> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vizcom.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Legacy tools: Render, Refine, Mix, Styles and Color-Match

> Vizcom's legacy Render, Refine, Mix, Styles and Color-Match tools: where they still appear, what they cost, and what replaces them.

> [!WARNING]
>
> These tools still work and are marked **LEGACY**, but get no new features. For new work, use **Modify**, **Instant Render** and reference images.

| Legacy tool | Where it appears | Credits | Use instead |
| - | - | - | - |
| **Render** and **Refine** | Studio **Create (Legacy)** tab; Workbench **Render** block | 3 per output | [Instant Render](https://docs.vizcom.com/tools/instant-render.md), or **Describe your changes** |
| **Mix** | Workbench **Mix** block | 9 | A **Modify** block with the images connected |
| **Styles** | The **Style** picker; Workbench **Style** block; **Settings** > **Styles** | 66 per training run | [Reference images](https://docs.vizcom.com/reference-images.md) and collections |
| **Color-Match** | Studio **Create (Legacy)** tab | Part of the render | Colors named in a Modify prompt, or **Extract** > **Color** |

## Render

The original sketch-to-render tool: **Render** turns a sketch into an image from a prompt and a style, and **Refine** varies an existing image.

## Mix

Blends 2 to 5 connected images, each with a 0 to 100 slider. Instead, select the images, press <kbd>Q</kbd> and write "Combine the silhouette of @1 with the materials and colors of @2".

## Styles

A style sets the look of a legacy render and works only in **Render**; styles were once called palettes.

![Studio with the Styles picker open next to the Create (LEGACY) tab. Essentials lists Vizcom General, Surface Sculpt, Volume Render and Realistic Product; Stylized lists Cyber Cel and Technicolor. In the Create tab, Render is selected with Style and Reference sections.](https://mintcdn.com/vizcom-c4034e9b/mZT69WTP9Dk-4r_B/images/Screenshot-2026-04-06-at-4.52.42-PM.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=mZT69WTP9Dk-4r_B\&q=85\&s=db25180f47fa7573673966e9373409c1)

The style picker open from the Create (Legacy) tab.

* **Pick one:** click the current style, choose a style, and set its strength in the **%** field.
* **Train one:** add **Insert (+)** > **Style**, upload up to 30 images that share one look, and click **Train**.
* Your plan sets how many trained styles you can keep. See [Plans](https://docs.vizcom.com/reference/plans.md#compare-plans).

## Other legacy controls

### Prompts for Render and Refine

Describe the whole image, not a change, in a few comma-separated words: "silver aluminum teapot, side view, on a wooden table, studio background". Weight a phrase with `(phrase:1.3)`, staying between about 0.5 and 1.5.

### Drawing Influence

How closely a result follows your sketch, from 0% to 100%; start at 70 to 100% for a resolved sketch. In Modify, say what must stay the same instead.

### Color-Match

Keeps your sketch's colors and locks the style to **Realistic Product**; flat color fills work best.

![Studio Create tab with Style set to Realistic Product at 100%, Drawing Influence at 100%, and the Color-Match checkbox being ticked; a red quilted puffer bag sketch on the canvas.](https://mintcdn.com/vizcom-c4034e9b/mZT69WTP9Dk-4r_B/images/image2-1.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=mZT69WTP9Dk-4r_B\&q=85\&s=e3ec047c2dc5f6bfd24e6432ec61fdb0)

Color-Match switched on, with the style locked to Realistic Product.

### Reference (legacy)

**Reference** > **Add...** guides a render with one image as **Style**, **Material**, **Color**, **Try On** or **Environment**. Instead, connect reference images to a **Modify** block.

### Live Render

Updates a preview as you draw, at no credit cost.

### Refine mode

Varies a render or color-blocked sketch while keeping its colors and structure. Instead, use **Describe your changes** or **Variate** > **Form**.

![Left: a render of a white and dark grey backpack with a red handle. An arrow points to four Refine variations on the right, each keeping the layout and red handle but with different panel shapes, straps and hardware.](https://mintcdn.com/vizcom-c4034e9b/l3hebjVqvRBa2E6g/images/image4-8.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=l3hebjVqvRBa2E6g\&q=85\&s=e5383a9986a92b4db57938dfb314a764)

A render (left) and four Refine variations of it (right).


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