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Watch: The reference on the left only provides the color, light and brushwork; the new image on the right has completely different content (a person with an umbrella on a street corner after the rain), but its colors gradually become the reference's.A line-art demo that only illustrates the technique, not finished footage.

Image · AI Workflow

Style Reference风格参考图

Upload an image you like and have the model learn its color, light and brushwork, not its content.

Category: AI Workflow
Group: Basics
Medium: Image
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This is a step in making a film, not a visual technique. For the whole process, see Make an AI short from scratch.

Prompt templates are written from how generation models usually behave and have not yet been verified one by one with real generations. “Common pitfalls” are judgment from experience, not official limits.

When to use it

Unifying the visual style of a set of images or a film, brand visuals.

Prompt template

(with a style reference attached) follow this image's palette, lighting, and texture, not its content or composition; new scene: a girl with an umbrella waiting at a street corner after rain.

Sample prompt · generate an image directly

The technique comes first, followed by the subject, scene, details and aspect ratio. Paste it straight into an image model and swap in your own subject.

(Upload an oil painting you like as the style reference) Follow this image's palette, lighting and brushwork, without copying its content or composition. New image: an old street corner after the rain, a girl in a yellow raincoat with a clear umbrella waits for the bus, puddles with reflections on the road, 4:5. Medium reference strength.

Common pitfalls

The model copies the reference's content too.
Reference strength too high, so the new image is almost identical to the reference.

Parameter tips

When there are separate style and content reference options, pick style; start the reference strength at medium.