Leonardo AI is a creative platform for generating images, artwork, and design assets. Learn practical skills with AI Academy and discover useful workflows in our AI Library.
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1. What Is Leonardo AI? ❌
Discover Leonardo AI as a creative platform for generating and developing images, video, 3D assets, and other visual content. AI Academy 1U introduces the platform’s major capabilities and explains how its tools can support modern creative production workflows.
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2. Create and Set Up Your Leonardo Account ❌
Create a Leonardo account and prepare the workspace for productive AI-assisted creative work. AI Academy 1U guides learners through the initial setup process and establishes the foundation needed to begin exploring Leonardo’s image, video, and creative tools.
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3. Explore the Leonardo Interface ❌
Explore the Leonardo interface and become familiar with Home, Image, Video, Library, Flow State, Realtime, and other important areas. AI Academy 1U teaches learners where essential tools are located and how the platform is organized for efficient creative production.
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4. Understand Tokens and Generation Costs ❌
Understand how Leonardo tokens are consumed across different models, generation settings, and creative tools. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to recognize how generation choices affect token usage so they can manage creative resources more efficiently.
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5. Create Your First Leonardo Image ❌
Create your first Leonardo image through a practical prompt-to-generation workflow. AI Academy 1U guides learners through writing a prompt, generating visual options, selecting a preferred result, and saving the finished image for future use.
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6. Understand Text-to-Image Prompting ❌
Understand the fundamental structure of text-to-image prompting in Leonardo AI. AI Academy 1U teaches learners how descriptive instructions guide image generation and how a well-structured prompt can produce more intentional and controllable visual results.
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7. Describe Subject, Environment and Composition ❌
Build stronger Leonardo prompts by clearly defining the subject, surrounding environment, and visual composition. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to organize these elements so generated images communicate the intended scene with greater clarity and visual structure.
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8. Control Lighting, Camera and Mood ❌
Control the visual character of Leonardo images through lighting, camera perspective, and emotional atmosphere. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to incorporate these creative directions into prompts to produce imagery with more deliberate cinematic and photographic qualities.
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9. Build Photorealistic Prompts ❌
Create prompts designed to produce convincing photorealistic imagery in Leonardo AI. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to combine subject detail, lighting, camera language, environment, and realistic visual characteristics into prompts suitable for professional-looking results.
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10. Build Commercial and Fashion Prompts ❌
Develop Leonardo prompts for commercial photography, advertising, products, and fashion imagery. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to structure creative direction around subjects, styling, composition, lighting, and presentation requirements commonly found in professional visual campaigns.
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11. Understand Leonardo Image Models ❌
Understand the role of Leonardo image models and how different models can produce different visual characteristics and capabilities. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to recognize model differences before choosing the most appropriate generation approach for a creative project.
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12. Choose the Right Model for Each Project ❌
Choose a Leonardo image model according to the visual objective and requirements of a specific project. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to evaluate the desired output before selecting a model rather than relying on the same generation configuration for every task.
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13. Understand Image Dimensions and Aspect Ratios ❌
Understand image dimensions and aspect ratios and how they affect composition and final usage. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to select appropriate formats for social media, advertising, presentations, products, and other visual platforms.
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14. Work with Style Presets ❌
Use Leonardo style presets to guide the visual direction of generated images. AI Academy 1U teaches learners how presets can influence appearance and how to incorporate them thoughtfully into a controlled creative workflow.
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15. Control Variations, Seeds and Output Consistency ❌
Understand how variations and seeds can influence repeated generations and visual consistency. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to manage these controls when exploring alternatives or developing related images that need a more consistent creative direction.
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16. Understand Omni Models ❌
Understand the workflow and creative capabilities of Leonardo Omni models. AI Academy 1U introduces learners to how these models can support image generation and editing tasks that require flexible interaction between prompts, existing images, and visual references.
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17. Edit Images with Natural Language ❌
Edit Leonardo images using natural-language instructions instead of relying entirely on traditional manual editing methods. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to describe desired visual changes clearly so prompt-based editing can become part of an efficient creative workflow.
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18. Add and Remove Objects with the Inline Editor ❌
Add new objects or remove unwanted elements from an image with Leonardo’s Inline Editor. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to use targeted prompt instructions to modify image content while maintaining a coherent overall composition.
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19. Change Clothing, Background and Environment ❌
Transform clothing, backgrounds, and surrounding environments through prompt-based image editing. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to modify important scene elements while preserving the useful portions of the original visual concept.
