Write Better Prompts for Krea 2 Images

Prompt:

"a lone red fox on a misty hillside at dawn, 35mm film photograph, shallow depth of field, fine grain, soft backlight through the fog, muted green and amber palette"

Why It Works:

• "35mm film photograph" sets the medium, and "fine grain" and "shallow depth of field" are things a 35mm lens would actually do
• The palette is named outright, so the fog reads as muted green and amber instead of default blue-gray
• Nothing in the prompt says "photorealistic"; the medium implies it

Prompt:

"gouache painting, a fishing village at golden hour, thick visible brushstrokes, textured paper, warm ochre and teal palette, boats pulled up on the sand, loose painterly edges"

Why It Works:

• "Gouache" is a specific opaque paint, and Krea 2 renders its matte, chalky surface rather than generic "painting"
• Texture cues ("thick visible brushstrokes", "textured paper") tell the model what the surface should feel like
• "Loose painterly edges" gives permission to be imprecise, which is the look

Prompt:

"macro photograph, a glass of iced coffee on a marble counter, hard directional window light, deep shadows, condensation droplets, shallow depth of field, solid dark background"

Read It Back:

• Medium: macro photograph. Lighting: hard directional window light. Texture: condensation droplets. Framing: shallow depth of field. Background: solid dark.
• The palette is implied by marble, coffee, and a dark background, which is enough here; add colors when the subject does not carry them

Prompt:

"a cat riding a bicycle, retro cartoon illustration"

What to Notice:

• Both land in the same retro cartoon lane from an eight-word prompt, because the medium was named
• Medium and Turbo are different models, so a shared seed keeps them in the same neighborhood rather than producing pixel-identical frames
• Turbo is the one to iterate on; Medium is the one to publish

Prompt:

"anime illustration, a girl in a yellow raincoat waiting at a rainy train platform at night, cel shading, glowing vending machine light, reflections on wet concrete, soft blue and warm yellow palette, wide shot"

Key Tips:

• "Cel shading" is the phrase that keeps skin and cloth flat instead of drifting toward painterly rendering
• One strong practical light source (a vending machine, a lantern, a phone screen) gives anime scenes their mood
• This was requested as a 3:4 portrait; Krea 2 Medium has no 3:4 and returns its nearest ratio, 4:5. Krea 2 Turbo renders a true 3:4, so a Turbo draft can come back slightly reframed on Medium

Prompt:

"risograph print, a bicycle leaning against a lamppost, two-color limited palette of fluorescent pink and navy, bold flat silhouettes, slight misregistration, grainy ink texture, solid cream background"

Key Tips:

• Name the process (risograph, screen print, linocut, woodblock) and its signature flaw (misregistration, ink bleed, chatter marks); the flaw is what sells it
• Limit the palette to two or three named colors and Krea 2 will honor it
• Simple subjects with strong silhouettes read best in flat print styles

Prompt:

"extremely grainy lo-fi VHS still, a 1990s bedroom lit only by a CRT television showing static, tracking lines, washed-out color, low dynamic range, soft focus, a single hand entering from the edge of the frame with motion blur reaching for the remote, plain walls, bare wooden desk, unmarked cassette cases"

Key Tips:

• Most models quietly clean these prompts up. Krea 2 takes "extremely grainy" and "low dynamic range" at face value, so ask for the degradation you want by name
• Put motion blur on one specific element so the rest of the frame stays readable
• An era ("1990s") pulls in period-correct props without listing them. Name the props you do want ("unmarked cassette cases"), or Krea 2 will dress the set with real-world packaging