Image Studio

The Image Studio is a dedicated workspace for making visuals you will use: course covers, process diagrams, slide images, product shots and social cards. Describe an image or start from one of your documents, compare models side by side, then click any image to edit it until it is right.

Opening the Image Studio

Open Image Studio from the sidebar, or press Images in a project's create row to open it inside that project. On a phone, open the navigation menu first.

Image Studio opens on Projects: each project you can add to, with its newest images as a cover (a project without images yet shows its name), and Not in a project for images made outside any project. Press New project to start one.

Working in a Project

Open a project and Image Studio works inside it: the wall shows that project's images, and every image you make there, including edits and variations, is saved into the project's files as a PNG once it finishes. On a computer, the project's documents sit beside the wall. Open one to see ideas for images taken from its pages: click an idea to make that image, or Make several at once to pick from all of them and adjust their prompts first. Ideas are worked out once per document, so they appear straight away the next time. Open project takes you to the project itself. To work in another project, go back to Projects and open it.

A prompt typed on the Projects page is a quick image: it opens Not in a project and generates there. Deleting an image in Image Studio leaves its copy in the project's files.

Generating an Image

1. Type a prompt in the bar, like "A labelled diagram of an animal cell" or "A five-step customer onboarding process, left to right, numbered."
2. (Optional) Pick an aspect ratio, add a reference image, or open Settings (the sliders button) to choose one or more models, the quality, Improve prompt and your brand kit.
3. Press Generate or Enter.

New images appear at the top of the wall. Hover an image to see its prompt and model, then Edit, More like this, Download, or More for Reuse prompt, Save to library (outside a project) and Delete. Once the wall mixes kinds of image, From documents and Edited tabs narrow it. An empty project offers a few ideas to start from (a tap fills the prompt; nothing generates until you press Generate).

Editing an Image

Click any image to open it. The whole image fits on the screen, with one bar above it and the edit bar below. Type a change ("Make the arrows thicker") and press Apply edit. The edit becomes a new version; earlier versions stay. ‹ with the project's name takes you back to its wall.

• The square button at the left of the edit bar changes only part of the image: drag over that part, then describe the change.
• The one-tap edits above the bar fill in a ready instruction you can adjust. Remove something asks you to drag over what should go.
• The settings button in the bar picks the model for the edit, turns the brand kit on or off, and holds Keep layout and text (on by default), which tells the model to leave everything you did not mention alone. Turn it off for a bigger rework.
• Once an image has more than one version, a strip under it lets you step back to any version, and Compare shows the previous version next to the current one.
• More like this, at the top, makes up to four alternatives of the image. Download sits beside it, and ⋯ holds Save to library (outside a project) and Delete.
• ⓘ shows the prompt the image was made from, what Image Studio actually sent, its model and size, and the document page it came from. Reuse prompt puts the prompt back in the bar.

Each edit uses one image from your allowance, and each alternative uses one. On the wall, an edited image shows its newest version with a small version badge. Deleting removes that version only; earlier versions stay.

From a Source

Press From a document under the bar, choose a PDF or document from your library, and optionally say what the images are for ("a revision sheet, one per topic"). Image Studio reads the document and suggests ideas: usually a cover, a few diagrams of its processes, and a social card or two. Each idea cites the pages it came from and uses the document's own terms.

Untick anything you do not need, click a prompt to change it, then press Generate. The images land on the wall with each one citing its pages, and opening any of them lets you step through the others from the same document with the up and down arrow keys. More ideas from this document (in an image's More menu) suggests more from the same document. Suggesting ideas does not use your allowance; each image you generate uses one.

Brand Kit

The Brand kit, in Settings, holds your colours and a short style note ("Flat vector, soft shadows, no gradients"). While it is on, they are added to every image and edit you make. On a Teams workspace the kit is shared by the whole team and only an Owner or Admin can change it; everyone else can turn it on and off.

Using an Image

Download an image, or Save to library so you can use it in your other work. In a project, images are already saved there.

On a Phone

Phones get their own layout: projects in two columns, each project's wall in two columns, and a Describe an image bar at the bottom that opens a sheet for the prompt and aspect ratio (one model, the one you last used). Tap any image to open the edit screen, with Download at the top, the change, quick edits, More like this and Apply edit, which shows what it costs before you tap.

