Nodes

Everything on a Canvas board is a node. A node is one unit of your work: it holds a piece of media, or it generates one. A board is a set of these nodes, connected so one can feed into the next. Understanding nodes is the key to everything else in Canvas.

Two kinds of node

Every node is one of two kinds.

Generation nodes are where you make something new. Add an empty Image, Video, or Audio node, write a prompt, and generate. The result stays inside the node, so the prompt and its output live together.

Media nodes already hold something: an image or clip you uploaded, imported from your library, or picked from the Character library. A text node holds writing. You use media nodes as references for your generation nodes.

Node types

Add any of these from the dock, or by right clicking the board and choosing Add node:

• Text for a brief, a script, or a character description.
• Image, Video, and Audio to generate that kind of media.
• Character to add a preset person.
• Upload and Import bring in a media node from your device or library.

Connect nodes

The real power of a board is connecting nodes. Drag from one node to another to feed the first into the second as a reference. Wire a character into an image node and the result keeps that face. Wire an image node's result into a video node and the clip starts from it. A look you build in one node carries into the next.

See Wire references for how connections work, and Generate images to make your first result.