The outcome
Produce a distinctive, authorized visual direction ready for professional finishing across campaign formats.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Write the message, audience, placements, safe zones, hierarchy, palette, subject, mood, rights, localization, and measurable approval criteria.
- 02
Choose the model, raster or vector mode, commercial plan, brand colors, and an owned style reference with no confidential or unauthorized material.
- 03
Generate three compositionally distinct directions, select one through the brief, and change lighting, crop, texture, or detail one variable at a time.
- 04
Use inpainting or expansion only for localized changes, checking continuity, text, logos, faces, hands, shadows, reflections, and unintended claims after each pass.
- 05
Finish typography and layout manually, proof every target size and print setting, complete rights and accessibility review, and archive the approved source.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Choose directions against the brief.
- Make one controlled edit per pass.
- Finish typography manually.
Official references