Workbench

Workbench is your review-and-finalize view for Product Studios. It shows your studios as a board organized by how much work is left on each one, and gives you the finalize-and-download flow.

If you've used Brandmachine before, Workbench is the renamed and redesigned version of the old Review page.

How Studios Move Across the Board

Studios sort themselves. You don't drag cards between columns; they move as you generate and export.

  • To Do. Nothing generated yet. The card shows the studio title and when it was created.
  • In Progress. Something has been generated, but not every generated perspective has an exported image yet. The card shows how far along you are ("2 of 4 perspectives exported").
  • Finished. Every perspective you generated has at least one exported image. There's nothing left to action, so the studio leaves the board and collects in a finished row underneath it. Click that row to expand it if you need to get back to one.

Each column header restates its rule, so you never have to remember which is which.

Each card shows a thumbnail (your favorite if you've picked one, otherwise the newest output) and the studio title.

Only the perspectives you generated count

A studio is finished once everything you actually generated has been exported, not once every perspective you have set up has been generated.

So if your team has fifteen perspectives configured but for this product you only wanted a front and a back shot, that product is finished as soon as those two are exported. It won't sit on the board waiting for thirteen shots you never intended to take.

One export per perspective is enough

You don't have to export every image. Product Studio usually generates several variants per perspective and you keep one. Exporting that one is enough to count the perspective as done.

Time Range

Above the board you can switch between 30 days, 90 days, and All, which filters the board by recent activity. It defaults to the last 30 days.

"Activity" means the newer of when the studio was created and when it last generated an image, so a studio you set up months ago but generated into yesterday still counts as recent and stays on the board.

This keeps old, abandoned studios out of the way without deleting anything. Whenever the filter hides something, the board tells you how many ("41 older studios hidden"), and switching to All brings everything back.

The range is part of the page address, so refreshing or sharing the link opens the same view.

Two Ways to Open a Studio

Each card has two click targets:

  • Card body. Opens the full studio detail view, where you can upload more inputs, edit styling, mark hero products, and regenerate.
  • Quick review button (two-column icon). Opens the Finalize Selection flow.

Finalize Selection

The Finalize Selection page walks you perspective by perspective. For each one:

  • If you already favorited something, the card shows that favorite with a heart and arrow controls to swap.
  • If nothing's favorited yet, the card shows all outputs in a carousel with a Quick pick tag. Navigate with the arrows to pick one.

Each card displays the perspective name and (if set) a small color swatch chip showing the target background hex.

When you've made your picks, click Finalize selection at the top. A tooltip tells you exactly what will change ("Will favorite X image(s) and unfavorite Y other(s)").

Finalizing records which image you picked. It's the export in the next step that finishes the studio and takes it off the board.

Downloading Your Images

The Finalize Selection page has two download buttons at the top, both disabled until you've finalized:

  • Download high-res (PNG): the original lossless master, exactly as generated. It isn't tagged with AI-generated metadata, so it may not meet marketplace requirements on its own.
  • Download JPEG (sRGB): a smaller, sRGB-tagged file. This is the version that carries the AI-generated content label some marketplaces require.

Downloading is what exports an image, and exporting is what moves a studio to finished.

Neither button runs an upscale. Product Studio generates at full resolution (4K) up front, so downloading just releases and exports the image you already generated, nothing is enlarged or re-rendered in between.

Both buttons download every finalized selection at once, named after the perspective. Use PNG when handing off to retouching or a designer who wants the untouched master; use JPEG when uploading straight to Shopify or a marketplace that requires the AI-disclosure label.

FAQs

Why does a studio disappear from the board? Because it's finished: every perspective you generated has an exported image, so there's nothing left to do. It's in the finished row underneath the board, which expands when you click it.

A studio came back to In Progress. Why? You generated a new perspective for it. That perspective doesn't have an export yet, so the studio has work outstanding again.

Do favorites decide which column a studio is in? No. Favorites record which image you picked, and set the card thumbnail, but exporting is what moves a studio across the board.

What if a perspective hasn't generated yet? It won't block Finalize, and it won't hold the studio back. You can finalize and export what's ready, and the studio counts as finished based on what you've generated so far.

I can't find an older studio. Check the time range above the board. It shows the last 30 days by default; switch to All to see everything.

Where does my high-res download go? Wherever your browser sends downloads. Files are named with the perspective so they're easy to drop into a catalog tool.

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