Color Palettes, Mediums, and Lighting

Color palettes set the overall color direction of your artwork. Vibrant uses bold, saturated colors with high contrast — ideal for eye-catching pieces. Muted softens everything — lower saturation, gentler tones, a watercolor quality. Warm shifts the palette toward reds, oranges, and golds — sunset tones. Cool favors blues, teals, and silvers — moonlight and winter. Earth draws from browns, greens, and natural tones — grounded and organic. Neon Cyberpunk pushes into electric blues, hot pinks, and neon greens — digital and futuristic. Monochrome restricts to variations of a single color family — sophisticated and focused. Artist Default lets the painter's natural palette take the lead, unmodified by any override.

Your chosen palette either complements or overrides the painter's natural tendencies. Monet naturally leans toward soft, warm light — choosing a Cool palette redirects those tendencies while keeping the brushwork. Van Gogh's bold saturation is amplified by Vibrant but tempered by Muted. Artist Default is the purest experience — the painter's own color sensibility applied to your code. Each combination creates a different emotional register, even with the same underlying code metrics.

The medium affects the texture and feel of the artwork. Oil Painting produces rich, layered compositions with visible brushstrokes and deep color. Watercolor creates transparent, flowing washes with soft edges and luminous highlights. Digital Art gives clean, precise rendering with smooth gradients and sharp details. Charcoal Drawing strips color to create dramatic black and white compositions with expressive mark-making. Acrylic Painting offers bold, flat color areas with sharp edges and modern feel. Pastel creates soft, chalky textures with gentle color transitions. Ink Wash (Sumi-e) produces minimalist, calligraphic compositions with dramatic use of negative space. Artist Default lets the painter's preferred medium shine.

Lighting sets the time of day and dramatically affects mood. Golden Hour bathes everything in warm, low-angle light — the photographer's favorite. Blue Hour creates cool, twilight tones with deep shadows and ethereal quality. Midday produces bright, even lighting with clear visibility and vivid colors. Sunset paints the sky in oranges and purples with long, dramatic shadows. Night shifts to dark backgrounds with artificial or moonlight illumination. Artist Default lets the painting's natural lighting emerge from the painter's style.

The output format determines the image dimensions and intended use. Square (1024×1024) is versatile — social media posts, profile pictures, and general sharing. Portrait (768×1024) works for phone wallpapers and vertical displays. Landscape (1024×768) suits desktop wallpapers and website headers. Wide (1024×576) matches 16:9 displays and presentation slides. Ultrawide (1024×448) spans panoramic displays. Phone Wallpaper (576×1024) is optimized for mobile screens. Desktop Wallpaper (1024×576) fits computer monitors. Social Media Banner (1024×384) creates header images. Profile Picture (512×512) generates compact, focused compositions for avatars.

The output format doesn't just crop — it changes the composition. A square format creates balanced, centered compositions. A wide format encourages panoramic scenes with horizontal flow. A portrait format emphasizes vertical elements — towers, figures, cascading forms. The algorithm adapts the entire visual arrangement to suit the chosen format, ensuring the artwork fills the space meaningfully rather than being awkwardly stretched or cropped.