# DreamShaper Online - Steps, Guidance, and Seed Controls

> Canonical: https://stable-diffusion-web.com/dreamshaper

## DreamShaper online - configurable text-to-image form

The current route is text-only and exposes prompt, optional negative prompt, seven ratios, five resolution settings, inference steps, guidance, seed, and output count.

## DreamShaper step, guidance and seed examples

The gallery illustrates fantasy, portrait, concept-art, illustration, landscape, and game-asset directions; it is not a speed, style, anatomy, or quality benchmark.

### Fantasy Character

### Photoreal Portrait

### Concept Art

### Stylized Illustration

### Landscape

### Game Asset

## What the current DreamShaper form exposes

This route's text-only control set includes prompt exclusions, seven ratios, five resolutions, steps, guidance, seed, and output count. Compare each returned image with its submitted setup.

### Required prompt and optional exclusions

The prompt field allows up to 5,000 characters and the negative-prompt field up to 2,000. Use exclusions for concrete unwanted elements.

### Seven aspect ratios

Choose 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, or 2:3. Ratio controls framing rather than factual or anatomical accuracy.

### Five resolution settings

The form offers 512, 768, 1024, 1536, and 2048. Inspect delivered dimensions and artifacts after the run.

### Inference steps from 1 to 150

The step control exposes 1, 10, 20, 35, 50, 100, and 150. More steps are not a universal quality guarantee.

### Guidance from 1 to 10

Guidance uses 0.5 increments across the declared range. Compare results with one variable changed at a time.

### Seed, output count, and access

Seed supports comparisons and output count requests multiple images. The catalogue allows this model without paid-model rights, while runs still consume credits.

## How to use the DreamShaper steps, guidance and seed form

Begin with a focused subject and treatment, then change one frame or sampling control per run so differences remain attributable.

### Write the prompt and concrete exclusions

Describe subject, composition, and treatment in the required field. Use the optional negative prompt for visible unwanted elements, not generic praise or filler.

### Choose frame and sampling controls

Set ratio and one of the five resolutions, then adjust steps, guidance, seed, or output count only when the defaults do not fit the comparison.

### Generate and inspect the delivered file

Review composition, anatomy, text, geometry, dimensions, and artifacts before downloading or changing one control for another run.

## Who uses DreamShaper's step and guidance controls, and for what?

Designers, illustrators, marketers, and concept teams can use these candidate workflows to evaluate resolution, ratio, steps, guidance, seed, and output count; every result still needs review.

### Character concept studies

Test a focused character brief, then inspect face, hands, anatomy, clothing, identity, and background artifacts.

### Portrait drafts

Compare lighting, framing, and treatment without presenting generated faces as verified photography or guaranteed likeness.

### Fantasy and illustration concepts

Explore visual directions while checking whether multiple subjects, depth, and focal hierarchy remain readable.

### Game-asset references

Generate draft props, icons, characters, or environments, then redraw or validate geometry and rights before production.

### Marketing visual drafts

Test thumbnail, hero, or campaign concepts, then verify text, logos, product details, and disclosures before publication.

### Control comparisons

Hold prompt and seed constant while comparing resolution, steps, guidance, or count, recording delivered files and debit.

## What a run costs and returns

| Measure | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| 1 model | Available in the form today, each priced in the same credits. |
| 4 credits | Per run, depending on the model and length chosen. |
| Every paid plan | Includes a commercial licence for what you make. |
| 5,000 characters of prompt | The longest prompt every model on this page accepts. |

## DreamShaper steps, guidance and seed FAQ

This route's answers cover text-only input, prompt and exclusion limits, frame choices, sampling controls, credits, access, rights, and output review.

### What is DreamShaper on this page?

DreamShaper is the selectable text-to-image workflow pinned to this route. The live form defines its prompt, ratio, resolution, steps, guidance, seed, and output-count controls.

### Does this route accept reference images?

No. The current schema exposes text input only. Choose an image-capable model when a source image must condition the result.

### Which prompt fields are available?

The required prompt allows up to 5,000 characters and the optional negative prompt up to 2,000. Use exclusions for concrete unwanted elements.

### Which resolutions and ratios are available?

Choose 512, 768, 1024, 1536, or 2048 and one of seven ratios: 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, or 2:3.

### Which sampling controls are exposed?

The form offers inference steps 1, 10, 20, 35, 50, 100, or 150; guidance from 1 to 10 in 0.5 increments; a seed; and output count.

### What cost and processing estimates are configured?

Model metadata starts at 4 credits and estimates about 30 seconds. Queue conditions, count, and task state can change the observed result.

### Is paid-model access required?

No paid-model right is declared for this model, but generation still consumes the current credit estimate shown by the form.

### Can generated images be used commercially?

The free tier is personal-only; every paid plan includes this app's commercial license. You remain responsible for prompt rights, applicable terms, and final use.

### What should I review before using an image?

Review prompt adherence, identity, anatomy, text, geometry, crop, artifacts, and delivered dimensions. Generated images are candidates rather than verified final assets.

### How many credits does DreamShaper use?

DreamShaper draws 4 credits per run.

### What limits should I check before using DreamShaper?

Generated output from DreamShaper can contain visual, audio, or factual errors. Review each result before publishing, and upload only material you are authorized to use.

### What happens to what I generate with DreamShaper?

A result is stored against your own account, not pooled with other people’s. Deleting the account removes it: the control is in Settings under Security, the request is confirmed by email, and the erasure covers the generation records and the stored files it owns. How long anything else is kept, and which processors handle it, is stated in the privacy policy.

### Can I use what DreamShaper makes commercially?

Every paid plan includes a commercial licence for what DreamShaper makes; the free tier is for personal use.

### How does DreamShaper compare, and what alternatives fit a different workflow?

DreamShaper: Use DreamShaper with text input, optional negative prompt, seven ratios, 512-2048 resolution, steps, guidance, seed, output count, and free access. Related options are Stable Diffusion Models Hub: Compare the Stable Diffusion models and the other image and video models here: the inputs each takes, what a run costs, and the plan it needs, Flux 2 Flex: Use Flux 2 Flex with text or up to eight reference images, Flex or Pro variants, eight ratios, 1K or 2K output, and paid-model access, Flux Kontext Pro: Use Flux Kontext Pro with a required prompt, optional single reference image, six aspect ratios and one-to-four outputs through a paid-access browser workflow, GPT Image 1.5: Run GPT Image 1.5 (gpt-4o image) in your browser. OpenAI's natively multimodal image model with precise instruction following, accurate in-image text, GPT Images 2: Use GPT Image 2 with a prompt or up to ten reference images, 1K–4K controls, one-to-four outputs and paid access through a browser workflow, and Grok Imagine: Use Grok Imagine with a text prompt or one optional JPEG, PNG or WebP image, eight ratios, 480p/720p, 4-15 second choices, safety switch, and paid access. Choose by the required input, delivered output, controls, limits, current availability, and credit cost; the related-tools section links each canonical page.

## Test a current DreamShaper workflow

Submit a prompt and optional exclusions, confirm frame and sampling settings plus the credit estimate, then inspect each returned file.

## Related tools

### [Stable Diffusion Models Hub](https://stable-diffusion-web.com/models)

### [Flux 2 Flex](https://stable-diffusion-web.com/flux-2)

### [Flux Kontext Pro](https://stable-diffusion-web.com/flux-kontext)

### [GPT Image 1.5](https://stable-diffusion-web.com/gpt-4o-image)

### [GPT Images 2](https://stable-diffusion-web.com/gpt-image-2)

### [Grok Imagine](https://stable-diffusion-web.com/grok-imagine)

_Last updated July 14, 2026_