---
title: "The image brief studio"
description: "Choose the composition, light, and use. Leave with a brief you can actually direct."
author: Graham
date: 2026-09-06
url: https://powerofai.ca/lab/image-brief
---

# The image brief studio

Choose the composition, light, and use. Leave with a brief you can actually direct.

Build a request by choosing the subject, intended use, composition, aspect ratio, medium, light, and details to preserve. A layout sketch illustrates subject placement and headline space. It is not an AI-generated image. Copy the resulting brief into a tool you choose.

## Compose for a purpose

Place the subject in the right third when a headline belongs on the left. Center a subject when it needs to be the focal point. Place it on the left to leave room on the right. Choose a wide, square, or portrait shape for the destination.

## Direct the image

Specify soft daylight, warm evening light, or an even studio treatment. Select a medium such as editorial illustration, photographic still life, paper cutout, or colored pencil. Keep important subject details explicit.

## Review the result

Check recognizable subject details, usable headline space, distorted edges, extra objects, and incorrect text. View at the final display size. For an edit, compare everything that was meant to stay fixed.

[Read the image prompt guide](/learn/image-prompts-that-work).