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Image Generation Basics
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Generate photorealistic and stylised images with prompts
Advanced Image Generation
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Use ControlNet for pose/depth-guided generation
AI Video Generation
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Generate a 10-second video clip from a text prompt
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I Built a Self-Hosted Image Hosting Platform in Go — and Gave It an MCP Interface
Dev.to · Beta 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built a Self-Hosted Image Hosting Platform in Go — and Gave It an MCP Interface
The Backstory I spent the latter half of last year Vibe Coding — a lot. First came...
Image Captioning API: Auto-Generate Alt Text and Descriptions
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Image Captioning API: Auto-Generate Alt Text and Descriptions
Fast image-to-text API with three caption styles: concise alt-tags, SEO-rich descriptions, and detailed narration. 8 credits per call.
Long video generation blog: How We Shipped SVI in Production
Dev.to · Atlas Cloud 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Long video generation blog: How We Shipped SVI in Production
In Part 1, we surveyed six approaches to long video generation — TTT, LoL, Self Forcing, Self...
Long video generation blog: Six Approaches, One Decision
Dev.to · Atlas Cloud 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Long video generation blog: Six Approaches, One Decision
A few months ago we set ourselves a deceptively simple goal: produce coherent, high-quality video...
FLUX Schnell vs SDXL: A Practical Comparison for Developers Who Need Reliable Image Generation
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
FLUX Schnell vs SDXL: A Practical Comparison for Developers Who Need Reliable Image Generation
FLUX Schnell vs SDXL: A Practical Comparison for Developers Who Need Reliable Image...
Mastering GPT Image 2: A Developer’s Guide to High-Fidelity Prompting
Dev.to · GPT Image Prompt 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Mastering GPT Image 2: A Developer’s Guide to High-Fidelity Prompting
As developers and creators, we know that the output of any AI model is only as good as the input....
Building a 100% Free, Client-Side Image Converter for Web Developers
Dev.to · Getinfo Toyou 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Building a 100% Free, Client-Side Image Converter for Web Developers
As web developers and designers, we deal with images constantly. Optimizing those images—converting...
Building an AI Image Generator SaaS in 2026: My Tech Stack and Lessons
Dev.to · Evan Li 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Building an AI Image Generator SaaS in 2026: My Tech Stack and Lessons
I've spent the past few months working on AI image generation tooling, and a lot of friends have...
Imgclip: A Cross-Platform CLI for Clipboard ↔ Image File Conversion
Dev.to · Alex YAN 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Imgclip: A Cross-Platform CLI for Clipboard ↔ Image File Conversion
You take a screenshot. You mean to paste it somewhere. You get distracted. The next copy overwrites...
I got tired of image upload limits for KYC/School, so I built Shrinker, a fast, private image compressor that works offline.
Dev.to · Abubakar Muhammed 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I got tired of image upload limits for KYC/School, so I built Shrinker, a fast, private image compressor that works offline.
Hi Everyone! I recently had to upload some documents for a school application and kept getting that...
The Complete Guide to Programmatic Image Generation
Dev.to · Iteration Layer 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
The Complete Guide to Programmatic Image Generation
From Puppeteer to layer-based APIs — how to generate images programmatically at scale. Methods, patterns, and code.
Best Image Generation APIs in 2026
Dev.to · Iteration Layer 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Best Image Generation APIs in 2026
A developer's guide to programmatic image generation — from visual template editors to layer-based APIs. What each tool does, where it fits, and what it costs.
Run a Complete Image Processing Pipeline in One n8n Node
Dev.to · Iteration Layer 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Run a Complete Image Processing Pipeline in One n8n Node
n8n's Edit Image node handles basics. For production pipelines — resize, crop, sharpen, watermark, convert — the Iteration Layer node runs 30 operations in a si
AI Image Upscaling: How It Works and When to Use It
Dev.to · Iteration Layer 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
AI Image Upscaling: How It Works and When to Use It
How AI super-resolution generates real detail from low-resolution images. When to use it, quality tradeoffs, and integration patterns.
I Built a Tool Convert Images to SVG Instantly and Free
Dev.to · Muzammil 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I Built a Tool Convert Images to SVG Instantly and Free
If you’ve ever tried converting an image like PNG or JPG into SVG, you’ve probably noticed that most...
I Built a Watermark Remover — Here’s What I Actually Learned
Dev.to · Eric Cheung 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I Built a Watermark Remover — Here’s What I Actually Learned
I'd generate an image with Gemini, like it, want to drop it into a draft or mockup — and there was...
