Generating images
Image Studio, what each generation costs, and who can see the result.
Reverie generates images in several places. Most of them open the same Image Studio dialog — a preview on one side, the controls on the other, and the cost of the generation in the footer before you commit to it.
Where images come from
| Surface | What it makes |
|---|---|
| Generate Scene Image in a chat | Freezes the current conversation into an image |
| The image tool in a chat | An image a character produces as part of a reply |
| Generate on a character's gallery | An image from a description you write |
| AI Generate Avatar | Profile art while creating or editing a character |
| Scenario and story images, novel covers | Cover and scene art for long-form work |
You don't pick the model
There is no model picker for images. Reverie resolves the route from what you asked for — whether the request is adult, and whether the character's avatar is used as an identity reference — and charges for the route that actually runs.
| Route | When it runs | Credits per image |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | The default | 10,000 |
| Mature | The request is adult and the character allows it | 15,000 |
| Character-consistent | The character's avatar, or a picture you added, is used as a reference (up to 2 references) | 30,000 |
| Mature, character-consistent | Both of the above | 30,000 |
| Edit | Any edit of an existing image, whole or partial | 30,000 |
Because the route isn't known until the request has been understood, some dialogs show the cost as a range and settle on one number afterwards. You are only charged for the route that ran.
Cost is per image, and candidates multiply it. Asking for 4 candidates at 10,000 credits each spends 40,000 credits, not 10,000. The Candidates control is in the Advanced drawer, and the footer shows the total before you generate.
What you can set
Open Advanced in any generation dialog:
- Aspect ratio — which shape comes out (see the table below).
- Candidates — 1, 2 or 4 variations in one go.
- Smart character consistency — on by default. It uses the avatar as an identity reference for simple solo shots and falls back to text-to-image for complex full-body action, big wardrobe changes and group scenes. Turning it off always uses text-to-image, which is the cheaper route.
- Style — the art style the prompt is built around.
| Aspect ratio | Pixels |
|---|---|
| 1:1 | 1024 × 1024 |
| 3:4 | 896 × 1152 |
| 4:3 | 1152 × 896 |
| 9:16 | 768 × 1344 |
| 16:9 | 1344 × 768 |
| 9:21 | 640 × 1536 |
| 21:9 | 1536 × 640 |
Individual surfaces offer the subset that suits them — a gallery image starts at 3:4, a scene image picks 3:4 or 16:9 to fit the shot — and each surface has a sensible default if you never open Advanced.
Adding a picture
Generate Scene Image in a chat has an Add a picture row, for subscribers only. Pick one of your uploads, or Upload a PNG, JPG, WebP or AVIF image up to 12 MB: yourself, someone else, an object or a place. Then say in Additional direction how to use it — "she hugs the plush rabbit I gave her", "we're at this café".
- The picture joins the character's avatar on the character-consistent route, at 30,000 credits per image, and is drawn in the same style as the rest of the image.
- One picture per scene image. It appears beside at most one character or persona; a group shot leaves it out.
- Your uploads are shared with Combine pictures in Image to video, and Delete upload removes a picture from both.
- Each upload is checked before it is saved. A picture that clearly shows a recognizable public figure can't be used. A picture that looks like a child, or a photo of a real-looking person, keeps the image service's own content filter on; when the filter blocks an image, the message says which of the two turned it on.
Editing an image
Edit image appears on an image you own that has not been animated into a video. It opens the same studio with an Edit scope: Whole image or Selected area, where you drag over the region to change. Both run on the identity-edit route and cost the same 30,000 credits.
Pick from the quick actions (framing, expression, wardrobe, pose, mood — at most one per category), add free-text detail, or describe the change yourself. Your written notes win where they conflict with a quick action. Nothing is saved until you choose Keep both, Replace original or Discard in the comparison step.
What it takes to generate
Image generation is paid for with credits, and most of it needs no subscription. The exception is Generate Scene Image in a chat and Edit image: without a subscription, they run only on your free snapshots (Scene snapshots). What a plan changes is how many credits you have, plus two allowances:
- Avatar and banner generations draw on a subscriber allowance first and fall back to credits when it is used up.
- One-time signup trials: 3 profile generations, 3 avatar/banner images, 3 chat snapshots. Eligible accounts registered after lifetime trials launch; no expiry or reset.
If a generation is blocked by the safety filter you are told so and can reword it. When a request lands on the safe route but the filter rejects it, Reverie may regenerate it on the mature route and says so in the result.
Mature images
The mature route runs only when the character is marked NSFW Content by its creator (in a group chat, one of its characters). Otherwise the standard route is used and the result is safe-for-work. Your Content filter plays no part here: it only changes what you see while browsing.
Who can see what you generate
An image you generate inside a chat is private to you. It is saved to your side of the character's gallery and nobody else — not the creator, not other people chatting with the same character — can open it.
It becomes visible to others only if you choose Share to the character page. It goes onto the character's wall the moment you do, and you can remove it again at any time. See Snapshots.
Images a creator adds to the character's own gallery are a different thing — those are part of the character and visible to anyone who can see it. A public character's avatar also goes through an automated review; see Image guidelines.
Related
- Image to video — animate an image you own
- Image guidelines — what the avatar review accepts
- Snapshots — publishing a chat image to a character's page
- Credits — where the per-image charge lands