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ChatGPT Images 2.6 - Create, edit, and animate images with AI

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Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, more precise editing, and native GIF creation to ChatGPT, Codex, and the API. Create looping animations, maintain character and product consistency across edits, export SVGs, and control generation complexity.

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Images 2.6 makes it easier to go from an image idea to a finished visual. Generate images faster, make targeted edits, and even turn static images into animated GIFs.

Key features:

  • Faster generation: Create images faster, with Flare generating images in as little as six seconds at low quality.

  • GIF creation: Turn prompts, sketches, and existing images into looping animations.

  • Better consistency: Preserve character appearances, products, and brand details across multiple edits.

  • Two API models: Choose Flare for speed or Sunburst for higher-quality, detailed visual work.

  • Image markup: Point to specific areas of an image and describe exactly what needs to change.

  • SVG export: Generate scalable vector graphics for websites, apps, and print.

  • Complexity controls: Adjust how much planning the model does, separately from image quality.

Who it's for: Designers, marketers, content creators, developers, and businesses creating visual content at scale.

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For SVG you can choose how to split the parts of let's say a character?

The SVG export is the part that caught my eye. I build SwiftUI apps, so being able to generate an asset and then point at a specific area to tweak it — rather than re-prompting the whole image — would save a lot of round-tripping. Curious how clean the exported paths actually are, and whether layers stay editable once it's out as an SVG?

 +1 on clean paths. For web, what matters to me is whether it outputs simple shapes and groups you can animate with CSS, or one giant traced path. Let me know if you test it!

I haven't tried with 2.6 yet, but I've found GPT Image has taken a few really big steps back in terms of Photorealism lately, has anyone else been finding this? Even running API tests against sunburst with 2.5, I was struggling to get stuff that didn't look a bit CG-ish. I have to assume that this is a guard rail rather than intentional.

Has anyone else been finding the same thing? And is this solved in 2.6?

Native GIFs are a big one! 🙌 Do they support transparent backgrounds? I'd love to animate our mascot for our site without redrawing it frame by frame.

Turning static images into looping GIFs is a pretty cool addition. Curious to see how well it works in practice!