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Generate photorealistic and stylised images with prompts
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Generate a 10-second video clip from a text prompt
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I Couldn't Find a Good Image Metadata Tool, So I Built One
Dev.to · Robin Hood 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I Couldn't Find a Good Image Metadata Tool, So I Built One
Every project starts with a problem. Mine started with image metadata. Whenever I published images,...
Building a Browser-Based Image Resizer with Step-Down Scaling and Crop
Dev.to · Arhan Ahmad 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Building a Browser-Based Image Resizer with Step-Down Scaling and Crop
How to implement high-quality image resizing in the browser using step-down scaling, aspect ratio lock, social media presets, and an interactive crop box.
Comment créer des images professionnelles sans Photoshop avec l'IA
Dev.to · Mohamed Amine Ben Mallessa 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago
Comment créer des images professionnelles sans Photoshop avec l'IA
Tutoriel pour créer des visuels sans abonnement Photoshop, en utilisant Photopea et un agent IA.
Building a color replacer: why RGB matching fails on photos and how HSV fixes it
Dev.to · Irrational Apps 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Building a color replacer: why RGB matching fails on photos and how HSV fixes it
I've been building browser-based image tools for a while now, and color replacement is one of those...
I Built an Image Steganography Tool — Hide Any File Inside a PNG with AES-256 Encryption
Dev.to · Rishu 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
I Built an Image Steganography Tool — Hide Any File Inside a PNG with AES-256 Encryption
I've been fascinated by steganography for a while — the idea that you can hide a file inside an...
How to Use Seedance 2.0: A Practical Guide to Image-to-Video
Dev.to · xapm 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Use Seedance 2.0: A Practical Guide to Image-to-Video
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's video generation model. You give it an image and a prompt, and it returns...
WebP's Compression Secret: How a 1MB PNG Becomes a 200KB WebP
Dev.to · swift king 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
WebP's Compression Secret: How a 1MB PNG Becomes a 200KB WebP
I used to think WebP was just "JPEG but newer." Then I dug into the actual compression pipeline, and...
Beyond TinyPNG: Fast, Private, and Zero-Server Image Conversion
Dev.to · Yao Xiao 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Beyond TinyPNG: Fast, Private, and Zero-Server Image Conversion
Have you ever found yourself hesitating before clicking "upload" on a third-party image compression...
I built a private, 100% in-browser JPEG XL converter (no upload, no server)
Dev.to · El_Necora 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built a private, 100% in-browser JPEG XL converter (no upload, no server)
If you've ever downloaded a .jxl file and watched your browser shrug at it, you've met the JPEG XL...
Krea 2: Open-Weights Image Model That Caught the Frontier
Dev.to · Max Quimby 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Krea 2: Open-Weights Image Model That Caught the Frontier
Krea 2 is a 12B open-weights image model rivaling closed APIs. Here is what the technical report reveals and how to run it locally.
When rotating an image isn't actually rotating an image
Dev.to · Javonn 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When rotating an image isn't actually rotating an image
Early in my career working in a Digitisation environment at some point I would have to become...
Watermarks, overlays, and blend modes in a few lines — imgkit now has composite()
Dev.to · Aissam Irhir 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Watermarks, overlays, and blend modes in a few lines — imgkit now has composite()
If you ship anything with user-generated or product imagery, you eventually need to put one image on...
Unifying image inputs across three vision providers behind Bifrost
Dev.to · Elise Moreau 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Unifying image inputs across three vision providers behind Bifrost
TL;DR: We run an automated visual QA step that scores generated product shots with vision LLMs from...
How to Automate Image Compression with an API: A Node.js & PHP Guide
Dev.to · Roman Klymenko 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to Automate Image Compression with an API: A Node.js & PHP Guide
Integrate an image optimization API into your backend. Practical Node.js and PHP examples for compressing, converting, and resizing images automatically at scal
I reverse-engineered browser image compression — here's the actual code
Dev.to · Saba Khan 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I reverse-engineered browser image compression — here's the actual code
I had 200 product photos to compress for a client's e-commerce site. The Photoshop batch processor...
I Benchmarked 17 Image Conversions on My Production Server. Some Results Were Not What I Expected.
Dev.to · Serhii Kalyna 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Benchmarked 17 Image Conversions on My Production Server. Some Results Were Not What I Expected.
I run Convertify, a free image converter built on Rust and libvips. Last week I decided to stop...