How to Implement Image Compression with Next.js 15, Sharp 0.33, and Cloudflare Images
Dev.to · ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
How to Implement Image Compression with Next.js 15, Sharp 0.33, and Cloudflare Images
78% of web page weight comes from unoptimized images, adding 2.4s to p99 load times for Next.js apps....
AI Image Generators Every Web Developer Should Know in 2025
Dev.to · xbb 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
AI Image Generators Every Web Developer Should Know in 2025
As a developer, finding the right visuals for your web projects can be one of the most time-consuming...
I built a Telegram bot that generates AI images using Stable Diffusion — here's how
Dev.to · Rahul K 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I built a Telegram bot that generates AI images using Stable Diffusion — here's how
🔗 Live portfolio page ...
Build a Free AI Image Editor Using Airforce & ImgBB (No Server, Just a Browser!)
Dev.to · Aryan Singh 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Build a Free AI Image Editor Using Airforce & ImgBB (No Server, Just a Browser!)
🎨 Build a Free AI Image Editor Using Airforce & ImgBB (No Server, Just a...
5 AI Image Prompts That Actually Look Professional (Free, No Signup)
Dev.to · Zay The Prince 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
5 AI Image Prompts That Actually Look Professional (Free, No Signup)
I was knee-deep in a freelance gig, staring at a blank canvas for a client's YouTube thumbnail, when...
How to Convert Images to 1-Bit Pixel Art Without Losing All the Detail
Dev.to · Alan West 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
How to Convert Images to 1-Bit Pixel Art Without Losing All the Detail
Learn why simple thresholding destroys image detail and how Floyd-Steinberg dithering solves the 1-bit conversion problem with error diffusion.
How to Create 360 Panoramas with GPT Image 2 and View Them Interactively
Dev.to · Aral Roca 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
How to Create 360 Panoramas with GPT Image 2 and View Them Interactively
What you will learn This tutorial covers how to generate 360-degree equirectangular...
I Built a Free Negative Image Converter That Never Uploads Your Files
Dev.to · stackflowtools 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I Built a Free Negative Image Converter That Never Uploads Your Files
The Problem With Most Online Image Inverters Most tools online do the same thing. They upload your...
I built a tool to stop metadata loss: IPMD (Image Pixel Metadata)
Dev.to · kelechi 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I built a tool to stop metadata loss: IPMD (Image Pixel Metadata)
The problem: When you send photos through your device to another devices, the original metadata...
Achieving Consistent Cinematic Color Grading for Your Image Series
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Achieving Consistent Cinematic Color Grading for Your Image Series
If you’ve spent any time working with visual media—whether it’s for a personal travel blog, an...
How to Generate Real Pixel Art Sprites via API (With Transparent Backgrounds)
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
How to Generate Real Pixel Art Sprites via API (With Transparent Backgrounds)
Most image AIs give photorealistic renders. PixelAPI's Game Assets generates true pixel art: 32-color palette, 8px hard pixels, transparent PNG. Here's how.
GPT Image 2 Subject-Lock Editing: A Practical Guide to input_fidelity
Dev.to · Dylan HUANG 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
GPT Image 2 Subject-Lock Editing: A Practical Guide to input_fidelity
How to use GPT Image 2's Subject-Lock (input_fidelity) for ecommerce product variants, label swaps, pose-preserving outfit restyling, and character consistency.
BiRefNet vs rembg vs U2Net: Which Background Removal Model Actually Works in Production?
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
BiRefNet vs rembg vs U2Net: Which Background Removal Model Actually Works in Production?
BiRefNet vs rembg vs U2Net: Which Background Removal Model Actually Works in...
I got tired of uploading images to servers I don't trust ,so I built FileFlux
Dev.to · K L Singh 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I got tired of uploading images to servers I don't trust ,so I built FileFlux
It started with a simple frustration. I needed to convert a PNG to WebP. Searched online. Found a...
Mastering Image Correction: How AI Inpainting Solves Real-World Photo Problems
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Mastering Image Correction: How AI Inpainting Solves Real-World Photo Problems
If you've ever taken a great photo, only to realize there’s a trash can overflowing with flyers in...
Building Browser-First Image Redaction Without Uploading Files
Dev.to · byeval 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Building Browser-First Image Redaction Without Uploading Files
How to keep sensitive image redaction local in the browser with editable overlays, clean export, and no required upload step.
