Collections & Pairings

A collection is a set of pieces that clearly belong together, a ring with matching earrings, a product line in shared colorways, or a family of variants. The method is always the same: design one strong "hero" piece, then generate companions that share its style, material, lighting, and background, so the whole set reads as a family.

1. Step 1. Establish your hero piece

   The hero is what every other piece will be measured against, so it is worth finishing before you start the set.

   1. Use the Chat panel to design your first, defining piece (see Chat Panel). Refine it until it represents the look of the whole collection.
   2. Lock in the scene style you used: whichever background you picked should carry across every piece. See Scene Styles.
   3. Note your AI mode. Thinking is worth choosing for a collection, because it reasons more deliberately about consistency across a multi-piece brief. See AI Modes.
2. Step 2. Generate matching pieces

   Every companion is generated from the hero rather than from a fresh prompt, which is what holds the set together.

   1. Right-click the hero result and choose Use as reference so it carries into your next prompt.
   2. Set its Influence to High so companions inherit its material and style while leaving room for the new piece's own shape. See Influence.
   3. Prompt the variation explicitly, for example: "Matching drop earrings in the same brushed rose-gold style as the reference, same lighting and background."
   4. Repeat for each piece, re-adding the hero as a reference every time so the style does not drift.

   

3. Step 3. Review the set together

   Judge the pieces against each other rather than one at a time. The view modes put a result on screen next to your canvas: Split view slides between the two, Side by side and Stacked show both at once. Toggling layer visibility is the quickest way to try different groupings and pairings. See Canvas & Views.

Best practices

Style drift is the main risk in a collection, and almost all of it comes from changing your inputs between pieces.

• Decide your material and palette up front. Changing them mid-collection forces you to regenerate the pieces you already made.
• Generate companions from the refined hero, never from an early rough version: the whole set inherits whatever you started from.
• Reuse the same scene style for every generation. Mismatched backdrops are the fastest way to break a set.
• Hold the hero at a steady influence level across pieces instead of adjusting it each time. If a piece starts drifting, raise the hero's influence rather than rewording the prompt.
• Keep each finished piece on its own layer, or in its own design file, so you can arrange and compare them. See Layers.