--- title: "Krea 2 Lets You Lock In a Visual Style and Never Lose It" subtitle: "Krea's Moodboard Gallery adds thousands of curated boards and two new auto-selection modes, making aesthetic-driven generation faster than ever" url: "https://alphasignal.ai/news/krea-2-lets-you-lock-in-a-visual-style-and-never-lose-it" author: "AlphaSignal Newsroom" author_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/editorial-team" company: "Krea" company_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/company/krea_ai" published: "2026-05-28T14:45:00.000Z" updated: "2026-06-08T19:42:19.819Z" type: "News" topics: - "Image" - "Development" subtopics: - "Image Generation" upvotes: 210 read_time: "8 min" source_url: "https://x.com/krea_ai/status/2060009448685416645" comments: 0 --- # Krea 2 Lets You Lock In a Visual Style and Never Lose It > Krea's Moodboard Gallery adds thousands of curated boards and two new auto-selection modes, making aesthetic-driven generation faster than ever Getting consistent visual style out of AI image generators has always been a grind. You nail a look once, then spend the next hour trying to recreate it with prompt tweaks, model swaps, and style modifiers -- only to end up somewhere completely different. [Krea 2](https://www.krea.ai/krea-2), the platform's first in-house foundation model, was built specifically to solve this. And with the new Moodboard Gallery, that system just got a lot more accessible. ## A gallery full of aesthetic starting points Krea has added thousands of new moodboards to its gallery for users to explore and generate with Krea 2, and is also previewing two new modes -- **Random** and **Auto** -- that select moodboards automatically for your generations. The gallery itself also recently got a facelift: it now features a fresh feed experience, letting you browse community creations in a smoother, faster layout designed to help you discover inspiration and remix what catches your eye. The practical upshot is that you no longer need to build a moodboard from scratch to get started. You can browse the gallery, find an aesthetic that resonates, and start generating immediately -- or let **Random** and **Auto** modes surprise you. ## What moodboards actually do under the hood Moodboards are a different animal from style references. Two big differences: you can pile in as many images as you want (style references cap at four), and there's a more complex system underneath. Moodboards sometimes use style references behind the scenes, but they also run custom LLMs and clustering methods to read everything about the images you upload -- not just style. Concepts, expressions, characters, the overall vibe -- it all gets factored in. The output of that analysis is a structured profile with three components: - **Taste profile** -- a high-level description of what the system found in your board. - **Keywords** -- style tags that get applied under the hood every time you generate with this board. - **Avoids** -- things the system will actively steer away from. You analyze once per board. After that, the taste profile, keywords, and avoids are saved and reused every time you generate with it. This is the key difference from session-based style references -- the board becomes a persistent creative asset. ## Vibe, not just style The algorithm is doing more than style transfer. Moodboards use style transfer under the hood, but on top of that they run custom LLMs and clustering across your images. They pick up on concepts, recurring characters, expressions, compositions, atmosphere -- the actual mood of the set, not just its visual style. The best way to feel this is with a simple prompt. Prompt a frog against a board of colorful illustration and you get frogs that pull the palette and the line work -- and sometimes go further, picking up incidental details like little stars from the references and weaving them into the scene. The output isn't a "frog in the moodboard's style" so much as "what would happen if a frog existed inside this universe." This is the part of moodboards that style references can't quite do on their own: transferring not just look but attitude. Where style references are about transferring a look with precision, moodboards are about handing the model a vibe and seeing what it does with it. ## How to use it Open the sidebar in Krea -- Mood Boards is the second item. Click in, hit create new mood board, drag and drop your images. Before you can generate with it, you need to analyze the board. That's the step where all those algorithms run and Krea builds a profile of your references. Or, with the new gallery, just pick one of the thousands of curated boards and start generating right away. A few practical tips for building your own boards: - Six to twelve tightly curated references tend to outperform a loosely assembled collection of thirty. The goal is to show the model a coherent signal, not a noisy dataset. - If half your references are high-key minimalist and the other half are dark and moody, the model will try to average them and you'll get neither. - You can adjust how strongly the moodboard influences each generation using a style strength slider. At lower values, the prompt has more control. - Use high-resolution images where