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Re: Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Post by veunes » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:31 AM UTC

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…

Gemini likely has a more powerful text encoder, which is why it's better at parsing complex, nuanced prompts. Seedream, on the other hand, might have a more advanced diffusion U-Net architecture that's better at preserving textures and handling local edits. One model understands better, the other draws better

Re: Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Post by veunes » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:41 AM UTC

cosama wrote: post #16

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…

I was trying to use gemini 2.5 flash image / nano banana to tidy up a picture of my messy kitchen. It failed horribly on my first attempt. I was quite surprised how much trouble it had with this simple task (similar to cleaning up the street in the post). On my second attempt I had it first analyze the image to point out all the items that clutter the space, and then on a second prompt had it remove all those items.…

That actually proves how important the “number of attempts” metric is. It’s not just a “make everything pretty” button - it’s more like a powerful but slightly dumb intern who needs clear, step-by-step instructions. Your two-step approach really captures the essence of prompt engineering

Re: Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

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Post by veunes » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:46 AM UTC

hackthemack wrote: post #6

I do not use ai image generating much lately. It seemed like there was a burst of activity a year and half ago with self hosted models and using some localhost web guis. But now it seems like it is moving more and more to online hosted models. Still, to my eye, ai generated images still feel a bit off when doing with real world photographs. George's hair, for example, looks over the top, or brushed on. The tree added…

I think fine-tuning could fix that problem

If you take a base model and train it on a hundred Seinfeld frames, it would pick up the specific style - the color grading, grain, lighting - and it would add the hair way more naturally