Reference Board
Generate a dense, premium reference board — hero portrait + metadata block + panels + a color palette — in one AI pass from reference image(s), then refine it (global edit, masked edit, or re-roll). Lock a subject’s look in a single artifact you feed everywhere for consistency.
Overview
Reference Board produces a single, editorial-style reference sheet for a Character, Location, or Object — a hero image, a metadata block, several panels (views, expressions / time-of-day, details, variations, lighting), and a 6-swatch color palette — all composed by the image model in one generation, from one or more reference images.
It is the single-pass, generative counterpart to the Reference Sheet node:
| Reference Sheet | Reference Board | |
|---|---|---|
| How it’s built | composites individual panels the entity already has (or generates them and lays them out) | the image model draws the whole board in one pass |
| Output | a sheet plus a clean set of individual panels | one cohesive board image |
| Feed downstream | wire individual panels | feed the whole board as a single reference |
| Refine | regenerate a panel | global / masked / re-roll on the board itself |
Use Reference Board when you want a cohesive, premium-looking board fast and intend to feed the whole board to downstream generators as a consistency reference. Use Reference Sheet when you need the individual panels as separate, reusable images.
How to use
- Provide the subject, either:
- From entity — connect a Character / Location / Object node; its image and description flow in as the reference, or
- From image(s) — attach one or more reference images directly.
- Pick a Board template (e.g. Full Board). The template seeds the prompt with the right panel structure for the entity kind; you can edit the prompt afterwards.
- Choose a Provider (Nano Banana Pro or GPT Image 2 — both render in-image text well).
- Adjust aspect ratio, resolution/quality, and (optionally) a negative prompt and seed.
- Run. The model returns one board image.
- Refine on the result (see below). Each refine creates a new version — step back and forth with the version strip; the active version is what feeds downstream.
Refine
Every refine acts on the realized board (the image you actually got back) and appends a new version:
- Re-roll — regenerate a fresh board with a new seed, keeping your settings.
- Global edit (no mask) — type an instruction (“make the jacket red”) and the change is applied across the whole board, identity and layout preserved. Good for cross-panel changes.
- Masked edit — brush a region on the board and describe the change; only the masked area is re-rendered, the rest stays pixel-identical. Good for fixing one panel (e.g. a single expression).
- Refine passes can take additional reference images for accuracy.
Configuration
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source | select | image |
entity (use a connected Character / Location / Object) or image (use attached reference images). |
| Board template | select | character/full-board |
The board structure to generate; seeds the prompt. Templates are grouped by entity kind (character / location / object). |
| Provider | select | nano-banana-pro |
Image model. nano-banana-pro or gpt-image-2 — both handle the board’s in-image labels and palette text. |
| Prompt | text | seeded | Prefilled from the board template; fully editable. |
| Negative prompt | text | — | Things to avoid. |
| Reference images | image[] | — | Subject and/or style references (used at generation and in refine passes). |
| Aspect ratio | select | 2:3 |
The board adapts to the chosen ratio. |
| Resolution / Quality | select | 4K |
Up to 4K, provider-dependent. |
| Seed | number | — | Fix for reproducibility; Re-roll uses a fresh seed. |
Output
A single board image. Downstream nodes (video and image generators, etc.) consume it as one reference image — the board carries the subject’s full look in one artifact.
Generating individual standalone panels from the board (for nodes that want a specific angle as its own image) is a planned addition; today the board is fed whole.
Credits
Reference Board is priced the same way as Generate Image for the provider you choose — you pay that provider’s per-image rate, with no separate board fee. Refine passes are priced like an image edit (Modify Image / image-to-image) for the edit provider used. The node shows the cost on its Run button before you run it.