EASELSay what to change
A hundred and eleven looks is a lot, and it is still not the one in your head. So the catalogue is not the end of the road.
Every picture Easel makes can be made again with one thing changed. You type the change in your own words — warmer colours, add falling snow, a city skyline behind — and the look is rendered again with that applied. You can also skip the catalogue altogether and describe a look from scratch.
Short beats elaborate
The instinct is to write a paragraph. It is usually worse than a phrase. The look you started from already carries a fully specified medium; what you are adding is one adjustment on top of it, and the more you write the more of that original intent you end up arguing with.
Things that tend to work:
- A single property — warmer, darker, softer light.
- One thing added to the scene — falling snow, a skyline behind.
- A shift of medium — more like a woodcut, heavier brushwork.
- A reference you can name — a 1970s album sleeve.
You are not editing, you are re-rendering
Worth knowing: the change does not paint over the picture you already have, and it does not go back to your original photograph either. It takes the result you are looking at and makes it again with your instruction applied.
That matters, because it is why a change keeps the look you already chose. If it started from the photo again it would have to re-derive the style from scratch, and you would get a different picture wearing the same name.
A change is also held to a wider rule than a first render. A first render locks the person and frees the medium — it is meant to transform. A change is told to alter only what you asked for and to keep everything else exactly as it is: the same artistic style, medium, palette, composition and framing, and the same people. So a change is conservative by design, and if a take still goes somewhere you did not want, the previous one is untouched in the Gallery.
Every take is kept
Finished pictures wait for you in the Gallery. You can open one again later for another take, or to change something else about it, so trying a second phrasing costs you nothing but the credit for the picture it makes.