Choosing the Right AI Image Generator in 2026
Dev.to · TuanPK Builds 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Choosing the Right AI Image Generator in 2026
AI image generation has become an essential part of content creation, marketing, and product...
The Architecture of Dreams: A Deep Dive into Text-to-Video AI in 2026
Dev.to · Amarildo Ferrari 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Architecture of Dreams: A Deep Dive into Text-to-Video AI in 2026
The landscape of generative artificial intelligence has shifted dramatically over the past few years....
Generate Professional AI Images Locally with ComfyUI and FLUX
Dev.to · EveryLocalAI 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Generate Professional AI Images Locally with ComfyUI and FLUX
Professional-grade image generation that runs entirely on your own GPU. ComfyUI + FLUX.1 Dev gives...
EXIF vs IPTC vs XMP vs GPS: How Metadata Fits into Modern Image Pipelines
Dev.to · GeoImageTagger 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
EXIF vs IPTC vs XMP vs GPS: How Metadata Fits into Modern Image Pipelines
If your image pipeline only preserves pixels, you are probably losing useful data. A modern image...
remove.bg charges $0.105/image — here's a $0.009 alternative (2026 comparison)
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
remove.bg charges $0.105/image — here's a $0.009 alternative (2026 comparison)
If you remove image backgrounds at any real volume — product catalogs, user uploads, marketplace...
How Machines See: An Introduction to Image Processing with Python and NumPy
Dev.to · ragesh_vr 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How Machines See: An Introduction to Image Processing with Python and NumPy
We interact with digital images every single day, snapping photos, applying filters, and rendering 3D...
Show HN: AI Upscaler – Free, no-signup image enhancer up to 4x with strict privacy
Dev.to · aiportrait 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Show HN: AI Upscaler – Free, no-signup image enhancer up to 4x with strict privacy
Hi HN, I built AI Upscaler , a free online tool to enhance and upscale images up to 4x without...
Por que eu parei de usar Cloudinary e construí minha própria API de imagens
Dev.to · Felipe Rohde 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Por que eu parei de usar Cloudinary e construí minha própria API de imagens
Tudo começou com uma fatura que não fazia sentido. Não foi uma fatura absurda — foi pior...
I Made an Image Compressor That Never Sees Your Images (100% Client-Side)
Dev.to · Max 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Made an Image Compressor That Never Sees Your Images (100% Client-Side)
Ever notice how most "free" image compressors upload your files to their servers? I got fed up with...
How to Generate Images with Flux API in Python
Dev.to · deAPI 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Generate Images with Flux API in Python
Flux, built by Black Forest Labs, has become the go-to open-source model for image generation. This...
Stop Outsourcing Your Bits: Why Local-First Image Conversion Trumps Remote API Bloat
Dev.to · will.indie 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Stop Outsourcing Your Bits: Why Local-First Image Conversion Trumps Remote API Bloat
If I see one more 'Image Converter' landing page that requires an email sign-up just to turn...
Why AI Image Generation Should Be Async
Dev.to · Natalia 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why AI Image Generation Should Be Async
A practical look at why production AI image generation works better as an asynchronous workflow.
Best AI Image Generation APIs for Marketing Agencies in 2026
Dev.to · Genimager 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Best AI Image Generation APIs for Marketing Agencies in 2026
Marketing agencies in 2026 are under constant pressure to deliver high-quality visuals faster while...
How to Generate Images with Flux API in Python
Dev.to · deAPI 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Generate Images with Flux API in Python
Flux, built by Black Forest Labs, has become the go-to open-source model for image generation. This...
Color Grading at Scale: How I Stopped Wrestling with ImageMagick and Just Used an API
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Color Grading at Scale: How I Stopped Wrestling with ImageMagick and Just Used an API
I've been building a tool for a small e-commerce brand that sells handmade ceramics. Their problem:...
Document photos are a tiny image-processing problem with sharp edges
Dev.to · Abdullah Khan 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Document photos are a tiny image-processing problem with sharp edges
Disclosure: I work on Passlens, a browser-first passport and ID photo maker. This post is about the...
When Preprocessing Helps-and When It Hurts: Why Your Image Classification Model's Accuracy Varies So Much
Dev.to · Rakshath 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
When Preprocessing Helps-and When It Hurts: Why Your Image Classification Model's Accuracy Varies So Much
From 65% to 87% accuracy on CIFAR-10 using Convolutional Neural Networks - and what went wrong along...
