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> Though fair warning, gpt-image-1 is borderline useless as an "editor" since it almost always changes the whole image instead of doing localized inpainting-style edits like Kontext, Qwen, or Nano-Banana.

Came into this thread looking for this post. It's a great way to compare prompt adherence across models. Have you considered adding editing capabilities in a similar way given the recent trend of inpainting-style prompting?

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Adding a separate section for image editing capabilities is a great idea.

I've done some experimentation with Qwen and Kontext and been pretty impressed, but it would be nice to see some side by sides now that we have essentially three models that are capable of highly localized in-painting without affecting the rest of the image.

https://mordenstar.com/blog/edits-with-kontext

For editing prompts testing it is best to start with “only change …” to prevent model from changing everything. Even Nano banana does that.

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