Krea Brings Nano Banana and GPT IMG 2.5 Directly Into Photoshop
Krea's new Photoshop plugin lets designers run Nano Banana, Krea 2, and GPT IMG 2.5 directly on their canvas without jumping to a browser.
- Krea launched a Photoshop plugin bringing its full model catalog inside Adobe's canvas
- Supported models include Nano Banana, Krea 2, GPT IMG 2.5, and Seedance 2.5
- Features cover generation, background swap, relighting, multi-shot layouts, product mockups, and a realtime canvas
- Install is via signed CCX installer for macOS and Windows through Creative Cloud
- Requires a Krea account and internet connection since inference runs on Krea's servers
- Paid plans start at $9 per month, scaling to $200 Business tier with 80,000 compute units
Krea brings its model catalog into Photoshop
Krea has released a Photoshop plugin that puts its hosted image and video models inside an Adobe panel. Designers can prompt models including Nano Banana, Krea 2, GPT IMG 2.5, and Seedance 2.5 while working in the current document.
Moving model selection into Photoshop removes the usual cycle of exporting an image, opening a browser tool, downloading the result, and importing it into the PSD. The plugin also gives teams one Krea account and compute balance for comparing models, without separate provider credentials or custom API scripts.
One panel, several engines
The panel exposes the model roster from Krea’s web application and lets users select an engine for each task. Photoshop’s built-in generative features use Adobe Firefly, while Krea broadens the available engines and centralizes their billing through its own service.
| Capability | How it works |
|---|---|
| Image and video generation | Creates an asset from a prompt or source image entered through the panel. |
| Background editing | Removes or replaces a background while preserving the main subject. |
| Real-time canvas | Refreshes a preview as the user changes a sketch or text prompt, before the final render. |
| Multi-shot layouts | Produces related angles and crops from one reference image for layout sheets or campaigns. |
| Relighting | Changes the apparent direction, color, or intensity of light in an existing scene. |
| Product mockups | Places a supplied object into a generated advertising or editorial environment. |
Multi-shot and relighting tools depend on subject consistency, the model’s ability to preserve a person, object, or scene across substantial edits. Newer image models such as Nano Banana handle these transformations with less identity drift than earlier generation systems, though results still vary by model and prompt.
Where the workflow shrinks
Photoshop has attracted numerous generative-image integrations during the past two years. Independent developers offer Adobe Exchange extensions that connect to Google’s Gemini API, and Adobe has tested Google models in Photoshop beta. Those workflows may require personal API keys, separate usage credits, or legacy extensions installed outside a managed service.
Krea handles provider access behind one login and meters generation through its own compute system. A designer can run the same source image through Nano Banana, Krea 2, and GPT IMG 2.5 without configuring three accounts or maintaining integration code. Model availability and usage limits still depend on the selected Krea plan.
At publication, Krea pricing starts at $9 per month for the Basic plan with 5,000 compute units. The listed tiers extend to a $105 Max plan and a $200 Business plan. Compute units do not represent a fixed number of outputs because consumption varies by model and operation.
Installation, compute, and data
- Download the signed CCX installer for macOS or Windows.
- Open the file and approve installation through Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Launch Photoshop and open Krea from the plugin menu. On macOS, the documented path is Window > Plugins > Krea; on Windows, it is Plugins > Krea.
- Sign in with a Krea account and select a model inside the panel.
Each generation runs on Krea’s servers and consumes compute from the connected account, so the plugin requires an internet connection. Editing an existing asset also sends the relevant source imagery and prompt to the service for inference. Teams working with confidential material need to review Krea’s current retention, privacy, and enterprise terms before deployment.
The production gaps
Krea’s public plugin page describes an in-document workflow but leaves several output details unclear. Retouchers and pipeline engineers should confirm the following behavior against the current release:
- Whether results return as flat raster layers, smart objects, editable masks, or another Photoshop object type
- Which document resolutions, color profiles, and bit depths the plugin preserves
- How maximum input and output sizes vary across models
- How generated video is placed in Photoshop and whether timeline metadata survives
- Whether seeds, prompts, and model settings remain available for reproducible revisions
Existing Krea subscribers gain the clearest immediate benefit because the plugin uses their current account and compute allocation. Teams that rely on nondestructive PSD structures should test layer behavior and color handling before adding it to a production pipeline. For model comparison and rapid concept work, the panel removes much of the account management and file transfer that previously surrounded Krea’s catalog.
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