Styles and dashboard

Styles

A style is a look you name instead of describe. Write cozy bookstore at sunset and add watercolor, and you get a watercolor. Add cinematic instead, and the same bookstore looks like a film still. You never have to write "soft brush strokes, paper texture" yourself.

Free accounts get five styles. Paid plans unlock the rest. Anything with a plan badge below needs that plan or better, and everything else is free.

Every preset

40 presets, live from the API. Each name is what you pass as style.

Photography

A sample in the Bright & Airy style — `bright-airy`
High-key lifestyle photography with soft light and blown highlights

A sample in the Cinematic style — `cinematic`
Widescreen cinematic movie still

A sample in the Cinematic Drama style — `cinematic-drama`
Cinematic studio photography with volumetric lighting and split-tone grading

A sample in the Editorial Portrait style — `editorial-portrait`
Magazine-quality portrait photography with controlled studio lighting

A sample in the Film Noir style — `noir`
Dark, dramatic black and white cinematography

A sample in the Golden Hour style — `golden-hour`
Warm backlit photography with amber tones and magic-hour glow

A sample in the Photorealistic style — `photorealistic`
Lifelike photography with natural lighting

A sample in the Product / Commercial style — `product`
Clean studio product photography with professional lighting

A sample in the Vintage / Retro style — `vintage`
Warm vintage look with film grain

Illustration

A sample in the 3D Animation style — `3d-render`
Charming 3D animation with expressive characters and warm lighting

A sample in the Anime style — `anime`
Japanese anime and manga art style

A sample in the Cartoon style — `cartoon`
Vibrant cartoon style with bold outlines

A sample in the Comic (Big Kids) style — `comic-teens`
Anime-influenced comic style with dynamic detailed characters

A sample in the Comic (Kids) style — `comic-kids`
Cute cartoon comic style with friendly rounded characters

A sample in the Electric Cobalt Editorial style — `electric-cobalt-editorial`
Contemporary flat vector illustration. Crisp geometric silhouettes and minimal facial marks. Broad unoutlined color blocks in electric cobalt, deep navy, pale lavender, and warm ochre. Translucent gradient overlays and faint linear texture. Luminous central glow against cool, high-contrast shadows.

A sample in the Fashion Sketch style — `fashion-sketch`
Ink and airbrush fashion illustration with warm beige tones

A sample in the Geometric Editorial style — `geometric-editorial`
Contemporary flat vector illustration. Crisp geometric silhouettes and smooth, minimal outlines. Saturated cobalt and deep navy contrasted with warm ochre. Broad translucent overlays, simple gradient fills, and sharp-edged shadows. Diffuse pale glow against cool, high-contrast color fields. Clean digital finish with minimal texture.

A sample in the Isometric style — `isometric`
3D isometric view illustration

A sample in the Low Poly Geometric style — `low-poly-geometric`
Faceted polygonal illustration with layered geometric shading

A sample in the Modern Illustration style — `modern-illustration`
Modern editorial/web illustration with soft grain and clean shapes

A sample in the Painted Storybook style — `painted-storybook`
Painterly digital storybook art. Broad, visible brush strokes and softly broken edges. Simplified rounded forms with minimal outlines. Deep teal shadows, earthy browns, and pale golden highlights. Layered opaque paint with translucent glazes and fine speckling. Strong warm backlight against cool ambient shadow. Hand-painted, cinematic finish.

A sample in the Pixel Art style — `pixel-art`
Retro pixel art with visible pixels

A sample in the Pop Art style — `pop-art`
Silk-screen comic illustration with Ben-Day halftone and bold outlines

A sample in the Porcelain Portrait style — `porcelain-portrait`
Painterly digital illustration with editorial portrait styling. Broad, opaque brush strokes and sharp, angular silhouettes. Smooth facial gradients against rough-edged dark shapes. Porcelain whites, charcoal black, pale sage, and restrained crimson. Subtle canvas grain. Diffuse frontal illumination with deep graphic contrast.

A sample in the Pulp Comic style — `pulp-comic`
Pen-and-ink comic art with crosshatch shading and halftone textures

A sample in the Retro Comic Cover style — `retro-comic-cover`
Bold pop-art comic illustration. Heavy black contour lines and sharp, angular shapes. Flat, saturated red, peach, purple, and navy fills. Cream halftone dots on solid color. Hard-edged shadow blocks, minimal gradients, crisp print-like finish. Exaggerated graphic contrast.

