Keep a character the same across shots

An element is a character, product, place or thing you want to look the same every time: a person, a pair of shoes, a kitchen. You make it once from photos, then tag it in any prompt.

Make one

1. Upload a few photos to your Library: clear, well lit, from a few angles.
2. Open Elements in the sidebar and choose Make an element. On a phone, tap + at the top of the page.
3. Pick the photos. Three to six works best.
4. Give it a Name, choose its Kind, and if you like, say What should stay the same, for example “late 20s, curly red hair, freckles”.
5. Choose Make element.

Make a look sheet has Shotz generate eight more pictures of it, from close-up to full body, which give models more angles to match. It costs credits, shown on the button, and takes a few minutes. Share with the workspace lets everyone in the workspace tag it.

The photos stay in your Library. Deleting an element doesn’t delete them.

Use one

Type @ in any prompt and pick the element from the list, or tap it in the Elements row under the prompt. You can tag more than one, for example a character holding your product. An element’s page also has Use in Create.

When you generate an image, the element’s photos go to the model as references along with your prompt. Video models start from your prompt and a start frame, so to put a character in a video, first make an image with them tagged, then use that image as the start frame. See Start and end frames.

On an element’s page

• Reference photos are the photos it was made from.
• Looks shows the look sheet. Describe one more and choose Make a look to add it. If it has none, Make the look sheet starts one.
• Voice (characters): voiceovers that tag the character speak in this voice, and UGC ads use it.
• Share with the workspace turns sharing on or off.
• Delete removes the element.

Public elements

Choose Browse on the Elements page to see the public library of characters, products and places. Save copies one into your workspace for free: its photos go in your Library, and anyone in the workspace can tag it.