How to Create a Custom Skill in Lovart for Your Design Style

You can turn your design style into a Lovart skill, then edit it so every brief comes back the way you work. It takes one MD file to import and a few rule changes to make it yours.

If you have spent years building a certain style, default AI output feels wrong. It is generic. It does not look like you, and you end up fixing every image.

Lovart's skill feature fixes that. Any workflow, style or habit you have when you design can go into a skill. Here is how I set mine up and what I changed.

What a Lovart skill actually does

A skill is a saved set of rules for how you design. Lovart reads it every time you run it on a brief.

That means you do not have to repeat yourself in every chat. Your style, your steps and the outputs you expect are already there.

A skill can hold things like:

• The look and feel you always aim for.

• The steps you go through on a project.

• Where you want to approve work, and where you do not.

• The set of images you want at the end.

How to import a skill into Lovart

Skills come in as MD files, which are plain text files. Once you have one, importing it is quick.

1. Start from the skill page in Lovart.

2. Open the menu at the top right.

3. Click import a skill.

4. Drop in your MD file.

5. Wait for it to load into your personal workspace.

6. Click try this skill.

Once it is installed, Lovart recognises the skill when you start a chat with it.

Test the skill on a real brief

I tested mine on a product I created called Storylight. I wrote a brief for the product and uploaded it into the chat.

Then I added a few reference images I had found online. I liked three things about them:

• The gradient feeling.

• The muted background.

• The rounded, soft shape.

Use a real brief, not a one line prompt. The skill can only apply your style if it knows what the product is.

From there, Lovart created the first ideas using my skill.

The result was much better than what I got without the skill.

Without it, the images had a generic feel. They were not very aesthetic or charming. It was just a simple product shot.

With the skill, I got a cohesive brand story. The images supported it, along with social images and designs that all felt like one set.

Edit the skill to match how you work

A skill you import is a starting point. Before I got to the final images, I went back and tweaked mine.

Before you edit, run the skill once and notice where it slows you down. For me it was the questions and the approvals. Then look at what it hands back at the end. If you always need a certain image, write it into the skill so you never have to ask again.

I made three main changes.

First, I asked for more variations. I want options to choose from, not one answer.

Second, I cut the approval stops. The skill had a creative direction approval and a separate master approval. I combined them into one step. Now it does not ask me heaps of questions. Once I pick a direction, it jumps straight into generating images.

Third, I set a better default package. Every run now gives me a full set of images, not just one.

Those were the rules I set up. I can always add more later, but this is what I stuck with.

Fine tune the details on each brief

The skill gets you most of the way. You still steer each project.

On Storylight I tweaked a few of the lenses and styles. I also changed the material of the product. I wanted a more natural look, so I used a wood fibre style for the packaging.

Lovart then made the whole package. I got the hero shots, the packaging and the story images, with text added for me. It all looked more cohesive than anything I got from the default settings.

This is a good split of work. The skill handles your standing rules. You handle the choices that change per project, like material, lens and style.

Why designers should build their own skills

Want AI to design in your style? You have to tell it what your style is. A skill is where that lives.

• You stop relying on the default settings.

• Your outputs stay consistent across briefs.

• Your workflow runs with fewer stops and questions.

• You get the full set of images you need every time.

You can also make your own skills from scratch and publish them for the Lovart community to use.

Knowing your own style and process is the real skill here. If you are still building that, it is what we work on in Designer School.

The bottom line

A Lovart skill lets the AI design your way instead of its way. Import one, test it on a real brief, then edit the steps and outputs until it matches how you work.

Lovart sponsored the video this article is based on.