Gallery Reference

This page describes the Gallery’s menus, settings and shortcuts in detail. For an introduction to boards, searching, starring, uploading, and moving and deleting media, see Organizing your media.

Managing boards

The board menu

Hover over a board and click its ⋮ button, or right-click it, to open its menu:

• Save new results here — makes this the board that receives new results, marked with a crosshair-style icon in the board list, whichever board you are viewing; it also turns off Follow the selected board. On that board, the item is Stop saving new results here, which sends results back to the project’s Inbox. Not offered for the Inbox itself, date boards, archived boards or boards you can only view. See Choosing where new media goes.
• Download Board — downloads the board (see below).
• Rename board — opens a dialog to change the name.
• Access — on a multi-user installation, who else can open the board: Restricted, Everyone can view or Everyone can contribute. Only the board’s owner and administrators see it. See Image Boards.
• Move to… — moves one of your own boards to the Library, into the open project, or into one of your other projects, which the menu lists under Projects; an administrator cannot move another person’s boards. A board keeps its general access when it moves. You can also drag your board onto another group: the open project’s, the Library, or one of your projects under Other projects. When the board’s new project is hidden because Other projects’ boards is off: if it was the selected board, the Gallery selects Uncategorized; if new results went to it, they go to the project’s Inbox again.
• Archive Board / Unarchive Board — see below.
• Delete Board — see below.

On a board someone else owns, the menu starts with whose board it is and what you can do there, and it offers only what your role allows. A viewer can download the board; a contributor can also make it where new results go; an editor can also rename and archive it. Only the owner and administrators share or delete it, and only the owner moves it between the Library and their projects.

A project’s Inbox is managed through its project: its menu has Export project (.invk) and Download Board instead, and renaming the project renames it. Uncategorized offers only Save new results here and Download Board, and date boards have no menu. If the board new results go to is deleted or archived, they go back to the project’s Inbox. The same happens when you open a project after a board it used was deleted elsewhere — in another tab, or together with a project deleted from the Launchpad — or after you lost access to it: the project stops selecting it, saving new results to it and sending queued results to it.

Archiving a board

Archiving hides a board you no longer use without deleting anything. Choose Archive Board from its menu, and the board disappears from the list. To see archived boards again, turn on Archived boards in the Filter & sort boards menu; they appear in their own Archived group, where Unarchive Board returns them to the list.

Archived boards are not included in semantic search.

Downloading a board

Download Board packages the board’s images, from both its Media and Uploads tabs, into a .zip file. A notice appears while the archive is prepared, and the browser saves the file when it is ready. Videos are not included, and the menu item says how many will be left out, for example Download Board (1 video omitted). To save a video, download it on its own from its menu.

Deleting a board

Choose Delete board from the board’s menu. The confirmation dialog says what the board holds, such as 98 images and 1 video, and that deleting the board keeps it: its media moves to Uncategorized in the Library.

• Delete board — removes the board and moves everything on it to Uncategorized. This is the default.
• Also permanently delete its items — tick it to delete the board’s images and videos with it; the button then says how many, such as Delete board and 99 items. For a board with 50 items or more, you also type the board’s name to confirm; once the check has answered, only the items that will actually be deleted count toward that. Ticking it also checks what still uses the board’s media and lists it, as deleting media does.

A deleted board cannot be restored, and deleted media cannot be undone. While media is being deleted, a notice says so; when it finishes, another says what was moved or deleted, and how much could not be deleted, if any.

Queued or running jobs that were sending results to the deleted board send them to Uncategorized instead. A project’s Inbox cannot be deleted from the Gallery; delete the project instead, which also asks what to do with the project’s other boards.

On a multi-user installation, only a board’s owner or an administrator can delete it. When an owner deletes a shared board with its media, only their own media is deleted and other people’s items move to Uncategorized; once the check of what uses the media has answered, the dialog names only the owner’s items, such as Also permanently delete your 2 items and Delete board and your 2 items, and when none of the media is theirs it says that all of it moves to Uncategorized. An administrator’s deletion removes everything. If some files cannot be removed, those items are kept in Uncategorized and a warning says how many.

The media menu

Right-click an item, or several selected items, for its menu.

For an image, the menu offers:

• Quick actions (the icons at the top) — open in a new tab, copy to the clipboard, download, open in the Preview, and star.
• Load workflow — open the workflow that made the image. Unavailable for images without one.
• Continue working — Edit on Canvas adds the image to the open project’s canvas as an image layer and opens Canvas; Upscale sends it to the Upscale panel or upscales it at once; Send to Video uses it as the first frame in the Video panel; Add to Canvas as… adds it as a layer of the kind you choose; New project from image starts a new project whose canvas holds the image, sized to fit it.
• Use image as — Use as reference image, Use as control and Use as prompt template. Its Reuse from image submenu restores the settings that made the image: Remix image, All settings, Use prompt, Use seed, Use size and Use CLIP skip; see Resetting to defaults. Settings an image does not record are unavailable.
• Select for compare — compare the image with the selected one; Alt-click (Option-click on macOS) on a thumbnail does the same.
• Generate PBR maps — queue normal, roughness and displacement maps of the image. They are saved to the board new results go to, or to the project’s Inbox if you can’t add to that board (Uncategorized when there is neither), and a notice reports when they are ready. The first run downloads the PBR models.
• Find in Gallery — select the image in its own board and scroll the grid to it, clearing a search or filter that would hide it.
• Move to board and Delete image.

A video’s menu has the equivalent actions for video, including Extend in Video, Use as reference video and Use as conditioning clip. With several items selected, the menu offers the actions that apply to all of them, such as Star selection, Download selection, Move to board and Delete selection; for several images it also leads with Add to Canvas as… and New project from images.

Every image generated by InvokeAI also stores its generation metadata inside the file, so the prompt and settings travel with it when you download it.

Gallery settings

The gear button in the Gallery header opens its settings:

• Image size — the size of the thumbnails.
• Thumbnails — Square crops thumbnails to squares; Aspect shows each item’s full shape.
• Always show dimensions — shows each item’s width and height on its thumbnail, not only on hover.
• Show in-progress section — shows generations that are still running at the top of the grid.
• Pagination — Infinite scrolling or numbered Pages.

All Gallery settings… at the bottom opens the full settings. They also include Middle-click opens media in a new tab (under Thumbnails), off by default, which makes a middle click on an image or video tile open it in a new browser tab, and Follow the selected board (under Destination), off by default; turn it on to send new results to whichever board the Gallery shows, instead of the board named under Saving to. The full settings also include the sort order and the board visibility and sorting options from the Filter & sort boards menu. All Gallery settings are saved with the project.

Keyboard shortcuts

These work while the Gallery has focus:

Shortcut	Action
Arrow keys	Move through the grid
Enter / double-click	Open the item in the Preview
Shift-click / Ctrl-click	Select a range / add or remove an item
Ctrl+A	Select everything loaded on the page
. (period)	Star or unstar the selection
Delete / Backspace	Delete the selection
A	Recall all of the selected image’s settings
R	Remix the selected image: recall its settings, except the seed
P	Recall the selected image’s prompts
S	Recall the selected image’s seed
D	Use the selected image’s size
W	Load the workflow saved with the selected image

A, R, P, S, D and W also work while the Preview has focus.

Clearing the selection has no shortcut by default: click the × after the item’s name in the Preview’s title, or assign a key to Clear gallery selection in Keyboard shortcuts.

On macOS, use Cmd in place of Ctrl. See Hotkeys for all shortcuts.