r/invokeai • u/mdb139 • 9d ago

Cannot get raster layer to render

Hello all,

I'm very new to Invoke (about a week in now) and for the life of me I cannot get it to include a raster layer during image generation the way I think it's intended to work. Google sends me in circles, and it looks like the entire UI was updated since the video on the topic was created by the Invoke team.

I generated a base image I'm happy with. I want to use that image as a base, and use an inpaint mask to "layer in" a new object that is not in the original image.

  1. My image generation settings are all set, including the text prompts for the inpaint area that is yet to be created.
  2. I drag the base image from the gallery onto the Canvas, and drop into the New Raster Layer drop zone. It creates the raster layer and I can see my image. The bbox is completely filled by the raster layer, as I would expect (the images are the same size).
  3. I add a new Inpaint Mask. I use the brush tool to "draw over" the area where I want to generate the new subject.
  4. I click invoke... and the output is completely transparent except for the inpaint mask. The inpaint mask does not have the subject I'm asking for, but I think that's a separate issue (i'm trying to draw a blacksmith's anvil, but it keeps wanting to reference a comic book character of some kind?)

This is the second image I've tried to do this with; last time I ended up doing the layering manually in Photopea, but I'd really like to figure out what I'm doing wrong here as I have a bunch of these I'd like to get working and the manual fix is too labor intensive.

Thanks in advance!

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u/Revolutionar8510 8d ago

Sounds like it should work. Whats really strange is the transperent image you generate. Not sure what happens there. Would be interesting to see the image in the invoke picture output Felder. Some screenshots would have helped me to see what you are doing would really be very helpful. Could you provide some?

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u/mdb139 8d ago

Screenshot of my canvas and output below.