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Consistent characters with Elements
How to make the same face, character, or product show up the same way across many generations.
Describing a character in words every time ("a woman with curly red hair, green eyes, freckles...") almost never produces the exact same person twice — small wording differences, or just the model's own randomness, change the result each time. If you need the same character, product, or mascot to reappear across multiple generations, Elements solve this.
An Element is a saved reference — built from one of your own images (a photo, a past generation, a product shot) — that you can summon into any prompt by typing @ and its name, the same way you'd @mention an attached reference image. Create one from Assets or Elements in the sidebar, give it a clear name, and from then on "@MyCharacter smiling in a park" reuses that exact look.
Elements work across many different scenes, outfits, and settings — the model still generates a brand-new image or video each time, it just anchors the subject's appearance to your saved reference instead of reinterpreting a text description from scratch.
Tip:A clean, well-lit, front-facing source photo makes a noticeably more reliable Element than a blurry or heavily cropped one — the model has more to work with.
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