Create and Use Scenes

A scene is not a fixed template where Riverflow pastes your product into the exact same image. In Photoshoots, Riverflow adapts the scene inspiration around your selected product, brand, style, references, aspect ratio, and prompt.

Use a Scene when you want Riverflow to borrow a visual world, such as:

Photoshoots do not copy a Scene exactly. Riverflow uses the Scene as creative direction for the composition, lighting, setting, surfaces, and overall feel. The final images are then adapted to your product, brand, prompt, and selected style, so each output is a new variation rather than a precise recreation of the original scene.

In this example, the input Scene guides the drink-pouring composition and lighting, while Riverflow adapts the final outputs around a different product reference.

If you want to make a precise edit to a single existing image, use Editor. If you want to repeat a precise swap, edit, or aspect-ratio change across many assets, use Batch.

To browse and search scenes:

Example searches:

Use All Scenes when you want to browse Riverflow's available scene library.

Use Your Scenes when you want to see scenes created for your brand. Scenes you create under your brand stay private to that brand. They do not enter the public Riverflow scene library.

Use this when the public library does not contain the visual direction you need.

Use Anonymise when you want Riverflow to learn the general composition, lighting, colour palette, or mood without copying exact objects, logos, people, or props.

Turn Anonymise off when specific background materials, surfaces, props, or details are important to the scene direction.

Use references with:

Avoid scene references that are visually crowded or where the product, person, or object you care about is tightly tangled with the setting, unless you explicitly want those details preserved.

You can delete scenes you created.

Deleting a scene removes it from Your Scenes, but it does not give you back a custom scene space. This is important on plans with scene limits, including Starter and Growth: use deletion for library cleanup, not to reset your scene allowance.

Try simplifying the search. If Art Deco luxury hotel lobby at sunset is too specific, try luxury lobby sunset, then refine from the results.

Check the Anonymise setting. If it was on, Riverflow may have intentionally ignored exact objects or details from the reference.

Make sure you have selected a brand in the sidebar. You need a brand context to use a scene in Photoshoots.

Create or choose a style in Create and Use Style Rules, then use your scene in Generate Photoshoots from Scenes or Prompts.