{"id":22844,"date":"2025-05-06T09:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22844"},"modified":"2025-05-06T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:41:33","slug":"krea-introduces-gpt-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/06\/krea-introduces-gpt-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Krea introduces &#8220;GPT Paint&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Continuing their excellent work to offer more artistic control over image creation, the fast-moving crew at Krea has introduced GPT Paint\u2014essentially 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 &amp; style references to fine-tune compositions:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">introducing GPT Paint.<\/p>\n<p>now you can prompt ChatGPT visually through edit marks, basic shapes, notes, and reference images.<\/p>\n<p>available now on Krea Image. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oHiPIedUNz\">pic.twitter.com\/oHiPIedUNz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KREA AI (@krea_ai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krea_ai\/status\/1917949632069456220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"398\" height=\"98\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22845\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1.png 398w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-300x74.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historically, approaches like this have sounded great but\u2014at least in my experience\u2014have fallen short. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about what you&#8217;d get from just saying &#8220;draw a photorealistic beautiful red Ferrari&#8221; vs. feeing in a crude sketch + the same prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my quick tests here, however, providing a simple reference sketch seems helpful\u2014maybe because GPT-4o is smart enough to say, &#8220;Okay, make a duck with this rough pose\/position\u2014but don&#8217;t worry about exactly matching the finger-painted brushstrokes.&#8221; The increased sense of intentionality &amp; creative ownership feels very cool. Here&#8217;s a quick test:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22846\" width=\"854\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2.png 867w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-300x271.png 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-768x693.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure where the spooky skull and, um, lightning-infused martini came from. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3-1024x690.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22847\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3-1024x690.png 1024w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3-768x517.png 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3.png 1042w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing their excellent work to offer more artistic control over image creation, the fast-moving crew at Krea has introduced GPT Paint\u2014essentially 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 &amp; style references to fine-tune compositions: introducing GPT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22851,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22844\/revisions\/22851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}