1. Summary
Krea 2 is an open-weights, aesthetic-first foundation model built from scratch for style control – moodboards, reference images and its own artistic taste steer a specific look rather than relying on long prompts. It lands within 0.14 points of GPT Image 2 on style fidelity in independent benchmarks and wins style-transfer outright, while the Turbo checkpoint renders 2K in ~2s. It won’t match closed-source leaders on precise prompt control, dense text or editorial skin, but it’s the model to reach for when taste and style direction matter – moodboard-driven brand worlds, illustrative merch and style-consistent campaigns.
Top strengths
- Style & aesthetic (Style 4.6) – best-in-field style transfer (extract palette, linework, texture, lighting, composition from references); art-directed, Midjourney-like taste out of the box.
- Materials & spatial (4.6 / 4.5) – among its strongest dimensions: rich textures/surfaces and reliable spatial/constraint handling.
- Open weights (Raw + Turbo) – download, LoRA fine-tune and self-host; Turbo does 2K in ~2s on consumer hardware. No vendor lock-in.
Top gaps
- Detailed prompt control & repeat consistency – multi-constraint precision and holding one style/character identical across a large set can drift vs GPT Image 2.
- Skin realism (3.8) & Lighting (3.8) – softest dimensions; not for editorial portraiture/beauty or complex multi-source lighting.
- Text rendering (4.2) – solid for an aesthetic-first model but trails typography-first models (Nano Banana Pro, Ideogram 4) on dense/precise text.
Best-fit use cases
- Moodboard-driven brand visuals – feed references, pull a cohesive palette/texture/mood across a set.
- Illustrative & artistic merch – POD designs where a distinctive, art-directed look is the selling point.
- Fast style exploration – Turbo (~2s) for rapid look-dev before committing.
2. How We Tested
Test environment
- Platform: Kittl (internal) + Krea
- Date range: June–July 2026
- Model version tested: Krea 2 Large & Medium (compared head-to-head)
Prompt set
- Total prompts: 124 (Kittl × Prompt Bank – Testing Edition v1.2)
- Categories covered: text-in-image, brand consistency, portraits & skin, camera & composition, textures & materials, spatial reasoning, short-prompt intelligence, quiet backgrounds, gradients & 3D, illustration styles, vector/icon, product mockups, liquids, people holding product, UGC, group campaigns, mood & lighting, seamless patterns, clip art, layout, stress/edge cases, trend radar
Scoring scale
Each capability is scored 1–5 against a definition. Scores are absolute – a 5 means the model executes the definition without meaningful failure; a 1 means execution is unusable for this capability.
- 5 = Executes the definition without meaningful failure
- 4 = Executes reliably with minor inconsistencies
- 3 = Execution is inconsistent or partial
- 2 = Execution frequently fails or requires significant workarounds
- 1 = Unusable for this capability

3. Capability scores and breakdown
Model overall score: ~4.3/5.0

(see the auto-calculated Model Score property). Scores below are Krea 2 Large; the Medium tier runs ~0.2–0.3 lower across most capabilities.
3.1 Prompt adherence: Score 4.7
What this measures: Output matches the request exactly.
What works:
- Strong on constraint/stress tests – counts, positions, colours and exclusions are followed well.
- Excellent at direction/mood briefs (“make it feel ___”) and reference-led composition.
What breaks:
- Repeat consistency across a set can drift, and very detailed multi-constraint prompts are less stable than GPT Image 2 (internal testing).
Examples:


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Create a premium editorial campaign image for a female children’s clothing line, featuring one female teenager around 13 to 14 years old, inspired by a whimsical Alice in Wonderland fantasy with a happy, bubbly, playful mood. The scene should feel bright, joyful, imaginative, and storybook-like, with a polished fashion-advertorial finish. Show one teenage girl model wearing a premium youthful fashion look with charming feminine details such as a designer dress, puff sleeves, bows, ruffles, layered skirt, knee socks, Mary Jane shoes, and playful accessories. The outfit should feel stylish, age-appropriate, and polished, positioned between childlike fantasy and early teen fashion. Use a cheerful color palette of powder blue, blush pink, butter yellow, lavender, mint, ivory, and soft red accents. Build the composition around a Wonderland-inspired fashion set. Include a whimsical tea-party table, oversized teacups, storybook flowers, checkerboard details, ribbons, pocket watches, mushrooms, floating cards, pastel balloons, and curling garden paths. Keep the styling magical and playful, but elegant and editorial rather than chaotic. The overall feeling should be happy, bubbly, dreamy, and fashion-forward. The teenager should have a joyful, curious expression, with a natural playful pose such as twirling, sitting at the tea table, holding a teacup, or interacting with the whimsical props. The image should feel like a luxury youth fashion campaign with a fantasy storytelling layer. Use a polished editorial composition with the teenage girl as the clear hero subject, supported by balanced whimsical set elements and elegant negative space. Keep strong focus on the outfit, the mood, and the dreamy art direction. Use soft luminous lighting, gentle highlights, airy depth, and a bright storybook atmosphere. The final image should feel like a high-end campaign for a girls’ fashion brand, sweet, polished, imaginative, and magazine-worthy.


