Add elements to the canvas

Everything on a Virse canvas is an element. There are two element types — image and text — plus a special container called a search group that organizes image results from a query.

Image

An image element displays a single image on the canvas. Images can come from three sources:

• Uploaded — drag a file onto the canvas or upload from the panel

• AI-generated — produced by the canvas chat or generation panel

• Search results — added to the canvas from a search group

Once on the canvas, image elements support additional operations: inpaint, outpaint, upscale, and background removal. They can also be connected to other elements as reference inputs.

Text

A text element displays formatted text on the canvas. You can style it with font, size, color, alignment, padding, and background. Formatting tags (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough) are supported inline.

Text elements can also be connected to search groups as reference inputs — for example, passing a prompt or description into a search.

Search group

A search group is a container that runs a query and displays the results as image elements laid out in a grid. It isn't an element itself — it's a bounded region on the canvas with its own chat interface.

You can connect existing image or text elements into a search group as references, which the group uses to inform its results.

To create a search group, draw a line from an existing element and select Search as the target type.

After a search runs, the resulting images are individual image elements inside the group. You can ungroup them at any time to move or work with them independently.