Lesson 1 of 7 · 3 min

What a reference pack is

Explain what a reference pack holds and why it is scoped to one project.

The three slots and the extras

Picture a photographer showing up on set and asking what am I shooting. You would point at four things: the product, the person, the place, and anything else that matters on the day. A reference pack holds exactly those, as a short, approved set of images your project treats as the truth about how your creatives should look.

Each slot answers a question the model would otherwise guess at. The product slot holds the real photo of the thing you sell, with its actual container, label, and colors. The person slot holds the face that appears on camera. The background slot holds the setting you want renders to sit in. Extra references cover anything else worth showing, like a second product angle or a prop on the table.

It belongs to the project

A pack lives inside one project, not across your whole account. A skincare line and a software tool in the same organization each keep their own pack, so they never borrow each other's references by accident.

There is no separate reference-pack page to go find. The pack opens as a window over the project workspace, from the References row in the tools sidebar. You approve the images once, and every render after that reads them from there.

One thing to know early: a quick tool run that is not tied to a project has nowhere to store a pack. If you want your renders grounded on real images, start from a project rather than a one-off run.

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