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Create a premium editorial campaign image for a male youth clothing line, featuring one male teenager around 13 to 14 years old. The scene should feel playful, stylish, energetic, and trend-driven, with a polished magazine-advertorial finish. Show one teenage boy model wearing an age-appropriate Y2K outfit with iconic early-2000s fashion details such as a graphic tee or layered long-sleeve top, baggy jeans or cargo pants, zip hoodie or sporty track jacket, chunky sneakers, chain necklace, wristbands, tinted sunglasses, and a small crossbody bag or backpack. Keep the styling youthful, cool, and premium, balancing nostalgic Y2K elements with a clean modern editorial look. Use a vibrant Y2K color palette with silver, cobalt blue, black, white, lime green, red, and chrome accents. Add playful textures and materials such as glossy nylon, soft denim, mesh, reflective details, metallic accessories, and sporty trims.
3.2 Text rendering accuracy: Score 4.2
What this measures: Spelling, legibility and font fidelity.
Strengths:
- Short labels and display type render cleanly for an aesthetic-first model; large single-word/headline text is reliable.
Limitations:
- Not a typography-first model – dense paragraphs, multi-line hierarchies and very small print trail Nano Banana Pro (5.0) and Ideogram 4; character accuracy drops as text density rises.
Examples:


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Female K-pop idol group album cover for “Summer Breeze”, 4 members, fresh summer comeback concept, bright coastal studio set, soft blue sky backdrop, flowing sheer fabrics, pearl accessories, sunlit reflections, pastel aqua, butter yellow, coral pink, and clean white palette. Editorial group composition with polished idol styling, elegant poses, airy movement, and dreamy wind-swept hair. Album cover design with one large, clean title only: SUMMER BREEZE, group name : SEASONS producer : XTRA entertainment. Keep typography bold, and easy to read, with simple spacing and no dense text blocks. Focus on character clarity, fashion styling, group harmony, mood, and premium K-pop album jacket aesthetics. Use soft cinematic lighting, gentle lens glow, glossy magazine finish, clean negative space, vibrant summer atmosphere, and high-end music release visuals.


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Create a high-fashion magazine cover inspired by VOGUE-style luxury editorial design, for a fictional July 2026 fashion issue. The cover features a striking female model in an avant-garde couture gown, posed confidently against a clean studio backdrop with glossy lighting, refined styling, and elegant fashion photography. Use a sophisticated cover layout with a large luxury masthead at the top reading “VOGUE MODE”, and the issue date “JULY 2026” placed beneath it. Add a dense editorial typography hierarchy across the cover, with multiple headline blocks, multi-line cover stories, fashion callouts, small captions, barcode details, price text, and fine-print magazine copy. Include readable cover lines such as “THE NEW ROMANTICS”, “SUMMER COUTURE RETURNS”, “100 LOOKS FOR THE MODERN MUSE”, “BEAUTY, POWER, AND SOFT REBELLION”, “INSIDE THE JULY STYLE REPORT”, and “RUNWAY NOTES FROM PARIS, MILAN, TOKYO.” Create a layered magazine layout with large serif headlines, elegant sans-serif subheads, italic pull quotes, tiny footer text, barcode numbers, and small decorative labels around the model. The typography should feel ambitious, dense, and editorial, with several different text sizes and tight multi-line spacing. The visual should feel premium and fashion-forward, like a luxury print cover with heavy editorial information. Use polished studio lighting, high-end couture styling, glossy skin, sculptural silhouette, champagne beige, black, ivory, deep red, and soft silver tones. Keep the model as the main focal point while surrounding her with complex magazine-cover typography, dense text hierarchy, and print-layout details. High-fashion magazine cover, July 2026 edition, luxury editorial photography, couture model, dense cover lines, multi-line typography hierarchy, small print details, serif and sans-serif type mix, polished commercial composition, premium fashion magazine aesthetic, 4:5 aspect ratio.
3.3 Camera & composition: Score 4.3
What this measures: Perspective, angles, depth of field, framing.
Strengths:
- Art-directed, intentional framing with strong negative space; responds well to lens/mood language.
Limitations:
- Very prescriptive compositions (exact placement) are less literal than reasoning-enabled models; Medium drops here (3.7).
Examples:


