Creating Images

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Prompting

Describe what you want in natural language. The agent interprets, refines, and generates. Good prompts tend to include:

• Subject — what’s in the image
• Style — photography, illustration, 3D render, editorial
• Mood — minimal, dramatic, warm, cinematic
• Technical — lighting direction, camera angle, color palette, lens

You don’t need to be an expert prompter. The agent asks clarifying questions when a prompt is vague. It also has access to a deep prompting framework that covers text-to-image, multimodal editing, style transfer, and text rendering. By default, Memo enhances your prompt before generation (Memo Magic). You can also switch to Simple mode to send your exact words verbatim — useful when you’ve written a precise prompt yourself. See Simple vs Memo Magic for the full breakdown.

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Using references

Drag any inspiration from your library onto the Studio canvas. When you mention it in chat, the agent uses it as visual context — matching its style, composition, or color palette. If the inspiration has been analyzed, the agent gets the full creative breakdown — not just the pixels. It can match the lighting setup, use the extracted palette, or apply the composition style to a new subject.

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Brand assets as constraints

Type @ to mention a brand kit or specific asset. The agent loads your brand context and generates within those constraints. This is how you get consistency without repeating yourself every prompt. See Using Brand Assets in Studio for the full workflow.

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Aspect ratio and quality

The agent supports multiple aspect ratios (square, landscape, portrait, 16:9, 9:16) and quality levels:

• 1K — fast drafts
• 2K — high quality (default)
• 4K — highest quality

You can specify these in your prompt, or the agent will choose smart defaults based on your use case.

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Grid presets

Grid presets are templated starting points — pre-written prompt structures organized by category. Open the preset menu from the canvas toolbar, browse or search the tree, click a preset tile, and pick a quality (1K / 2K / 4K). Each preset has:

• A vision-analyzed, rewritten prompt template
• Smart per-preset aspect ratio defaults
• A two-step picker: preset → quality, then Generate

Presets give you consistent starting points while leaving room for creative direction.

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Extract Grid

Right-click any reference image on the canvas and pick Extract Grid to reuse its layout as a template. Memo analyses the source — composition, panel structure, alignment — and turns it into a reusable grid you can populate with new content. Useful when you’ve found a layout you like and want to keep its bones while changing everything inside it.

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Iteration

After a generation, you can:

• Ask for variations — “try a warmer color palette”
• Request edits — “remove the text overlay”
• Start fresh — “let’s try a completely different direction”

Each iteration appears as a new node on the canvas. You never lose previous versions. The full conversation history is preserved, so the agent remembers the creative thread across every turn.

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Generations run in the background

Generations are queued. The moment you submit, the request is accepted and the canvas shows a placeholder node. You can keep prompting, switch projects, or close the tab — when you come back, completed generations are already there. There’s nothing you have to wait around for.

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Uploading your own references

Drag any image from your desktop onto the canvas, or press Cmd+U to open the upload dialog. Uploads are capped at 30 MB per file — high enough for full-quality stills, RAW exports, or short animation frames.

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Design Editor

Click into any image node and select Edit to open the Design Editor — a lightweight overlay tool for adding text, simple shapes, and brand-locked color fills directly on top of an image. When you’re ready to publish, click Export for one-click platform sizing:

• Instagram Post — 1080×1080
• Instagram Story — 1080×1920
• X / Twitter Post — 1200×675
• LinkedIn Post — 1200×627
• TikTok Cover — 1080×1920
• Original — keeps the source resolution

You can either download the export locally, or save it back as a new node on the canvas to keep iterating.

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Video generation

The agent can also generate videos with control over:

• Duration — 3s, 5s, 8s, 10s, or 15s
• Aspect ratio — 16:9, 9:16, 1:1
• Creative direction — describe motion, camera movement, and action

Videos appear as playable nodes on the canvas with the same status badges and action buttons as images.

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Error handling

The system classifies errors into specific categories — timeout, prompt too long, safety filter, rate limit, asset upload failure, upstream outage — and shows a clear message for each. Failed generations stay visible on the canvas at their saved position with the error displayed. If the canvas autosave fails three times in a row, a persistent banner appears. It auto-clears when the next save succeeds.