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Photo Studio gallery — finding, downloading, and removing photos

Every photo you generate in the Studio tab is saved to your Gallery automatically — there is no extra save step, and you can close the page or the app entirely as soon as you tap Generate (the work continues on our side). Open the Gallery tab whenever you want to find a photo again, download a clean copy, or delete one you no longer want.

This page is for anyone who has generated at least one photo in the Studio and wants to do something with it later.

What it shows

The Gallery is a grid of every completed generation, newest first. Each tile shows the styled output and the name of the style preset you used. Tap any tile to open the full-size view.

The full-size view has three controls:

  • Show original / Show enhanced toggle — flip between the phone shot you uploaded and the AI-restyled version. Useful when you’re deciding whether to use a result.
  • ⬇ Download full size — saves the highest-resolution copy of the enhanced photo to your device. This is the version you should use on the public menu or hand to your designer.
  • 🗑 Delete this photo — appears at the bottom of the page. Permanently removes the photo from both the gallery and our storage.

How scope works

Most users see only their own generations in the Gallery. The owner makes the decision per role: a server might log a photo for a special tasting and a manager might not want everyone seeing their drafts.

If your role includes the Manage Photo Studio permission (typically the owner and the head chef), the Gallery flips to a venue-wide view — you see every photo every staff member has generated, in one stream. This is the right view for keeping a consistent visual identity across the menu, and for spotting drafts that should be cleaned up.

The rule

Deleting a photo removes it permanently — both from the gallery and from our storage. There is no trash bin, no 30-day recovery window. If you might want it later, download it first.

How to use it

To find a photo you generated earlier, open the Studio page (either from the admin sidebar or directly on /photo-studio) and tap the Gallery tab. Photos appear newest first. There is no filter or search in the current version — for now, scroll back chronologically.

To download a finished photo, tap the tile, then tap ⬇ Download full size. The file lands in your device’s normal Downloads folder, named photo-studio-<timestamp>.webp. You can rename it freely; the menu editor accepts any filename.

To delete a photo, tap the tile, then tap the red 🗑 Delete this photo button at the bottom. A confirmation dialog appears — once you confirm, the photo is gone immediately, both from your gallery and from our storage. Other users at your venue (if you have the manage permission and the photo was theirs) will also stop seeing it.

A photo that ended in a failure (network blip, AI provider rejected the prompt, etc.) is filtered out of the default Gallery view — by default you only see completed generations. The page never shows perpetual “generating…” tiles either: a backstop job marks anything stuck for over an hour as failed.

If you suspect a generation is silently lost, check your credit balance (Settings → AI) — if the credits were debited but no photo appeared, contact support with the approximate time of the attempt.

Worked example

Marco generated five photos last week for the new pasta menu — three he kept and used, one he liked but never used, and one that came out wrong (the lighting was harsh in the original phone shot and the AI couldn’t fix it). He opens Studio → Gallery on his laptop on Monday morning.

He scrolls back to the five Friday-evening photos. He taps the gnocchi al pomodoro tile — the enhanced version looks great, but he already used it on the menu. He toggles Show original to remember what the phone shot looked like (for next time he wants the same look). He closes the tile.

He taps the wrong one — the cacio e pepe with the harsh lighting — and looks at it again. Still not usable. He taps 🗑 Delete this photo, confirms, and the tile disappears. Five seconds later the underlying storage object is gone too.

He taps the one he liked but didn’t use — the pesto trofie — and decides he’ll save it for a Mother’s Day promo email. He taps ⬇ Download full size. The file lands in Downloads. He’s done.

Total session: 90 seconds. Three photos remain in his gallery; the unusable one and the saved-locally one are gone from our storage.