Tarot Sanctum
Contents

The website

Editing a deck

A deck page has two halves: the style guide, which applies to all 78 cards and locks once you start, and the card grid, which is where you spend the rest of your time. This page covers both, plus everything on an individual card.

Open a deck from My Library. Deck pages are private — only the owner can open one.

The style guide

The style guide is generated from your brief and shown only while the deck is still a draft. It is everything about the deck's look that is decided once rather than per card, and it freezes the moment generation starts — so this is the screen to be fussy on.

The style guide editor, shown above the card grid on a draft deck.Callout 1: 1Callout 2: 2Callout 3: 3Callout 4: 4
The style guide editor, shown above the card grid on a draft deck.
  • FrameSegmented control

    Two choices: an AI-generated border drawn in your deck's style, or no frame at all so the artwork runs to the edge of the card.

  • TypographyPicker

    The lettering system used for card titles and numbers. A live sample below the dropdown shows the chosen face.

  • Overlay title, number & suit on each cardToggle

    Whether card names are printed on the artwork at all. Off gives you clean art with no lettering.

  • Colour palettePicker

    Up to six named colours, each with a colour well and an editable name. These steer the whole deck's palette.

    Limits1–6 colours
  • + Add colourButton

    Adds another palette entry. Disappears once you have six.

  • × beside a colourButton

    Removes that colour. The last remaining colour cannot be removed.

  • Per-suit accent coloursPicker

    An optional accent for each of Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles, used on the Minor Arcana suit glyphs. Left alone, all four inherit the palette's main accent.

  • Show advanced style fieldsButton

    Reveals eight free-text fields the generator derived from your brief: illustration style, line weight, background, lighting, texture, mood, symbolic language and frame design. Editing these is the most direct control you have over the look.

  • Save style guideButtonDraft decks only

    Writes the guide back to the deck. A confirmation appears next to the button.

    CostFree
Once you press Start generation the style guide disappears and cannot be changed. If you are unsure, generate the 22 Majors first — you will see the style applied to real cards while the rest of the deck is still unspent.

Generating and the card grid

The control bar sits above the grid and changes with the deck's state: draft, running, paused, stopped or complete. While anything is in flight it polls every few seconds, so the grid fills in without reloading.

A deck part-way through generation.Callout 1: 1Callout 2: 2
A deck part-way through generation.
  • Progress lineRead-only

    Reads “n / 78 cards generated”, plus the card currently being worked on, how many remain, your balance, and a rolling estimate of the time left based on the last few cards.

  • Start generationButton

    Charges the deck run cost once and begins generating. Shown only while the deck is a draft.

    Cost650 tokens / 1,100 tokens / 1,500 tokens depending on tier
  • PauseButton

    Stops after the current card. Cards already generated are kept and nothing further is charged.

  • ResumeButton

    Picks up where a paused or stopped deck left off.

  • StopButton

    Ends the run. The deck stays as it is and can be started again later.

  • Retry n failedButton

    Appears when cards have failed or been refused by the safety filter. Re-queues just those cards.

    CostFree — failed cards were never charged
  • Delete deckButton

    Asks for confirmation, then hides the deck immediately and removes it permanently after 90 days.

  • Card tileLink

    Every one of the 78 slots, showing the thumbnail once generated and its state while it is not. Opens the card page.

  • List for saleLinkDeck owner only

    Top right of the page on a private deck. Opens the listing form.

What a card tile is telling you

  • Thumbnail — generated and ready.
  • Queued or running — waiting for, or currently with, the generator.
  • Failed or flagged — the attempt did not produce a usable image. Nothing was charged; use Retry, or open the card and regenerate it free.
  • Empty — not attempted yet.
Pausing is safe and free. The deck run was charged as a lump sum at the start, so pausing does not refund anything and resuming does not charge again — it is a way to stop the queue, not a billing control.

An individual card

Clicking any tile opens that card on its own page: the artwork, its whole history, and the four things you can do to it — animate, erase, regenerate, or roll back.

A card page, with the version strip under the artwork.Callout 1: 1Callout 2: 2Callout 3: 3Callout 4: 4Callout 5: 5
A card page, with the version strip under the artwork.
  • Card artworkRead-only

    The active version, full size. If the card has an animation and animations are switched on, the loop plays here.

  • Version history stripButton

    Every version ever generated for this card, newest first, with the active one ringed in gold. Clicking any other version makes it active.

    CostFree
  • AI visual descriptionRead-only

    What the generator understood it was drawing. Useful when a card comes back wrong — it usually shows where the misreading happened.

  • Prompt used for active versionSheet

    A collapsed disclosure containing the exact prompt behind the current image, style scaffold included.

  • Animate this cardButton

    Generates an 8-second seamless loop that begins and ends on this exact artwork. Quality pills and, on the lower two, a resolution choice.

    Cost80 tokens – 320 tokens
  • Edit card: remove objectsButton

    Opens the painting tool for erasing something from the artwork.