possible. Low-quality compressed images carry less style signal. ## The use cases that benefit most Anyone who's spent serious time with AI image generation tools knows the frustration: you nail a look in one image, then spend the next hour trying to recreate it. You tweak prompts, swap models, add style modifiers -- and still can't quite get back to what you had. This is one of the core problems Krea 2's moodboard feature is designed to solve. Instead of chasing a style through trial-and-error prompting, you give the model reference images and let it infer the aesthetic. The result is a taste profile that shapes every generation going forward. The strongest use cases include: - **Brand content teams:** Social teams often need 20-30 images per week across multiple channels. Moodboards make it possible to batch-generate content that holds together visually, even across different subjects and formats. - **Client-facing design work:** For studios or freelancers doing brand identity work, Krea 2 moodboards are a fast way to explore visual directions with clients. Build three moodboards with different aesthetic profiles, generate sample images from each, and present visual directions before committing to photography or illustration work. - **Architecture and interior design:** Moodboards let you encode a studio's house aesthetic into the model itself -- drop in a curated set of project precedents, completed buildings, material samples, and atmospheric photos, and Krea 2 builds an internal profile of what your studio's work looks like. Once analyzed, the moodboard runs in the background for every generation. New designs feel like the studio's work without anyone having to write a prompt that captures it. - **Campaign exploration:** Krea 2 can help during early campaign exploration. Before committing to a final direction, teams often need to test different moods, color systems, lighting styles, and compositions. ## Where it falls short Not every output will be perfect on the first try. Style-heavy generation still requires testing. But the workflow is more practical for users who already have a visual direction and want to explore variations inside that direction. For tasks requiring precise product control -- like strict e-commerce photography or technical diagrams -- the default style strength may over-color the output, and pulling back the strength slider is necessary to prevent the moodboard from dominating. The model has a particular affinity for editorial aesthetics. Lookbooks, editorial concepts, fashion moodboards -- these are among its strongest use cases. E-commerce product photography requiring precise background control is a weaker fit, where GPT Image 2 or a specialized model may be better. ## The bigger picture for Krea 2 Krea 2 is now listed on Artificial Analysis, ranking as the #1 image model from an independent research lab and #6 globally on the text-to-image leaderboard. Contra Labs found Krea 2 Large within 0.14 points of GPT Image 2 on Style Fidelity in a four-model style-transfer benchmark. The Moodboard Gallery is part of a broader push: Krea 2 LoRAs are now available to everyone, letting users create and use custom LoRA styles directly in Krea. For developers, the [Krea 2 API](https://www.krea.ai/index/krea-2-api-launch) supports moodboards natively -- you pass a moodboard ID and a strength value alongside your prompt, with generation priced at $0.04 for Medium and $0.07 for Large regardless of whether you combine moodboards with style references. And if you want to iterate fast before committing to a final direction, Krea 2 Turbo generates high-quality images in just 2 seconds, compatible with style references, moodboards, and LoRAs. ## Pricing and access The Moodboard Gallery is available now inside [Krea 2](https://www.krea.ai/image/k2). Krea runs on a subscription-plus-compute-units model: Free ($0, 100 units/day), Basic ($9/month, 5,000 units/month), Pro ($35/month, 20,000 units), Max ($105/month, 60,000 units), and Business ($200/month, 80,000 units, up to 50 seats). The moodboard feature and gallery are accessible on paid plans, with the free tier providing a daily compute allowance to try the basics. The broader shift here is worth noting. Krea has long been known as a creative AI platform with tools for image generation, video generation, editing, upscaling, and workflow automation. But Krea 2 represents a bigger shift: Krea is no longer only giving users access to external models -- it is now building its own model with a clear creative philosophy. The Moodboard Gallery is the most visible expression of that philosophy: aesthetic control, made browsable. ## Sources - [X post by @krea_ai](https://x.com/krea_ai/status/2060009448685416645) - [Mood boards in Krea 2 - Krea Official](https://www.krea.ai/index/moodboards-krea-2) - [Krea Release Notes](https://www.krea.ai/news/release-notes) - [Krea 2 API Launch](https://www.krea.ai/index/krea-2-api-launch) - [Krea 2 Mood Boards: How to Lock In a Visual Style - MindStudio](https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/krea-2-mood-boards-visual-style-ai-image-generation) - [Krea 2 deep dive: exploration, style references, and moodboards](https://www.krea.ai/index/krea-2-deep-dive-walkthrough)