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

31 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 Fashion Sketch style — `fashion-sketch`
Ink and airbrush fashion illustration with warm beige tones

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

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

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 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 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
Images	Every image you have generated. Download, pin the keepers, or try another take.
Styles	The presets, with a sample of each.
Permalinks	Give an image a fixed name and URL. Swap what it shows later without touching your page.
Characters	Add a person, mascot, creature or object once, then keep it consistent across images.
Playground	Try a prompt and a style before you put it anywhere.
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.

Characters, in one breath

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. We turn it into a sheet of four reference shots for you. It takes a little longer.

Then choose how it looks across styles:

Adapt to the style. Redrawn to fit each scene: photographic in a photo style, anime in an anime style.
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 and it is redrawn once in that look.

You can change this later on the character's edit page. The first image in a new look takes a little longer while we prepare it, and later ones reuse that work. 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.