STEP 01
Open the project
Open the project to work in. We'll use Tutorial Demo.
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Know where every image came from
Studios, guilds, insurers and regulators now ask the same question of AI-assisted work: what is it made from, who made it, and were you allowed to use it? Loft keeps that record as you work. This tutorial brings in three sources, generates and publishes a keyframe from them, and then follows the record: every action, every input, and every licence, with nothing typed in by hand.
Follow along
Step by step
STEP 02
Open the asset
Open Locations and Harbour Steps, a new location with nothing in it yet.
STEP 03
Bring in three sources
Upload three files: a painting of Wren by our artist Ines, a lamp room concept licensed from an outside studio, and a storm palette someone pulled off the web.
STEP 04
Rights arrive with the file
Open the concept and its Context tab. Author, copyright, licence and origin are already filled in: Loft read them from the file as it arrived. Nobody typed this. Press 2 to mark it Selected for use.
STEP 05
Made by hand
The painting says who made it, Ines Duarte, that Northlight owns it, and that a person made it, not a model.
STEP 06
And one that says nothing
The palette carries nothing: no author, no licence. Files from the web usually don't. We'll use it anyway, as often happens, and see what Loft makes of it.
STEP 07
Pin them
Close the viewer, select all three and pin them, so they're one click away as inputs.
STEP 08
Generate from all three
In Generate, choose Nano Banana 2 Edit, take the three pins as inputs, and ask for Wren on the harbour steps, in the palette's colours.
STEP 09
The keyframe arrives
Click Generate. As the image lands, Loft has already recorded the model, the prompt, every input, who ran it and what it cost.
STEP 10
Publish it
Open the keyframe and press 3 to publish it as a concept.
STEP 11
Every action, recorded
Publish, and open Activity. Everything that happened to the asset is here, newest first: who uploaded what, the generation with its model, prompt and inputs, and who published which version.
STEP 12
Follow it back
Select the keyframe and click View generation flow. The three sources feed the generation that made it.
STEP 13
How it was made
Click the generation: the model, who ran it and when, each input, and the prompt word for word. Rerun would make it again from exactly this.
STEP 14
What it was made from
Click Ines's painting: its rights travel with it into the flow.
STEP 15
The Dependency Report
Back in the files, select the keyframe and choose Action > Dependency Report: every file it was made from, how each was made, by whom, with which model, and on what rights.
STEP 16
One to check
The palette is flagged: its origin is unknown and no rights are recorded. Loft can't say you may use it, so it says so.
STEP 17
Take it with you
Export CSV saves the whole record, for a client, a distributor or an insurer.
STEP 18
Ask the Assistant
With the keyframe selected, open the Assistant and ask: Where did this keyframe come from, and is anything not cleared for use?
STEP 19
The same record, in words
It reads the same record as the report: two sources cleared, and the palette to resolve before the keyframe goes further.
STEP 20
Record what you find
It turns out the palette is a painting shared under CC BY. Open it, and on Context set Origin to Made by hand and License to CC BY 4.0, credit Marta Kell.
STEP 21
Nothing left to check
Run the report again: every source is accounted for.
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