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Try colorways, extract palettes, recolor by part and make material swatches.
The Insert (+) menu open below the top toolbar, with Insert marked 1, the Variate tile marked 2 and the Extract tile marked 3. The menu lists the upload rows, then tiles for Sketch, Instant Render, Make 3D, Animate, Modify, Variate, Extract, Try on and the legacy Style, Mix and Render blocks.

Insert (+) (1), then Variate for colorways (2) or Extract for palettes and materials (3).

Pick a tool

Generate colorways

A navy water bottle connected to two Variation blocks on the Color tab. The first uses the palette Coastal Contrast (blues, light grey, yellow) and produces navy and grey bottles with yellow caps. The second uses Botanical Balance (greens, cream, orange) and produces green and orange bottles.

One product, two palettes: each Variation block makes its own colorways.

1

Add a Variate block

Click Insert (+) > Variate, connect your image and open Color.
2

Change the palette

Click a swatch to change it, or click Access color palette for a saved one.
3

Choose how many

Pick 1, 4, 8 or 16, up to your plan’s limit.
4

Generate

Click Generate.
A yellow backpack connected to a Variation block with a green, cream and tan palette named Botanical Balance and the count set to 8, next to eight generated backpacks in olive, cream and tan colorways.

Eight colorways from one palette.

Control where each color goes

  • Say it in a prompt: “Change only the top handle to safety yellow and keep the main body dark gray.”
  • Use Region Maps for an exact color per part.

Batch colorways from a Library folder

Mention a folder of colors in a Modify prompt for one colorway per color.
The Workbench with the Library panel open on This File, inside a folder named Summer Hues (marked 1 in the breadcrumb) that holds twelve color chips such as Watermelon, Flamingo, Lilac and Sky (marked 2). A running-shoe render is connected to a Modify block whose prompt reads Create a new image of @1 and change the colors of the upper and the laces to @Summer Hues, with the mention marked 3. The generate arrow shows 12× (4) and the Resolution row reads 2K (5).

Folder (1) and colors (2), the mention (3), image count (4) and resolution (5).

1

Make a folder

In the Library, click the folder icon > Create folder.
2

Fill it with colors

Upload an .ase or .aco file. Each swatch becomes its own color.
3

Mention the folder in a prompt

Type the change and @-mention the folder.
4

Generate

Set Resolution to 1K or 2K and click the arrow.
  • 4K isn’t available for folder batches.
  • Batch size by plan: 6 Free, 12 Edu, 15 Pro, 25 Organization and Enterprise.
  • Credits: each image is a normal Modify run; 12 at Standard 1K cost 48.

Extract and edit a palette

1

Add an Extract block

Click Insert (+) > Extract, connect an image and open Color.
2

Choose how to sample

Set Sample by: Hierarchy, Subject, Full image or Custom.
3

Edit and recolor

Change a swatch, then click Update colors (2 credits).
A photo of a model in a khaki puffer jacket, surrounded by swatches of its colors, next to an Extract block on the Color tab: Sample by Subject, a five-color palette named Lava butter in red-orange, mauve, tan, blue and ochre, # of colors 5 and the Update colors button. On the right, the same model recolored with that palette: an orange puffer, a tan sweater, mauve trousers and a blue beanie.

Change a swatch, click Update colors, and the image is recolored to match.

To export a palette, click its … > Export as… > ASE.

Make a material swatch

1

Open the Material tab

In an Extract block, open Material.
2

Frame the material

Drag the image so the material sits under the cutout.
3

Extract

Turn on Generate PBR if you need maps, then click Extract material.
For PBR maps from a Studio layer, right-click it > AI Actions > Convert to PBR.

Get better results

  • Start from a clean base render. Muddy lighting gives inconsistent colorways.
  • Sample by Subject for the product’s colors, Full image to include the scene.

Color variation

Every Color tab setting.

Edit part of an image

Region Maps and selections.

Library

Saved colors and palettes.

Explore variations

Forms and views.