Moodboards for photographers

The photoshoot
moodboard your
models actually open.

Gather lighting refs, poses, wardrobe and color grading on one board — then share a single link. Your model, MUA, stylist and client view it and add their own ideas with no account, no app, no sign-up. The link just works.

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Cyberpunk character portrait reference on a Cobalt moodboard

Shared

01 — The share link

No login wall between you and your shoot

Models, MUAs and clients don't run SaaS accounts and they shouldn't have to. Send one link; they open it on their phone and see exactly the look you're going for — and add posing ideas or wardrobe options of their own.

02 — Build it with AI

Describe the shoot, let Claude build the board

Cobalt connects to Claude over MCP. Tell it the mood, the lighting style, the references you want, and it creates the board, sorts columns by look, pulls royalty-free reference images from vetted libraries (Pexels, Pixabay, CC0 museum collections), and writes lighting notes — from a single message.

The workflow

From idea to call sheet,
on one board.

Cobalt maps to how a shoot actually comes together — messy at first, then sharp. Build the brief, pull in the crew, lock the look.

Build the visual brief

Start a board and lay out columns: lighting, posing, wardrobe, location, color grade. Drag in references, paste image URLs, write notes on the gear and setups you want.

Share one link with the crew

Send the link to your model, MUA, stylist and client. They open it with no account and contribute their own references — so everyone shows up aligned on the same vision.

Shoot, then archive

Keep a searchable library of every shoot board — organized by client, style or palette. Full-text search pulls up the exact reference set when the next booking lands.

Works with Claude · MCP

Connect Claude
to your moodboards.

Cobalt exposes an MCP server — the open protocol AI assistants use to work with external tools. Add your token in Settings, or connect via OAuth on claude.ai, and the assistant can build, populate and reorganize your boards by chat.

Speaks plain MCP — works with Claude, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, VS Code or Google Antigravity. Claude is one-click; others connect with your Cobalt token.

A photoshoot moodboard built in Cobalt — reference photos, lighting notes, connector arrows and a color palette, generated from a single chat with Claude

Describe the shoot —
get a finished board.

Tell Claude: "Build a moodboard for a moody studio portrait shoot — three looks, eight reference images, a lighting note per look." It creates the board, organizes the columns, pulls royalty-free reference images from vetted libraries (Pexels, Pixabay, CC0 museum collections), and writes the notes. Then you share the link.

It works with all your boards: search across your whole library, create boards and columns, add notes, links and images up to 25 MB, and move or rename cards — all from a single conversation.

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Questions

Photographer FAQ.

No. Anyone with the share link opens the board in any browser and can view it — and contribute, if you allow it — without an account, a sign-in, or an app install. Only you, the board owner, need a Cobalt account.

Yes. With contribute mode on, anyone holding the link can drop in images, paste reference URLs, and add notes — straight from their phone. It is ideal for models adding posing ideas or an MUA dropping in look references before the shoot.

Yes. On paid plans you can put a password on a share link and add a custom welcome message, so a client board stays private while still needing no account to open.

Cobalt exposes an MCP server, so you can connect your AI assistant to your boards. Describe the shoot — the mood, the lighting, the looks — and it can create the board, organize columns, pull royalty-free reference images from vetted libraries (Pexels, Pixabay, CC0 museum collections), and write lighting notes from a single message.

Images and files, notes, links, headings, to-dos and color swatches, arranged freely on a canvas or in columns. Photographers typically build columns for lighting, posing, wardrobe, location and color grading. Images up to 25 MB each.

Cobalt is a fully hosted service at cobalt.photos — nothing to install or maintain. We handle uptime, backups and updates. The app is invite-only right now; request access and sign in at app.cobalt.photos.