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What's New on NightCafe
What’s New on NightCafe NightCafe now has a dedicated place to catch up on new models, features, and other product updates — without having to notice a one-time launch popup. Where to find updates Inbox → What’s New — open Inbox from the header (the ...
P Image Upscale on NightCafe
What is P Image Upscale? P Image Upscale is NightCafe’s newest regular upscaler. It increases the resolution of an existing creation. When you open Upscale on a creation, P Image Upscale is the default model. Real-ESRGAN models are still available in ...
How can I easily download all my creations?
NightCafe offers bulk download so you can save many creations at once instead of downloading them one by one. For a full library backup, use Bulk Download from My Creations. Download all your creations (recommended) Go to My Creations ...
How do I unarchive my archived creations?
Unarchive a single creation Go to My Creations (/my-creations). Filter by Archived. Click the ⋮ menu on the creation. Select Unarchive. Unarchive multiple creations On the Archived filter view, enter select mode. Select the creations you want to ...
Exploring Art on NightCafe
Discover published AI art from the whole NightCafe community. Explore is NightCafe's public gallery, where you can browse creations published by artists from around the world. It's the best place to find inspiration, see what's possible, and discover ...
Tags and Tagging on NightCafe
How tags work on NightCafe, and how to use them to organise and share your art. A tag is a short keyword you attach to a creation to describe it — like landscape, portrait or cyberpunk. Tags make your own gallery easy to filter, and on published ...
Organising Your Creations
Keep your gallery tidy and find any creation in seconds. Every creation you make is saved to My Creations, your personal library. As your gallery grows, NightCafe gives you several ways to keep it organised — views, filters and search to find things, ...
Zoom to Inpaint
What is Zoom to Inpaint? Zoom to Inpaint lets you inpaint in higher fidelity. With normal inpainting, the whole image is regenerated but only the masked area actually changes — so if your mask is small, only a little of the model’s attention goes to ...
Upscaling Your Creations
What upscaling does Upscaling enhances an existing creation to a higher resolution and clarity. Open a finished creation and choose Upscale (it may show a New Model label). The default model is now P Image Upscale. Real-ESRGAN models are still ...
Consistent Characters (Character Creator)
What is it? The Consistent Characters feature (also called the Character Creator) lets you keep a character looking the same across many different creations — ideal for comics and storyboards, AI influencers, putting yourself into scenes, or game ...
Using the Selfie Generator
What is the Selfie Generator? The Selfie Generator is designed for a narrow but fun purpose: generating realistic portraits. It’s best at realism, so a few tips will help you get the most out of it. Tips for great results Stick to realistic styles — ...
Prompt Magic & Prompt Weighting
Prompt Magic Some models support Prompt Magic. When it’s enabled, your prompt is automatically re-written and expanded by AI to improve the quality of the image. It’s a fun way to work: instead of writing a long, detailed prompt, you can use ...
Advanced Model Settings (CLIP Guidance, Refiner, Raw Mode & more)
NightCafe exposes several advanced settings for fine-tuning image generation. You don’t need these for great results, but they give extra control when you want it. CLIP Guidance Enabling CLIP Guidance can improve results for complex prompts or larger ...
ControlNet on NightCafe
What is ControlNet? ControlNet lets you use a start image to control your generation in specific ways — much more powerfully than a plain start image. A start image on its own (image-to-image) just initialises the diffusion process instead of ...
Image Prompting (IP Adapter)
What is image prompting? Image prompting (also called IP Adapter) lets you use an image as part of your prompt. Instead of describing everything in words, you provide a reference image and NightCafe transfers its subject matter, style or composition ...
Selecting Multiple Creations (Bulk Actions)
Select mode Select mode lets you act on many creations at once from My Creations — a fast way to organise or clean up your gallery. How to start selecting Click the folder icon in the toolbar, or choose Select Creations from the ⋮ menu Or hover a ...
Collections on NightCafe
What are collections? Collections are a way to organise your creations into groups — like albums or boards. Keep them private for your own organisation, or make them public to share curated sets of your art. Creating a collection Go to My Collections ...
Bulk Downloading Your Creations
What is bulk download? Bulk download lets you save many creations at once, instead of downloading them one at a time. There are two ways to do it on NightCafe. Option 1: Bulk Download (filtered export) From My Creations, open the ⋮ (more) menu and ...
