The new ChatGPT Images is here

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TL;DR

OpenAI has released a new ChatGPT Images feature powered by an upgraded model, offering faster, more precise image generation and editing while preserving details. It enables creative transformations and reliable instruction following, available now for most users via ChatGPT and API.

Key Takeaways

•The new ChatGPT Images model generates images up to 4x faster and makes precise edits while keeping details like lighting and composition intact.
•It supports creative transformations such as adding text, changing styles, and combining elements, with preset styles available for easy use.
•The model follows instructions more reliably than before, enabling intricate compositions and precise edits as demonstrated in grid examples.
•The feature is rolling out today for most ChatGPT users, with Business and Enterprise access coming later, and is available via API as GPT Image 1.5.

Precise edits that preserve what matter

Now, when you ask for edits to an uploaded image, the model adheres to your intent more reliably—down to the small details—changing only what you ask for while keeping elements like lighting, composition, and people’s appearance consistent across inputs, outputs, and subsequent edits.

This unlocks results that match your intent—more useful photo edits, more believable clothing and hairstyle try-ons, alongside stylistic filters and conceptual transformations that retain the essence of the original image. Together, these improvements mean ChatGPT can act as a creative studio in your pocket, capable of both practical edits and expressive reimaginings.

Editing

The model excels at different types of editing—including adding, subtracting, combining, blending, and transposing—so you get the changes you want without losing what makes the image special.

Combine the two men and the dog in a 2000s film camera-style photo of them looking bored at a kids birthday party.

Add chaotic kids in the background throwing things and screaming.

Change the man on the left to a hand-drawn retro anime style, the dog to plushie style, keep the man on the right and background scenery the way they are.

Put them all in OpenAI sweaters that look like this.

Now remove the two men, just keep the dog, and put them in an OpenAI livestream that looks like the attached image.

Creative transformations

The model’s creativity shines through transformations that change and add elements—like text and layout—to bring ideas to life, while preserving important details. These transformations work for both simple and more intricate concepts, and are easy to try using preset styles and ideas in the new ChatGPT Images⁠(opens in a new window) feature—no written prompt required.

Make an old school golden age hollywood movie poster of a movie called 'codex' from the image of these two men. feel free to change their costumes to fit the times

Change the names of the actors to Wojciech Zaremba (left) and Greg Brockman (right)

Directed by Sam Altman, produced by Fidji Simo. A Feel the AGI Pictures Production.

Instruction following

The model follows instructions more reliably than our initial version. This enables more precise edits as well as more intricate original compositions, where relationships between elements are preserved as intended.

New

draw a 6x6 grid

Make a 6 (columns) by 6 (rows) grid grid of:

Row 1: the Greek letter beta, a beach ball, a lemon, a robot, a fish tank, a frog

Row 2: a praying mantis, an expensive watch, a baththub, a pair of sunglasses, a colorful butterfly, an envelope

Row 3: a stamp, a picture frame, a steaming dumpling, the word "miracle", a pair of skis, the letter Z

Row 4: a toilet, a subway token, a mute icon, a bottle of perfume, a dragonfly, a skateboard helmet

Row 5: a Bluetooth icon, the number 13, a green heart, a rubik's cube, a Canada goose, a soldier's helmet

Row 6: a white dog, a life jacket, a knot, a keyboard, a tissue box, the number 14