Settings: Custom Prompts

Arist's AI-powered image generation lets you create custom images and infographics for your courses that match your brand style and enhance learning. You can generate visuals for entire courses at once, individual lessons, or customize generation settings at the organization level.

Setting Up Custom Image Preferences

Before generating images, configure your organization-wide preferences to ensure all AI-generated visuals align with your brand.

Accessing Custom Prompts

  1. Navigate to Settings in your admin dashboard

  2. Select Custom prompts from the sidebar

Configuring Image Generation Settings

Image generation prompt: Define organization-specific guidelines for image style, colors, and tone. These instructions will be appended to Arist's system prompts for image generation.

Example: "Always use our company color scheme of blue (#0055a4) and gold (#ffd700). Include abstract imagery that represents innovation and technology."

Logo for AI-generated images: Upload your logo to automatically include it in all AI-generated training images.

  • Accepted formats: JPG, PNG

  • Maximum file size: 5 MB

  • Recommended: PNG with transparent background for best results

Using the Guidelines

Click Guidelines to see detailed prompting guidance that will help you provide guidance to help the AI create images that match your brand, industry, and tone. These inputs will influence visual style, emotional impact, and brand alignment:

  • Industry: Describe your industry or field (e.g., Life Sciences, Enterprise Tech, Higher Education). This helps tailor the type of imagery generated to your domain.

  • Primary brand colors: List your brand’s main colors (e.g., hex codes like #0055a4, or names like “navy blue and gold”). These colors will be used subtly for visual accents.

  • Preferred design style: Describe your ideal visual style (e.g., flat design, isometric, minimal, detailed illustration). This helps us match the visual feel to your brand.

  • Logo use: Do you want your logo included as a watermark on images? If so, please mention that and AI will utilize your publicly available logo.

  • Imagery to avoid: List any visual elements you don’t want included (e.g., no people, no metaphors, no cartoons).

  • Formality level: Describe your brand’s tone of voice — is it formal, casual, or playful?

  • Emotional tone: How should the image feel? (e.g., calming, energetic, inspiring, serious)

Testing Your Settings

Click Generate example image to preview how your custom settings will influence image generation before creating course content.

Generating Images for New Courses

When creating a new course with AI Creator, you can automatically generate images and infographics for all lessons.

Enabling Image Generation

  1. At the end of the Creator form, locate the image generation toggle

  2. Enable Generate images and infographics using AI

  3. Generate the outline and then the course to see the AI-generated images

The AI will automatically determine which lessons benefit most from images versus infographics based on content complexity and learning objectives.

Generating Images in the Course Editor

You can generate or regenerate images for any individual lesson directly in the course editor.

Creating a New Image

  1. Open your course in the editor

  2. Navigate to the lesson where you want to add an image

  3. Click the magic wand icon in the top right corner

The button will lock while the image is generating. Once complete, the image will appear in your lesson.

Regenerating Images

If you're not satisfied with a generated image:

  1. Click the magic wand icon again

  2. Select your preferred generation type

  3. The AI will create a new image based on your lesson content and organization settings

Note: Future updates will allow you to provide specific feedback about what to change when regenerating images.

Understanding Infographics

Infographics are designed to visually explain complex concepts, break down processes, or compare information. The AI automatically determines when an infographic would be more effective than a standard image.

Effective infographics include:

  • Clear sections with bold, readable headers

  • Icons representing core concepts

  • Comparison tables or process flows

  • Logical information hierarchy

  • Ample white space for readability

  • Concept diagrams that support lesson text

Infographics work best for:

  • Multi-step processes

  • Comparisons or contrasts

  • Data visualization

  • Breaking down complex topics

  • Showing relationships between concepts

Versioning and Translation

Course versioning: When you version a course, all images are maintained in the new version

Translation: When translating a course:

  • Images and infographics containing text are automatically translated to the target language

  • Images without text remain unchanged

Best Practices

  • Define your brand guidelines: Spend time setting up your custom image preferences before generating course content

  • Test your settings: Use the example generation feature to ensure your brand guidelines produce the desired results

  • Be specific: More detailed custom prompts yield better, more consistent results

  • Choose the right format: Use images for simple visual reinforcement and infographics for complex explanations

  • Iterate as needed: Don't hesitate to regenerate images that don't meet your expectations

  • Consider your audience: Adjust formality and emotional tone in your settings to match your learners' expectations

If you have any questions or need help, reach out to your Customer Success Manager or [email protected].

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