Platform access level: Org Admins. The Image generation page is part of organization-level Settings, so only Org Admins can open it. Managers have access to everything else in Arist, including their own team's settings, but not to organization-level Settings pages like this one.
Arist generates the images inside your lessons, and by default it makes its own visual choices. On the Image generation page you describe your brand once, upload a logo if you want one on every image, and generate a sample to check the result, so the images your teams produce carry your own look from the start.
1. Opening the Image generation page
Open Settings and choose Image generation in the sidebar.
Your visual guidance goes in the Image generation prompt field, which holds up to 2,000 characters. Arist adds what you write to the instructions it already uses for images and infographics, and your wording wins wherever the two conflict.
Be specific about colors, style, and imagery to avoid. Arist applies each detail you name to every image it generates.
Note: Image generation appears in your Settings sidebar when AI features are enabled for your organization. If you do not see it, ask your Arist Customer Success contact.
2. Covering the seven things the Guidelines panel asks for
Select Guidelines beside the prompt field to open Arist's own list of what to include. Working through it gives the generator the details that change an image.
What to describe | What it does for the image |
Industry | Tailors the imagery to your field, such as life sciences or higher education |
Primary brand colors | Supplies the hex codes or color names used for visual accents |
Preferred design style | Sets the look, such as flat, isometric, minimal, or detailed illustration |
Logo use | Asks whether you want a logo watermarked on images, using one Arist can find publicly |
Imagery to avoid | Rules out elements you never want, such as human figures, metaphors, or cartoons |
Formality level | Places your brand between formal, casual, and playful |
Emotional tone | Sets how the image should feel, such as calming, energetic, or serious |
Write these as plain sentences in the one prompt field rather than as a list of headings, and give hex codes wherever you have them. When the prompt says what you want, select Save.
Note: When you save a brief prompt, Arist expands it into a more detailed version of the same guidance, so the text in the field afterwards can be longer than what you typed. Read it back once and edit it if the expansion drifted from what you meant. A prompt that is already detailed is saved as you wrote it.
3. Uploading a logo for AI-generated images
Arist offers two ways to put a logo on your images. The first is to ask for a logo in your prompt, which is the Guidelines panel's logo question. With this method, Arist uses a logo it can find publicly for your organization. The second option is to upload the logo Arist will use.
Arist adds your logo to an image once three things are in place. The last two controls appear only after a logo is uploaded.
Drop a file into the Logo for AI-generated images area, or select it to browse. Arist accepts JPG and PNG files up to 5 MB, and a PNG with a transparent background gives the best results because the logo sits on the artwork instead of on a white block.
Fill in Logo placement instructions, describing where and how the logo should appear, for example in the bottom right corner at low opacity as a watermark.
Turn on Use logo in generated images. Placement instructions are required before you can save with the toggle on.
Clearing the logo removes its placement instructions and switches the toggle off.
Important: Arist uses the exact file you upload and does not substitute a logo it already recognizes, so upload the version you want learners to see. Use it for a department or subsidiary mark.
4. Previewing the result with Generate example image
Select Generate example image at the top of the page to see your prompt applied to real course content before your teams rely on it.
Pick the content under Select content, then the lesson under Select step/lesson. A lesson that holds more than one image adds Select media substep.
Use Image generation instructions if you want to test a variation on top of your saved prompt.
When the lesson already has an image, leave Apply instructions to existing image checked to modify that image, or clear it to generate a completely new one.
Select Generate.
Generating takes up to a minute. The sample is for checking rather than for use in the lesson, and Retry generates another one from the same selection. When the sample is not what you want, edit the prompt and generate again.
Try it: Add one line naming your brand colors, select Save, then run Generate example image on a lesson you know well and compare the sample with that lesson's current image.
5. Knowing how organization and per-image instructions layer
Three sets of instructions reach the image generator when it makes an image, and they stack in a fixed order.
Layer | Where it is set |
Arist's defaults for layout, margins, and style | Built in, always applied |
Your organization's image generation prompt | Settings > Image generation, on this page |
Instructions for one image | The generate or regenerate window in the course editor |
Your organization prompt wins over Arist's defaults wherever the two conflict, and instructions written for a single image win over both. One lesson can differ from the house style without anyone editing this page. Generating and regenerating images while building a course is covered in Using the Content Editor.
Your organization's brand voice, tone, and terminology are set on the Content guidelines page and shape the text Arist writes, so the formality and emotional tone you describe here apply to how an image looks and feels rather than to the words in a lesson. See Setting Up Content Guidelines.
Translating a course works differently. Arist regenerates the images that carry text so their text appears in the new language, and the rest of each image stays as it was. The wording inside them follows your organization's translation instructions. See Translating an Existing Course.
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Note: Need help at any point? Reach out to your Arist Customer Success contact, or email [email protected].