Designs and style prompts

Press + Add Design, give it a name and a style prompt, then press Set Active. Each design keeps its own set of pictures, so switching designs switches which pictures the other tabs show.

Create a design

  1. Open the form

    On the Designs tab, press + Add Design.

  2. Name it and describe the look

    Fill in Name and Style Prompt. Both are required. The form also has an optional Text System Prompt.

  3. Create it

    Press Create Design. The new design appears in the list.

  4. Make it active

    Press Set Active on its card. It gets a purple Active badge. New pictures use this design from now on.

The Add Design form with Name, Style Prompt and Text System Prompt fields
The Nitrate Noir card with its Active badge and Deactivate, Mood Boards, Edit and Delete buttons

Deactivate on the active card leaves the project with no design. That’s useful for testing whether the style prompt is helping.

Write a style prompt that works

A style prompt says how the film looks. What’s in each picture comes from the description of that character, location or prop.

Say the medium

“Shot on 35mm film”, “clean digital”, “anamorphic”.

Say the light

“Hard shadows, one key light”, “soft overcast daylight”, “only practical lamps”.

Say the palette

“Cold blues and concrete greys”, “warm amber and deep green”.

Leave out people and things

Write “a man in a coat” here and he’ll turn up in your empty locations too.

Edit a design

  1. Open the editor

    Press Edit on the design’s card. The card opens with its Name and three tabs: Text, Image and Video.

  2. Change the look

    On the Image tab, change the Style Prompt.

  3. Pick the templates

    The five template menus set the layout of each kind of reference sheet: Character Template, Scene Template, Location Template, Wardrobe Template and Prop Template.

  4. Save

    Press Save, or Cancel to drop your changes.

The Image tab with the style prompt, five template menus and the image model box

The editor opens on the tab you used last.

Delete and restore

Delete asks first. Once a design is deleted, a Show Deleted button appears with a count. It lists deleted designs, each with a Restore button. Old designs are a handy record of looks you tried.

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