Precise in-image text
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Create posters, packaging, UI mockups, signage, and multilingual ads with clear glyphs, readable hierarchy, and stable composition.
OpenAI · ChatGPT Images 2.0 · April 21, 2026
GPT Image 2 — From Prompt to Commercial-Grade 4K Images
Posters, product shots, packaging, and multilingual campaigns—create precise text, stable layouts, and commercial-grade 4K visuals in one workflow.
- Precise in-image text
- 4K image output
- High-fidelity image editing
- Text and image inputs
What the model actually delivers
Multilingual posters, comic panels, brand ads, photoreal photography — each from a single prompt.
Built to produce work you can ship
Three capabilities that matter when an image has to leave the moodboard and enter a real campaign.
Commercial-grade 4K
Product and campaign visuals with production detail
Render natural light, convincing materials, and high-fidelity product scenes, then export up to 4K for ads, storefronts, and presentations.
High-fidelity editing
Keep people, products, and brand details consistent
Use a reference image and iterate without rebuilding the whole scene—preserve identity, product form, and key visual details across revisions.
Three steps to run GPT Image 2
Step 1
Open the GPT Image 2 entry
Enter the iMini image workspace and select GPT Image 2 — same account as your other models.
Step 2
Write what you need clearly
Follow OpenAI’s structure: scene → subject → detail → constraints. State use case (ad, UI, infographic) so the model matches polish level.
Step 3
Generate, edit, deliver
Iterate quality tiers as needed, download finals, or keep editing while holding identity and layout.
One model, eight production workflows
From e-commerce heroes to storyboard scripts — jobs that used to need a full studio day now start with one prompt.
Product and commercial still life
Photoreal product scenes and e-commerce heroes — material, light, and first-pass quality cut reshoots and retries.
Infographics and charts
Complex structured visuals — charts, annotated diagrams, multi-column layouts — in-image text must stay readable.
Deck and pitch visuals
Title slides, chapter art, embedded charts for proposals and product narrative.
Ad and poster layout
Type-forward marketing layouts — headline hierarchy and contrast matter as much as illustration.
Multi-image series
Thinking-grade multi-image from one prompt — storyboards, ad variants, sequential frames.
Native-ratio social sets
Flexible sizes (within ≤3:1) for feed, story, and banner formats without forced crops.
Structured technical visuals
Layout and annotated schematic visuals that benefit from instruction following and dense detail.
Packaging and brand systems
Style-controlled brand applications — packaging, type posters, mockups — identity held through edit loops.
Teams that need a production default
Whether you ship ads, pitch decks, or product detail pages — the upgrade difference shows up here first.
E-commerce & DTC
Product visuals and in-image copy variants without a studio shoot per SKU.
Marketing & growth
Type-forward ads and seasonal banners — scenarios that used to die on broken typography.
Content teams
Bulk exploration at quality:low, then medium / high on winners.
Founders & PMs
Landing heroes, pitch art, and concept comps before design bandwidth arrives.
Agencies
Edit-heavy client loops: change one element, keep identity, lock brand geometry.
Designers & UX
UI drafts, dense charts, and style-transfer exploration with fewer dead ends.
Four ready-to-use prompts
See the model at its best, then adapt — GPT Image 2 supports Chinese prompts natively; paste straight into iMini.
Product
Photoreal product photo of matte black wireless earbud case on white marble, soft studio light, shallow depth of field, sharp brand wordmark on packaging, e-commerce hero, no watermark
Poster
Print-ready summer sale poster, tropical palette, large multilingual headline area at top with sharp glyphs, palm leaves framing edges, modern sans-serif, high contrast, clean layout
Portrait
Photoreal professional headshot of woman in her 30s, natural window light, neutral gray background, confident expression, LinkedIn business style, real skin texture preserved
Food
Overhead colorful açaí bowl flat lay, fresh berries and granola, bright natural light, Instagram food photography style, sharp ingredient detail, uncluttered frame
What is GPT Image 2?
