> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Automate Creative Production with Workflows - URL: https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/automate-creative-production-with-workflows/ - Published: 2025-12-12T10:42:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-10T08:52:04.000Z - Description: A major launch: every project now has Designer and Workflows, plus a shared gallery. Explore one idea, scale it with automations, or pull a batch result back into Designer when it needs a precise finish. - Author: Hiding Elephant - Tags: Product, Workflows, Automation, #Import 2026-10-11 13:00 Today we're launching **workflows**. This is the big one. Here's the problem it solves. You find a look that works. A product shot, an ad style, a campaign direction. And then you need it again. Across 40 products. In 6 sizes. For 3 channels. Same steps every time, and every one of them done by hand. That's where creative hours actually go. Not into the idea, but into repeating it. ![Workflow builder with Designer and Workflows toggle, connected nodes, and shared gallery](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/image-11-1.png) ## Every project now has two views Here's the part we're most excited about. Every project in Hiding Elephant now has **Designer** and **Workflows**, side by side: - **Designer** is where you explore, craft, and finish with precision - **Workflows** is where you turn a proven process into a visual automation ![Designer view with product ads and campaign layouts on the canvas](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/image-18-1.png) Designer view: design the image and the concept. ![Workflows view reframing one design into multiple channel sizes](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/image-15-1.png) Workflows view: automate repetitive tasks like reframing. They're not separate products. They're two views of the same project, connected by a **shared gallery** in the middle. So the loop goes both ways. Generate something great in Designer, then flip to Workflows to scale it across prompts, products, and sizes. Or run a big batch, spot the one image that deserves extra love, and open it in Designer with the full finishing toolkit. No exporting. No re-uploading. No "which tool has the latest version?" The gallery is the same on both sides. ## Why we built it One-off creative work is fun. Production is where the hours go. You find a look that works. Then you need it again across products, prompts, sizes, or campaign variants. Same steps. Different inputs. Over and over. ![Workflow generating color variants of a product from one image and multiple prompts](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/image-16-1.png) That's usually where teams get stuck: - Remaking the same process by hand - Losing consistency when people rebuild from memory - Strong ideas that never reach full volume - Choosing between craft and throughput Workflows are how we stop that tradeoff. ![Batch workflow looping products and prompts into multiple generated outputs](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/image-13-1.png) ## What a workflow actually is A workflow is a visual automation you build by dragging and connecting steps: - Generate images from prompts or inputs - Run editing and processing steps - Resize and reframe for different channels - Process many items in one batch - Save the whole thing as a template you can run again ![Complex product workflow with connected input, generate, and output nodes](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/image-12-1.png) In plain terms: **design the flow, not every single click.** ![Designing a reusable creative automation flow instead of repeating every click](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/design-the-flow-2-1.png) ## From one strong idea to hundreds of outputs Here's how it feels in practice: 1. Explore in Designer until something clicks 2. Use that direction as the start of a workflow 3. Run it, and review the outputs in the shared gallery 4. Need more? Run it again with new inputs 5. Pull any single result back into Designer when it needs a sharper finish You're never trapped in automation-only mode. And you're never stuck remaking every variant by hand. Find the look. Automate the repetition. Refine the heroes. ## Why this launch is a big deal Everything we've shipped this year has been building toward this: - Generate and refine on the [canvas](https://www.hidingelephant.com/canvas?ref=blog-new.hidingelephant.com) - Improve what you already like with [Magic Edit](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/introducing-magic-edit/) - Finish with precision through [Vector Canvas V2](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/vector-canvas-v2/) - Bring your team into one home with [workspaces](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/workspaces-for-teams/) All of that made one-off work better. Workflows make the work after the work better: the 40 variants, the weekly batch, the resize marathon nobody enjoys. When a good process becomes a system you can rerun, your team stops paying for the same clicks twice. That's the difference between a design tool and a creative production workspace. ![Workflows built to speed up production work at scale](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/speed-production-1-1.png) ## Where workflows shine - Hundreds of variants from one strong creative direction - Batch edits across a whole set of assets - Channel-ready sizes from a single creative system - Weekly pipelines your team runs again and again - Agency and ecommerce work that needs consistency at speed ![Making hundreds of creative versions quickly with workflow automation](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/hundreds-of-versions-2-1.png) And because Designer is right there in the same project, the best outputs don't have to stay "good enough from the batch." Open one. Clean it up. Push it further. ![Batch editing images inside an automation workflow](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/batch-edit-2-1.png) ## A peek inside the builder Under the hood, workflows are a node-based system: inputs, generation, processing, loops, and outputs, connected into one visible path. ![Generate image nodes connected in a Hiding Elephant workflow](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/generate-image-nodes-1-1.webp) You can see the structure of the work. Adjust a step. Add loop logic when volume matters. The whole production system stays visible, instead of living in someone's head or a messy checklist. ![Loop node iterating a creative pipeline across many inputs](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/loop-node-1-1.webp) Need every social size from one strong asset? Build reframing into the flow itself, so channel prep is part of the system, not a separate scramble at the end. ![Reframing one creative for multiple social channels in a workflow](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/reframe-channels-1-1.png) And when a flow is proven, save it as a template. The next run starts from something that already works. ![Saving a workflow as a reusable automation template](https://blog-new.hidingelephant.com/content/images/2026/07/save-templates-1-1.webp) ## Who will feel this most - Ecommerce and marketing teams producing listing, ad, and social variants at volume - Agencies packaging repeatable creative systems for clients - In-house teams that finally found a look that works and now need it everywhere - Anyone with a strong Designer process who's tired of running it manually ## Try it Open a project, switch between **Designer** and **Workflows**, and build your first automation. Or start from [workflows](https://www.hidingelephant.com/workflows?ref=blog-new.hidingelephant.com). For the bigger picture, read [workflow automation](https://www.hidingelephant.com/how-it-works/workflow-automation?ref=blog-new.hidingelephant.com) and the [workflows feature overview](https://www.hidingelephant.com/features/workflows?ref=blog-new.hidingelephant.com). Explore in Designer. Scale in Workflows. Share one gallery. That's the production workspace we're building, and this launch is a major piece of it.