A sample in the Retro Editorial style — `retro-editorial`
Mid-century flat vector illustration with muted teal-ochre palette

A sample in the Screen Print Editorial style — `screen-print-editorial`
Warm retro editorial illustration. Bold, solid shapes with thick ink outlines. Flat, desaturated palette (sage teal, olive, cream, burnt orange). Textured paper grain and speckled overlays for vintage print feel. Minimal shading; even lighting; mid-century aesthetic.

A sample in the Smooth Flat vector style — `smooth-flat-vector`
Flat vector illustration. Smooth geometric curves and thin, uniform black outlines. Solid color fills without gradients or shading. Sage green, sky blue, dusty pink, and pale yellow against warm off-white. Crisp edges, untextured surfaces, and even lighting. Retro graphic-design aesthetic.

A sample in the Storybook Sketch style — `storybook-sketch`
Ink and watercolor editorial illustration with warm ochre palette

A sample in the Vector style — `vector`
Clean flat vector art with geometric shapes and long shadows

A sample in the Woodblock Print style — `woodblock`
Traditional ukiyo-e woodblock print with carved linework and indigo palette

Artistic

A sample in the Crayon style — `crayon`
Waxy crayon drawing on paper, bright and hand-drawn

A sample in the Line Art style — `line-art`
Clean ink line drawing with varying stroke weight

A sample in the Minimalist style — `minimalist`
Clean, minimal design with lots of white space

A sample in the Pencil Sketch style — `pencil-sketch`
Hand-drawn pencil sketch on paper

A sample in the Umber Concept Art style — `umber-concept-art`
Cinematic painterly digital illustration. Fine dark contour lines. Softly modeled forms. Expressive facial rendering. Layered visible brushwork. Deep charcoal and burnt umber shadows. Peach-orange highlights. Dusty blue atmospheric recession. Warm practical glow against cool ambient fill. Subtle volumetric haze. Dense, wide compositional layering. Dramatic contemporary storybook aesthetic.

A sample in the Watercolor style — `watercolor`
Soft watercolor painting with gentle washes

Technical

A sample in the Icon / Flat style — `icon`
Clean flat design icons and illustrations

Fantasy

A sample in the Cyberpunk style — `cyberpunk`
Neon-lit futuristic cyberpunk aesthetic

The samples above are real images from the shared library, so they change as the library grows. To get this same list in code, call GET /api/v1/styles, which also includes any custom styles you have made.

The dashboard

Everything you make, and everything you need to make it, is at pixloom.dev/dashboard.

Page	What it is for
Playground	Try a prompt and a style before you put it anywhere.
Styles	The presets, with a sample of each.
Characters	Add a person, mascot, creature or object once, then keep it consistent across images.
Library	The shared library at pixloom.dev/library. Signed in, you can heart images, collect them on a board and save one as a permalink. Dashboard in its header brings you back.
Images	Every image you have generated. Download, pin the keepers, or try another take.
Images, Permalinks	Give an image a fixed name and URL. Swap what it shows later without touching your page.
Settings, Integration	Create and revoke API keys. This is where the quick start sends you.

Permalinks, in one breath

A permalink is a name, like hero-dog, that points at whichever image you choose. Put data-pixloom-permalink="hero-dog" on an image tag, and when you pick a new favorite in the dashboard, every page shows it. No deploy, no cache to clear. Each permalink's page opens with what its URL shows right now. Permalinks has the rules.

Characters, in one breath

Beta

Faces stay reliable across scenes. Matching a character to a heavily stylized look is still improving, so a character in a bold style may sit closer to its own photos than the rest of the image does.

A character starts from pictures of it. You have three ways in:

Photos. Up to four: a clear front view, an angle, a full body, and one in different light. Skip sunglasses, hats and group shots.
A spec sheet. One image with two to four shots of the same character. We cut it into references and suggest a name.
One photo. Upload it and we offer to turn it into a sheet of four reference shots, free, in about 30 seconds. You review the shots before they replace the photo, or keep the one photo.

Then choose how it looks across styles:

Adapt to the style. Redrawn to fit whichever style you pick, including your own: photographic in a photo style, anime in an anime style, flat and simple in a minimal one.
Keep one look. The same in every scene, and only the surroundings take on the style. Keep the look from your photos (best for mascots and brand characters), or pick a family like cartoon or anime.

You can change this later on the character's edit page. The first image in a new look takes a little longer, and every later one is quicker. Drawn characters hold up well in realistic scenes. A photographic character in a cartoon scene may still pick up some of the drawn look.

Put a character in an image with its id: character on generate, or data-pixloom-character on an embed.