Gallery & Results
The Gallery is where all your generated images live — browsable, searchable, and fully traceable back to the settings that made them. It's more than a media wall; it's your operational review surface for curating work, comparing variants, and feeding results back into new generations.
Browsing and Filtering
Open Gallery from the sidebar to see your generated images. By default, it shows results from your active project, but you can widen or narrow the view:
- Project and folder filters — Switch between projects or drill into specific folders.
- Time window — Narrow to recent sessions when you're reviewing today's work.
- Prompt keyword search — Find images by searching the prompt text that generated them.
- Tag and caption filters — If you've tagged or captioned images, use those for retrieval.
Tip: For large collections, filter by project first, then by time. This narrows the set before you start doing text searches and keeps the results manageable.
Keep / Discard Workflow
Not every generation is a keeper. The keep/discard system helps you separate the good from the noise:
- Browse through recent results.
- Mark images as Keep (worth saving) or Discard (can be cleaned up).
- Once you've made your decisions, run a bulk cleanup to remove discarded images and free disk space.
This works best as a habit — do a quick keep/discard pass after every serious generation session while the work is still fresh in your mind.
Warning: Always do a final review before bulk-deleting discarded images. The discard marker is your safety check — you can un-mark something before the cleanup runs, but once files are deleted, they're gone.
Bulk Operations
When you're managing lots of images at once, multi-select mode lets you act on groups:
- Select multiple images — Click to select, Shift+click for ranges, or use the select-all option.
- Bulk delete and restore — Remove or recover multiple images at once.
- Bulk move — Move selected images to a different project or folder.
- Keep/discard in batch — Mark entire selections for your curation workflow.
Tip: Start small when learning bulk operations. Select a few images, perform the action, and verify the result before running it on a large batch.
Gallery-to-Input Reuse
One of the most useful Gallery features is feeding a previous result back into a new generation as input. This is essential for iterative workflows like img2img refinement, style transfer, and ControlNet-guided generation.
From the Gallery, drag an image directly into a Pipe's media input field in Prompt Studio. The image becomes the source for your next generation — no need to save it to disk, open a file picker, and navigate to it manually.
This creates a tight feedback loop: generate, review, pick the best result, and feed it right back into the next iteration.
Gallery Resync
If you've added image files to your project folders externally (copied from another machine, restored from a backup, or moved in from a different tool), the Gallery may not immediately know about them. Gallery resync scans your project directories and reconciles what's on disk with what's in the database.
During resync, Sweet Tea can auto-create missing projects inferred from media paths — so if you drop a folder called landscape-concepts/ into your data directory with images inside, resync can set up the project for you.
Note: Resync is also useful after recovering from a crash or database issue. If you see images on disk that aren't showing up in the Gallery, run a resync before assuming they're lost.
Performance with Large Histories
As your Gallery grows, a few habits keep it responsive:
- Use project segmentation rather than searching across everything.
- Archive completed projects to move them out of active views.
- Run keep/discard cleanup periodically to reduce volume.
- Use the Image Viewer for detailed inspection rather than loading every image at full resolution in the grid.