    CostThe deck tier's per-card price
  • Quality for this generationButton

    Three buttons choosing the quality of the next regeneration. Defaults to the deck's own tier but does not have to match it.

    Cost10 tokens / 20 tokens / 30 tokens
  • Regenerate promptText box

    What you want changed. Leave it blank to re-roll the card on the deck's own style with no instruction.

    LimitsOptional
  • Regenerate for n tokensButton

    Queues the regeneration. The result arrives as a new version — the old one is never overwritten.

    CostCharged on success only

Painting an object out

When a card is right apart from one thing — a third hand, a stray sword, a smear across the sky — you can paint over it and have it erased rather than regenerating the whole card and losing what you liked.

Painting a mask over the area to remove.
Painting a mask over the area to remove.
  • Paint over the artworkGesture

    Click or drag on the image to paint a translucent red mask over whatever you want removed. Works with a mouse, a trackpad or a finger.

  • BrushSlider

    The size of the brush, in pixels on screen.

    Limits8–80, default 28
  • ClearButton

    Removes all your strokes and starts the mask again. Disabled until you have painted something.

  • CloseButton

    Collapses the editor without submitting.

  • Remove selected areaButton

    Sends the mask for erasing. Disabled until you have painted something and unless you can afford it. The result comes back as a new version.

    CostThe deck tier's per-card price
  1. Press Edit card: remove objects.
  2. Set the brush large enough to cover the object comfortably — a generous mask erases more cleanly than a tight one.
  3. Paint over everything you want gone. You can paint several separate areas.
  4. Press Remove selected area. The page refreshes itself for the next minute or so until the new version appears.

Animating a card

An animation is a 8-second loop whose first and last frames are the card itself, so it plays seamlessly forever. Once generated it plays anywhere that card is shown at detail size, in the app as well as here.

Quality1080p720p
standard80 tokens64 tokens
master160 tokens128 tokens
masterpiece320 tokensRenders at 1080p

Generation takes a few minutes and the page polls for you. If it fails you are told so explicitly and not charged. Animations can be switched off globally on your account page without losing the ones you have paid for.

Versions, and why nothing is ever lost

Every generation of a card — the original, every regeneration, every erase — is kept as a version. One is active and the rest sit in the strip under the artwork. Clicking an older one makes it active again, free and instantly.

This is why regenerating is safe: the worst case is that you spent the tokens and preferred what you had, and one click puts it back. Nothing is deleted to make room.

Animations work the same way. A card that has been animated more than once shows a strip of them under the crop control, and switching between them is free.

Cropping a card

Image models like to paint their own border inside the frame. Rather than regenerate an otherwise good card because of one, the crop slider under the artwork zooms past it — up to 10% off each side, in half percent steps.

  • Crop sliderSlider

    Zooms past a border painted into the artwork. The preview beside it shows the result as you drag, and it saves itself a moment after you stop.

    Limits0–10% per side, in 0.5% stepsCostFree
  • ResetButton

    Back to no crop. Greyed out when there is none.

The crop is stored rather than applied to the file, so it is always reversible and never costs anything. Publishing the deck bakes it into the final images and clears the slider, because a buyer should receive finished art rather than art plus an instruction.

The card back

Every deck has a card back — what people see when one of its cards is face down — generated with the deck and rendered here with its real finish rather than as a flat thumbnail.

  • In useRead-only

    The back this deck currently shows, drawn with its real material rather than as a flat image.

  • Other designsButton

    Every other back this deck has collected, from making new ones or importing them. Clicking one makes it the deck's back.

    CostFree
  • QualityButton

    Graphic, Collector or Masterpiece — which image model draws the new back.

  • New backButton

    Generates another back and adds it to the options. The one in use is kept.

    Cost24 tokens plus the chosen quality's per-image cost; charged on success only
Making a new back never replaces the old one. Both stay on the deck as options and switching between them is free, so trying another design costs you only the generation, never the design you had.

Looking at the deck

View cards full screen opens the deck in a pager: one card at a time, at full resolution, with its animation if it has one. Arrow keys or the buttons move between cards, double-tap or scroll zooms, dragging pans when zoomed in, and Escape closes it.

Share this deck builds an image from up to ten cards you pick, with a caption to post alongside it. The image is assembled in your browser — nothing is uploaded, and it works on a deck that is still generating.

Common problems

The deck paused on its own

It ran out of balance mid-run. A gold line under the control bar says so and links to the top-up page; Resume picks up exactly where it stopped.

A card keeps coming back wrong in the same way

Read the AI visual description on the card page. It shows what the generator thought it was drawing, and the fix is usually to contradict that specific misreading in the regenerate prompt.

The erase left a smudge

Roll back to the previous version in the strip and try again with a larger brush covering more of the surrounding area.

I cannot open someone else's deck page

Deck pages are owner-only. Decks you have bought appear in your own library as your own decks; decks you have not bought are only visible as marketplace listings.