Create images with AI Studio

An image request usually starts with a deceptively small sentence: “Make this feel more premium.” The useful part is everything around it. Which product must stay recognizable? Is the result a rough direction or the final campaign visual? Does it need readable text? Is speed more important than fine detail?

The short version

Choose Image, leave Image quality, Style, and Ratio on Auto, and keep Count at 1 for the first draft. Add references only when the result must preserve something specific, then describe the subject, composition, audience, and details that must not change. Review the first result before raising Image quality or generating more versions.

Choose Image in AI Studio when the result should be a visual object you can place, compare, comment on, and share from the canvas. AI Studio can generate a fresh image from text or use selected and attached images as references. The Image quality you choose changes how long the image takes, how much detail it carries, and how many AI credits it uses.

Use another output when the job is not primarily visual:

For the broader creation flow, read Create content with AI Studio. This article stays focused on Image.

Start with a useful first draft

1. Open the canvas where the image belongs.
2. Select Image in AI Studio.
3. Leave Image quality, Style, and Ratio on Auto for the first attempt.
4. Keep Count at 1 until the prompt and references produce the right direction.
5. Add selected canvas objects or image attachments only when the result must preserve something specific.
6. Describe the subject, composition, audience, visual treatment, and details that must not change.
7. Submit, then review the image on the canvas before generating more versions.

This workflow keeps the first decision contained. A weak prompt multiplied by Count 4 is still a weak prompt, only four times. If you already know you are sketching directions you will mostly throw away, choose Draft yourself instead of asking Auto to make that call.

Choose image quality by the job

Image quality sits in the option row beside Style, Ratio, and Count. Each choice describes what the image is for, and the menu gives each one a single line:

Two things stay the same whichever you pick:

• Every choice accepts selected canvas images and attached images as references. Switching quality never disables a reference.
• Every choice offers the same five ratios, so changing quality never resets Ratio.

Set Count, Style, and Ratio deliberately

Count

Count offers 1, 2, or 4 images. One is the default because every additional result starts another image job and can consume more credits.

• Use 1 while testing the prompt, references, and Image quality.
• Increase Count when the direction is already right and you need variants.
• Use a smaller batch with High detail, then keep the best result instead of repeating a large batch.

Each result gets its own placeholder. In a multi-image request, deleting one processing placeholder cancels that output slot. Deleting every image placeholder cancels the remaining task.

Style

Style is direction, not a substitute for a concrete prompt. “Infographic” still needs the message, audience, hierarchy, and facts that belong in the visual.

Ratio

Auto chooses among the five explicit ratios from the request. Once you know where the image will be used, set the ratio yourself: a cover cropped from the wrong shape rarely survives the crop.

Give AI Studio references it can actually use

A good image prompt answers five questions:

1. What is the subject?
2. What should the composition show?
3. Who will see it?
4. What visual treatment should it use?
5. What must stay unchanged?

For example:

Create a 16:9 launch visual for a client presentation. Keep the bottle shape and label from reference #1. Use the warm amber palette from reference #2. Place the product on the right with open space for a title on the left. Do not add text inside the image.

That prompt separates identity, style, layout, and constraints. “Make this premium” leaves all four to guesswork.

Attachments are numbered before selected canvas objects, so references such as #1 and #2 stay clear. Use those numbers when several images play different roles. Keep only references that affect the result. A mood image, product image, old layout, and unrelated screenshot in one request create four competing instructions.

Match Image quality to what the references have to survive:

• Draft to check that the prompt and references point the right way before you spend more.
• Standard for ordinary reference edits, such as keeping a product intact while the background, light, or season changes.
• High detail when the layout is dense, the text inside the image matters, or the result is headed for external review.
• Auto when none of those needs dominates.

This walkthrough shows a reference image and canvas context becoming a finished image beside the source material:

Spend credits on decisions, not retries

Use this sequence for expensive work:

1. Write the prompt with Count 1, and Image quality, Style, and Ratio on Auto.
2. Generate a first composition.
3. Fix the prompt before raising quality. Add the missing subject, layout, reference number, or constraint.
4. Choose Draft while you are still comparing directions, because it is usually a quicker, lower-credit way to see whether a prompt works.
5. Move to High detail only when the direction is stable and the job needs the finer result.
6. Increase Count only when you need useful alternatives, not reassurance.

Manual edits can be cheaper than asking AI Studio to rediscover a nearly finished result. If one label, crop, or small canvas detail is wrong, fix it directly when possible.

Deleting a finished image does not refund credits. A successful result can consume credits even when you dislike it, remove it, or generate another version. For the workspace balance and history, read Understand AI credits.

Watch progress and cancel from the canvas

After submission, AI Studio places image placeholders on the canvas. The server updates each placeholder as its image finishes, so a batch can reveal usable results before every slot is done.

While a placeholder is processing, selection and deletion remain available. Editing, preview, download, duplicate, copy, lock, and thumbnail actions remain unavailable until the result finishes.

To cancel:

• Delete one processing image placeholder to cancel that slot.
• Delete every image placeholder from the request to cancel the whole image task.
• Deleting the canvas also stops generation still running there.

Generation time varies with the request. While a placeholder shows progress, avoid submitting the same request again.

When image generation does not behave as expected

If you contact support, send the canvas link, approximate request time, selected Image quality, Count, Style, Ratio, a prompt summary, whether image references were selected or attached, and whether credits were blocked or consumed. Do not send private customer images or source files unless support specifically needs them and you are allowed to share them.