Storiis Support
AI Image Generation
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Storiis can generate visual references for characters, locations, whiteboards and index cards. The images are planning tools: they can establish visual direction, unlock descriptive thinking or help you recognize related material at a glance.
They are not required to use any of those features, and a generated image does not become a canonical fact merely by being unusually attractive.
Where Image Generation Is Available
Choose Generate with AI from the image controls for:
- Characters — portraits and identity references
- Locations — environments, structures, rooms and other settings
- Whiteboards — visual material placed on a reference canvas
- Index Cards — images attached to individual reference cards
Generated images use Storiis AI credits. Review the estimate before beginning and the result before adding it to your story material.
Writing a Useful Prompt
Describe the visible facts that matter most.
Subject
Identify the person, place or object and what makes it distinctive. Prefer “retired lunar cartographer with weathered hands and a formal navy coat” to “interesting older character.”
Composition
Describe the framing or camera distance: close portrait, full figure, aerial view, wide establishing shot, cutaway or detail study.
Environment and Era
Name the period, architecture, technology, climate and materials that should shape the image.
Lighting and Mood
Specify time of day, weather, contrast, color temperature and emotional atmosphere when they matter.
Important Constraints
Include visual details the result must respect, such as age, clothing, accessibility equipment, scale, dominant colors or the absence of a particular feature.
Keep nonvisual canon in written fields. An image may suggest that a city has three moons; only a canonical fact gets to make that everyone else’s problem.
Character Images
Character prompts work best when the profile already contains useful identity, physicality and presence details. Include the desired portrait framing and any appearance choices that distinguish the character from a generic genre figure.
Use generated portraits to explore visual direction or make the cast gallery easier to scan. If a result introduces a detail you want to keep, record it in the character profile rather than relying on the image alone.
When brainstorming an overall Story, Storiis can optionally generate portraits for the proposed main and supporting characters in the background.
Suggested Uses
- Compare visual directions for a central character
- Establish age, silhouette, clothing or social presentation
- Create a consistent cast gallery for planning
- Discover a physical detail that supports characterization
Do not let the first compelling face narrow a character who was deliberately left open.
Location Images
A location can hold several reference images and use one as its key gallery image. Generate different angles, rooms, seasons or states when the setting changes across the story.
Prompts should identify scale, environment, era, architecture, lighting, weather and any physical constraint that affects scenes.
“Beautiful old house” is a start. “Remote 1890s coastal house during a winter storm, narrow rooms, salt-damaged wallpaper and heating vents that carry every private conversation” gives the image—and the Plan—something to work with.
Suggested Uses
- Establish geography or atmosphere before planning a scene
- Compare the same place in different periods or conditions
- Develop rooms or areas that create physical obstacles
- Give collaborators a shared visual reference
Record story-relevant facts in the location description or Reference Library. The image is evidence of a creative direction, not a reliable floor plan.
Whiteboard Images
Generate an image when a whiteboard needs a visual anchor, mood reference, object study or piece of environmental inspiration. The result becomes an item you can arrange beside text and other images on the canvas.
Suggested Uses
- Build a visual mood board for a culture or storyline
- Explore props, costumes, symbols or technology
- Compare several visual approaches in one space
- Place inspiration beside the notes it prompted
Use Plan → Cards rather than a whiteboard when the items being arranged are actual scenes.
Index-Card Images
Generate an image from an index card when a standalone reference idea would benefit from a visual representation. This works well for objects, creatures, symbols, clothing, technology and other discrete pieces of the world.
Keep the card’s written title, notes and canonical information complete enough to remain useful without the image.
Reviewing a Result
Before using a generated image, check:
- Does it match the written facts that already exist?
- Has it introduced misleading genre, era or cultural assumptions?
- Are important character or location details missing?
- Is the composition useful for the planning task?
- Did it solve the prompt, or merely produce something polished nearby?
Revise the prompt when the problem is specific. Regenerating the same vague instruction repeatedly usually produces a growing collection of attractive misunderstandings.
Images, Credits and Privacy
Image generation uses credits like other built-in AI tools. See Credits & Usage for balances, estimates and data handling.
If you do not want AI controls in the workspace, turn on Settings → General → Hide AI features. Uploaded images and other manual image options remain available.
Return to the AI Tools overview or see Brainstorming and Development for text-based story tools.