Design a mood board
Compose a client-ready board from the products you have actually selected: cutouts, perspective, and a shareable board that looks like it took an afternoon.
A mood board is usually the first thing a client falls in love with — and, in most tools, the first thing that goes stale. Boards in Tailor are built from your real selections, not loose images. Every piece on the canvas is a product in the project, carrying its price, dimensions, and status. The board you present is the board you can actually deliver.
Built from what you have already chosen
Open a board inside a project and your product tray is already stocked: everything you have selected for the room waits along the bottom of the canvas, ready to tack up. There is no separate import step and no hunting through downloads for the right sofa photo. Because each item on the board is the selection itself, the board stays honest: if the sofa on the schedule is the 84-inch linen one at $2,400, that is the sofa on the board.
Composing the canvas
The canvas is free-form on purpose. Drag pieces anywhere, overlap them, scale them, let the composition breathe. Two tools do most of the heavy lifting. Cutout removes a product photo’s background in one click, so a sofa shot in a showroom sits next to a rug shot on white and they read as one collage. Perspective angles a piece into the scene, tilting a rug onto the floor plane or leaning art against a wall, so the board suggests a room instead of a grid of rectangles.
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Open a board on the project
From the project, create a board for the room you are presenting. The tray below the canvas fills with that project’s products automatically.
Boards also live standalone under Boards in the sidebar, useful for concept work before a project exists.
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Drag your anchor piece on first
Start with the largest item, usually the sofa or the bed. Placing the anchor first sets the scale and gravity everything else arranges around.
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Cut out the backgrounds
Select a piece and click Cutout. Tailor removes the background instantly, leaving a clean silhouette that composes naturally with everything else on the canvas.
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Layer in the supporting pieces
Add chairs, tables, lighting, and textiles from the tray. Overlap them the way they would sit in the room: a throw over the sofa arm, a lamp behind the chair.
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Angle pieces with Perspective
Use the perspective transform to tip rugs onto the floor and set art at a slight angle. A few degrees of perspective is the difference between a grid and a scene.
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Add text and color
Label the palette, name the concept, and drop in swatches with the text and color tools. Keep it light. The products should carry the board.
Your products wait in the tray below the canvas
Transcript · Compose a mood board
- 1The board starts empty. Your project products wait in the tray along the bottom.
- 2Drag the sofa onto the canvas
- 3One click on the cutout tool removes the background, so pieces sit together like a collage.
- 4Build the composition piece by piece
- 5The layers panel keeps every piece separately editable: reorder, resize, or swap without starting over.
- 6Export a client-ready board in one click
Every piece stays editable
Nothing on a Tailor board ever flattens. Select any piece and the inspector gives you its size, rotation, ordering, and a one-click Remove BG that lifts the product off its swatch background. Resize the rug without touching the sofa, bring the accent chair forward, or swap it for its runner-up without rebuilding the composition. When a client asks to see the other fabric, you change one piece and the rest of the board does not move. That is the quiet advantage over assembling boards in a slide deck, where every revision means nudging twelve images back into place.
Boards in projects, boards on their own
Most boards belong inside a project, tied to a room and drawing from its selections. But Boards in the sidebar also holds standalone boards: for pitching a prospect, exploring a direction before the contract is signed, or keeping a running palette study. A standalone board pulls from your firm library instead of a project, and you can attach it to a project later once the job is real. Either way, the tools are identical.
Share a client-ready board
When the composition is right, share it in one click. The shared board is presentation-grade, with clean cutouts and your arrangement exactly as composed, ready to send as a link or present through the client portal alongside the schedule it was built from. Before you send, run down this list:
Before the board goes out
- Every piece is a real selection on the project, not a placeholder image.
- Backgrounds are cut out: no stray showroom walls behind the furniture.
- The anchor piece reads first; supporting pieces do not crowd it.
- Text is minimal: concept name, palette, nothing that repeats the schedule.
- The runner-up options live on their own board, not mixed into this one.
Put your selections on a canvas
Open a project, start a board, and drag your first piece from the tray. The cutout is one click away.
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