Continuing their excellent work to offer more artistic control over image creation, the fast-moving crew at Krea has introduced GPT Paint—essentially a simple canvas for composing image references to guide the generative process. You can directly sketch, and/or position reference images, then combine the input with prompts & style references to fine-tune compositions:
introducing GPT Paint.
now you can prompt ChatGPT visually through edit marks, basic shapes, notes, and reference images.
available now on Krea Image. pic.twitter.com/oHiPIedUNz
— KREA AI (@krea_ai) May 1, 2025
Historically, approaches like this have sounded great but—at least in my experience—have fallen short.
Think about what you’d get from just saying “draw a photorealistic beautiful red Ferrari” vs. feeing in a crude sketch + the same prompt.
In my quick tests here, however, providing a simple reference sketch seems helpful—maybe because GPT-4o is smart enough to say, “Okay, make a duck with this rough pose/position—but don’t worry about exactly matching the finger-painted brushstrokes.” The increased sense of intentionality & creative ownership feels very cool. Here’s a quick test:
I’m not quite sure where the spooky skull and, um, lightning-infused martini came from. 🙂
