Browse and Use Assets
Open your Assets library from a canvas, find the picture you want, and put it on the board in one click.
Before you start
- Open a canvas you can edit. Adding to a canvas needs owner or editor access.
- Assets is your own library. It holds the images, saved prompts, prompt packs and Elements saved to your account.
The whole flow
Watch it once from an open canvas to a picture placed on it, or click a step under the replay to jump to it.
4 stepsFrom an open canvas to a picture placed on it
Open Assets
In the toolbar at the bottom of the canvas, click Add (the white + button), then choose Assets. The library opens over the canvas.
You can also right-click an empty spot on the canvas and choose Assets. What you add then lands at that spot, or at the nearest free spot to it.
Show all your assets
Inside a canvas, the library starts on the pictures that came from that canvas: the canvas filter next to the search box reads Current canvas, followed by the canvas name. Open it and choose All canvases to see everything.
To narrow the list:
- Use the tabs: Recent, Images, Elements, Prompts and Favorites.
- Type in Search assets and prompts. It matches names, prompts, model names, canvas names and tags.
Open it full size
Click a tile. The picture opens as large as your screen allows, with its name and a line saying where it came from, when, its size in pixels and its canvas.
Press ← or → (or click the arrows at the sides) to move through the pictures on the page. Press Esc or click Close (the X) to go back.
Add to canvas
Click Add to canvas at the top of the viewer. The library closes and the picture lands on the canvas, selected, in free space near the middle of your view. It never covers anything already on the board.
To skip the viewer, open a tile’s ⋯ menu and choose Add to canvas.
More you can do
Add several at once
Hover a tile and tick the round checkbox in its corner. A bar appears at the bottom with the number selected. Tick more, then click Add to canvas in the bar.
Several at onceTick pictures, then add them together
- Images and prompts are added together as a grid, all selected. Packs are left out; insert a pack from its own tile.
- A picture that is already on the canvas is selected instead of added a second time.
- Shift-click selects a range, and Cmd or Ctrl-click adds or removes one. While anything is selected, a plain click selects instead of opening.
- Select visible selects everything on the current page except Elements. Elements can’t be selected.
Use a picture as a reference
Open a picture’s ⋯ menu and choose Use as reference. Gavana puts the picture on the canvas with a new Image Generation card beside it, using the picture as its reference, and frames both. Writing the prompt and generating from that card is paid, as usual.
To use an Element this way, see Create and Edit Elements.
Add a picture to an image list
Open a picture’s ⋯ menu and choose Add to image list. Gavana puts the picture on the canvas and adds it to the image list there. With no image list on the canvas yet, it makes one; with more than one, it asks which.
Insert a prompt or a pack
Saved prompts live in the Prompts tab, shown as rows. Choose Add to canvas from a prompt’s ⋯ menu to place it on the canvas as a text card. A pack, a saved list of prompts, has its own Insert on canvas button on its tile, or choose Insert pack from its ⋯ menu.
Download pictures
These work on the Assets page and in the panel on a canvas.
- One picture: choose Download from its ⋯ menu, or click the download button in the viewer. Gavana saves the original file, not the smaller preview. If your browser won’t save it directly, the picture opens in a new tab and Gavana says This image opened in a new tab. Save it from there.
- Several pictures: tick them and click Download in the bar. They’re saved together as one ZIP of the original files, named
gavana-assets-plus the date.
DownloadSave several pictures as one ZIP
Only images are downloaded; prompts and packs in the selection are skipped. If some pictures can’t be read, the ZIP holds the rest and Gavana tells you how many were left out.
Filter the list
| Control | Options |
|---|---|
| Canvas filter, next to the search box | All canvases, Current canvas (inside a canvas only), each canvas your assets came from, Unassigned assets |
| Filter, then Source | All sources, Uploads, Generated, Image Action, Saved prompts |
| Filter, then Media type | All media, Images, Prompts, Packs, Elements |
Clear filters in the Filter menu puts both back to all. The grid shows 60 assets per page, newest first, with page numbers underneath.
The Assets page and the Assets panel
You reach the same library in two places. In the sidebar of your canvas library, Assets opens it as a full page. On a canvas, Add then Assets opens it as a panel over the board.
| Assets page | Assets panel on a canvas | |
|---|---|---|
| Add to canvas, Use as reference, Add to image list | No | Yes |
| Canvas filter starts on | All canvases | Current canvas |
| Folders row and Upload tile in the grid | Yes | No |
| Edit Element, Version history, Archive Element, archived Elements | Yes | No |
| Google Drive in the ⋯ menu at the end of the toolbar | No | Yes |
Keyboard shortcuts in the viewer
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| ← / → | Previous or next asset on the page |
| Esc | Closes the viewer |