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Pose Control Guide

Understanding Pose Control

Pose control allows you to upload an image to use as a reference. The AI will generate an image with the similar pose of your uploaded image.

You can use pose control in the following ways:

  • Anime: Changing the character in the image while keeping the pose from the reference image.
  • Realistic: Generate AI images while keeping the pose from the reference image.

How to Use Pose Control

  1. Select a pose reference or create a pose sketch
  2. Add your prompt description - Edit the custom prompt by describing the pose control image for best results. For example, you may even need to describe objects in the background so that it takes that into consideration. Sometimes this may not be needed.
  3. Adjust the strength - The larger the value, the more the AI uses the reference image. Using too high strength will result in very little change of your uploaded image.
  4. Generate!
  5. We heavily recommend using enhance after pose-control. This fixes quality issues and can completely transform the washed out, low detail images into something higher quality.

Common Questions

"I tried pose-control but can't add anything new that wasn't in the reference image"

Pose control is meant to generate similar content compared to the uploaded image. Therefore, it may struggle to add new things that were not previously in the image. It may change certain things like the character or person and details/colors of the image, but adding something completely new will be difficult.

Pro Tips

  • For Anime: You'll get better results using pose-control with the Anime or Anime (TV) Styles.
  • Cross-Style Reference: For anime, you can upload a realistic image and use higher strength values (0.9). You may get better results and then enhance after! We find realistic images as a source for pose-control works great for anime.
  • Realistic from Anime: The same applies for the Realistic AI. You can use anime images as a reference as well and it will convert to a realistic version. Make sure to test different strength values.
  • Always Enhance: The enhance feature works particularly well with pose-control generated images.