Moodboards — a saved set of inspiration images that define a visual styleMoodboards — a saved set of inspiration images that define a visual styleMoodboards — a saved set of inspiration images that define a visual style

Moodboards

Combine your favorite images into reusable moodboards, then use them to guide the style of AI-generated images and videos

Golden Hour moodboard style preview
Golden Hour
Cyberpunk Neon moodboard style preview
Cyberpunk Neon
Watercolor moodboard style preview
Watercolor
Film Noir moodboard style preview
Film Noir
Anime moodboard style preview
Anime
Street Photography moodboard style preview
Street Photography
Fashion Editorial moodboard style preview
Fashion Editorial
Surrealism moodboard style preview
Surrealism
Y2K Fashion moodboard style preview
Y2K Fashion
Oil Painting moodboard style preview
Oil Painting
Sci-Fi Films moodboard style preview
Sci-Fi Films
Dark Academia moodboard style preview
Dark Academia
Upload your inspiration images, save the style, and use it across AI images and videos.

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How Moodboards Works

Build a visual reference once and reuse it across every tool

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Upload inspiration images

Upload inspiration images

Add individual images that capture the colors, lighting, textures, composition, subjects, or overall feeling you want to reference.
2
Compose your Moodboard

Compose your Moodboard

Bring the images together into one visual direction. Use references that reinforce the style you want your generated content to follow.
3
Name and save it

Name and save it

Give the Moodboard a clear name so you can quickly find the right aesthetic for any campaign, project, or creative concept.
4
Select it when you create

Select it when you create

Open a supported Magic Hour image or video tool and choose your saved Moodboard from the References panel.
5
Add multiple Moodboards

Add multiple Moodboards

Select more than one board when you want to blend visual styles, aesthetics, or creative directions in a single generation.
6
Generate in your chosen style

Generate in your chosen style

Magic Hour uses the selected Moodboards as visual references, helping your images and videos reflect their shared palette, texture, lighting, composition, and mood.
Create Your First Moodboard

Moodboards Use Cases

See how a saved Moodboard keeps your visual style consistent across every tool, campaign, and creative concept.

Define a visual style before creating

Collect colors, lighting, textures, compositions, materials, and references in one Moodboard before generating your first image or video.

Use the same Moodboard across ads, social posts, product visuals, and video concepts so every asset feels connected.

Select more than one Moodboard to combine creative directions — such as vintage editorial photography with futuristic lighting or minimalist design with organic textures.

Gather references for locations, lighting, costumes, color grading, and atmosphere, then use the Moodboard to guide AI-generated scenes and videos.

Save the visual language behind a feed or content series and reuse it across new images, reels, thumbnails, and campaign assets.

Create different Moodboards for competing concepts, test each direction in generated content, and compare the results before committing to a style.

Combine product photography, materials, environments, and lifestyle references to establish the look of a launch or seasonal campaign.

Turn scattered reference images into a reusable visual direction that creators, collaborators, and clients can apply consistently.

Why Creators Love Moodboards

Move beyond long style prompts. Build a visual reference once, reuse it across tools, and let your inspiration images communicate the look you want.

Create from your own references

Upload images that capture the exact palette, lighting, textures, compositions, and atmosphere you want.

Visual direction without long prompts

Show Magic Hour the aesthetic you want instead of repeatedly describing every stylistic detail in words.

One Moodboard, many creations

Reuse the same board across multiple AI-generated images and videos for a more connected visual direction.

Mix styles with multiple Moodboards

Select two or more boards to combine creative influences and discover new hybrid aesthetics.

Organize every creative direction

Keep separate Moodboards for campaigns, clients, scenes, visual worlds, and experimental concepts.

Refine as you create

Update the images in a Moodboard whenever your art direction changes or your concept becomes more focused.

Moodboards Features

One saved visual reference, applied consistently across supported image and video tools

Build Moodboards from your own images

Build Moodboards from your own images

Upload the exact visual references that inspire you instead of relying only on written style descriptions.
Reusable style references

Reusable style references

Save a Moodboard once and select it again whenever you want to return to the same creative direction.
Works with images and videos

Works with images and videos

Use the same visual references across supported Magic Hour image and video tools for a more connected aesthetic.
Mix multiple Moodboards

Mix multiple Moodboards

Combine boards to explore hybrid styles and more nuanced creative directions without rebuilding your references.
Create separate boards for every concept

Create separate boards for every concept

Organize distinct aesthetics by campaign, client, series, scene, product, or creative experiment.
Edit anytime

Edit anytime

Add or remove references, rename a Moodboard, or refine its direction as your project evolves.
Create Your First Moodboard

Moodboards FAQ

A Moodboard is a saved collection of reference images that defines a visual direction. It can communicate qualities such as color, lighting, texture, composition, atmosphere, and artistic style. Select it in supported Magic Hour tools to guide the look of generated images and videos.

Upload individual inspiration images, combine them into a Moodboard, and save it to your library. When creating an image or video, select the Moodboard from the References panel and Magic Hour will use it as visual style guidance.

You compose the Moodboard yourself from images you choose. Magic Hour then uses the finished Moodboard as a reference when generating AI images and videos.

Choose images that clearly express the visual qualities you want, such as palette, lighting, texture, composition, environment, materials, fashion, or camera style. A focused set of compatible references usually communicates a clearer direction than unrelated images.

Yes. You can select multiple Moodboards to blend visual directions in one generation. This is useful for combining complementary aesthetics, introducing contrast, or exploring a hybrid style.

Magic Hour uses the selected boards together as visual guidance. The output may combine qualities such as the palette of one board, the lighting of another, and textures or composition from both. Results vary by prompt, source assets, tool, and generation settings.

Yes. Moodboards are designed as reusable style references for supported Magic Hour image and video creation workflows.

No. A Moodboard guides the visual direction rather than locking every generation to an identical result. Outputs will vary while drawing from the selected references and your prompt.

A Moodboard defines a creative look or aesthetic through reference images. A Brand Kit stores a brand's reusable identity, such as logos, colors, fonts, imagery, and brand guidance. Use a Moodboard for art direction, a Brand Kit for brand consistency, or both when you want content to follow a specific brand and campaign style.

A Moodboard guides visual style, while a Character preserves the likeness of a specific person. You can use them together to generate the same person within a consistent aesthetic.

Yes. You can add or remove images, rename the Moodboard, and refine its visual direction as your project evolves.

Yes. Save separate Moodboards for different clients, campaigns, scenes, content series, products, or creative concepts. The number you can save may depend on your plan.

Go to /create/moodboards to create, view, edit, and manage your saved Moodboards.

Magic Hour does not invent the Moodboard for you. You build it from your own images, then use it to guide AI image and video generation. This gives you direct control over the visual references behind the result.

You should only upload and use images that you own or have permission to use. Make sure your references and resulting content comply with applicable rights, licenses, and Magic Hour's terms.

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