Give each Studio profile its own look
Create a profile, lock a theme from a name, a vibe, or a picture, and new scenes pick that look up. Ranked night and Just Chatting stop sharing leftover overlays.
Takeaway
Studio profiles can carry a theme now. You create a profile, lock a look from a name, a vibe, and optional pictures, and that card sits in the header. When you ask for a new scene, Studio asks once whether to use that theme. Yes is the default. Chat, alerts, and a BRB stop looking like three different shows.
A profile is the night, not the bitrate
If you came from OBS, a profile is canvas size and encoder settings. In Studio a cloud profile is the show: the scenes you actually air, plus the visual identity those scenes share. You can keep more than one. Switching profiles loads that night. It does not dump Saturday's ranked layout onto Friday's Just Chatting.
Lock the look when you make the profile
New profile lives in the Studio header. You name it, then you pick how the overlays should look:
- Generate a themed collection in the same wizard: a short name, a vibe, optional Look / Logo / Character pictures. Studio writes a brief, colours, type, and a reference image for the pack.
- Reuse a themed collection you already locked, if this profile should match a pack you already have.
- Start blank. You land on empty Main and BRB scenes and theme it later.
If you have a mood picture and you cannot write a design brief, attach it as a Look image. Studio can draft the look-and-feel paragraph from that picture. A Look file is mood and palette, not a PNG stamped onto every overlay. Logo and Character files sit until you actually ask for them. Character art can also style new sprites instead of pasting the same file everywhere.
After that, the header shows the profile's theme as a look card: the reference image and the palette. Pencil edits the name, vibe, or attached pictures, or regenerates the look. Swap picks a different themed collection for this profile if the night changed and the pack should too.
The header controls are in the Studio guide. Branding a pack by hand still lives in Elements.
Why that is actually useful
You lock the look once, then stop re-explaining your brand every time you ask for a starting-soon screen.
- You lock the look once. New scenes in that profile inherit it instead of inventing a second pack mid-plan.
- Different nights keep different looks. Ranked, Just Chatting, and a collab do not steal each other's overlays.
- A seasonal look can live on its own profile. Halloween gets its own scenes. Tuesday goes back to the usual one.
- You can still pull a widget from another collection when you want that one alert, without moving the whole show.
Scene AI already knows the theme
The Studio AI pane still builds the picture from a sentence: game full frame, camera bottom-right, live chat on the left. What changed is the first question on a new scene. If this profile already has a themed collection, it asks once: use that profile theme as inspiration? Yes is the default. No means standalone, or pick another pack. It does not generate a fresh theme in the middle of a plan unless you want one.
Then go live the same way
A theme does not replace Go live. It is the look the scenes share. You still toggle Twitch, YouTube, and Kick in StreamChum and hit Go live in Studio. Live Center is still the mod desk.
Locking a collection look does not spend creative AI credits. New scenes and new overlays still do. The 14-day desk trial includes Studio. Creative AI credits start at 0 until Plus or Pro.
Get Studio from Downloads. Setup is in the Studio guide.
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