How do I add text to my images on NightCafe?
How do I add text to my images on NightCafe? While NightCafe doesn’t currently offer a manual text tool like Photoshop or Canva, you can add text to your image by including it directly in your prompt. This technique works best when using AI models ...
How to delete failed or errored-out creations
How to delete failed or errored-out creations When a creation doesn’t generate successfully, you’ll see a grey preview image with the label “ERROR - REFUNDED” at the top. These failed creations can clutter your gallery, but they’re easy to clean up. ...
Usage Guide: FLUX.1 Kontext Image Editing
Mastering Image Editing with FLUX.1 Kontext Welcome to your guide for using the FLUX.1 Kontext model for advanced image editing. This powerful tool allows you to make precise changes to your images using simple instructions, offering a new level of ...
I can't download my creations with a watermark/artist overlay
If you cannot download a creation with the artist overlay (watermark with your profile details), your account profile may be incomplete. The artist overlay requires all of the following on your profile: A profile picture (avatar) A display name A ...
How do I get the same character in different scenes?
The easiest way to keep the same character across different scenes is Character Creator (consistent characters) in NightCafe Studio. Recommended: Character Creator Open Studio and go to Your Characters (Character panel). Upload 1–4 reference images ...
Rate limit for publishing creations
In December 2024, NightCafe introduced a rate limit for publishing creations. The rate limit may change in future based on your feedback and our observations, but as of December 17 the limit is 5 creations published every 10 minutes. Update: the rate ...
Fix Faces Usage Guide
What is the Fix Faces tool? Fix Faces takes an existing creation, detects faces in the image, then creates an automatic inpainting mask for each face, and does an inpainting generation for each mask. The inpainting generation is zoomed-in to fit the ...
Inpainting on NightCafe
Original article by creator @Weresl0th. Big thanks from the NightCafe team! What is Inpainting in AI Image Generation? Inpainting is a technique of changing an image that involves filling in the missing or undesired parts of the image, or removing ...
Negative Prompts on NightCafe
Original article by creator @Weresl0th. Big thanks from the NightCafe team! What is a Negative Prompt in AI? Negative weighted prompts (also referred to as negative prompts) are a way to instruct the algorithm that you do not want the creation to be ...
What are seeds in AI and how they work?
What is a seed? In AI a seed is a series of numbers that tells the AI how to generate an image. It is a starting point for the random number generator. The AI model is trained by learning from a set of input data, trying to identify patterns and ...
How to upload start image?
A start image allows you to initialise the creation process with an image rather than random pixels. To upload an image from your device, please follow these steps: 1. Make sure the Advanced mode on your Create interface is toggled on. 2. Clicking on ...
What are prompts and how to use them?
What are prompts? Generative AI prompts are written or visual cues, words or sentences, that tell AI Art Generators what kind of image you want them to create. Prompt fundamentals In order to produce graphics with a specific style, the text prompts ...
How to recover (unarchive) archived creation?
You can unarchive creations in one of two ways. 1. On My Creations page, set a filter to Archived. 2. Hover over the creation in the grid view and select Unarchive from the 3 dots list. Or you can select multiple creations and unarchive them in bulk. ...
How to hide prompts?
Hide prompts for individual creations You can hide prompts directly from the creation page for individual creations. 1. From the main menu bar choose My creations page, then hover over the creation and click the three dots icon > Edit. Or open the ...
How to archive a creation
1. To archive a creation, from the main menu bar choose My creations page. 2. Find the creation you want to archive, then hover over the creation and click the tree dots icon, and choose Archive. How to bulk archive/delete creations 1. To archive ...
How to unpublish creations
You can unpublish creation in one of two ways. 1. From the main menu bar choose My creations page, then hover over the creation and click the eye (unpublish) icon. 2. From the creation page, click the Unpublish button on the top of the options menu.
How to publish creations
You can publish your creations in one of two ways: 1. From the main menu bar choose My creations page, then hover over the creation and click the arrow (publish) icon. 2. From the creation page, click the Publish button on the top of the options ...
How to permanently delete a creation?
You can permanently delete a creation from the My Creations page (make sure you are on My creations page not your Profile page): 1. Click on the three-dot menu of the creation. 2. Choose Delete permanently Delete creation permanently You can see how ...