Create and Edit Elements
An Element is a reusable reference: up to eight source pictures from your Assets, a few lines of prompt instructions, or both. Mention it in a generation and Gavana applies it, so a person, a product or a look stays the same from one picture to the next.
Before you start
- Open the Assets page: in the sidebar of your canvas library, click Assets. Editing, version history and archiving are only there.
- Source pictures must already be in Assets. Upload them first if they aren’t.
The whole flow
Watch it once from the Assets page to a saved Element, or click a step under the replay to jump to it.
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Good skin.png6 stepsFrom the Assets page to a saved Element
Open Elements
On the Assets page, click the Elements tab. New Element takes the place of Upload at the top of the page.
Start a new Element
Click New Element. The New Element editor opens.
Name it and choose a type
Type a Name, then pick a Type. The type says what the Element is and sets its starting Application mode:
| Type | Starting application mode |
|---|---|
| Character | Identity guided |
| Product or object | Identity guided |
| Environment | Creative reference |
| Style | Creative reference |
| Material or texture | Creative reference |
| Lighting | Creative reference |
| Brand mark | Exact original |
You can change the mode yourself:
| Application mode | What it does |
|---|---|
| Creative reference | Borrows the treatment only: palette, light, texture. The subject doesn’t need to match. Good for a style or a lighting setup. |
| Identity guided | Keeps the same subject recognisably itself while pose, angle and setting change. Good for a person or a product across many shots. |
| Exact original | Reproduces the original pixels without redrawing them. Good for a logo or wordmark. It needs exactly one PNG source and an exact placement, which today only the Gavana Agent CLI or API can give it. |
If you change the type and haven’t picked a mode yourself, the mode follows the new type.
Write prompt instructions
Under Prompt instructions, write what must hold every time the Element is used, up to 2,000 characters. Gavana applies these whenever the Element is mentioned in a generation.
Instructions are required only when you don’t pick a source image.
Pick source images
On the right, click the pictures from your Assets that show the subject. You can pick up to eight; click a picture again to remove it. Use Search images to find one by name.
Create Element
Click Create Element. It turns on once the Element has a name and at least a source image or instructions; until then, the line at the bottom says what’s missing.
The new Element appears on the Elements tab. Its pictures stay in Assets, and nothing is added to a canvas.
More you can do
Use an Element on a canvas
- From Assets: on a canvas you can edit, open Add, then Assets, and go to Elements. Click an Element and choose Use as reference, or pick it from the Element’s ⋯ menu. If an Image Generation card is selected, the Element is attached to it; otherwise Gavana adds a new Image Generation card with the Element attached. Gavana confirms with Element bound as a reference.
- From a prompt: type @ in an image prompt and pick the Element from the list.
Generating with the Element is a normal generation and counts toward your usage. Elements set to Exact original aren’t listed in the Assets panel on a canvas.
You can also create an Element from a canvas: in the panel’s Elements tab, click New Element. Pictures you had selected on the canvas, if they’re saved in Assets, start out picked as sources.
Edit an Element
On the Assets page, open the Element’s ⋯ menu and choose Edit Element. Change anything, then click Save version.
EditChange an Element and save a new version
Every save makes a new version. Generations made earlier keep the exact version they used.
See an Element’s versions
Open the Element’s ⋯ menu and choose Version history. Each version shows its date, type, number of sources and instructions, newest first.
HistorySee every version of an Element
Archive and restore an Element
Open the Element’s ⋯ menu and choose Archive Element. Your browser asks you to confirm; click OK. The Element leaves the Elements tab, and Gavana says Element archived. Nothing is deleted: outputs made with it keep their record.
To bring it back, open the ⋯ menu at the end of the toolbar and choose Archived Elements; the number in brackets is how many you have. Click Restore next to the Element. Restoring keeps the same Element and adds a new version. History on the same row shows its versions.
ArchiveArchive an Element and bring it back
Restore is unavailable when one of the Element’s source pictures is no longer available in Assets; the row then says how many sources are unavailable.
Group Elements in collections
Open the Element’s ⋯ menu, point at Collections and tick a collection. Elements can’t go in folders, be marked as favorites or be selected for bulk actions. See Upload and Organize Assets.
When a source picture is missing
If a source picture is no longer available in Assets, the Element’s card shows Source unavailable, and Use as reference is turned off for it.