# Image > Generate an image in Endless: write a prompt, add reference pictures, set the model's own controls, and see the credit cost before you run it. Source: https://endless.app/docs/create/image **Image** is a composer and a feed. You set up one run — a model, a prompt, whatever pictures it should look at, and the model's own settings — and press send. The results appear above the composer, and the composer keeps everything you just set so the next run is a small change rather than a fresh start. It isn't a conversation. Nothing here interprets your request or decides anything for you: what you set is what runs. The Image page: earlier results across the top of the feed with the model that made each one, and docked below them the composer — the prompt field, an output-shape chip reading 16:9, an advanced-parameters control, the selected model, and the credit estimate beside the send button ## Making one ### Start from a prompt or an idea card The prompt field reads *"Describe the image you want to create…"*. Before you've generated anything the page also offers a few starting ideas — picking one drops its prompt into the composer, where you can edit it like your own. ### Choose a model, if you have the choice The model control sits in the composer's footer and it decides everything else on this page. Each row shows the model's name and what a run of it costs. See [Models](/docs/concepts/models) for how to choose between them. ### Add references, if the model takes them The **"Add reference"** button opens your assets so you can hand the model pictures to work from — an image to edit, a style to follow, a face to keep. You can also paste a picture straight into the prompt field, or drop one in. ### Adjust what the model exposes The output control sets the shape and resolution. **"Advanced parameters"** opens everything else the model offers, and **"Reset all"** puts those back to the model's own defaults. ### Check the estimate, then send The number next to the send button is what this run is expected to cost. **"Send message"** runs it, and a placeholder appears in the feed straight away. ## The controls come from the model This is the thing that surprises people, so it's worth saying plainly: **the composer is built from whichever model is selected.** Switch model and the settings change — some appear, some vanish, some change their range. Nothing is broken; you're looking at a different engine's control panel. The **"Add reference"** button stays where it is but goes inert, and says why: *"This model doesn't take reference assets"*. Once its slots are full it says *"This model's references are already filled"* instead. An editing model has nothing to edit without one. The empty slot is marked **"Required"**, the button asks for the exact thing — **"Add the image this model needs"** — and send stays held until you supply it. A model that works purely from the pictures you give it disables the text field and explains itself in its place: *"This model only uses the reference images — no prompt needed"*. The **"Advanced parameters"** toggle only appears when the model has anything to put behind it. Settings that define the run rather than tune it sit above the composer permanently instead of behind the toggle. Pick more references than the model has room for and Endless fills what fits and tells you what it dropped, rather than refusing the whole thing: *"2 files didn't fit this model's inputs"*. ## When a model isn't available to you Three different situations look similar and aren't: Plan-gated models stay in the list, dimmed and unselectable, carrying a lock and the name of the plan that unlocks them — *"Only available from the … plan"*. Choosing one takes you to billing rather than switching model — nothing runs and nothing is charged. A model the workspace turned off genuinely disappears — from here, from chat, and from `@` mentions. With everything turned off the control reads *"No models available. Ask an admin to enable one in workspace settings."* Picking the model is itself a feature a workspace can switch off. When it is, the control isn't rendered and runs use the model Endless has for you. ## What it costs The estimate next to the send button is priced from the same inputs and the same rules the charge uses, so it is usually exactly right. It isn't a promise: it prices the outputs you asked for, while the charge prices the ones that come back. Some models have no fixed price and are priced from the size or length of what you feed them at each run. In the model list those read **"from"** a number rather than a flat one. The composer still shows a real figure once your inputs are in place — it just moves as you change them. A run that fails doesn't cost credits. If the workspace — or your own limit — can't cover the run, Endless refuses before anything starts and points you at what to do about it. When credits are charged, and the three levels that decide what you're allowed to spend. ## Working from your results Select a result and choose **"Use as reference"** to route it into the current model's reference slots — the fastest way to iterate on something you just made. Open a result to see the prompt and model behind it, and regenerate from there. The feed on this page is a view of your library, not a separate one. When a run fails you get **"Couldn't generate. Try again."** If image generation has been switched off for your workspace, the refusal is explicit instead: *"Image generation isn't enabled for this workspace"*.