How to use InkedStudio

A friendly manual. No jargon, no "RTFM".
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What is this?

InkedStudio is a tool that turns the things you type into pictures and videos using artificial intelligence. You write a sentence, the computer reads it, draws it.

The catch: it's not a magic wand. The better you describe what you want, the better picture or video you get. This manual shows you how to do that.

Sign in

1
Go to the sign-in page in your browser. The address is something like inkedstudio.local/login.php. The link is in the email your demo owner sent you.
2
Type your username (lowercase, no spaces) and password (the one your demo owner shared with you). Hit the big purple Sign in button.
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You're in. You'll land on the studio, ready to make your first thing.
Lost your password? Don't try to guess — ask your demo owner to reset it. They have a button for that.

The studio — what's on the screen

The studio is split into two big areas:

Across the top you'll see a row of buttons: + New Content (start a brand-new chat), your credit balance, ? Help (this manual), and Sign out.

Below the chat is the composer. This is where you type what you want. You'll see a small dropdown that says which model and shape you're using, then a text box, then three buttons: Copy (grabs your prompt so you can paste it somewhere else), Improve prompt (asks the AI to rewrite your prompt so it sounds better), and the big Generate button on the right.

Hover over the little "?" circles next to things if you're not sure what they do. A small message pops up explaining it.

Make a picture

Three steps, in order:

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Pick or make a character. If you've never made a character before, click + New Content in the top bar — the studio will walk you through picking male or female, giving them a name, body type, hair, eyes, age. If you already have characters, click their name in the right panel. A bubble will appear asking "Hello! What new content do you want to create using {name}?" with two big buttons: Image {name} and Video {name}. Pick one and you're ready to type.
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Describe what you want to see. Be specific. Bad prompt: "a woman". Good prompt: "a young woman with short red hair, wearing a black leather jacket, standing in a rainy alley at night, neon signs reflecting off wet pavement, cinematic lighting".

Click Improve prompt if you want the AI to make your sentence longer and fancier. It costs 1 credit.
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Click the big Generate Image button. Wait about 10-30 seconds. Your picture appears in the chat.
Settings matter. The little dropdown above the text box lets you change the shape (1:1 for Instagram, 16:9 for YouTube banners, 9:16 for phone wallpapers) and the resolution (sharper = more credits). Hover the "?" if you're unsure what they do.

Make a video

Same flow as pictures, but you click Video instead of Image when picking your medium. Videos take longer (~2 minutes) and cost more credits than pictures.

The trick to a good video prompt: describe the motion. "A woman walks down a street" is much better than "a woman on a street". Say what she does, where she looks, how the camera moves.

Your work (the right panel)

Everything you've ever generated lives in the right panel, grouped by character. The character Esme, for example, will have a section that shows every image and video you made of her.

Animate an image (turn a picture into a video)

Already have a picture you love? Turn it into a video.

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Find the picture in the right panel and click it. A pop-up opens.
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Click 🎬 Animate image at the bottom of the pop-up.
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The pop-up closes. You land in the studio with the textarea pre-filled with a starter prompt. Edit it to describe how you want the picture to move (camera, action, mood), then click Generate Video.
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Wait ~2 minutes. Your new video appears in the chat and shows up in the right panel under the same character.
Same character, fresh start: click the character's name in the right panel to jump into their chat. You'll see two big buttons: Image {name} and Video {name}. Pick one and you're ready to type your next scene — no need to re-fill any details, the studio already remembers everything about them.

Quick commands (type these in the chat box)

You don't need to remember these. They're just shortcuts for the few things you do most often. Type one and hit Enter.

The "create an image of..." and "create a video of..." shortcuts only work when you already have a character picked. If you don't, the studio will ask you to make one first.

Something broken?

"Invalid credentials" when I sign in

Your username or password is wrong. Check the spelling — usernames are lowercase, no spaces. If you're sure they're right, ask your demo owner to reset your password.

"No credits" or "generation failed"

You're out of credits. Ask your demo owner to top up your account. Everything else in the studio still works — you just can't make new things until you have credits again.

The studio looks blank or the buttons don't do anything

Hit Ctrl+Shift+R (or Cmd+Shift+R on a Mac) to force-reload the page. Your browser cached an old version of the studio.

An image took forever and nothing showed up

Pictures take 10-30 seconds, videos take 1-3 minutes. If you waited and nothing appeared, the network probably hiccuped. Click Generate again — your prompt is still in the text box.

"Animate image" failed with a confusing error

That feature needs the studio to be on a real internet address (with https). It works on the live demo. On a local copy, it fails because the computer can't reach the picture — that's expected.

Still stuck?

Ask your demo owner. They're the only one with admin access to fix things on the server side.