EASELSay what to change
However many looks the catalogue holds, none of them is the one in your head. So you can say what you want instead.
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 made 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. A phrase almost always does better. 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, like falling snow or a skyline behind.
- A shift of medium. More like a woodcut works; so does heavier brushwork.
- A reference you can name, such as a 1970s album sleeve.
What a change actually does
A change takes the result you are looking at and makes it again with your instruction applied. It does not go back to your original photograph, and it does not paint over the picture on screen.
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 held to a stricter rule than the first picture. The first one is meant to transform: it is told to hold the person and to go wherever the medium takes it. 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. 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 you can try a second phrasing without losing the first picture.
