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Images in the side menu is where pictures get made — thumbnails, post images, ad concepts, anything else you need a picture for. Every image is made on a board, so nothing you try is ever lost and nothing has to be right first time.

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Starting something

The lane opens on What are we making today? — four one-click starts: Pressing one creates a board with a matching name and drops you into it with the request already typed. Nothing runs until you press send — the start fills the box, you decide whether to change it first. If none of the four is what you want, New board in the header gives you an empty one and you ask for whatever you like. Under the starts, Jump back in shows the boards you were last working in, each led by what is on it. All boards opens the full list, and the count beside the page title tells you how many you have.

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Asking for images

Inside a board, the conversation runs down the left and what you make lands on the canvas. Ask in your own words — “six thumbnail options, bold type, room for a face on the right” — and the images arrive on the board. Above the box are the settings the next run uses. Each one is a button you press to change:
  • Size — the shape the images come out in. Left alone it follows what you asked for.
  • × a number — how many variations you get. Left alone, what you said wins: “a new one” gives you one, “6 options” gives you six.
  • Brand — on, the run uses your workspace’s brand elements: its visual direction and its logo. Off, it stays neutral. This one sticks to the board, so a board you set to brand-on stays that way next time you open it. If your workspace has no brand set up yet, the button says so and links you to where to add it.
  • Style — appears once you have saved a style, and applies that look to the run. It rests at off, so a saved style is always a choice you make.
Size and variations are for this sitting; brand and style are decisions about the work.

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Changing one image

Click an image on the canvas and two buttons appear on it:
  • Iterate — change this image. Your next message is about this one picture.
  • Vary — more like this one, without changing it.
Double-click and the image fills the room, with the conversation still beside it. Back to canvas returns you. Point at what you want changed. Draw on the image — a dot or a loop around a region — and that mark goes into the message box as part of your next request. “Make this bit warmer” then means something exact. Four changes happen directly, without asking in words:
  • Crop — trim to the part you want.
  • Re-frame — rebuild the picture at a different shape, filling in what was outside the old frame. This one uses credits, and the button says so.
  • Remove background — take the subject out of its background.
  • Vectorize — turn it into clean line artwork that scales without going soft.
Text places a headline or a call to action on the image. It sits as a layer over the picture rather than being burned into it, so you can move it, change it, or take it off — and it is baked in when you export. Every change makes a new image on the board rather than overwriting the one you started from, so you can always go back to an earlier version.

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Finishing an image

Everything on a board is either Draft or Final, and the switch at the top of the board shows you one or the other.
  • Mark final says this one is done. A final image joins the Images roll in Studio on the Boards page, and being final is what lets it be used elsewhere.
  • Save style keeps the look of this image as a named style, which then appears as the Style button on your boards. If the image already is one, the button says so.
In Studio you can also pin an image with the star on its tile, which floats it to the front of its roll. Pinning is a favourite and nothing more — it does not make an image final.

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Getting the file out

Download saves the image as it is. Beside it, Export format set saves it at every shape you are likely to need, in one zip:

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Where images go next

An image made here can be attached to a piece on the schedule, used in a video’s scene plan, or simply downloaded. Boards hold the material; the schedule is where something becomes a thing that goes out on a day.