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Attach up to five pictures to a Pixelsmith prompt, and tell each one what job it does: keep this person, borrow these colours, copy this layout. It is faster than describing a look in words.

Try it in Pixelsmith4 sections · 2 min read

Add a picture

  1. In Pixelsmith, press Upload image, or drag pictures onto the box.
  2. Pick what each picture is for under Use this image as.
  3. Write your prompt and press send. You can call the pictures "Image 1", "Image 2" and so on, in the order they sit.
  • Up to 5 pictures per prompt. Use Add more to add the rest.
  • JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF, up to 8 MB each. iPhone HEIC photos do not work, so save them as JPG first.

What each picture can do

RoleWhat it does
PreserveUse this exact photo. The face, hair, clothes, logos and pose stay.
Same personKeep the face and outfit. The pose and angle can change.
Whole lookBorrow the colours and the layout.
StyleBorrow the colours, light and texture only.
LayoutBorrow the framing and where things sit only.

Preserve is picked to start.

Which models take pictures

Most models do. These do not: FLUX 2 Flash, Ideogram V4, Recraft V4, Z Image Turbo, Krea 2 Turbo, Soul and Soul 2. While a picture is attached, they are greyed out in the model list. If you switch to one, your pictures are removed.

Keeping a real face

Preserve and Same person only work on models that keep faces: GPT Image 2.5 Flare, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst, GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 5 Pro. On any other model, set the role to Whole look, Style or Layout, or switch model. Pixelsmith tells you before anything is charged.

Price

The first picture is free. Each extra picture adds 1 credit to every image. A saved style counts as one picture, so with a saved style on you can attach 4 more.