Image 2.5 is an AI image generator and editor built on OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 family, turning text prompts, reference images, or rough sketches into polished visuals and precise edits.
What is Image 2.5?
Image 2.5 is a web-based AI image generation and editing tool powered by OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 model family, released September 8, 2026. It accepts text prompts, uploaded images, and sketches as input, and outputs generated or edited images in PNG, JPEG, or WebP at up to 4K resolution. It runs in the browser and offers two model variants: Sunburst for precision and Flare for speed.
What makes Image 2.5 stand out?
- Two model variants — Sunburst prioritizes editing precision and maximum image quality, while Flare is optimized for fast, high-quality everyday generation.
- Up to 4K output — supports square, portrait, landscape, and custom dimensions within documented limits.
- Six quality modes — low, medium, high, xhigh, max, and auto, letting users trade speed and cost against final detail.
- Multi-input creation — start from a written brief, one or more visual references, or a rough sketch.
- Targeted editing — change a setting, style, object, or composition using direct instructions or a mask while preserving the rest of the scene.
- Multi-turn iteration — refine an image across multiple conversational turns and compare deliberate changes instead of restarting.
- Reference-based consistency — hold product shape, materials, and label structure or character face, wardrobe, and proportions across a sequence.
- Improved text rendering — supports clearer layouts, infographics, callouts, and visual hierarchy, though final copy still needs review.
Who should use Image 2.5?
- Product and campaign marketers: create coordinated product shots, launch concepts, ad variations, and social crops while keeping visual identity connected.
- Designers and illustrators: make targeted edits such as replacing backgrounds, restyling scenes, recoloring objects, or extending compositions without remaking the whole image.
- Storytellers and comic or film planners: develop a recurring character across scenes and plan visual beats for storyboards and narrative concepts.
- Presenters and content creators: turn dense briefs into clearer infographics, explainers, posters, diagrams, and information-rich social posts.
What can you do with Image 2.5?
- Product campaigns: use a product reference to explore studio shots, lifestyle scenes, and new compositions while holding onto recognizable shape, materials, and label structure.
- Character sequences: keep a character's face, wardrobe, proportions, and mood connected as pose, framing, and action change from frame to frame.
- Precise edits: isolate a change with a direct instruction or mask to adjust color, material, background, or styling while preserving the useful parts of the source image.
- Structured layouts: build visual hierarchy, spacing, and callouts for explainers, presentations, posters, and diagrams.
How does Image 2.5 work?
- Choose Sunburst for editing precision and maximum quality, or Flare for fast everyday generation.
- Add a prompt and visual references, separating what should change from details that must stay consistent.
- Set size, quality, and format, choosing automatic or custom dimensions and PNG, JPEG, or WebP with opaque or transparent backgrounds where supported.
- Generate, inspect, and refine, reviewing text, hands, materials, layout, and identity details, then streaming partial previews where available.
Pricing
Image 2.5 offers a new creator bonus of 100 free credits after signing in. Paid plans and credit packs support personal and commercial projects, subject to the terms of service and rights to uploaded source material.
FAQ
What is GPT Image 2.5?
GPT Image 2.5 is OpenAI's image-generation and editing family released on September 8, 2026. It accepts text and image inputs and prod