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Art-directed cinematic scene with intentional framing and strong negative space. Neon cables arch across the top foreground, naturally framing a flooded highway tunnel that flows between broken concrete barriers toward distant radio towers on the horizon. Render the entire scene in a hyper-vibrant, overexposed holographic foil aesthetic. Every surface is blanketed in a dense, high-frequency halftone dot pattern and stippled noise texture. Use blinding industrial floodlights that explode into multi-colored four-point starburst lens flares, prismatic light leaks, and severe chromatic aberration layered over the tunnel, barriers, cables, and towers. The tunnel walls and floodwater glow with deeply saturated, iridescent gradients of ultraviolet purple, acid yellow, cyan blue, and hot magenta, contrasted by blown-out white highlights. Dark recesses in the concrete and cable bundles break apart into glittering, nebula-like clusters of luminous metallic sparkles. Mood is surreal, electric, dystopian, glossy, and otherworldly. Wide-angle lens, low perspective, dramatic depth, strong foreground-to-background flow, highly stylized composition, intentional empty space, editorial fashion-meets-industrial sci-fi atmosphere.


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Create a high-end editorial still life of champagne being poured from above, styled as a luxury celebration advertorial with intentional framing and strong negative space. Use a top-down overhead composition, with the champagne bottle entering from the upper edge of the frame and the stream of champagne flowing elegantly into a coupe glass placed slightly off-center below. Add one or two additional empty or half-filled glasses nearby, positioned with deliberate spacing. Compose the scene with a clean 50mm editorial mood translated into an overhead still-life perspective, keeping the arrangement refined, minimal, and art-directed. Leave generous open space around the pouring action so the image feels expensive, calm, and visually sophisticated, suitable for premium ad layout. Style the surface with luxurious but restrained festive details: scattered gold confetti, a silk ribbon, a few crystal accents, soft reflections, and subtle hints of a celebration. Keep all supporting objects carefully placed and never cluttered. The pouring champagne should be the main focal point, with visible sparkling bubbles and a graceful liquid arc. Use dreamy evening lighting with warm golden highlights, soft reflections on the glassware, delicate sparkle in the champagne, and smooth shadow falloff. The mood should feel festive, elegant, cinematic, and polished, like a luxury magazine campaign. Add a refined palette of champagne gold, ivory, warm amber, soft silver, and deep charcoal. Emphasize crisp glass texture, premium bottle detail, realistic liquid motion, elegant negative space, and a visually balanced overhead layout. High-end beverage photography, top-down pouring shot, luxury champagne campaign, art-directed composition, premium festive mood, ultra-realistic, highly detailed, 4:5 aspect ratio.
3.4 Generation speed: Score 4
What this measures: Time from prompt to finished output.
Strengths:
- Turbo renders 2K in ~2s on consumer hardware; Medium generates in <10s.
Limitations:
- Large (max fidelity) is the slow one at ~30–40s – use Medium/Turbo when speed matters.
3.5 First-try quality: Score 4.3
What this measures: Usable output without re-prompting.
What works:
- Aesthetically pleasing first try – pleasant palettes, mood and taste with minimal prompt engineering.
What breaks:
- When the brief needs precise control (exact text, counts, layout) expect more iteration than GPT Image 2.
Examples:


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Create a candid overhead outdoor photograph of a light cream-colored cat lying on its back in tall wild grass. The cat’s paws are softly curled upward, its belly fully exposed, and its body relaxed in a natural, trusting pose. Surround the cat with slightly untamed grass in varied earthy green tones, with subtle texture from blades, small weeds, and soft natural irregularity. Use dappled sunlight filtering through nearby foliage to create gentle patches of light and shadow across the fur and grass. Emphasize a peaceful, sun-warmed atmosphere, natural feline softness, and an intimate spontaneous moment. Realistic fur texture, visible whiskers, soft creamy coat, warm highlights, shallow depth of field, organic composition, serene countryside mood, candid outdoor photography, high detail, photorealistic.


