Shotcraft
Image generation

Luma Photon 1 / Photon Flash 1

Luma's image models (photon-1 default, photon-flash-1 for speed) on the same API platform as its Dream Machine video models.

An image model by Luma AI · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing low

Aspect ratios
1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 9:16
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Not established

Both expose the full control set: image reference with up to 4 images and a weight parameter, style reference with weight, character reference from up to 4 images of the same person, and a modify-image path for prompt-driven refinement. Useful mainly as the still-frame stage of a Luma video pipeline.

Commercial use — Not established

Commercial-use terms not verified from a fetched legal page.

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Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Luma AI's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is thin. Treat it as a starting point and verify before relying on any figure. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text, image
What it makes
image
Maximum resolution
not established
Aspect ratios
1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 9:16, 16:9, 9:21, 21:9
Controls
image-to-image, style-reference, reference-character-consistency, editing-by-instruction
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
not established
Released or updated
not established

Maximum resolution and pricing are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

  • Same API and reference-image controls as Luma's video models, so stills and shots share one integration
  • Explicit weighted image/style/character reference parameters
  • Wide aspect-ratio set including 21:9 and 9:21 for cinematic framing

Weaknesses

  • No pricing or resolution in the image-generation docs
  • Only two model tiers with no quality ladder
  • Image quality generally behind FLUX.2, Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2 in third-party comparisons

Best for

Where the sources disagree

Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

MCP servers that front Luma AI

Servers in the media MCP directory whose own description or homepage names this vendor. Absence of a server here is not evidence that none exists: most publish no tool list at all.

See it from the vendor

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.