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Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Re: Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Post by vunderba »

cttet wrote: post #40
zamadatix wrote: post #38

I still feel varying the prompt text, number of tries, and varying strictness combined with only showing the result most liked dilute most of the value in these test. It would be better if there was one prompt 8/10 human editors understood and implemented correctly and then every model got 5 generation attempts with that exact prompt on different seeds or something. If it were about "who can create the best image wit…

A "worst image" instead of best image competition may be easy to implement and quite indicative of which one has less frustration experience.

OP here. That's kind of the idea of listing the number of attempts alongside failure/successes. It's a loose metric for how "compliant" a model is - e.g. how much work you have to put it in order to get a nominally successful result.

Re: Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Post by troupo »

ec109685 wrote: post #39
minimaxir wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a weird situation where the Gemini mobile app hit #2 on the App Stores because of free Nano Banana, but no one ever talks about it and most disclosed image generations I've seen are still ChatGPT.

Google photos should just include the feature. It’s kinda buried in Gemini. Google is so weirdly non-integrated.

> It’s kinda buried in Gemini.

> Google is so weirdly non-integrated.

Where by try gemini non- integrated have you tried gemini you mean gemini is here they shove use gemini gemini into every single product they have?

Re: Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Post by piquadrat »

ec109685 wrote: post #39
minimaxir wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a weird situation where the Gemini mobile app hit #2 on the App Stores because of free Nano Banana, but no one ever talks about it and most disclosed image generations I've seen are still ChatGPT.

Google photos should just include the feature. It’s kinda buried in Gemini. Google is so weirdly non-integrated.

They announced that Nano Banana will be integrated in Google Photos a couple weeks ago.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-google-product...

Re: Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Post by joomla199 »

spookie wrote: post #41
zamadatix wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to REALLY be into AI to do this for generation/API cost reasons (or willing to have this as a hacking project of the month expense). Even ignoring electricity, a 16 GB 5060 Ti is more expensive than 16,000 image generations. Assuming you do one every 15 seconds, that's 240,000 seconds -> more than 2 months of usage at an hour a day of generations. If you've already got a decent GPU (or were going to get one…

GPUs are needed for plenty of reasons. I assume plenty have a decent dGPU, even on laptops.

I have a 4080 RTX and Kontext runs great at fp8. I run several other models besides. If you want to get at all good at this, you need tons of throwaway generations and fast iteration and an API quickly becomes pricier than a GPU.

Re: Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Post by franze »

minimaxir wrote: post #4

Everyone is sleeping on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image / Nano Banana. As shown in the OP, it's substantially more powerful than most other models while at the same price-per-image, and due to its text encoder it can handle significantly larger and more nuanced prompts to get exactly what you want. I open-sourced a Python package for generating from it with examples ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg ) and am currently wor…

honest question: where is / how to do aspect ratio control for nano banana in aistudio?

Re: Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Post by epiccoleman »

minimaxir wrote: post #4

Everyone is sleeping on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image / Nano Banana. As shown in the OP, it's substantially more powerful than most other models while at the same price-per-image, and due to its text encoder it can handle significantly larger and more nuanced prompts to get exactly what you want. I open-sourced a Python package for generating from it with examples ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gemimg ) and am currently wor…

half the time when i try to use nano banana, AI Studio fails, telling me it can't generate for some unspecified reason.

these aren't cases where I'm trying to do something that skirts the edge of copyright, either (like "Ghiblifying" images, for example).

that said, when it does work, it is super impressive.

Re: Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Post by tpierce89 »

seany wrote: post #44

Is there anything like this comparison for nsfw images? I'm married to a boudoir photographer who sometimes wants to use ai tools for things, and they are all _awfull_ if there is nudity on photos. It's like some sort of neo puritanism has taken over.

I also do similar work and have run tests on many models. I have listed a few here with sample images using one prompt with a single run. I know it isn't a comprehensive review like OP, but it's something. My personal preference through experience is epicRealismXL.

https://imgchest.com/p/xny8e23jpyb

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