GPT Image 2 Image Generation
GPT Image 2 Image Generation is available in the Business API catalog.
Examples
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The single lowercase word "pause" rendered as thick transparent liquid glass floating over a heavily defocused peach-cream curtain lit by soft evening window light — letterforms visible only through refraction bending the fabric folds behind them, crisp caustic white speculars on glyph edges, refraction strongest at the edges, a thin glass ring looping behind and in front of the letters to prove real 3D. Rounded soft letterforms, loose kerning. Palette: peach haze #E8C4A8, cream whites, powder grey. Heavy gaussian softness on the ground, fine grain preventing banding, slight bloom on speculars. Slightly desaturated filmic grade, low contrast while maintaining color, light film grain, warmed whites, editorial print finish, generous negative space. No hard drop shadows, no neon glow, no extra decoration, no other text.

Graphic design artwork, deboss at full poster-system scale: an entire editorial poster grid uniformly heat-pressed into a soft powder-blue felt panel — every element debossed at one identical press depth: large headline "PIKA" in extended bold caps at the top, subhead "FALL SESSIONS" beneath it in medium sans, a date cluster "OCT 3–6" inside a debossed rounded-rectangle chip at lower-right, a tiny letterspaced credit line "OPEN STUDIO · RSVP" along the bottom edge, one small asterisk pressed at lower-left. Single soft top-left key light: highlight on upper groove edges, shadow in lower grooves, felt fibers visibly compressed at every press line. Entirely tone-on-tone powder-blue family (#CFE4F0 highlight, #A8CCE2 body, #7FA9C6 pressed shadow, #5E8AA8 deepest groove), zero hue contrast, legibility purely through relief. Full bleed, matte. Every element pressed — nothing printed, no ink. Slightly desaturated filmic grade, low contrast while maintaining color, light film grain, warmed whites, editorial print finish, generous negative space. No hard drop shadows, no neon glow, no extra decoration, no other text.

Illuminated object on flat dark ground: a hummingbird rendered as glowing rose-and-amber light hovering mid-frame on a near-black plum-tinted field, brightness concentrated in the wingbeat blur and throat feathers, light originating inside the anatomy, soft halation bleeding into the void, ethereal not neon; tiny caps caption "MOVE QUIET" at the bottom edge. Slightly desaturated filmic grade, low contrast while maintaining color, light film grain, warmed whites, editorial print finish, generous negative space. No hard drop shadows, no neon glow, no other text.

Deboss in the dark register: a full mini poster grid pressed into a slab of dark chocolate — headline "PIKA NIGHTS" in extended caps, a date chip "DEC 5", a tiny caps line "AFTER DARK · RSVP" and one asterisk, all debossed at one press depth into the chocolate's surface with its snap-lines and sheen; single soft key, tone-on-tone deep cacao browns, legibility purely from relief. Nothing printed, no ink. Slightly desaturated filmic grade, low contrast while maintaining color, light film grain, warmed whites, editorial print finish, generous negative space. No hard drop shadows, no neon glow, no other text. (v2)

Extreme close-up macro shot of the lower half of a person's face, cropped tightly so thick tortoiseshell-frame glasses dominate the upper two-thirds of the frame. Warm skin tone with soft, grainy film texture; visible catchlights and tiny specular highlights along the glasses' lower rims and bridge. The bridge of the glasses sits centered, slightly left of frame, with a small metallic gold hinge accent glinting. Eyes are shadowed and slightly obscured behind the lenses, giving an anonymous, contemplative mood. Lighting is soft, diffused from above-front, creating gentle falloff across the nose and cheeks, warm amber-pink color grading, low-to-mid contrast, creamy highlight rolloff, dense but soft shadows. Heavy analog film grain and halation glow around bright highlights, subtle vignette at corners. Aspect ratio 3:4, portrait framing, shot as if with an 85mm macro lens at very shallow depth of field, foreground glasses in soft focus, skin slightly sharper behind. Below the photo, a solid bubblegum-pink color block fills the lower two-thirds of the composition. In the upper right of this pink field, small teal sans-serif caption text reads "A STREAMING ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING AN UNKNOWN ACTOR" with a smaller line below "DIRECTED BY TWO CO-CREATORS." In the upper left, a tiny minimalist play-button icon with small condensed text beside it suggests a streaming platform, no logos or real brand names. Dominating the lower third, in massive retro rounded serif lettering with a thick, bold silhouette, red-orange colored, reads a new short title "The Control Room" in a nostalgic 1970s cinema-poster typographic style, left-aligned, oversized relative to all other text. Beneath it, dense small tightly-kerned credit-block text in dark maroon lists fictional cast and crew names, mimicking authentic movie-poster fine print typography, evenly spaced, justified alignment, uniform tracking, matte print texture with slight paper grain.

Design a poster-style graphic with a teal-to-blue gradient background transitioning from lighter mint-teal at top to darker slate blue at bottom, overlaid with a muted brownish-tan horizon band across the lower third suggesting a hazy landscape. Center a large blurred, ghostly humanoid figure standing mid-frame, shot from a low-medium angle, torso and head visible, wrapped in flowing dark fabric that dissolves into motion-blur streaks. Render the head and shoulders in a glowing warm orange-red haze, semi-transparent, with faint suggestion of closed eyes and smooth abstracted facial features, as if double-exposed or heat-mapped, blending into the cooler backdrop. The figure's edges feather into soft chromatic bleed, giving a dreamlike, dissociative quality. Apply heavy film grain, subtle halation around bright edges, and soft lens diffusion throughout for an analog, slightly degraded texture. Lighting is diffused and directionless, ambient, evoking dusk. Color grade toward desaturated teal-blue shadows with warm coral-orange highlights isolated to the figure, mid contrast, soft rolloff, no harsh blacks. Overlay bold typography: top-left small caps sans-serif reading "MARCH" in pale yellow-green, top-right "AUTUMN 2025" mirrored in same style. Center a large elegant serif display word "INNER" in pale chartreuse with an oversized decorative swash italic script beneath it reading "Solitude," the script letters overlapping playfully with looping tails extending across the composition, one letter rendered as a thin vertical line accent. Small annotation labels in tiny sans-serif surround the title, reading fragments like "STATE OF WITHDRAWAL" and "BETWEEN MEMORY AND PRESENCE," in the same pale yellow-green, left-aligned and right-aligned respectively. Below the title, a bolder sans-serif line reads "A STUDY ON DETACHMENT FROM SELF." At the bottom, place a descriptive paragraph in small pale text explaining the concept, followed by a bracketed italic question. Bottom-left corner shows event location text with underline; bottom-right shows a large bold date numeral "14.03" in pale green, oversized against the dark ground texture. DISTINCT VARIATION — KEEP THE APPROVED ART DIRECTION: Replace the standing humanoid with a blurred dancer turning sideways, shift the cool background toward powder blue and muted violet, change the warm face haze to pale apricot, and replace the hero title with “SOFT STATIC” plus the script word “Drift.” Preserve the analog grain and editorial poster structure. Do not reproduce the reference image exactly. Keep softer colors, softer lighting, softer lines, slightly desaturated color, low contrast, delicate film grain or tactile print texture, and a clean composition with room for wit.
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