. Facebook, for example, lets a publisher add alternative text while editing a photo. W3C's image guidance explains how the image's purpose should shape that description. The person posting the file needs to add and verify the final destination fields.

A five-minute test you can run yourself

Bring one ordinary authorized sermon graphic and a photo your team is allowed to use. Sign up for a free account (see the pricing page) and open Studio; the editor and downloads cost nothing.

1. Make or open one 4:5 feed-portrait page, one 1:1 square page, and one 9:16 story page.
2. Replace the headline with a realistic phrase from your church. Watch the line breaks in all three.
3. Replace the image with your own. Inspect the focal point in each size.
4. Export one page as JPG and open the file.
5. Export the same page as PNG and compare it.
6. Select two or more pages, export, open the ZIP, and confirm that it holds one image per selected page.
7. Preview the files in the real destinations and devices your church uses.

This test will not prove reliability across every design, browser, or platform. It will answer the practical question: can your team review the pages and hand off the files without guessing?

Who this fits

The export workflow may fit a church that wants sermon designs in a small set of known sizes, can review each size, and can add captions and accessibility details in its own publishing process. The editor and its downloads are free with any account. Paid plans (Starter US$29.95, Growth US$59 and Volume US$119 a month) differ by Seats and by what the other apps include; check pricing for current terms.

It is a poor fit if the church requires automatic conversion between every size, editable source files, a metadata-rich delivery package, or direct publishing from the same export action. It is also a poor fit if the team expects the software to approve crop, theology, source fidelity, readability, or pastoral judgment.

Quick answers

What are the three design sizes?

Feed portrait is 1080×1350 at 4:5. Square is 1080×1080 at 1:1. Story graphic is 1080×1920 at 9:16.

What file types can I download?

JPG and PNG images, plus two PDF types for print. One selected page downloads as one file. Two or more selected pages download as one ZIP of images.

Does the ZIP include captions, hashtags, alt text, or a posting plan?

No. The ZIP contains the selected images only. Add and verify the other publishing material through your church's approved handoff and destination workflow.

Does Church Media Kit automatically convert every design into all three sizes?

No. Treat the sizes as separate pages and review each one.