# Generating images

> Image Studio, what each generation costs, and who can see the result.

Source: https://reverie.im/en/docs/media/image-generation
Language: en

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 \[#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 \[#you-dont-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 \[#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 \[#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](https://reverie.im/en/docs/media/image-to-video#combine-pictures), 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 \[#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 \[#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](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/snapshots#cost-free-allowance-and-the-daily-cap)). 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 \[#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 \[#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](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/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](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/image-guidelines).

## Related \[#related]

* [Image to video](https://reverie.im/en/docs/media/image-to-video) — animate an image you own
* [Image guidelines](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/image-guidelines) — what the avatar review accepts
* [Snapshots](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/snapshots) — publishing a chat image to a character's page
* [Credits](https://reverie.im/en/docs/billing/credits) — where the per-image charge lands