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20. Combine Multiple Reference Images ❌
Combine information from multiple reference images within a Leonardo creative workflow. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to use different visual references together when developing compositions that require characteristics or ideas from more than one source image.
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21. Understand Image Guidance ❌
Understand Leonardo Image Guidance and how reference images can influence generated outputs. AI Academy 1U teaches learners the fundamental role of visual guidance before applying specific reference techniques to style, content, characters, and complex generations.
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22. Use Style Reference ❌
Use a style reference to guide the visual appearance of a Leonardo generation. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to transfer useful stylistic characteristics from a reference while developing new imagery for a specific creative objective.
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23. Use Content Reference ❌
Use content references to influence the subject matter and visual structure of generated images. AI Academy 1U teaches learners how reference content can provide stronger creative direction when text prompts alone are insufficient.
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24. Use Character Reference ❌
Use character references to preserve recognizable character characteristics across multiple Leonardo images. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to develop greater continuity when the same character needs to appear throughout different scenes or visual assets.
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25. Combine Multiple References ❌
Combine multiple types of visual references within one Leonardo generation. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to coordinate style, content, character, and other reference information to achieve more controlled and sophisticated creative results.
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26. Control Human Poses with Pose Reference ❌
Control human body positioning through pose-reference images in Leonardo AI. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to guide generated characters toward desired poses while maintaining creative flexibility in clothing, environment, and overall visual presentation.
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27. Preserve Character Identity ❌
Preserve important character characteristics across multiple scenes and generated images. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to build stronger visual continuity when developing recurring people or characters for stories, campaigns, brands, and creative projects.
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28. Control Composition with Edge and Depth ❌
Use edge and depth information to guide composition and spatial relationships within Leonardo images. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to gain greater structural control when the placement, shape, and depth of visual elements are important to the result.
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29. Transform Sketches into Finished Images ❌
Use sketches as creative foundations and transform them into developed Leonardo images. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to move from rough visual ideas toward polished outputs while preserving important structural information from the original sketch.
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30. Create a Consistent Character Series ❌
Create a connected series of Leonardo images featuring a visually consistent character. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to coordinate identity, references, poses, composition, and generation choices across multiple scenes for stronger continuity.
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31. Create AI Fashion Models ❌
Create AI-generated fashion models for use in fashion photography and visual campaigns. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to establish a model concept that can support clothing presentations, editorial imagery, advertising, and other fashion-oriented creative projects.
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32. Generate Clothing Editorial Photography ❌
Generate professional-style editorial fashion imagery with Leonardo AI. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to combine models, clothing, styling, environment, composition, and photographic direction to develop more polished fashion visuals.
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33. Control Pose, Camera and Runway Composition ❌
Control model poses, camera perspectives, and runway-style composition in Leonardo fashion imagery. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to coordinate these visual elements to create more intentional and professionally directed fashion photographs.
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34. Preserve Clothing Design and Brand Details ❌
Preserve important clothing characteristics and brand-related visual details across AI-generated fashion images. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to focus on consistency when garments, design features, and recognizable product details need to remain visually important.
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35. Build a Complete Fashion Campaign ❌
Build a coordinated fashion campaign containing multiple images with a consistent creative direction. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to connect models, clothing, poses, environments, photographic style, and brand presentation into a unified collection of visual assets.
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36. Create Professional Product Photography ❌
Create professional-looking product photography with Leonardo AI. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to establish product-focused scenes, lighting, composition, and visual presentation suitable for commercial and marketing applications.
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37. Place Products into AI Scenes ❌
Place products into AI-generated environments that support the intended marketing concept. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to integrate product imagery with appropriate scenes while maintaining visual focus on the item being promoted.
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38. Create Luxury and E-Commerce Product Images ❌
Create Leonardo product imagery for luxury presentation and e-commerce applications. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to adapt composition, lighting, backgrounds, and creative direction according to different commercial presentation requirements.
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39. Preserve Logos, Shape and Packaging ❌
Preserve important logos, product shapes, and packaging characteristics when developing AI-assisted product imagery. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to pay close attention to visual identity so creative transformations do not unnecessarily compromise recognizable product details.
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40. Build a Complete Advertising Campaign ❌
Build a complete set of coordinated advertising creatives from Leonardo-generated product imagery. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to develop multiple campaign assets while maintaining consistency in product presentation, visual direction, and commercial messaging.
