What workflows are

A workflow is a chain of steps that Scenario runs for you, the same way every time. You build it once, and anyone on your team can run it again. This lesson shows where workflows live, opens the finished workflow the course rebuilds, and starts your own copy with its first node: an Image input holding one character.

Across the course you build Anatomy reference sheets, a workflow that takes one character image and makes four reference sheets for artists: a pencil sketch with the anatomy drawn on top, a plain pencil sketch, a gray sculpt and a textured sculpt.

Before you start

• What you need: a project you can create workflows in, and one character image in your library. The course uses a ranger from the Starforge cast: a hooded cape, armor, a sword and a shield. Any full or half-body character works.
• Where it lives: Workflows in the top bar holds two pages, Apps and Workflows. This course works on Workflows.
• Nothing runs in this lesson. You only build, so nothing is spent. A workflow costs what its nodes cost when you run it, and the price shows on the run buttons before you click.

Key ideas

Step 1: Open Workflows

Workflows live in the top bar. Click Workflows, then choose Workflows in the menu that opens. The other entry, Apps, holds workflows published with a simple form; the last lesson of this course makes one.

The Workflows page has two tabs:

• Platform: workflows Scenario has built and keeps up to date. You can search them by name, filter them and sort them.
• Project: your team's own workflows, in the current project. Every project member can see them.

Step 2: Look at the finished version

On the Platform tab, find Image to anatomy reference. It's the workflow this course rebuilds.

Open it. Each box is a node, and wires carry the results from left to right: the character image on the left, then the style prompts, then one Prompt Builder per look, then four image generators with the four sheets.

A Platform workflow opens in Run-only Mode: "The workflow cannot be edited." To change one, you would click Duplicate Workflow, which saves a copy to your Project tab. The course doesn't copy it in one click. You build your own, so you see every step. Read the blue START HERE note on the left: Scenario's own workflows often explain themselves with a sticky note like this.

Step 3: Create a workflow

Go back to Workflows and switch to the Project tab. This is where your team's own workflows live. Click Create at the top right.

Import, next to it, loads a workflow someone exported as a JSON file.

Step 4: Name it

A New Workflow opens, with two sample nodes already wired: a Text node with a sample prompt and an Image Generator. The workflow saves itself as you build; there's no save button.

Click the title at the top left and type:

Anatomy reference sheets

A clear name matters: it's what your team sees on the Project tab, and what an App will show later.

Step 5: Clear the canvas

This workflow starts from nothing, so delete the two sample nodes. Click one and press Delete (or Backspace), then do the same with the other.

Step 6: Open the node list

Every node comes from the + button in the toolbar on the right. It opens a list with a search box (Search nodes...), the Most used nodes, then four groups:

Other ways in: right-click the canvas, or drag a wire from any output and release it on empty canvas to see only the nodes that fit.

Step 7: Add an Image input

The workflow starts with a character image, so under Input, choose Image (the shortcut is Shift + I). The new node lands in the middle of the canvas. Drag it to the left: the graph reads left to right, and the input belongs at the start.

An Image node takes PNG, JPEG, WebP and GIF, plus HEIC and HEIF photos from an iPhone, which are converted to JPEG on upload. With Enable Multiple Images turned on, one node holds up to 10 images and passes all of them on.

Step 8: Rename the node

Double-click the node's title to rename it. The course names it 1. Character Illustration. Clear names make the graph easy to read later, and the number keeps the nodes in reading order as the graph grows.

Step 9: Pick the character

Give the node a picture. There are three ways:

• Drag & drop or paste: drop a file on the node, or paste an image from the clipboard. Pasting on an empty part of the canvas creates a new Image node for you.
• Select from Library: choose an image already in your project.
• Upload: pick a file from your computer.

The course uses Select from Library and chooses the ranger. A collection filter keeps the library to the one image the course needs.

Step 10: Read the output port

That's the input. See the small green dot on the right edge of the node, labeled IMAGE when you hover it? That's its output port. Green means it carries an image, so it will only connect to green inputs, such as an Image Generator's Reference Images.

The canvas, in short

Three kinds of workflow

When a workflow is worth it

• The job has several steps, such as redraw, then upscale, then remove the background. By hand, each step is a new page and a new chance to forget a setting.
• The job repeats. The tenth character runs exactly like the first.
• Someone else will run it. You fix the models and prompts once, and the team only swaps the input.

Prove a step by hand on the Create pages first. When it works twice, it's worth a node. A workflow repeats a process faithfully, including its mistakes: it doesn't judge quality for you.

Common problems

What's next

The input is ready. In Build your first workflow, you wire it into the first prompt and make the first sheet. For every node and its settings, keep the Nodes reference and the Tour of the workflow editor close.