Building an Image Optimization Pipeline in Node.js with ShortPixel
Dev.to · Bianca Rus 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building an Image Optimization Pipeline in Node.js with ShortPixel
Images are still one of the easiest ways to accidentally slow down an app. You can lazy-load them....
AI dewatermark tools: how to remove watermarks from photos you own
Dev.to · Gandalf the Gato 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI dewatermark tools: how to remove watermarks from photos you own
Watermark removal is one of those image editing jobs where the tool matters less than the permission....
Image to 3D for Blender: what to check after AI generation
Dev.to · cannan David 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Image to 3D for Blender: what to check after AI generation
AI image-to-3D tools are useful, but I would not treat the generated model as finished the moment it...
How Putting Faces (Literally) to My AI Garden Images Gave It a Personality
Dev.to · Cathy Lai 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How Putting Faces (Literally) to My AI Garden Images Gave It a Personality
Pure Illustrations To display rotating images during the long Image Edit API calls to...
How I Built a Blazingly Fast, Privacy-First Batch Image Converter in the Browser Using OPFS and Web Workers
Dev.to · Sapianyi 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Built a Blazingly Fast, Privacy-First Batch Image Converter in the Browser Using OPFS and Web Workers
The Problem with Modern Web Tools Most online image converters follow a flawed pattern: you upload...
Image Editing in Python: Introducing BrushCue v1.0.0
Dev.to · Anthony Dito 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Image Editing in Python: Introducing BrushCue v1.0.0
The Python image editing ecosystem is weak. Tasks that are trivial with desktop tools are at best...
Building a Data-Driven Medical Image Enhancement Pipeline with Differential Evolution 🔥🩻
Dev.to · Basel M. Mohaisen 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building a Data-Driven Medical Image Enhancement Pipeline with Differential Evolution 🔥🩻
How I Built an AI-Driven Medical X-Ray Enhancement Framework Using Differential...
remove-ai-watermarks: una CLI borra SynthID, C2PA y el sparkle de Gemini
Dev.to · lu1tr0n 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
remove-ai-watermarks: una CLI borra SynthID, C2PA y el sparkle de Gemini
Una herramienta open source en Python combina reversa de alpha blending y regeneración por difusión para borrar marcas visibles e invisibles de imágen
I benchmarked 6 WASM image codecs in the browser. Here is what beats the server.
Dev.to · Convertilo 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I benchmarked 6 WASM image codecs in the browser. Here is what beats the server.
TL;DR Modern WebAssembly codecs (MozJPEG, libavif, OxiPNG/imagequant, libwebp, gifsicle,...
Why I Built a Browser-Only Image Compressor (No Uploads, No Server)
Dev.to · Max 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why I Built a Browser-Only Image Compressor (No Uploads, No Server)
Most image compression tools require you to upload your photos to a remote server. But what if you...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Implementing StegoPNet for Deep Image Steganography 🚀
Dev.to · Anjasfedo 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Hidden in Plain Sight: Implementing StegoPNet for Deep Image Steganography 🚀
Imagine being able to hide a high-resolution photo of a baboon inside a photo of Lena, where the...
I built a Stable Diffusion playground in 200 lines and zero API keys. Here's how.
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I built a Stable Diffusion playground in 200 lines and zero API keys. Here's how.
The first time I generated an AI image, I expected the worst. A signup page. Email verification. A...
OpenCV.js Without the Memory Leaks: Chainable Image Processing for Every JavaScript Runtime
Dev.to · Awal Ariansyah 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
OpenCV.js Without the Memory Leaks: Chainable Image Processing for Every JavaScript Runtime
ppu-ocv wraps OpenCV.js in a chainable TypeScript pipeline that handles Mat lifecycle for you, with four entry points that let you drop OpenCV entirely when you
Image Harvest v1.0.2: Internationalization, Free Pro Trial & Quality-of-Life Improvements
Dev.to · kyriewen 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Image Harvest v1.0.2: Internationalization, Free Pro Trial & Quality-of-Life Improvements
A month ago I launched Image Harvest — a privacy-first Chrome extension that extracts and...
What I learned after testing a bunch of image to video workflows
Dev.to · Dalon Gavin 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
What I learned after testing a bunch of image to video workflows
A lot of image to video clips look fake for the same reason: the motion design asks the model to...