Switch to PeakD if you can, the interface is much better for content creation. It used to be better for the cryptocurrency side of things as well, but now that portion of the interface appears to be completely non-functional, at least in every browser that I use.
I have noticed that the native Hive interface ignores a lot of the settings, for example, I can set a featured image in Hive, but it doesn't work unless I edit the post until after it's published. I've never tried burning a payout in the Hive interface, but I wouldn't be surprised if that feature doesn't work either.
RE: Art process.