Picking your resin and how you start a recipe
Every recipe Ellie builds starts with a resin and a starting point — here's why a resin is required and the four ways to kick things off.
When you ask Ellie to build a recipe, two things get set up front: which resin you're using, and where you want to start from.
Why a resin comes first
Ellie needs your resin before she can size amounts, set the ratio, and write the steps — so a resin is required to start.
If one resin is your default, Ellie picks it for you. In Guided and Collab she does this quietly in the background; in Advisor you see the pre-pick and can change it (see the wizard modes).
Heads up: That silent pre-pick trips up makers who use several resins — if a recipe came out with the wrong one, check which resin Ellie started from. And if your pantry has no resin at all, the wizard can't start; it sends you to the pantry to add one first.
The four ways to start
Once your resin's set, pick a starting point:
- A theme or idea — describe the look you're after.
- A mold — start from the piece you're filling.
- A colorant — build around a color you want to feature.
- A photo — let Ellie read a palette from an image (see photo entry).
Whichever you pick, Ellie takes it from there.