OpenAI’s latest image model from April 2026 — generation and editing in one stack. Native 4K, reliable in-image text, photoreal realism, characters that hold through multi-round edits. Instant for second-scale output, Thinking for hard composition — OpenAI recommends it as the default for new projects.
Developer
OpenAI
Released
April 21, 2026
Generation modes
Instant · Thinking
Max resolution
4K (3840×2160)
Output sizes
Any size, aspect ratio ≤3:1
Quality tiers
low · medium · high
Reliable text rendering
Sharp glyphs, stable layout, strong in-image contrast — dense menus, posters, UI, packaging, and annotated charts finally come out clean in one pass.
Thinking mode (Images 2.0)
Thinking launched with the model: reasoning and tool use during generation — including live web context, multiple images from one prompt, and a more deliberate composition path than Instant.
Editing and identity consistency
Faces and identity hold across multi-round edits; characters stay consistent step to step — high-fidelity image input on by default, no extra setup.
Quality vs latency tradeoff
low / medium / high tiers let teams choose speed vs fidelity. OpenAI notes quality:low often beats prior-gen visual quality while staying fast enough for bulk iteration.
| Dimension | Instant | Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Role | Fast path with core Images 2.0 quality | Reasoning + tool-augmented generation |
| Latency profile | Optimized for fast output | Slower; plan and verify before final pixels |
| Best for | Drafts, social, quick exploration | Research-backed visuals, multi-image sets, hard briefs |
| Reasoning stack | Direct generation | Full reasoning stack on the prompt |
| Multi-image output | Usually one primary image | Multiple images from one prompt |
| Live context | No web during thinking phase | Can integrate live web search data |
How it stacks up against top models today
GPT Image 2 vs Google’s Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) and Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), ByteDance’s Seedream 5.0 Pro, and last-gen GPT Image 1 — resolution, in-image text, edit fidelity, and speed side by side.
| Dimension | GPT Image 2 | GPT Image 1 | Nano Banana 2 | Nano Banana Pro | Seedream 5.0 Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max resolution (practical) | Native 4K (3840×2160) · above 2K experimental | Fixed presets (~1K class) | Up to 4K | Up to 4K | Native 2K · 4K via upscale |
| In-image text reliability | Excellent | Moderate | Strong · especially CJK text | Industry-best text precision | Excellent |
| Reasoning / Thinking path | Images 2.0 Thinking | No dedicated Thinking path | Adjustable thinking tiers · search grounding | No dedicated Thinking path | Deep thinking + built-in web search |
| Multi-image / series workflows | Multi-image from one prompt (Thinking) | Mostly single-image | 5-character + 14-object consistency | Multi-reference compositing | Up to 10 references · layer export |
| Speed profile | Instant fast draft + quality tiers | Moderate | Fastest (Flash architecture) | Slower · quality-first | Balanced |
| Photorealism and materials | Excellent | Good | Near-Pro fidelity | Excellent | Excellent |
| Aspect ratio flexibility | Any size ≤3:1 (edge ×16) | Standard fixed ratios | 14 presets · up to 8:1 | 10 presets | Covers wide production sizes |
| References and edit fidelity | Default high-fidelity input | Supported | Supported | Supported · up to 14 references | Region-precision edit · layer export |
| High-density layout / UI / charts | Excellent | Moderate | Good | Excellent | Excellent |
| Default pick | OpenAI official default for new projects | Legacy compatibility only | Speed + cost default (Gemini lane) | Premium typography and final polish | Multilingual infographics · low cost |
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Using GPT Image 2 on iMini
Worth reading before your first generation.
Yes. Use iMini’s GPT Image 2 creation entry; usage follows your iMini plan credits — no separate ChatGPT subscription required to try here.
Compare side by side on iMini
Nano Banana 2Gemini 3.1 Flash Image · fast defaultNano Banana ProGemini 3 Pro Image · premium 4KSeedream 5.0 ProDeep thinking · layer editing · low costGPT Image 1OpenAI previous-gen baselineExplore more models on iMini
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OpenAI’s recommended default image model for new projects — on iMini alongside Nano Banana 2, Nano Banana Pro, and Seedream.
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