Seedream 5.0 Lite
Seedream 5.0 Lite Image Generation is available in the Business API catalog.
Examples
representative generations · starting points to seed the playground
Mixed-media artwork, image-plus-object, physical read: a full-bleed sheet of creased sage-green #A8BBA0 paper filling the frame, real folds and fiber texture modeled by soft raking light, with a clean horizontal torn slot at eye height through which a photographic pair of calm eyes and brow look out — the only photographic element, a few crease lines converging toward the slot. 85% uninterrupted paper field, radical negative space, the paper lit like a portrait subject. Light uniform film grain fusing all layers, milky low-contrast palette, no pure black, matte finish, refined and restrained, one device only. No feathered edges, no second device, no HDR.
Mixed-media artwork, photo-and-painting merge: a real photographed hand and forearm in a crisp white shirt cuff entering from the right edge, holding a bouquet that is entirely PAINTED — loose gouache tulips with visible brushstrokes bleeding slightly beyond their outlines — against a flat hand-painted dusty-blue field; two painted petals fall with tiny painted shadows, and the painted stems cast one soft painted shadow across the photographed cuff, the two worlds acknowledging each other. Light uniform film grain fusing all layers, milky low-contrast palette, no pure black, matte finish, refined and restrained, one device only. No feathered edges, no second device, no HDR.
Mixed-media: a portrait as a weathered wheat-pasted street poster on a marigold-painted wall — the top layer peeling away in curls to reveal an older poster of the same face in a different color beneath, torn edges and paste wrinkles physical, afternoon shadow raking the wall. Light uniform film grain fusing layers, milky low contrast, no pure black, matte, refined, one device only. No feathered edges, no HDR.
Mixed-media: a wooden embroidery hoop holding stretched linen where a portrait transitions mediums — the left half a printed photograph of a woman's face, the right half the same face continued in dense embroidered thread-strokes in coral, plum and gold, needle and trailing threads resting below, flat on sage felt. Light uniform film grain fusing layers, milky low contrast, no pure black, matte, refined, one device only. No feathered edges, no HDR.
Mixed-media: a portrait of a girl assembled entirely from pressed dried flowers on ivory linen — petals for skin tones, dark pansies for hair, stems for the collar — botanically flat and papery, with ONE fresh unpressed red poppy laid where a hair pin would be, its living dimensionality the single break. Light uniform film grain fusing layers, milky low contrast, no pure black, matte, refined, one device only. No feathered edges, no HDR.
Landscape 4:3 quiet surrealist tableau photographed at peach-blue sunset, with a muted teal sky and sea, warm apricot light on objects, low contrast, soft edges, subtle haze, restrained saturation and delicate analog grain. Preserve the flooded-room object map and horizontal spacing. In ankle-deep perfectly calm seawater, a freestanding pale-peach interior wall panel stands at center, containing two tall empty rectangular window frames. Directly in front of it sits a slender short-haired man seen from behind at a dark wooden writing desk shaped like a compact upright piano, seated on a narrow bench. A simple cream floor lamp stands just left of the desk and casts a broad rectangular shadow across the wall. A boxy mustard-olive armchair sits separately at far left. At far right, an overturned small upholstered chair rises from the water at an angle with a black-and-white seagull perched on its upper edge. Two more birds cross the open sky. The sea horizon runs straight through the lower half of the wall; every object casts a soft reflection in the water. Change the person's face and gender and substitute the piano with a visually similar writing desk, but preserve the two windows, lamp, left armchair, right overturned chair, perched bird, water depth, reflections, spacing and contemplative loneliness. Static eye-level 50mm composition. No dry floor, extra walls, stormy sea, saturated teal-orange grade, readable text, logo or watermark.
Portrait 2:3 low-angle pastoral dream photograph in soft powder-blue sky, creamy sunlit clouds, deep moss grass and muted pink wildflowers. Warm late-afternoon rim light, gentle highlight bloom, slightly desaturated color, dark but open foreground shadows, shallow-depth bokeh and fine tactile film grain. Preserve the solitary-object hill geometry. A small rounded grassy mound rises from the lower half like an island, its crest crossing just below center. Precisely on the crest sits one empty vintage ochre-painted metal café chair in three-quarter view, narrow back upright against the sky, four legs clearly planted in grass. Camera is almost at ground level looking upward so the chair is silhouetted against a vast sky. Huge soft cumulus clouds frame the chair from both left and right without covering it. The immediate foreground contains out-of-focus pink flowers as large translucent bokeh disks along the bottom and side edges; midground grass and tiny flowers sharpen toward the hilltop. Replace the original wooden chair with a close metal café chair, but keep one chair only, the same scale, orientation, hill position, low viewpoint, cloud balance, bokeh placement and wistful empty-stage mood. No person, building, extra furniture, dramatic sunset, high saturation, hard HDR edges, text, logo or watermark.
Per-model pricing
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