> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.holala.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Model Faces

> Pick a model for your model templates, keep the same face across a whole drop, and choose between generating a new face or swapping one onto an existing frame.

Model templates put your product on a person. Before you Generate, you choose **who** that person is — from the model library, filtered to match your product and your market. Pick once, reuse everywhere, and the same face carries across your whole collection.

<Note>
  Model selection only applies to **model templates** — Product-to-On-Model, Model Swap, Jewellery Image Generation, Kids Image Generation, Lingerie & Swimwear Generation, and the rest. Object-only templates like White Background or Product Placement don't ask for a model.
</Note>

## Pick a model from the library

Open a model template in the STUDIO, upload your product, then choose your model. The model library is built in — no casting, no shoot. Narrow it down with three filters until the model fits your product and audience:

<Columns cols={3}>
  <Column>
    <Card title="Gender" icon="venus-mars">
      Filter to the gender you're merchandising for.
    </Card>
  </Column>

  <Column>
    <Card title="Ethnicity" icon="users">
      Match the market you're selling into.
    </Card>
  </Column>

  <Column>
    <Card title="Body part" icon="hand">
      For close-crop templates — a hand for jewellery, a wrist for a watch, feet for footwear.
    </Card>
  </Column>
</Columns>

<Frame caption="The model library inside a model template, with gender, ethnicity and body-part filters down the side.">
  <img src="https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/holalaai/images/PLACEHOLDER.png" alt="STUDIO model picker showing a grid of model faces with gender, ethnicity and body-part filters" />
</Frame>

<Tip>
  Match the face to your **product category and target market**. Fine jewellery and a hand model; streetwear and a younger, casual model; a luxury market and a model your customers recognise as one of their own. The closer the model fits the buyer, the more the image sells.
</Tip>

## Generate a face vs. swap a face

Two templates deal with the face itself. They sound similar but do opposite jobs — pick by what you already have.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Model Face Generation" icon="sparkles">
    **Creates a brand-new, consistent face** that doesn't exist yet. Use it when you want a signature model for your brand — one you can bring back for every drop.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Model Face Swap" icon="user-pen">
    **Puts a chosen face onto an existing frame.** Use it when the pose, outfit and scene are already right and you only need to change who's wearing it.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="I need a new model">
    Reach for **Model Face Generation**. It builds a fresh face from scratch — no real person, no likeness rights to clear — and the result stays consistent so you can reuse it. This is how you get a house model that's uniquely yours.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="I have a shot, wrong face">
    Reach for **Model Face Swap**. The composition is done; you just replace the face with one from the library. Everything else in the frame stays put.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

<Warning>
  Generation **invents** a face. Swap **replaces** a face on an image you already have. If you don't yet have a frame to swap onto, start with Generation.
</Warning>

## Reuse one face across a whole drop

The point of a consistent face is repetition. Lock in one model and run it through every product in a collection — the same person in every shot reads as one campaign, not a stack of unrelated images.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Lock in a face">
    Generate a new signature face, or pick one from the library and note it.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run it across the collection">
    Use that same model on every product in the drop — each new product image, one consistent face.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Keep it for next season">
    Everything auto-saves to your Library, so your house model is there to bring back for the next launch.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  Brand consistency comes from **holding the model steady** while the product changes — not from re-picking a new face each time. One face, one campaign.
</Note>

## Good inputs still matter

A model template is only as good as the product photo you feed it. The AI dresses your model in the product you upload — a clean, correctly-angled input gives a clean result.

<Columns cols={2}>
  <Column>
    <Icon icon="check-double" /> Plain background, single product, centered and fully in frame
  </Column>

  <Column>
    <Icon icon="check-double" /> Sharp and high-resolution — no blur, no crop
  </Column>
</Columns>

See [Product Images](/input-uploads) for the full product-photo checklist before you generate.

## Where to go next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Templates" icon="layer-group" href="/templates">
    Every template and the one job it does — including all the model templates.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Product Images" icon="image" href="/input-uploads">
    How to prep the product photo, reference image and model selection.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
