Learn Krea in 5 minutes.
Krea is a generative studio built around speed: images update while you are still describing them. In this lesson you practice the Realtime canvas, where a rough sketch drives the image live, plus enhancing and upscaling on the way out.
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Type it, or draw it?
Krea's Realtime mode takes composition instructions from your cursor, not just your words. Deciding what to control by drawing and what to control by prompt is the whole trick.
The live canvas
Drag shapes or paint rough blobs on a canvas while a prompt runs, and the image regenerates as you move things. Position and layout come from the drawing; content and style come from the text.
Upscale and add detail
Krea's enhancer sharpens and reinterprets an image at higher resolution, with a strength slider deciding how inventive it gets. Low strength cleans; high strength redraws.
Prompt and style controls
The text prompt still matters: it names the subject and the look while the canvas fixes the layout. Short prompts work here because the drawing is doing half the talking.
What you will do in the lesson
You answer and try things. Nobody demonstrates at you for five minutes.
- Move a blob, watch the image follow. You drag a shape across the Realtime canvas and see composition control that prompting alone cannot give you.
- Split the job between hand and prompt. You practice putting layout in the drawing and content in the text, and notice what happens when the two disagree.
- Iterate at conversation speed. You make five variations in the time a queue-based tool makes one, and learn to explore before committing.
- Enhance a keeper. You run a result through the enhancer at two strengths and pick the point just before it starts inventing detail.
- Choose the right mode for the job. You decide when live feedback beats a considered single generation, and when it is just noise.
Before you start
What makes Krea different from other image generators?
The feedback loop. Most tools are request and wait; Krea shows the image changing as you draw and type, which turns generation into steering. That changes how you work more than any quality difference would.
Does this lesson require an install or a Krea account?
No. It runs in the frame on this page with nothing to download and no signup. Krea itself also runs in the browser, and there is a free way to try it.
Do I need to be able to draw?
No. Realtime input is blobs, rectangles, and rough gestures, not draftsmanship. The model reads a red circle in the top corner as compositional intent, and that is all it needs.
I already use Midjourney. What would Krea add?
Midjourney is a prompt-then-wait tool with a strong house style. Krea earns its place when you care about composition and iteration speed: you place things by hand and converge in seconds. Many people concept in Krea and finish elsewhere.
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