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Keep the influences you work from.

A private reference library for your own practice, searchable by what is in the picture rather than by filename.

14 day trial for Solo and Team plans. Cancel any time.

The problem every artist knows.

An artist's reference library is private and personal: scans, finds, photographs, studies, the paintings you keep going back to. It rarely has names that mean anything, and it grows faster than any folder system can keep up with.

cine.gallery gives your practice a library searchable by subject, colour and composition rather than filename, with your influences grouped into galleries you can return to.

What goes in it.

Whatever you work from. These are the references kept here most often for artists & illustrators, and the kind of thing people type to find them again.

  • figure from behind, dusk
  • red and black, high contrast
  • hands, foreshortened
  • 01Scans of your own sketches
  • 02Photographic reference
  • 03Paintings and artworks you study
  • 04Anatomy and pose references
  • 05Colour studies
  • 06Work in progress

How the work flows.

  1. 01

    Upload your own scans and finds

    Upload your own scans and finds.

  2. 02

    Search by subject, colour or composition

    Search by subject, colour or composition.

  3. 03

    Group studies into galleries

    Group studies into galleries.

The cine.gallery search page showing a grid of sunset photographs ranked as visual matches for the word sunset

The tools behind it.

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One private library

Everything you work from — at full resolution, with the originals kept — in one place instead of five. Drop folders in; duplicates are caught before they upload.

The library
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Search that reads the picture

Describe the frame you remember and your own references come back, ranked by how well they match. No tagging first.

  • “figure from behind, dusk”
  • “red and black, high contrast”
  • “hands, foreshortened”
Search
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Galleries you can send

Arrange references in the order you mean them and share them as a link, a full-screen presentation or a published page — one address, always current.

Galleries
THE SOLO PLAN

For individuals and independent creatives.

  • Private asset library
  • Unlimited galleries
  • Share galleries
  • Embed galleries
  • Publish galleries
  • 100 GB of storage
  • Up to 10,000 assets
  • Original-resolution downloads
$24CAD / month
$288 CAD billed yearly, or $30 CAD monthlyStart your free trial Compare every plan Prices also available in USD and EUR. Tax is calculated at checkout.

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Frequently asked questions.

It is built for anyone who works from visual references — film, photography, brand and design. A private reference library for your own practice, searchable by what is in the picture rather than by filename.

No. Uploads are analysed for search as they land, so describing what is in the picture works from the start. Suggested tags are there to confirm or reject when you want sharper results.

Yes. A gallery shared by link or published opens in any browser. Guest uploads let collaborators add files to a shared gallery with just a name and an email.

On your own, Solo: a private library of 2,000 uploads, ten galleries, sharing and original downloads. When a department needs one shared library, move to Team.

Other questions? Our team typically responds to all support inquiries within 24-48 hours.

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Keep the influences you work from.

Bring the references you already have and find them again by what is in the picture. Upload your own scans and finds.

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