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Create a charming, high-detail beach scene featuring one playful kitten enjoying the shoreline. The kitten should look curious, energetic, and joyful, running through the shallow water and clearly loving the splashing waves. Show the kitten mid-motion, pawing at the water, hopping through the surf, or pouncing playfully as droplets scatter around it. Add a lively water splash effect around the kitten’s paws and body, with sparkling seawater droplets flying upward, soft ripples spreading across the wet sand, and small arcs of foam catching the light. The motion should feel natural, playful, and full of life.Surround the kitten with a beautiful beach setting: soft golden sand, gentle ocean waves, scattered seashells, light foam at the shoreline, and a bright open sky. Include subtle details like tiny paw prints in the wet sand, sunlight reflecting on the water, and a soft sea breeze lifting the kitten’s fur slightly.
3.6 Style Fidelity: Score 4.6
What this measures: Era/aesthetic match and character consistency when using a reference image.
What works:
- Standout reference-based style transfer. Krea 2 can extract palette, linework, texture, lighting, and composition from references, then apply them to new subjects with strong visual consistency.
- Style References offer tighter control through the strength slider, while Moodboards help maintain broader character, mood, and aesthetic consistency.
What breaks:
- Holding one exact character/style identical across a large set can still drift.
Examples:



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Create a luminous fantasy character illustration inspired by the attached reference images: a powerful female water warrior with pale skin, soft light freckles, icy blue eyes, and long silver-ash hair styled into a thick braided ponytail with loose windblown strands. Her hair is decorated with ornate phoenix hair ornaments, golden wing-shaped pins, glowing feather charms, and small gemstone accents. She wears an elegant blue, ivory, and silver battle robe inspired by waterbender silhouettes, with layered fabric, fur-trimmed shoulders, embroidered wave patterns, metallic gold phoenix motifs, and fitted warrior structure. Show her in a three-quarter portrait, calm and intense, surrounded by swirling water ribbons that curl around her arms like living streams. Behind her, add a radiant golden phoenix aura made of light, sparks, and floating feathers, contrasting beautifully with moonlit blue water and mist. The scene should feel magical, cinematic, and premium, blending cool ocean energy with warm celestial gold. Use soft painterly lighting, high-detail fantasy rendering, luminous skin, shimmering water droplets, floating golden particles, elegant motion, heroic composition, and dreamy storybook game-cover atmosphere.



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A poetic hand-painted illustration of a small floating bookshop drifting through a misty harbor at dawn. Tiny warm windows, stacks of books visible inside, old wooden deck, a child in a yellow raincoat waving from a pier, soft gouache texture, visible brush strokes, gentle whimsical mood, layered fog, muted teal and warm amber palette, cats and dogs as the child’s partner charming but not childish, elegant editorial illustration style.
3.7 Skin Realism: Score 3.8
What this measures: Pore detail, tonal range, melanin accuracy.
What works:
- Natural, filmic skin in aesthetic/editorial contexts where skin isn’t the sole focus.
What breaks:
- Fine macro pore detail can read slightly smooth/plastic; Medium is softer (3.5). Not for beauty close-ups.
Examples:


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Create a high-end editorial portrait of a traditional Chinese fan dancer in a graceful performance setting. Show a female dancer in elegant motion, wearing a flowing Hanfu-inspired costume with long sleeves, embroidered silk, layered textures, and refined traditional detailing in tones such as crimson, jade, ivory, gold, or soft blush. She should be holding one or two beautiful Chinese fans, partially open, with delicate patterns and fluid movement that enhance the dance.Capture the scene with a filmic editorial mood, where the overall beauty comes from the harmony of costume, gesture, atmosphere, and lighting. The dancer’s skin should look natural, believable, and softly luminous, with realistic texture, subtle tonal variation, and gentle highlights, while remaining secondary to the full artistic composition. Keep the emphasis on the graceful pose, the expressive hands, the flowing fabric, and the fan movement rather than on close-up beauty detail alone.Use a refined setting such as a dimly lit stage, a moody studio backdrop, or a traditional interior with soft lantern glow, silk drapery, and minimal architectural hints. Add a sense of movement through the fan arcs, sleeve flow, and poised body posture. The expression should feel serene, focused, and elegant.Use soft cinematic lighting with warm highlights and delicate shadows, creating a polished editorial atmosphere with a subtle analog-film quality. The composition should feel artistic, balanced, and magazine-worthy, with rich costume texture, graceful motion, and a sophisticated cultural aesthetic.


