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Ideogram Character: the same face in any scene

Ideogram Character takes one photo of a person and puts them in new scenes, poses and art styles without changing their face — the most reliable likeness tool in solorender.

Ideogram Character30 credits a pictureIdeogram 38 credits a picture

Real results

Made in solorender with these models. Nothing retouched.

The photo that went in: One photo of her face.
The photo that went in. One photo of her face.
Ideogram Character: Made from that photo and the prompt below.
Ideogram Character. Made from that photo and the prompt below.The woman in a western movie.

Best for

  • ✓Headshots and brand portraits from a single ordinary photo
  • ✓Holding a likeness through a complete change of pose, not just a change of background
  • ✓Putting a real person into a styled or stylised scene using a second reference image
  • ✓Recurring presenters and hosts — the same face across a whole series of posts or episodes

Where it struggles

  • —It is a likeness tool, not a scene builder. For complex multi-subject compositions, generate the scene elsewhere and pass it in as the reference
  • —Ideogram 3 (the base model) is the one to use for typography and posters — Character is specifically about people

Prompts that work

Each one opens the studio with the prompt already in the box. They are also one click away inside the app, under the prompt field.

Professional headshot

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Professional headshot portrait. The person is confident and approachable, wearing a navy suit and white shirt. The background is soft neutral studio. The lighting is bright, even and professional.

This four-part shape is the reliable one: subject and mood, then wardrobe, then background, then lighting.

Change the pose

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The man is sitting down at a table, holding a cup and looking down into it.

A complete pose change is where this model separates from the pack — the face survives it.

Into a scene

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The man in the dark scene.

Attach a second image of the scene you want. Five words does the rest.

Genre portrait

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The man in a western movie.

Editorial portrait

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Editorial magazine portrait. The person looks directly at the camera with a calm expression, wearing a black turtleneck. The background is a deep grey seamless backdrop. The lighting is a single soft key from the left with gentle falloff.

The prompt shape that works

Ideogram Character responds best to a prompt assembled in four named parts, in this order: who the subject is and how they come across, what they are wearing, what is behind them, and how it is lit.

Writing it that way is not decoration. Each clause maps onto something the model controls separately, so when a result is wrong you can tell which clause to rewrite instead of rerolling the whole prompt and hoping.

Run four, not one

Likeness work is variance-limited, not prompt-limited: the same prompt gives you a usable face and an almost-right face on consecutive runs. Set the image count to four and pick, rather than running one at a time and rewriting the prompt after each miss. It is the same spend for a much better hit rate.

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