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41. Understand Realtime Gen ❌
Understand how Leonardo Realtime Gen responds dynamically as prompts and creative instructions change. AI Academy 1U introduces learners to realtime image generation and explains how immediate visual feedback can accelerate experimentation and concept development.
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42. Generate Images While Typing ❌
Generate and refine images dynamically while modifying a prompt. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to observe how visual output changes in response to text adjustments and use that feedback to develop ideas more interactively.
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43. Draw with Realtime Canvas ❌
Use Leonardo Realtime Canvas to develop visual concepts from sketches and brush-based input. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to combine drawing and AI generation as part of a more interactive creative development process.
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44. Explore Ideas with Flow State ❌
Use Flow State to explore multiple visual directions and discover creative possibilities efficiently. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to review alternative concepts quickly and identify promising directions for further development.
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45. Build a Rapid Creative Ideation Workflow ❌
Build a repeatable ideation workflow using Leonardo’s realtime and exploratory tools. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to move efficiently from an initial concept through experimentation, selection, and refinement without losing creative focus.
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46. Understand Canvas Editor ❌
Understand the Leonardo Canvas Editor and its role in advanced image modification. AI Academy 1U introduces learners to the editing environment and prepares them to use targeted AI-assisted techniques for refining and transforming generated or existing images.
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47. Inpainting: Replace Parts of an Image ❌
Use inpainting to replace or modify selected regions within an image. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to target specific visual areas and generate new content while preserving the useful portions of the surrounding image.
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48. Outpainting: Expand an Image ❌
Use outpainting to extend an image beyond its original boundaries and develop a larger composition. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to expand scenes while maintaining visual continuity between existing content and newly generated areas.
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49. Image-to-Image Transformation ❌
Transform an existing source image into a new visual output using Leonardo image-to-image workflows. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to use source imagery as creative guidance while developing alternative appearances, styles, or interpretations.
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50. Complete Advanced Image Retouching Workflow ❌
Complete an advanced Leonardo retouching workflow by combining multiple editing techniques. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to identify visual problems, make targeted modifications, refine composition, and prepare an improved image for practical creative use.
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51. Understand Leonardo Elements ❌
Understand Leonardo Elements and their role in applying customized visual characteristics to generated imagery. AI Academy 1U introduces learners to the concept of custom LoRA-based creative control and how Elements can support more consistent visual production.
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52. Prepare a Training Dataset ❌
Prepare a focused image dataset for training a custom Leonardo Element. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to organize suitable training materials so the resulting Element has a clearer visual concept and can be used more effectively in future generations.
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53. Train a Custom Element ❌
Train a custom Leonardo Element from a prepared image dataset. AI Academy 1U teaches learners how a reusable visual concept can be developed for repeated use in creative projects requiring recognizable style or characteristics.
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54. Control Element Strength and Consistency ❌
Control the influence of a Leonardo Element to balance its learned characteristics with the rest of a generation. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to adjust Element strength with the goal of achieving useful consistency without unnecessarily overpowering the overall creative result.
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55. Build a Reusable Brand or Fashion Style ❌
Build a reusable visual style for brand or fashion production with Leonardo Elements. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to apply custom characteristics across multiple outputs so related creative assets can maintain a more recognizable visual identity.
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56. Understand Pro Upscaler ❌
Understand Leonardo Pro Upscaler and how image enhancement fits into a professional production workflow. AI Academy 1U teaches learners when higher-resolution output is useful and prepares them to choose an appropriate upscaling approach for different creative assets.
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57. Use Precise Upscaling ❌
Use precise upscaling when the objective is to increase resolution while minimizing unnecessary changes to the original image. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to preserve important visual characteristics while preparing assets for higher-quality output.
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58. Use Creative Upscaling ❌
Use creative upscaling to enhance resolution while allowing Leonardo to introduce additional visual detail. AI Academy 1U teaches learners when this approach can improve an image and how it differs from workflows focused primarily on faithful preservation.
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59. Generate Transparent Background Assets ❌
Generate assets with transparent backgrounds for flexible use in design and production workflows. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to prepare isolated visual elements that can be placed into advertisements, presentations, social graphics, and other compositions.
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60. Prepare Images for Print, Social and Advertising ❌
Prepare Leonardo images for different production destinations including print, social media, and advertising. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to consider output dimensions, quality, format, and practical usage requirements before delivering finished creative assets.