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Create a refined mid-close beauty portrait of a female model with soft luminous skin, a calm serene expression, minimal dewy makeup, glossy natural lips, softly groomed brows, and hydrated cheeks. Her complexion should look silky, even-toned, fresh, and polished, with a gentle moisturized glow rather than intense macro texture. Frame the face, neck, and upper shoulders in a clean skincare editorial composition, avoiding extreme pore-level close-up. Use soft diffused studio lighting, creamy highlights, delicate shadows, warm ivory and pale beige tones, subtle blush undertones, shallow depth of field, and a fresh milky skincare atmosphere. High-end moisturizer advertorial, soft facial glow, smooth hydrated complexion, elegant beauty model, premium skincare campaign, magazine-quality, ultra-realistic, 4:5 aspect ratio.
3.8 Hand Anatomy: Score 4.0
What this measures: Correct finger count, natural poses.
What works:
- Resting and simple grip poses are reliable; Medium actually edged Large here (4.3) in testing.
What breaks:
- Close-up and interlocking hands still need human review.
Examples:


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Create a premium editorial lifestyle photograph of a teenager spending her school holiday at a strawberry farm, captured in a warm countryside setting with rows of ripe strawberries, green leaves, soft soil, and golden late-morning sunlight. The mood should feel fresh, innocent, relaxed, and nostalgic, like a summer holiday memory. Focus on a close-up harvesting moment. The teenager is crouching between strawberry rows, gently reaching into the plants to pick ripe strawberries. Her hands are the main visual focus: one hand carefully cups several strawberries, while the other hand threads through leaves and stems to pluck a berry. Show layered finger placement, overlapping fingertips, curled fingers around the fruit, and a natural grip on a small woven basket filled with strawberries. The composition should feel intimate and tactile, with the red strawberries, green leaves, and youthful summer styling creating a bright cheerful palette. The teenager wears casual school-holiday clothing such as a soft cotton blouse, denim skirt or jeans, sun hat, and simple sneakers. Her expression should be happy and focused, softly blurred in the background while the hands, berries, and basket remain sharp. Use natural daylight, shallow depth of field, creamy bokeh, realistic skin texture, detailed strawberry surfaces, soft fabric texture, and warm outdoor tones. Candid farm photography, close-up hands harvesting fruit, summer holiday lifestyle, strawberry field editorial, natural grip, detailed fingers, wholesome countryside atmosphere, ultra-realistic, magazine-quality, 4:5 aspect ratio.


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Create a premium lifestyle editorial image of a woman in her 50s leading a cooking demo in a bright, elegant kitchen. The composition should highlight her hands as a major visual focus. Her hands should look healthy, capable, and well cared for, with believable mature detail such as gentle fine lines, subtle veins, natural knuckle structure, soft skin texture, and neatly groomed nails, while still appearing strong, graceful, and active.Show her in the middle of a cooking demonstration, using her hands naturally and confidently. One hand can hold a wooden spoon while stirring a pan, while the other hand arranges fresh herbs, slices vegetables, sprinkles seasoning, or plates food with precision. Make the hand anatomy clear and realistic, with natural finger placement, relaxed grip, and expressive movement that communicates skill and warmth. Keep the setting refined and inviting, with a modern kitchen counter, ceramic bowls, olive oil, herbs, fresh produce, a linen apron, and softly styled cookware. The woman should look polished, approachable, and experienced, with a warm expression and understated styling. The image should feel like a high-end advertorial or culinary magazine feature. Use soft natural daylight or elegant studio lighting, with gentle highlights on the hands, ingredients, and kitchen surfaces. Emphasize tactile realism in the skin, food textures, wood utensils, and ceramics. Warm neutral palette, clean framing, shallow depth of field, premium food and lifestyle photography, healthy mature hands, graceful cooking gesture, polished editorial mood, ultra-realistic, 4:5 aspect ratio.
3.9 Surface Quality: Score 4.6
What this measures: Metal, glass, fabric, multi-material rendering.
What works:
- One of its strongest areas – rich, tactile textures and materials (cotton, kraft, enamel, condensation) render convincingly.
What breaks:
- Extreme multi-material precision (complex reflections/refractions) is a touch behind GPT Image 2.
Examples:


