Getting started

Sumi Studio is an AI creation tool. You can start a conversation with the assistant on the home page, or open a canvas and connect image, video, audio and text nodes to generate your work.

This guide follows the live interface: pick a chapter on the left, one chapter per page. This chapter takes you from signing up to your first creation.

Sign up and sign in

• Click “Sign in” at the top right. Depending on how the site is set up, the sign-in dialog has tabs such as “Social” (Google / Discord / Telegram, plus signing in with a wallet signature), “Phone” and “Email”. When social sign-in is turned on, “Social” opens first. Email uses a verification code by default, and you can switch to a password instead.
• While you're signed out, anything that needs an account (creating a canvas, copying a project, publishing, and so on) opens the sign-in dialog instead of sending you to another page. Only opening the canvas editor itself requires you to sign in first.
• Whether a new account gets free credits, and how many, is shown on the sign-up page and in your credit history. Your balance is in the top bar; hover over it to see the breakdown. Before you generate, check the selected model's live quote to see whether your balance is enough.

Your first creation: start from the home assistant

The assistant's input box sits in the middle of the home page:

• Use the “Create”, “Film & drama” and “Marketing” tabs above the box to switch among the three assistants;
• Type what you want to make. The “+” at the bottom left holds “Add attachment” (upload from your device), “Reference” (same as typing @) and “Add from Assets”; type “/” to bring up commands and skills. The “Start a canvas” card creates a new canvas right away so you can build the nodes yourself;
• Choose how generation runs before you send (shown once you're signed in). With “Ask first”, every generation shows its price and waits for you to confirm. With “Generate right away”, the assistant places the order directly: generation, analysis, transcription and voiceover no longer ask each time, but they're still charged at the quoted price and limited by your balance and budget. Questions, additional budget, plan review and publishing a skill still ask you.

On any other page, click “Home” at the top of the left sidebar to come back to this box. Press ⌘/Ctrl + K to open the Sumi window on the current page (on the home page and the film and marketing assistant pages, it focuses the input box instead).

Or open a canvas directly

• Click “New” (+) next to the “Recent” heading in the left sidebar and choose “New project” or “New canvas”. Clicking “Canvas” in the sidebar creates a standalone canvas right away. “Projects” (/projects) in the sidebar lists all your projects, and you can create new ones there too;
• Open a template in the template library (/templates) and click “Duplicate canvas”, or click “Use template” on the “Templates” tab of “Profile” in the account menu. Either way you get a new, editable canvas based on the template.

Your first text-to-image on an empty canvas takes four steps: double-click empty space and choose “Image”; describe the picture in the prompt bar below the node; pick a model and confirm the credit estimate; click send or press ⌘/Ctrl + Enter. The result comes back to that node. Your edits save automatically.

Get to know the interface

Once you're signed in, the left sidebar is the main navigation on desktop. On the right side of the top bar you'll find, in order, the “Press ⌘K to open Sumi” hint, the appearance toggle, language, your credit balance (click it to open the Credit Store), membership and the account menu.

• “Home” at the top of the sidebar takes you back to the Sumi Harness box on the home page;
• Below it are “Canvas” (creates a standalone canvas in one click), “Projects”, “Assets”, “Skills”, “Community” and “MCP”;
• Further down is “Recent”, where “New” next to the heading creates a project or canvas. At the bottom are “Sumi Academy” and “Help & feedback” (which holds “Guides” and “Contact us”), and “Partners Program” when it applies to you;
• The account menu has your membership card (subscribe or upgrade, redeem code) and storage card at the top, then Profile, Subscription, Usage, AI watermark, Tutorials & docs, My tickets (when ticket support is turned on), Messages, language, appearance, Settings, Sign out and more. On mobile, tap the menu button at the top left to open the sidebar; appearance and language are at its bottom.