Style reference
A style reference is an existing image supplied to an image model so that new images adopt its look rather than its subject matter.
Style references communicate palette, texture, and lighting far more precisely than adjectives can. Naming living artists to imitate their style raises ethical and, in some jurisdictions, legal questions that a descriptive alternative avoids.
Related terms
- Image prompt
- An image prompt is a description given to an image generation model specifying the subject, setting, composition, lighting, and style of the picture to produce.
- Descriptor stack
- A descriptor stack is the comma-separated list of visual attributes that makes up an image prompt, ordered from subject through environment, composition, lighting, and style.
More on image prompting
See the full glossary, read the guides, or put it into practice in the prompt builder.