Mood boards need more than one view
A canvas is great when you are exploring ideas freely. Grid view is for the moment after that: when you want to see every visual reference clearly, scan your inspiration, and move through a mood board faster.
Two ways to read a board
Mood boards are not always doing the same job.
Sometimes a board is a thinking space. You want to place images beside notes, compare moods, pull a video next to a color direction, and let the project stay loose for a while. That is where the canvas matters. It gives visual ideas room before they are ready to become tidy.
Other times, you are past arranging. You just want to see what you collected. You want a quick overview of the inspiration, the repeated colors, the strong images, the references you forgot were there.
That is why Reference now gives boards a grid view.
A cleaner overview for visual references
Grid view turns the images on a board into a masonry-style overview. Different image sizes can sit naturally together, so your mood board feels more like an inspiration wall than a rigid list.
It is useful when a board gets large, when the canvas has clusters and side paths, or when you simply want to scan your references without zooming around. For image-heavy mood boards, creative direction, product research, interiors, branding, fashion, film, UI design, and personal inspiration, that overview can be just as important as the open canvas.
The canvas helps you make relationships. The grid helps you read the collection.
Full screen when details matter
You can also open an image from the grid in full screen and quickly move through the rest of the board. That matters because visual research is often remembered by feeling before it is remembered by name. You know there was a texture, a product detail, a room, a layout, or a composition that fits, but you need to move through the material to find it again.
Full screen makes that return easier. A small image on the canvas might be enough while arranging, but review often needs a bigger look: the spacing, the edge, the material, the light, or the detail that made you save it in the first place.
More than one kind of mood board
Reference is built for mood boards, but not only for the traditional idea of a mood board as a static collage. Visual work keeps moving. You collect, compare, revisit, search, mark up details, and return to old references when a project changes shape.
That is why having more than one view matters. Some moments need space. Some need clarity. Reference now gives you both: an open canvas for exploring ideas, and a grid view for seeing your inspiration at a glance.
Together, they make a board easier to use after the first burst of collecting is over.