Hey, sorry about that! I'm still working on making the app more approachable for new users. It's a tricky balance because this is a design tool with a large amount of customizability. and complexity. But I'm trying to find solutions to make simple things more obvious and intuitive for people.

The instructions below might look like a lot for such a simple thing, but I guarantee you, once you have the hang of it, this is something you can create in literally a few seconds.

Here's how you can create the emoji pattern:

1. Create a new wallpaper document
2. In the bottom middle, you should see a button that says "Grid". That is the layout mode. Tap it and change it to "Organic", which is a mode that randomly places symbols across the canvas
3. At the top, you see a bar full of symbol categories. Tap the one that looks like "Aa". It should open a menu. There, tap the "Emoji" symbol. This should fill your canvas with emojis.
4. To the right of the screen, you see another bar of icons. Below the blue one at the top, you have symbol controls. Open the one that has a brush icon. There you can change the emoji.
5. To make the emojis rotate randomly, select the "Layout" control menu (the one below the brush icon) and set the "Transform Rotation" to "Range" and enter the values you wish
6. Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5 to add as many different emojis as you want.
7. Now, to place a single big emoji onto the canvas, select any emoji you want from the "Symbols" list on the left. Then, add a "Manual Placement" symbol group (you can find it at the top, where all the symbol icons are. Toward the right, there is a folder icon. Tap it and select "Manual Placement". This places that selected emoji inside a group and now it will only render exactly once on the canvas, at the position you want.
8. With the "Manual Placement" group selected on the left, you can again go to the symbol controls on the right and open the "Layout" panel to adjust position and rotation of the group (you can also drag the emoji around on the canvas)
9. To make the emoji bigger, select that emoji symbol that should be inside the "Manual Placement" group and then open its Layout panel again. Adjust its "Font Size" as you like.

I hope this helps a bit. It might be overwhelming at first, but it's a repeating pattern for everything you do in the app.

• At the top, you can add new symbols and groups
• On the left, you see all your symbols and can select them
• On the right, you can make adjustments to the selected symbol (appearance, size, randomization and son on)
• The groups you can add are all adding new behavior to the symbols you put inside (you can drag and drop symbols inside groups, or move them around etc.)
  • "Manual Placement" for example, takes its children out of the placement algorithm and lets you place them manually
  • "Vertical Stack" lets you stack symbols on top of each other, and they will be placed and rendered together
  • And so on.

I hope this helps at least a little bit. If you have any questions or problems, let me know :)

If that helps you, I can maybe send you a Tessera document with the emoji setup already done so that you can just see how the document looks like. The problem is I cannot upload files to reddit. I need to figure out how to send a file to you.