What Krea 2 is
Krea announced Krea 2 on 12 May 2026 as its first-party foundation image model. Official materials emphasize aesthetic range, style control and reference-led direction rather than a single default look.
Open-weight materials later described Krea 2 RAW as an undistilled checkpoint useful for LoRA training and research, with a distilled Turbo route for faster inference. Confirm current product vs open-weight access on official Krea and GitHub pages.
- Announced 2026-05-12
- Style and moodboard control
- Reference-led art direction
- Verify live access on krea.ai
How to brief Krea 2
Assign each reference a job: composition, palette, material or character. Keep the core subject prompt fixed and change one visual variable per round. Natural-language prompts work better than leftover SD-era weighting syntax.
Evaluate before finishing
Score brief adherence, focal clarity, identity, typography and repair effort before enhancement or image-to-video. Compare the same brief on Polox AI and keep official source links in the production record.