style reference pin

A style reference pin works like a sample photo you keep beside you while drawing, so you can keep referring back to it. Once you set it, the style or mood of that sample keeps showing up in your results even as you type new prompts.

Normally, once you enter a prompt and get a result, the text clears out and you have to set everything up again from scratch. But a pinned reference doesn't disappear like that — it stays attached for the next generation too. That means when you're making a series of images in the same style, you don't have to re-add the reference image every single time.

However, stacking multiple pins at once could cause errors, such as them unexpectedly merging into one. Recently, fixes have been made to address this kind of issue.

The article explains that a bug where entering multiple sref pins randomly would cause them to merge into one has been fixed. In other words, this update highlighted that a style reference pin isn't the image itself, but a marker that keeps referencing that image — so even after you submit a prompt and only the text clears, the pin stays in place and carries over into the next generation.

In an image generation tool, add a style reference image and lock it in with a code or pin, then generate multiple times while only changing the prompt text. Comparing whether the same reference persists and whether the resulting style stays consistent will help you feel out exactly what the pin does.