Category: AI Technology

Definition: A technique in AI image generation that allows users to control the exact pose, position, and posture of subjects in generated images. Uses reference poses or skeletal frameworks to ensure models appear in specific positions while maintaining natural appearance.

Why It Matters: Provides more control than text-to-image generation; enables precise product variations; maintains consistency across collections; allows testing different styling, colors, and contexts without reshoots.

Use Cases: Color variation generation, background replacement, seasonal adaptation of existing content, style transfer to existing photos, pose and angle adjustments, model swapping.

Example of Real Use Case: An e-commerce brand takes one product photo and uses image-to-image AI to generate the same garment in 20 different colors and 5 different background settings, creating 100 variations from a single original photograph.

Software/Service: Stable Diffusion, Adobe Firefly,img2img, Midjourney, Caimera ai, RunwayML, Pix2Pix, ZMO.ai

Common Issues: Loss of product detail in transformation, inconsistent quality across variations, difficulty maintaining exact color accuracy, unintended changes to garment structure, artifacts in generated areas.

Do's and Don'ts:

• ✓ Do start with high-quality source images

• ✓ Do use appropriate strength/influence settings

• ✓ Do verify product accuracy in each variation

• ✓ Do test different seed values for consistency

• ✗ Don't use heavily compressed source images

• ✗ Don't set transformation strength too high

• ✗ Don't skip manual quality review of outputs

Related Terms: Text-to-Image, Style Transfer, AI Retouching, Generative AI, Model Swapping

Also Known As: Image Translation, Image Transformation, img2img