Image Viewer & Metadata
Every image you generate in Sweet Tea carries a complete record of how it was made — the prompt, model, sampler, seed, step count, and every other parameter. The Image Viewer is where you inspect that record, navigate between images, and use historical results as the starting point for new work.
Viewer Navigation
Open any image from the Gallery or the generation feed to enter the full-screen viewer. Once inside:
- Arrow keys (
←→) — Move to the previous or next image in the current set. - Zoom — Scroll or pinch to zoom in for detail checks. Useful for examining texture quality, small artifacts, or inpainting seams.
- Pan — Click and drag to move around a zoomed image.
The viewer keeps the context of wherever you opened it — if you're browsing a filtered Gallery set, arrow keys move through that filtered set, not your entire library.
Tip: When comparing two close variants, use arrow keys to flip back and forth quickly. Your eye catches differences that you'd miss looking at thumbnails side by side.
Reading Metadata
The metadata panel shows everything that went into the generation. The most important fields to check first:
| Field | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Prompt | The exact text that guided the generation |
| Negative prompt | What was excluded |
| Model / Checkpoint | Which model file was used |
| Steps | How many denoising iterations ran |
| CFG Scale | How tightly the image follows the prompt |
| Seed | The random seed value — same seed + same settings = same image |
| Sampler | Which sampling algorithm was used |
| Pipe | Which Pipe/workflow produced this result |
| Project | Where the image is organized |
This metadata is the key to reproducibility. When you make something you love, the metadata tells you exactly how to make it again.
Re-Running from Metadata
Found a result you want to iterate on? Here's the exact flow:
- Open the image in the viewer.
- Click Re-run (or the equivalent restore/copy-to-studio action).
- Sweet Tea loads the generation settings into Prompt Studio, restoring the prompt, parameters, and Pipe context.
- Make a small change — adjust the prompt, bump the steps, change the seed.
- Generate and compare the new result with the original.
This is the core of controlled iteration: start from a known state, change one thing, and see what happens.
Note: Re-run works best when you're using the same Pipe and model as the original generation. If you've since deleted the Pipe or the model is no longer available, the settings will load but the result may differ.
Captions and Annotations
You can add captions to images as retrieval aids — short notes that help you remember what makes a particular image significant.
Strong caption examples:
warm rim light variant, keeper for client shortlistupscale test, clean skin texture retained, v3 winner
Captions show up in Gallery search results, making them useful for finding specific images later. Keep them concise and factual — describe what's notable, not what's obvious from the thumbnail.
Metadata History
When you've made changes to an image's metadata or captions over time, the history view lets you see what changed and when. This is useful for:
- Recovering a previous caption — If you overwrote a caption by accident, the history shows the prior version.
- Understanding prompt evolution — When you've iterated on an image several times (re-running with tweaks), the history traces the lineage.
- Comparing parameter changes — See exactly what differed between the original and a re-run.
Tip: Before rewriting a caption or annotation, check the history first. The previous version might have context you want to preserve.
Download and Export
When you need to take an image out of Sweet Tea (for a client delivery, portfolio, social media, etc.):
- Use the download action in the viewer to save the full-resolution image.
- Metadata is preserved in the file where the format supports it.
- Keep the project linkage intact inside Sweet Tea even after exporting — you may want to come back to the original settings later.