Best Open-Source AI Image Generators You Can Run Yourself in 2026
Dev.to · Lightning Developer 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Best Open-Source AI Image Generators You Can Run Yourself in 2026
The way people approach AI image generation has shifted quite a bit in recent years. Not long ago,...
Image Generation with Ollama is back with Japanese, Korean and Chinese Languages 🇯🇵 Support!
Dev.to · Alain Airom (Ayrom) 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Image Generation with Ollama is back with Japanese, Korean and Chinese Languages 🇯🇵 Support!
An international collaborative work 🎌 Introduction At the start of the year, I...
TIFF in 2026: what I learned researching the format nobody uses on the web
Dev.to · Serhii Kalyna 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
TIFF in 2026: what I learned researching the format nobody uses on the web
I'm building a free image converter. One day I looked at my landing page for /tiff-to-webp and...
Building an Image Format Converter in the Browser — Canvas API, MIME Type Detection, and Lossless PNG Handling
Dev.to · Shaishav Patel 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Building an Image Format Converter in the Browser — Canvas API, MIME Type Detection, and Lossless PNG Handling
Browser-based image format conversion uses the Canvas API as a universal decode-then-re-encode...
How to Blur Images Online for Free — Gaussian Blur, Pixelate, and Backdrop Blur Without Uploading
Dev.to · Shaishav Patel 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
How to Blur Images Online for Free — Gaussian Blur, Pixelate, and Backdrop Blur Without Uploading
You need to blur a face, redact a license plate, soften a background, or pixelate sensitive text in a...
Stable Diffusion Yönetimi
Dev.to · FORUM WEB 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Stable Diffusion Yönetimi
Stable Diffusion Nedir? Stable Diffusion, bir görüntü üretim modeli olarak, özellikle derin öğrenme...
image-to-image with local AI models — which model for what, and how denoise strength actually works
Dev.to · David 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
image-to-image with local AI models — which model for what, and how denoise strength actually works
Most local AI image tools give you text-to-image and call it done. You type a prompt, get an image,...
Midjourney Best Practices ve Modern Yaklaşımlar 2026
Dev.to · FORUM WEB 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Midjourney Best Practices ve Modern Yaklaşımlar 2026
Temel Kavramlar ve Tanımlar Görsel yapay zeka, makinelerin görüntüleri anlaması, oluşturması ve...
I Tested 10 Free AI Image Generator APIs in 2026 — Here's What Actually Works
Dev.to · Biricik Biricik 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I Tested 10 Free AI Image Generator APIs in 2026 — Here's What Actually Works
I needed an AI image generation API for a client project last month. The brief was simple: generate...
Image Generation in Rails — DALL-E, Stability AI, and Async Processing
Dev.to · AgentQ 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Image Generation in Rails — DALL-E, Stability AI, and Async Processing
Welcome back to the Ruby for AI series. We've built chat interfaces, RAG systems, and AI agents. Now...
Client-side vs Server-side image processing: When to use what? (Based on 2 years of building Kreotar)
Dev.to · göktürk kahriman 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Client-side vs Server-side image processing: When to use what? (Based on 2 years of building Kreotar)
I spent 18 months convinced client-side was always better. Then I tried processing a 100MB TIFF file...
Leonardo AI Review 2026: Features, Pricing, and Who Should Use It
Dev.to · Yuravolontir 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Leonardo AI Review 2026: Features, Pricing, and Who Should Use It
Leonardo AI: Complete Guide to AI Image Generation with Consistent Characters Leonardo AI...
Ideogram vs DALL-E 3: Which Is Better in 2026?
Dev.to · Tawan Shamsanor 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Ideogram vs DALL-E 3: Which Is Better in 2026?
<!DOCTYPE html> Ideogram vs DALL-E 3: The Ultimate AI Image Generator...
Building a Virtual Fitting Room with OOTDiffusion: What the Papers Don't Tell You
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Building a Virtual Fitting Room with OOTDiffusion: What the Papers Don't Tell You
Building a Virtual Fitting Room with OOTDiffusion: What the Papers Don't Tell You The...
Building a Browser-Based AI Image Upscaler
Dev.to · monkeymore studio 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Building a Browser-Based AI Image Upscaler
Introduction In this article, we'll explore how to implement a powerful browser-based AI...
Building a Browser-Based Image Filter Tool with LUT Color Mapping
Dev.to · monkeymore studio 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Building a Browser-Based Image Filter Tool with LUT Color Mapping
Introduction In this article, we'll explore how to implement a powerful browser-based...