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61. Understand Leonardo Video Generation ❌
Understand Leonardo’s video-generation workflow and how motion capabilities extend still-image creative production. AI Academy 1U introduces learners to the fundamental process of developing AI-generated video content within a broader Leonardo workflow.
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62. Generate Text-to-Video ❌
Generate video from text prompts using Leonardo AI. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to translate a motion concept into prompt-based instructions and begin developing video content directly from a written creative idea.
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63. Turn Images into Videos ❌
Transform Leonardo images into animated video content. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to use a still visual as the foundation for motion and extend existing image-generation work into dynamic creative assets.
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64. Control Camera Motion, Start and End Frames ❌
Control camera movement and the relationship between starting and ending frames in Leonardo video generation. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to use these controls to create more intentional movement and improve continuity within generated video sequences.
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65. Create a Fashion or Product Motion Campaign ❌
Create a motion campaign by transforming fashion or product imagery into coordinated video assets. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to connect still-image creative direction with movement to develop richer advertising and promotional content.
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66. Understand Leonardo 3D Generation ❌
Understand the fundamental Leonardo 3D generation workflow and how image-based creative work can extend into three-dimensional assets. AI Academy 1U introduces learners to the stages involved before beginning practical 3D generation projects.
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67. Prepare Images for 3D Generation ❌
Prepare source images that provide useful visual information for Leonardo 3D generation. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to consider image clarity and suitability before using visual references as the foundation for a three-dimensional asset.
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68. Create Multi-Angle Reference Views ❌
Create multiple reference views that describe an object or asset from different angles. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to prepare stronger visual information for 3D workflows where understanding the subject from more than one perspective is valuable.
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69. Generate and Configure a 3D Model ❌
Generate a 3D model and configure the resulting asset for continued development. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to move from prepared visual references into a generated three-dimensional result and review the model before export.
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70. Export 3D Assets to Blender, Unity and Unreal ❌
Export Leonardo-generated 3D assets for continued work in Blender, Unity, and Unreal workflows. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to connect AI-assisted asset generation with established professional environments for 3D development and production.
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71. Organize Assets in the Leonardo Library ❌
Organize Leonardo generations and creative assets within the Library. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to maintain a more manageable workspace so useful images and project materials can be located and reused efficiently.
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72. Build Collections and Project Folders ❌
Build Collections and project-based organizational structures for Leonardo content. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to group related assets logically so larger creative projects remain easier to navigate and manage.
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73. Send Leonardo Images to Canva ❌
Move Leonardo-generated imagery into Canva for continued design and composition work. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to connect AI image generation with a broader graphic-design workflow for developing finished creative materials.
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74. Collaborate with Leonardo Teams ❌
Work collaboratively within Leonardo team environments. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to incorporate shared creative production into team workflows where multiple participants may contribute to projects and visual assets.
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75. Manage Privacy, Visibility and Shared Assets ❌
Manage privacy, visibility, and shared creative assets within Leonardo. AI Academy 1U teaches learners to consider how project materials are accessed and shared when working individually or within collaborative production environments.
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76. Project: AI Fashion Lookbook ❌
Build a complete AI fashion lookbook by coordinating models, outfits, poses, backgrounds, and visual consistency across a collection of images. AI Academy 1U guides learners through applying Leonardo fashion and character techniques within a practical professional-style project.
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77. Project: E-Commerce Product Campaign ❌
Create an e-commerce product campaign containing hero imagery, lifestyle visuals, social creatives, and commercial assets. AI Academy 1U guides learners in combining product presentation and advertising techniques into a coordinated collection designed around one product campaign.
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78. Project: Consistent Character Brand ❌
Build a recognizable character brand that remains visually consistent across multiple scenes and creative assets. AI Academy 1U guides learners in applying character references, identity preservation, composition, and generation techniques within a larger continuity-focused project.
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79. Project: Image-to-Video Advertising Campaign ❌
Develop an advertising campaign that progresses from AI-generated images to motion creatives and video. AI Academy 1U guides learners through connecting image production with Leonardo video capabilities to create a more complete multimedia advertising workflow.
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80. Project: Complete Leonardo Creative Production System ❌
Build a complete Leonardo production system from concept and prompting through references, generation, editing, upscaling, organization, image, video, 3D, and final delivery. AI Academy 1U integrates the major skills from the course into one professional end-to-end creative workflow.
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