# Drafts and Go Live > Picking windows starts a draft only you can see. Arrange it, then Go Live to open Curtains Presenter. Source: https://curtains.app/help/drafts-and-go-live/ Picking a window starts a draft, a private preview of your canvas, and nothing is shared until you click **Go Live**. ## Start a draft In **Sources**, click a window. That's all it takes. The window appears on the stage, and the stage bar says **Not shared yet**. Keep clicking to add more windows, in the order you want them on the canvas, and click a picked window to take it off. *Image: Sources in a draft, with three windows picked and numbered 1 to 3. The footer reads “3 of 6 picked, not shared yet” with a Clear button.* The footer of Sources counts your picks: **3 of 6 picked, not shared yet**. The limit is your plan's: Free shares up to two windows, and Pro, Lifetime, Pro for teams and the 14-day trial share up to six. At the limit the other windows can't be picked until you take one off. See [Plans](https://curtains.app/help/plans/). ## What a draft is A draft is Studio's private stage: - Only you see it. There's no Curtains Presenter window yet, so nothing is listed in a meeting app or visible to anyone else. - Only the windows you picked are captured, and only to draw your preview. - The status line says **Not shared yet: only you see this preview**. - The preview's title bar shows no **LIVE** mark, since you aren't. - Each picked window gets a gray outline and a tab on your desktop that says **Not shared yet**. *Illustration: A picked Google Chrome window on the desktop, outlined in gray, with a gray tab on its top-left corner reading Google Chrome, then Not shared yet.* ## Set it up in private Do everything you'd do while presenting, with no one watching: - Choose a layout and arrange the windows. See [Layouts](https://curtains.app/help/layouts/) and [Rearrange windows](https://curtains.app/help/rearrange-windows/). - Focus a window. See [Focus](https://curtains.app/help/focus/). - Fit your real windows to their cells. See [Fit and resize windows](https://curtains.app/help/fit-and-resize-windows/). - Blur parts of a window, or the whole window. See [Blur and hide](https://curtains.app/help/blur-and-hide/). - Draw to try the tools. See [Draw on your windows](https://curtains.app/help/draw-on-your-windows/). - Pick a theme. See [Themes and custom backgrounds](https://curtains.app/help/themes-and-custom-backgrounds/). - Save what you have as a combo. See [Combos](https://curtains.app/help/combos/). Whatever you set is what viewers see the moment you go Live. ## Prepare a window If a window has something you need to hide, use **Prepare** so it's added blurred from its very first frame. Option-click the window in Sources, or hover over its row and click **Prepare**. Studio's preview shows the window blurred with a **Reveal** button on it; click **Reveal** when you're ready for viewers to see it. *Image: The preview of a draft with the Figma window prepared: it's blurred, with an eye-with-a-slash icon and a Reveal button on it. Two other windows show normally.* This is not the same as **Hide from this list**, which only moves an app out of Sources. **Prepare** adds the window, blurred. See [Apps in Sources](https://curtains.app/help/hidden-apps/). ## Go Live When the preview looks right, click **Go Live** at the top right of the stage. You can also choose **Go Live** from the menu bar icon. Keyboard shortcuts never take you Live from a draft: the Live / Paused shortcut does nothing until you've gone Live, so a stray key can't put your windows in front of viewers. ## What changes when you go Live In one step, the draft becomes the session exactly as you arranged it: windows, order, layout, focus, blur, drawing and theme. - **Curtains Presenter opens** behind Studio. It's Live at once, with every blur already applied. If Curtains Presenter was already waiting for your call, that same window is used. - **The stage bar changes** to the **Live** / **Paused** switch with **End**. The status line says **Live: viewers see this preview**. - **The panel on the right folds away** to give the stage room. Open it from the rail any time; it stays open until the next time you go Live. - **The outlines change from gray to your accent color**, green by default, and each tab says **Live**. *Image: Studio just after Go Live. The stage bar shows a Live button, Paused and End. The preview shows three windows on a green canvas with a LIVE mark in its title bar. The panel on the right is folded away, and the status line reads “Live: viewers see this preview” with a reminder to share the window named Curtains Presenter.* Going Live from a draft is always Live, even with **Start Paused** on. That setting is for sessions that start another way, such as from a combo or at login, which begin Paused so you can check them first. See [Live, Paused and End](https://curtains.app/help/live-paused-and-end/). Then, in your meeting app, share **Curtains Presenter**. The line under the preview reminds you. See [Sharing in your meeting app](https://curtains.app/help/sharing-in-your-meeting-app/). ## End a draft A draft ends when you take off every window, or click **Clear** in the footer of Sources. Capture stops. Starting a combo replaces the draft with the combo. ## Next steps - [Studio tour](https://curtains.app/help/studio-tour/): where everything is. - [Sharing in your meeting app](https://curtains.app/help/sharing-in-your-meeting-app/): pick Curtains Presenter in Zoom, Meet, Teams and more. - [Live, Paused and End](https://curtains.app/help/live-paused-and-end/): control what viewers see.