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Scene Illustration & Print

This page covers the visual tools tied to your manuscript — illustrating scenes, storyboarding arcs, and pulling detail out of an image — plus producing a print-ready PDF for publishing. For the general image tools (the Image Composer and the Image Archive), see Image Tools.

Illustrating a scene

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The Scene Illustration flow walks you through generating a single image for a specific moment in a scene. It’s a short guided wizard:

  1. Choose the moment — the event to capture, the time of day and weather, and the mood you want the image to carry.
  2. Set the foundation — pick the location and arrange which characters are the focus, which are present, and which to leave out.
  3. Composition and style — choose a framing (a wide shot, a single figure, a close detail, or an establishing shot) and your style, lighting, and influences.
  4. Review and generate — Wonderthrough proposes the prompt; edit it if you like, then generate.

The result is a scene-level image you can keep as visual reference for that moment.

Storyboarding an arc

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Storyboarding generates a sequence of rough frames for the beats of an arc, giving you a visual pass over a story thread. You work with these in the book’s image view, switched to its arc view, where you can pick a storyboard style — from quick thumbnail sketches to inked panels or concept art — and generate frames for an arc’s beats, advancing to the next beat that still needs one.

Storyboard frames are scaffolding for your own thinking, not finished or canonical art. They’re a fast way to see an arc’s shape, not a substitute for the manuscript.

Describe & Extract

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Describe & Extract reads an existing image and turns it into profile detail for the character, location, or scene it belongs to. Open an image in the lightbox, find the Describe & Extract action, and Wonderthrough’s vision model produces:

  • a written description of the image, which you can save as a note, and
  • field-by-field proposals — things like clothing style or physical attributes — that you can accept, dismiss, or reject one at a time.

Anything you accept is applied to the linked entry’s profile, and your choices are remembered if you reopen the image later. Describe & Extract works on images linked to a character, location, or scene.

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When you’re ready to take a book to print, Print Preview produces a professional, print-ready PDF with a live preview of every page as you adjust the settings. It’s built for self-publishing workflows like KDP and IngramSpark.

You can configure:

  • Trim size — standard manuscript (8.5″ × 11″) or common book-interior sizes such as 5″ × 8″, 5.5″ × 8.5″, 6″ × 9″, and the IngramSpark sizes — with mirrored inside margins for binding.
  • Headers and footers — what appears in the running heads (author, title, or chapter) and where page numbers sit.
  • Front matter — title page, copyright page, dedication, and a table of contents.
  • Scene-break style — asterisks, hashes, a section mark, or a plain blank.

The preview re-paginates live at your chosen trim size, and you can zoom, page through, and check for any inline images that didn’t render before you export. From there, Export PDF saves the file, or Print hands it to your system print dialog. You can produce a PDF for the whole manuscript, a single folder, or a single scene.

For other manuscript formats — .docx and .epub — and full-project archives, see Export & Backup.

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