Krea 2 is a style-first image model for artists, designers, and art directors working from reference images and moodboards.
Key Features
- Style Transfer & Reference:
- Style Reference: it’s not an image edit, but a style transfer. Supports up to 10 reference images.
- Broad Aesthetic Range: Handles photoreal, illustration, manga, VHS, watercolor, and more.
- Speed & Workflow:
- Acceleration Modes: Two speed tiers: Medium and Large
Technical Capabilities
- Inputs: Text-to-Image
- Resolution: Up to 1K
- Aspect Ratios: 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 4:5
- Style References: supports up to 10 images
- Creativity Mode: supports 4 modes that determine how closely the output will match the prompt. Low creativity adheres more to the prompt.
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Two variants available:
- Medium : Faster and cost-efficient with stable, consistent outputs. Strong on illustration, anime, painting, and expressive styles.
- Large : More than twice the size of Medium with rawer, more textured outputs. Shines on photorealism and "raw" looks like motion blur, grain, and low dynamic range.
Prompting Tips
Keep it simple: Krea 2 handles simple prompts very well. It leverages the Creativity mode (raw, low, med and high) to determine the look.
How Reference Images Work in Krea 2
Reference images in Krea 2 influence the style of the generated image — not the specific objects inside it.
When you upload a reference, the model analyzes elements like:
- Lighting
- Color palette
- Texture
- Composition
- Artistic style (painting, photography, illustration, etc.)
It then uses those visual qualities as inspiration for your prompt.
For example:
- Prompt: “A girl riding a bike through a wheat field”
- Reference image: A Picasso painting
The result will still be a girl riding a bike through a wheat field, but generated in a style inspired by the Picasso reference.
Reference images are not used as direct object transfers.
So the model won’t take specific elements from the image (like a hat, person, or background) and place them into your generation.