GPT Image 2.5 AI Image Generator and Editor

Text to image builds a picture from nothing but your words. Editing mode starts from pictures you attach and reads your prompt as a list of changes. Both sit in the same generator, so you can create a base image, feed it back in as a reference and keep refining without leaving the page.

Attach a product shot, a logo, a color swatch, a pose and a backdrop in one go. Several references help when a single picture cannot carry everything: the object can come from one file, the palette from another and the setting from a third, as long as your prompt says which is which.

Resolution is a dial for both detail and cost. 1K suits quick drafts and comparing ideas side by side. 2K is a sensible middle size for web pages and social posts. 4K is the one to choose once a composition is settled and you need a file for print, large screens or heavy cropping.

You get square, the classic photo ratios 3:2 and 4:3 with their vertical versions, widescreen 16:9 and 9:16, ultra-wide 21:9, and four less common shapes: 27:16, 16:27, 9:8 and 8:9. Those four render at 1K only, which makes them handy for layout tests and formats that need that exact proportion.

The prompt box takes up to 5,000 characters. That is enough for a proper brief: subject, lighting, materials, camera angle, and the exact words you want printed on a sign, label or poster, placed in quotation marks so the model can tell them apart from the description.

The Generate button displays the credit price for your current settings and changes as soon as you switch resolution. If a generation fails, the credits return to your balance on their own. Every finished image stays in your history, ready to download or to reuse as a reference.

Upload a clean product photo and ask for it on a kitchen counter, a beach towel or a seamless studio backdrop. Add the logo and a color reference as extra images so the packaging stays recognizable across every variation you produce for a store or a launch.

Settle a key visual at 1K, then create the versions each channel needs: 9:16 for stories, 1:1 for feeds, 21:9 for a website banner. Using a fixed ratio per channel instead of auto keeps the whole set predictable when you hand it to a layout team.

A long prompt makes it practical to list every line of a flyer or a cafe menu along with its size and position. Generate a 1K draft, proofread the lettering carefully, and only then spend credits on a 2K or 4K version for printing.

Combine sketches, fabric swatches, architecture photos and lighting references into a single concept image. With room for 16 inputs, a designer can hand over an entire mood board and ask for one picture that pulls the threads together.

Use editing mode to remove clutter, swap a dull sky, change the season or turn a snapshot into an illustrated look. State which parts must stay untouched, such as faces, the product or the room layout, so the edit does not drift away from the original.

With no references, the model only knows what you write. Cover subject, setting, light, medium and mood. 'A ceramic coffee cup on a linen tablecloth, morning window light from the left, shallow depth of field, muted earth tones' gives it far more to work with than 'a nice coffee photo'.

With references attached, give instructions rather than descriptions: 'Replace the background with a rainy street at night, keep the jacket and the face unchanged, add reflections on the wet pavement.' Naming what must stay the same matters as much as naming what should change.

When you attach several pictures, refer to them by order or content: 'Use the bottle from the first image, the marble surface from the second and the color palette of the third.' Without that, the model has to guess which picture contributes what, and the guess may not match yours.

For posters, packaging or signs, put the exact wording in quotation marks and say where it goes and how it should look, for example a bold white headline across the top that reads "Weekend Market". Keep the spelling exactly as you need it, and check it in the draft.

Generating again at 4K produces a fresh image, so small differences from your 1K draft are normal. To stay close to a draft you like, attach it as a reference and ask for the same picture at the higher resolution, changing nothing else in the prompt.

When an edit is nearly right, resist rewriting the whole prompt. Bring the result back as a reference and ask for a single adjustment, such as warmer light or a shorter headline. Isolated changes are easier to judge and cost less to test at 1K.