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Create a high-end editorial portrait of a traditional Chinese fan dancer in a graceful performance setting. Show a female dancer in elegant motion, wearing a flowing Hanfu-inspired costume with long sleeves, embroidered silk, layered textures, and refined traditional detailing in tones such as crimson, jade, ivory, gold, or soft blush. She should be holding one or two beautiful Chinese fans, partially open, with delicate patterns and fluid movement that enhance the dance. Capture the scene with a filmic editorial mood, where the overall beauty comes from the harmony of costume, gesture, atmosphere, and lighting. The dancer’s skin should look natural, believable, and softly luminous, with realistic texture, subtle tonal variation, and gentle highlights, while remaining secondary to the full artistic composition. Keep the emphasis on the graceful pose, the expressive hands, the flowing fabric, and the fan movement rather than on close-up beauty detail alone.


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Create an ultra-premium product editorial image centered on a multi-stone jewellery necklace in a fairy tale-inspired setting. Show the necklace as the clear hero product in a luxurious still-life composition with no human subject. The necklace should feature an ornate arrangement of mixed gemstones, such as moonstone, amethyst, rose quartz, emerald, garnet, opal, and crystal accents, set in refined gold or antique-gold metalwork. The design should feel magical, regal, and storybook-like, as if it belongs to an enchanted princess or a hidden forest queen. Emphasize rich material beauty and tactile realism throughout the scene. Let the gemstones appear polished, dimensional, and luminous, with crisp facets, translucent glow, and subtle internal color variation. Include enamel details on small charms or floral motifs within the necklace design, with smooth glossy surfaces and delicate decorative craftsmanship. Style the necklace on or beside a soft cotton or velvet-lined jewelry base, with a kraft gift box or handcrafted paper jewelry packaging placed nearby to add artisanal texture and contrast. Add a glass perfume vial, mirrored tray, or crystal dish with a few tiny dewdrops or light condensation visible on the surface for a fresh, magical atmosphere. Build a fairy tale mood with refined props such as moss, tiny blossoms, pearl pins, antique keys, ribbon, candlelight glow, soft tulle, or a carved storybook box. Keep the styling elegant and restrained, not cluttered. Use a rich and classy palette of deep emerald, blush rose, moonlit ivory, antique gold, mauve, sapphire, and soft forest tones. Use soft diffused lighting with glowing highlights and delicate shadows to reveal every surface beautifully, from gemstone sparkle to enamel gloss, paper grain, cotton softness, and moisture detail. The final image should feel like a luxury jewellery campaign with an enchanted fairy tale atmosphere, ultra-realistic, highly detailed, tactile, elegant, and magazine-quality, 4:5 aspect ratio.
3.10 Spatial Reasoning: Score 4.5
What this measures: Left/right, counting, grid layouts.
What works:
- Handles counting, placement and grid/constraint layouts well, a strong dimension (stress-test constraints scored highest overall).
What breaks:
- Very complex nested relationships can occasionally misalign; Medium drops to 4.0.
Examples:


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Create a premium product advertorial for a blind box stuffed animal collection, styled like a polished toy brand launch campaign. Show a clean tabletop display with exactly 12 blind box packages arranged in a precise 3 by 4 grid, evenly spaced with consistent margins, identical box size, and aligned front-facing labels. In front of the boxes, show exactly 6 opened stuffed animal characters placed in a neat semicircle: a bunny, bear, kitten, puppy, duck, and panda. Each plush should have a soft collectible design, rounded proportions, embroidered eyes, tiny accessories, and a charming pastel personality. Keep each character clearly separated and easy to count. Add exactly 3 mystery boxes on the left side, stacked vertically. Add exactly 4 sealed foil blind bags on the right side, arranged in a tidy diagonal line. Place one small checklist card in the center foreground showing 12 miniature character icons in a clean catalog layout. Use a playful but premium color palette of cream, pastel pink, butter yellow, mint green, lavender, baby blue, and soft peach. The packaging should feel collectible and high quality, with crisp print, cute icon labels, tiny barcode details, and polished toy-brand graphics.


