Create your own templates

A good prompt often mixes many decisions in one paragraph: the material, the lighting, the framing, the brand colour. When someone else uses it, they either keep it exactly as it is, or change the wrong part and the result drifts.

A template splits the prompt in two. The fixed part holds the art direction and stays locked. The parts that should change become fields: a snippet, an image, a colour, a list of options. Whoever uses the template fills in a few fields instead of rewriting the prompt, and the result stays on brief.

The video starts with the templates that come with Hylope, builds one from scratch, then covers versions, using a template’s result in Avatar mode, and exporting to JSON to share a template with another workspace.

Same template, different results

Here is a template called Impossible Product Scale: a product blown up to a monumental size, with a person for scale. The prompt behind it is long and precise, but using it only takes a few fields.

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Change the product, and swap the environment and lighting snippets: you get a new visual with the same concept, without touching the prompt.

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Choosing what to expose

This is the most important step. It’s tempting to turn every word of the prompt into a field, but a template with twenty fields is just the prompt again, split into boxes. A simple test: if a field would have the same value every time, it shouldn’t be a field. Keep it in the fixed part.

The field type decides what the person can put in:

• Snippet is tied to one snippet category, like @environment or @lighting, and only offers snippets from it. Swapping the setting or the light is one click, and it’s what changed the look in the example above.
• Image adds an input slot to the prompt bar, for the product, a person, an outfit or a style reference.
• Text is a word or a sentence you change from one generation to the next.
• Options limits the choice to a list you set, which keeps a house style consistent.
• Color and Multi colors take exact values, for one brand colour or a full palette.
• Toggle adds a sentence to the prompt when it’s on, and nothing when it’s off.
• Number is for a count or an amount.

Versions and posters

When other people use a template, changing it changes their results too. Saving a new version keeps the previous ones, so you can improve a template without breaking the images already made with it. Add a poster as well: a list of templates with images is much faster to scan than a list of names.

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Import and export as JSON

Every template exports as a JSON file. It’s what you send to a freelancer, or import into another workspace.

The file is short and readable. This one has two fields, a subject and an accent colour, and a prompt that uses them:

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "hylope.visualTemplate",
  "title": "Untitled Template",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "id": "subject",
      "type": "textarea",
      "label": "Subject",
      "placeholder": "Describe the subject, product, scene, or character...",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "id": "accent_color",
      "type": "color",
      "label": "Accent color",
      "defaultValue": "#ff6b4a"
    }
  ],
  "prompt": [
    "Create an image featuring {{subject}}.",
    "Use {{accent_color}} as a visual accent."
  ]
  }

Import also works with prompts you already have. If you keep prompts as JSON, with the prompt and its variables, import them and Hylope tries to turn each one into a template. The fields are created for you, so a long JSON prompt you used to edit by hand becomes a short form you fill in for everyday generations.

A few templates you use often are worth more than a big library you never open.