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# The Workspace

Skipping over the settings and other options covered in other sections, these are the features you will be using for painting with the AI.

## The Canvas

Everything takes place on this canvas. You can start by dragging an image here.

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Images added to the canvas will get dropped at the top-left corner of the bounding box.

Either drag the image here from a folder or your desktop, \
or drag the image in the starting image space onto the canvas, \
or paste it from the clipboard (ctrl+v),\
or use the [#import-image](#import-image "mention") button.

The buttons at the top offer you a selection of tools to use in this space.

Be aware that images in the starting image space has no effect on the canvas image.\


<figure><img src="https://2463013151-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FrjzSinvVPe17AZtDte0Z%2Fuploads%2FpiSBSWAQjIbSUfB7JMpe%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=99654e6f-25a7-4525-91cd-e346ab6b4811" alt=""><figcaption><p>The canvas, with bounding box and settings</p></figcaption></figure>

### The Bounding Box

The bounding box can only be interacted with when using the move tool (V)

The Bounding Box is the dotted rectangle on the canvas. \
It is the space currently being worked on.\
**Does not need** to be over the whole image but, \
The AI can't see anything outside the bounding box.

Just to be clear about that. Anything outside the bounding box **does not exist** to the AI

<figure><img src="https://2463013151-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FrjzSinvVPe17AZtDte0Z%2Fuploads%2F30scmM7ZES9gAoMiryst%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=9f80785e-67d3-4562-9daf-5f8c4baf8bda" alt=""><figcaption><p>This is what you see.</p></figcaption></figure>

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If you don't have enough relevant parts of the image in this bounding box for the AI to reference, it will have a hard time making the changes you ask for.