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Create a premium food product advertorial for an organic tomato sauce brand, styled like a polished farm-to-table packaging campaign. The layout should feel naturally randomized but still carefully controlled, with multiple object groups placed in clear spatial relationships. Show exactly 7 glass jars of organic tomato sauce across a rustic wooden table. Place 1 hero jar slightly off-center in the foreground, 2 jars behind it on the left, 2 jars behind it on the right, and 2 smaller jars near the back edge, angled slightly differently but with labels still visible. Around the jars, arrange exactly 13 fresh organic tomatoes in a loose natural spread: 5 tomatoes around the hero jar, 3 tomatoes between the left-side jars, 3 tomatoes between the right-side jars, and 2 tomatoes near the back jars. Add exactly 9 basil leaves, placing one leaf beside each jar except the hero jar, then 3 leaves scattered near the tomatoes in the foreground. Include exactly 4 garlic cloves beside a small ceramic bowl near the lower-right corner. Place 2 wooden spoons diagonally across the lower-left area, with one spoon holding tomato sauce and the other resting on the linen napkin. Add 1 folded linen napkin partly under the hero jar, 1 sauce smear beside the spoon, and 1 small cluster of tomato seeds near the front edge.
3.11 Lighting Quality: Score 3.8
What this measures: Named techniques, color temperature, multi-source.
What works:
- Mood and cinematic lighting are pleasant, dreamy, art-directed light out of the box.
What breaks:
- Strict physical multi-source setups (e.g. two-colour neon split) are less literal, a softest dimension.
Examples:


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Create a premium editorial advertorial image with a dreamy, cinematic mood and beautifully art-directed lighting. The scene should feel elegant, atmospheric, and emotionally polished, like a luxury campaign still from a high-end magazine. Use soft diffused light as the main source, with a gentle warm glow falling across the subject, subtle rim highlights, delicate shadow transitions, and a luminous background haze. The lighting should feel intentional and cinematic, creating depth, softness, and an aspirational atmosphere without looking harsh or overproduced. Build the composition around a refined lifestyle moment: a beautifully styled interior, soft fabric textures, glass reflections, fresh flowers, warm neutral tones, and elegant negative space. The subject or product should appear naturally elevated by the light, with glowing highlights, soft bokeh, and a calm emotional presence. The overall mood should feel serene, luxurious, dreamlike, and art-directed from the first glance. Use a sophisticated palette of ivory, champagne, muted gold, soft beige, pale blue, and warm blush. Keep the framing clean, polished, and magazine-ready. High-end editorial photography, dreamy cinematic lighting, soft luminous atmosphere, refined commercial styling, art-directed shadows, warm glow, elegant negative space, premium lifestyle advertorial, ultra-realistic, highly detailed, 4:5 aspect ratio.


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Create a cinematic fantasy fashion photoshoot featuring a real female human model as a historical battle warrior, dramatic ocean action pose and magical atmosphere. The model stands in crashing shallow seawater at sunset, turning her upper body back toward the camera with an intense, focused expression. One arm is raised high as if summoning glowing energy, while the other hand holds a long elegant sword.
4. Competitive Position
Overall rank: #4 of 8 image models per July 2026 (Score: ~4.3)

Where Krea 2 leads:
Style & aesthetic control: (Score 4.6)
Best-in-field style transfer + moodboards; within 0.14 of GPT Image 2 on style fidelity and wins style-transfer outright.




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Create a high-fashion editorial photoshoot featuring a silver-haired woman imagined as the Cleopatra of Antarctica. She should look regal, commanding, and otherworldly, blending ancient queen-like elegance with icy futuristic beauty. Her expression is poised, powerful, and enigmatic. She has long silver hair flowing softly in the wind, with delicate movement around her face and shoulders. Her eyes are enhanced with icy sculptural contact lenses that look crystalline and frozen, giving the impression of arctic jewels resting over the irises. Her makeup is dramatic and refined, with bright red lipstick as a bold focal point, contrasted against cool porcelain skin and a frosted complexion. Include luxurious icy white, silver, and pale blue garments or armor-like draping, with regal details such as metallic collars, beaded embellishments, crystal ornaments, and elegant ancient-queen silhouettes. The styling should feel majestic, cold, and editorial, as if she rules a frozen kingdom.
Materials & surfaces: (Score 4.6)
Rich, tactile texture rendering, one of the strongest in the lineup.



