How to put together your first workflow in Brand Studio
A single generated image is rarely production-ready without some tinkering. Maybe it needs to fit a banner, or a detail needs to change for a specific market. Regenerating from scratch every time means losing work you already like, and burning time and credits you don’t have.
That’s what workflows are for. Instead of re-generating from scratch over and over, we’ll get one image to the finish line in three steps.
Step 1: Remove the Background
Separate subject from background. Hit Edit → Remove Background to isolate your subject and save him as a transparent PNG. He's cut out with the original lighting intact, which matters when you reintroduce him into a new composition. If any pixels need cleaning up, use the Remove tool to touch up the edges.
Step 2: Expand and Recompose
Expand the background with Outpaint. Go back to the original image and open it in Outpaint. Select your target ratio (21:9, in this case), add a short contextual prompt (e.g., "server farm"), and hit resize. Outpaint reads the image and extends it consistently: same depth of field, same atmosphere, no seams.
Clear the subject from the expanded image. Use the Quick Select tool to select your subject in the outpainted image; it computes his shape automatically so you don't have to trace him manually. Then remove him. You now have a clean, empty background. Download it.
Recompose. Open the empty background and the subject PNG together in Photoshop, Figma, Google Drawings, or whatever's in your workflow. You now have full placement control: reposition him, resize him, or flip him to the other side. He fits naturally because the background was built from the same environment he was extracted from.
Step 3: Upscale to Production Quality
The problem: One element in the image is off…wrong material, wrong color, doesn't fit the campaign or the market you're targeting.
Upscale. Once you're happy with the composition, bring it back into Brand Studio and run it through Upscale (top right of the UI). One click takes your image from 2K to 4K.
Once you start thinking in workflows, one good image is really just a starting point. And none of these chains are complicated on their own. You're not asking one tool to do everything, you're breaking the problem into steps that each tool is actually good at.
There are different ways to workflow
A workflow can be built in different ways beyond going step by step. For instance, our Producer Mode capability in Brand Studio makes decisions about which steps to take, handling the workflow setup automatically. (Enterprise Plan only; learn more here).
Stability AI can also build entirely custom workflows that are delivered as a simple interface; get in touch here if that sounds interesting.