Choosing a Quality Level

Quality is a simple toggle:

If you pick High but the model you're generating with doesn't support it, the Image Studio automatically falls back to Standard for that image rather than failing.

Each tile on the canvas also shows which model produced it, so it's easy to tell your generations apart when you've used more than one at once.

Your quality pick is remembered for next time, so you don't have to keep picking it.

Picking an Aspect Ratio

Five aspect ratios are available — 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, and 3:4 — and the Image Studio remembers your last pick. Use 16:9 for slide visuals, 9:16 for phone screens or stories, 1:1 for thumbnails, and 4:3 / 3:4 for handouts.

Choosing a Model (or Several at Once)

The Image Studio supports multiple image models and lets you generate with more than one model at the same time from a single prompt — useful when you're comparing styles, picking a favorite, or just don't yet know which model fits the look you want.

Tick more than one model and a single press of Generate creates one image per model from the same prompt. Your model selection is remembered between sessions.

Reference Images

You can attach up to 3 reference images to a prompt to edit, remix, or blend them. Use the image button in the prompt bar to upload from your device. PNG, JPEG, and WebP are supported, and every model in Image Studio accepts them. Remove a reference with the small × on its thumbnail. To change an image you already made, open it and edit it instead.

Background Generation

Images keep generating even if you refresh the page or leave the Image Studio entirely — when you come back, finished images are already on the canvas and any still-pending ones pick up where they left off. No need to sit and wait.

When a Prompt Can't Be Generated

If a prompt can't be turned into an image because it goes against our content guidelines, the Image Studio explains that up front so you can quickly rephrase, instead of failing silently a few seconds later. The same applies to prompts that ask for celebrities, copyrighted characters, or other restricted content.

Image Allowance · Beta

Image Studio and regular AI Chat share a separate image allowance: 2 lifetime images on Free with no reset, 40 per week on Premium, and 80 per week on Laureate. Paid Teams seats receive their plan's allowance per member. Monthly and annual subscriptions receive the same weekly allowance.

Each image or edit uses one image; comparing several models uses one per model. Failed images return their allowance automatically. Successfully created images remain counted if deleted. Paid allowances reset every Monday at 00:00 UTC with no rollover. Limits may change during beta. Your balance and reset date appear in the product.

These images do not use AI Creation Credits. Images produced inside other agent-created artifacts stay included in those features' existing charges. AI Creation Credit packs do not extend this separate image allowance.

Generating images in chat

The Image Studio is not the only place you can make an image. Ask for one inside any AI Chat conversation — "draw a diagram of our escalation path", "make a cover image for this deck" — and the AI generates it inline. It also decides for itself when an image would help an answer. You can upload an image into chat and describe an edit, and combine several reference images in one request.

The rule worth remembering: images created or edited in regular AI Chat share the beta image allowance with Image Studio. Neither uses AI Creation Credits. The usual Chat message allowance still applies to the message itself.

If a prompt can't be turned into an image — because it goes against our content guidelines, or asks for celebrities, copyrighted characters, or other restricted content — chat tells you so and carries on answering the rest of your message rather than abandoning the whole reply. Rephrase the request and ask again.

Image Studio vs. chat: which to use

Tips

• Be specific. "A four-stage discovery call diagram: Open, Diagnose, Shape, Commit, left to right, flat and minimal" gives a far sharper result than "a sales diagram."
• Generate with two models at once when you don't know which look you want, then edit the one you prefer.
• Use Select area for small fixes, so the rest of the image stays exactly as it is.
• Use a reference image of an existing diagram or hand-drawn sketch and ask the model to redraw it more cleanly.
• If a prompt is rejected for content reasons, rephrase or move it to a more explanatory angle — the Image Studio is tuned for instructional material.
• Chat and Image Studio share your image allowance. Switching between them does not reset the balance.

Related

• AI Chat — generating images inside a conversation, and what a message costs.
• Plans and Limits — image allowances and the separate AI Creation Credit balance.
• AI Slides — where a 16:9 Image Studio image tends to end up.
• Flashcards — attach a generated image to any card.