Some poses are easy to recognise and impossible to write down. Upload a photo that has the stance you want and the shot copies it — only the pose, never the person, the outfit or the background behind them.
"Three-quarter turn, weight on the back foot, one hand at the hip, chin slightly down." Everyone who has tried to write a pose out knows the result: the description is longer than it is useful, and the render is nearly right in a way that is worse than being wrong, because the whole set then fails to match.
The built-in pose, hand-position and angle controls handle the common cases well and are available on every plan. What they cannot do is reproduce a specific stance you have already seen — the pose in the reference shot the client sent, or the one your best-selling listing used last season.
Pose reference removes the translation step. You show the pose rather than describing it.
A previous listing, a reference the client sent, a shot from your own archive. It does not need to be your garment or your model.
Before anything else sees it, the reference is cut out from its background and desaturated to a grey silhouette, and bounded in size. Colour is the loudest way identity and fabric leak between images, so the ghost carries none.
Your model and your garment are generated in that position. Save the pose and it becomes reusable, so a whole catalogue can share one stance.
The cutout is desaturated before it is used, and there is an automated test that fails the build if any colour survives. This is not a promise in a policy; it is a property of the pipeline.
Only the body position is taken. The identity in the reference, whatever they were wearing, and whatever was behind them do not reach the output.
A saved pose is stored already reduced to its ghost and can be reused on any later generation — which is how a hundred-SKU catalogue ends up with one consistent stance instead of a hundred near-misses.
Large references are scaled down before use, so a 12-megapixel phone photo and a small web image behave the same way.
Pose, model and background are three separate saved things. Fix all three and you have defined a house look precisely enough that a new team member can reproduce it without being told what it is.
Saving a pose is free, and referencing it costs nothing beyond the normal generation credits.
| Free & Starter | Pro and above | |
|---|---|---|
| Built-in pose, hand-position and angle controls | Yes | Yes |
| Upload a reference photo for its pose | — | Yes |
| Save poses for reuse | — | Up to 20 |
| Reference a saved pose from the API | — | Yes, on Business and above where API keys are issued |
| Credit cost | None | None |
Pose reference shares its Pro gate with custom models and custom backgrounds.
Pro and above. Every plan gets the built-in pose, hand-position and angle controls; what Pro adds is uploading a photo and copying its pose, and saving poses for reuse.
No, and that is enforced by how the reference is processed rather than by a rule. Before use it is cut out from its background and desaturated into a grey silhouette, so the person's identity, their clothing and the scene behind them are gone before generation begins.
The pose itself is not personal data by the time it is used, because the reference is reduced to a colourless silhouette. Even so, use images you have the right to use — the same standard you would apply to any reference material in a commercial project.
Yes, up to 20 per account. A saved pose is stored already reduced to its silhouette, so reusing it needs no re-processing and gives the same stance every time.
Yes. A saved pose can be applied to a batch of up to 20 garments, which is the fastest way to get a whole drop into one consistent stance.
Use the built-in controls, which are on every plan: a pose vocabulary plus hand position and body angle. They cover the standard catalogue stances well; the reference route is for when you need one specific position reproduced.
No. References are scaled down to a bounded size before use, so a large phone photo and a small web image behave the same.
No. Saving and referencing are both free; you pay the normal generation cost of one credit at HD, two at 2K and four at 4K.
Start free with 5 credits; pose reference unlocks on Pro.