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Create a premium food editorial image centered on blueberry jam spread over fluffy raisin bread, with a strong emphasis on texture and tactile realism. Show a thick slice of soft, airy bread with a light golden crust and visible raisins embedded throughout the crumb. The bread should look freshly baked, pillowy, and tender, with delicate torn edges and a slightly uneven handmade surface. Spread a generous layer of blueberry jam across the top, making the texture the hero: glossy, rich, and luscious, with visible whole and crushed blueberry pieces, deep purple-blue tones, subtle translucency, and a sticky, fruit-thick finish. Let the jam catch the light beautifully, showing a juicy, spooned-on texture with slight drips or natural smears. Emphasize the contrast between the soft fluffy bread, the chewy raisins, and the glossy fruit jam. Add a few fresh blueberries nearby, a small butter knife with jam residue, and a rustic ceramic plate or wooden board to support the artisanal breakfast mood. Use soft natural daylight and a warm editorial food-photography style. Highlight the bread’s airy crumb, the wrinkled skin of the raisins, the sticky shine of the jam, and the subtle crumb scatter on the surface. Keep the composition close and intimate, with shallow depth of field and a fresh, appetizing atmosphere
Open weights + speed: (Score N/A / Speed 4)
Downloadable, fine-tunable (LoRA) and self-hostable; Turbo does 2K in ~2s unlike closed APIs.
Where Krea 2 is outperformed:
Prompt precision & consistency: (Score 4.7 but below GPT Image 2)
GPT Image 2 is more reliable on complex multi-constraint prompts and repeat consistency across sets.



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Create a young woman with long green hair, yellow highlights, and blunt bangs. She glares upward with piercing green eyes over angular white-tinted sunglasses. She holds a chocolate to her mouth with a hand sporting teal nails. She wears a white top against a solid vibrant yellow background, using the attached images as visual style references only; if a source image is provided, preserve its main subject, silhouette, and composition, but do not copy text, logos, or objects from the style references.
Text rendering: (Score 4.2)
Nano Banana Pro (5.0) and Ideogram 4 are built for typography and handle denser, more precise text.



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Image of a cozy bakery storefront announcing that “Freeten Bakery” is open. The scene should focus on clean, accurate, readable typography across multiple real-world surfaces: a large storefront sign, a hanging open sign, window lettering, chalkboard menu, product labels, pastry tags, paper bags, takeaway coffee cups, and small packaging stickers. Make the main sign read “Freeten BAKERY” in large elegant serif lettering, with a smaller line underneath that says “Freshly Baked Daily”. Add a hanging door sign that clearly reads “OPEN” in bold sans-serif type. On the window, include readable text: “Bread • Pastries • Cakes • Coffee”. Inside the bakery, show a chalkboard menu with clear multi-line text: “Today’s Specials”, “Almond Croissant”, “Cinnamon Roll”, “Blueberry Muffin”, “Sourdough Loaf”, and “Iced Latte”. Add small pastry labels with legible names and prices, plus kraft paper bags printed with “Freeten Bakery” and “Made Fresh This Morning.”
5. Use Case Guide
Best fit: POD & product-based SMB
- Moodboard-driven brand worlds: feed references, pull a cohesive palette/texture/mood across a whole set.
- Illustrative & artistic merch: POD designs where a distinctive, art-directed look sells.
- Fast look-dev: Turbo (~2s) to explore directions before committing.
- Style-consistent campaigns: apply one reference style across many assets via style transfer + moodboards.
6. Kittl’s Verdict
Krea 2 is the model to reach for when taste and style direction matter more than precision. Its reference-and-moodboard workflow gives real control over the look, palette, texture, lighting, composition and it delivers art-directed, Midjourney-like results with very little prompt engineering. Being open-weights and fast (Turbo ~2s at 2K), it’s also the most flexible option here for teams who want to fine-tune a house style or self-host.
Don’t reach for it when the brief is precision-first: dense in-image text, exact counts and layouts, or high-constraint consistency across a large set, GPT Image 2 is more reliable there, and Nano Banana Pro / Ideogram 4 own typography. In internal testing Krea 2 felt less stable than GPT Image 2 on detailed prompt control and repeat consistency, even as its style transfer and aesthetic taste stood out. The Medium tier runs ~0.2–0.3 below Large across most capabilities.
Bottom line: Use Krea 2 for aesthetic, moodboard-driven, style-consistent work — explore fast on Turbo, and hand precision-critical or text-heavy jobs to GPT Image 2 / Nano Banana Pro.
Last updated: July 2026. Tested on Krea 2 (Large & Medium) via Kittl. Model capabilities subject to change.

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