Krea 2 launches moodboards, taste profiles, and style controls

• Krea is positioning Krea 2 as its first in-house foundation model, with the launch framed around aesthetic diversity and stylistic control in the repost of Krea's announcement.
• Early testers keep circling the same workflow: build a moodboard first, then layer a reusable taste profile and text or style guidelines on top, according to BLVCKLIGHTai's early-access post, BLVCKLIGHTai's setup thread, and omooretweets' single-reference demo.
• Several hands-on posts say Krea 2's strongest lane is cinematic and stylized image work, with examples from _OAK200's cinematic shots, egeberkina's moodboard-driven set, and infiniteyay's surreal explorations.
• The most interesting product detail is how much control Krea is pushing into reusable assets: venturetwins says you can tune moodboard strength and upload images to train one, while BLVCKLIGHTai says users can keep multiple moodboards and multiple taste profiles.
• One feature is still conspicuously missing: BLVCKLIGHTai's follow-up says Krea told testers LoRA training is coming, which means style steering shipped before custom training did.

Krea 2 landed with a very specific pitch: aesthetic control, not just prompt obedience. You can see the product shape in omooretweets' single-reference workflow, browse more examples on Krea's site, and watch venturetwins' demo thread treat moodboards like a live style dial instead of a static reference board. The weirdly useful detail is in BLVCKLIGHTai's thread: one tester built a first moodboard from 240 older generations, then kept reanalyzing it with text guidelines.

Moodboards are the core interface idea in the early hands-on posts. venturetwins' demo says each board can hold a distinct look, while BLVCKLIGHTai's setup thread describes building one from a large back-catalog of prior images instead of starting from scratch.

• venturetwins says moodboard strength can be turned up or down during generation.
• venturetwins also says users can upload their own images to train a moodboard on their style.
• BLVCKLIGHTai says boards can be edited over time by adding or removing images.
• BLVCKLIGHTai says Krea can reanalyze a board, including its text guidelines.
• omooretweets says Krea 2 can generate a detailed moodboard from a single reference image.

That makes Krea 2 feel closer to a personal style system than a one-shot image generator. The prompt still matters, but the evidence pool keeps showing the board doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

Krea's other big idea is a second reusable layer on top of the board. In BLVCKLIGHTai's early-access post, the appeal is not just moodboards or style references alone, but their combination with text and style guidelines.

• BLVCKLIGHTai describes a taste profile as an overarching injection of a user's preferences.
• BLVCKLIGHTai says users can keep multiple moodboards and multiple taste profiles.
• BLVCKLIGHTai says a generation session can be saved as a taste profile template.
• BLVCKLIGHTai's later tip says likes and dislikes help K2 refine what a user is after.
• BLVCKLIGHTai's later tip adds that individual images can be used as style guidelines with notes.

The product bet here is obvious: Krea is trying to store taste as an editable object. That is a much stickier proposition than asking creators to rediscover the same style in every prompt box.

The first wave of examples is heavy on atmosphere, composition, and stylized worldbuilding. _OAK200's post leans into close cinematic framing and low-light scenes, while egeberkina's set uses a moodboard plus style reference system to keep a wild racing concept visually coherent.

Other posts widen the range:

• infiniteyay pushed toward ornate surreal illustration.
• AllarHaltsonen shared a quiet, reflective fine-art image.
• GlennHasABeard's upscaled renders showed grimier, graphic, poster-like outputs.
• GlennHasABeard's eldritch test used moodboards to steer into stranger horror aesthetics.
• CharaspowerAI's 14-prompt thread treated Krea 2 like a broad prompt lab, spanning sports close-ups, neon street racing, food ads, anime battles, VFX portraits, and dark fantasy.

The consensus across those examples is not realism for its own sake. It is range with a recognizable point of view.

Krea 2 appears to be in broader creator rollout rather than a cold open to everyone. chrisfirst says Krea brought a small group to New York two weeks before launch to preview the model, and carolletta announced a Creative Partner role the same day the model went live.

According to BLVCKLIGHTai's follow-up, Krea told testers that LoRA training is coming, and the same post says the creator asked for old trained LoRAs to become reusable inputs for generation, mixing, and discovery. That leaves a clear line between what shipped now and what is still pending: moodboards, taste profiles, and style-guideline workflows are here, custom training is not.

You can already see the split in the evidence. carolletta's example post links people straight to Krea, but the only concrete missing feature called out by testers is still training support.