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Building a Client-Side Image Compressor with Canvas API in Next.js
Dev.to · Shaishav Patel 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Building a Client-Side Image Compressor with Canvas API in Next.js
Building a Client-Side Image Compressor with Canvas API in Next.js Most image compression...
How I Built 20 Browser-Based Image Tools Without a Single Server Upload
Dev.to · Luca Sammarco 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
How I Built 20 Browser-Based Image Tools Without a Single Server Upload
When I started building SammaPix, I had a decision to make: process images on a server like everyone...
How to Generate AI Images, Videos, Music & Speech Programmatically with JavaScript
Dev.to · sebyx07 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
How to Generate AI Images, Videos, Music & Speech Programmatically with JavaScript
Learn how to programmatically generate AI images, videos, music, and text-to-speech in JavaScript and TypeScript. One SDK for 90+ models — like OpenRouter but f
Harbeth: A high performance Metal image & video filter library for Swift
Dev.to · Condy 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Harbeth: A high performance Metal image & video filter library for Swift
Harbeth is a high-performance Swift library focused on GPU-accelerated real-time image processing,...
Generate Images from HTML with One API Call (No Puppeteer Required)
Dev.to · Boehner 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Generate Images from HTML with One API Call (No Puppeteer Required)
Every few months I find myself needing to generate images from HTML — OG cards for a blog, email...
Open-Source Image Geolocation: Netryx & GeoVista Explained
Dev.to · Simon Paxton 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Open-Source Image Geolocation: Netryx & GeoVista Explained
Upload a random street photo, get back GPS coordinates within tens of meters. That’s no longer a...
Gemini + Veo: A Deep Dive into Google’s High-Fidelity Video Generation Pipeline
Dev.to · Jubin Soni 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Gemini + Veo: A Deep Dive into Google’s High-Fidelity Video Generation Pipeline
The landscape of generative AI has shifted rapidly from static content to the temporal dimension....
🌳 Building Realistic 3D Bushes: Optimizing Procedural Generation in NervForge
Dev.to · The Lone Engineer 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
🌳 Building Realistic 3D Bushes: Optimizing Procedural Generation in NervForge
Just published a devlog article on taking NervForge's bush generation from obviously...
I Built a Free Image-to-Prompt Tool That Supports 7 AI Models — Here's How
Dev.to · imagetoprompt 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
I Built a Free Image-to-Prompt Tool That Supports 7 AI Models — Here's How
I Built a Free Image-to-Prompt Tool Try it: imagetoprompt.dev That Supports 7 AI Models — Here's...
Stable Diffusion WebUI vs ComfyUI: Compared
Dev.to · selfhosting.sh 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Stable Diffusion WebUI vs ComfyUI: Compared
Quick Verdict For beginners and casual image generation, Stable Diffusion WebUI...
Benchmarking AI Image Generators: Building an Automated Visual Quality Pipeline
Dev.to · SIKOUTRIS 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Benchmarking AI Image Generators: Building an Automated Visual Quality Pipeline
How do you objectively compare the output of Midjourney, DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion, and Flux? That...
How People Actually Use AI Image Generation: Data from 4,900+ Users
Dev.to · Dylan HUANG 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
How People Actually Use AI Image Generation: Data from 4,900+ Users
Real usage data reveals that 75% of AI image generation is editing, not creation. Analysis of user behavior across 54 countries.
I built a free browser-based image toolkit with JavaScript
Dev.to · Koalla Lab 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
I built a free browser-based image toolkit with JavaScript
I built a free image toolkit that runs entirely in the browser. The goal was simple: create image...
Detecting and Editing Visual Objects with Gemini
Dev.to · Laurent Picard 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
Detecting and Editing Visual Objects with Gemini
A few notes before we start: The complete source code for this article, including future updates,...
🛠️ I Built a One-Click ComfyUI Setup for RTX 5090 on Windows — No WSL2, No Docker
Dev.to · GeneLab_999 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
🛠️ I Built a One-Click ComfyUI Setup for RTX 5090 on Windows — No WSL2, No Docker
I bought an RTX 5090. 32GB VRAM. The most powerful consumer GPU on the planet. Then I tried to run...
Stable Diffusion vs Midjourney vs DALL-E 3: AI Image Generation Compared
Dev.to · arenasbob2024-cell 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
Stable Diffusion vs Midjourney vs DALL-E 3: AI Image Generation Compared
AI image generation has gone from novelty to professional tool in under three years. In 2025, three...
Remove Image Backgrounds in Python with 3 Lines of Code
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
Remove Image Backgrounds in Python with 3 Lines of Code
Remove Image Backgrounds in Python with 3 Lines of Code I built PixelAPI because I was...
Hice una app de escritorio para procesar imágenes — sin nube, sin cuenta, todo local
Dev.to · Norberto Krucheski 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
Hice una app de escritorio para procesar imágenes — sin nube, sin cuenta, todo local
Cada vez que necesitaba convertir una imagen a WebP, redimensionar o sacarle los metadatos EXIF,...
I Built a Privacy-First Image Compressor That Runs 100% in Your Browser
Dev.to · Suat Furkan IŞIK 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
I Built a Privacy-First Image Compressor That Runs 100% in Your Browser
Every image compressor I tried had the same problem: they upload your photos to a server. TinyPNG?...
I Tested Seedance 2.0 vs Sora 2 with Identical Prompts — Here Are the Real Results
Dev.to · EvoLink 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
I Tested Seedance 2.0 vs Sora 2 with Identical Prompts — Here Are the Real Results
Seedance 2.0 vs Sora 2: Real API Tests with Identical Prompts (2026) Most "Seedance vs...
From Static Assets to Dynamic Synthesis: Mastering DALL-E 3 and Vercel AI SDK in Next.js
Dev.to · Programming Central 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
From Static Assets to Dynamic Synthesis: Mastering DALL-E 3 and Vercel AI SDK in Next.js
Imagine a web application where the visuals aren't pre-baked assets sitting on a CDN, but are...
How I Built a Free Image Landscape Converter That Runs Entirely in Your Browser
Dev.to · cai13808519901-cpu 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
How I Built a Free Image Landscape Converter That Runs Entirely in Your Browser
Have you ever needed to quickly convert a portrait photo to landscape format — maybe for a YouTube...
I Built a Free Image Converter That Never Uploads Your Files
Dev.to · Mack 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
I Built a Free Image Converter That Never Uploads Your Files
I Built a Free Image Converter That Never Uploads Your Files Ever used an online image...
Cartoon Universe: How to Teach a Diffusion Model Some Manners
Dev.to · Luca Visciola 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
Cartoon Universe: How to Teach a Diffusion Model Some Manners
Let’s clarify something before we begin. Cartoon Universe is not a model. It is not magic...
🖼️ Build a Batch Image Compression Tool in Python (Tkinter + ttkbootstrap)
Dev.to · Mate Technologies 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
🖼️ Build a Batch Image Compression Tool in Python (Tkinter + ttkbootstrap)
In this tutorial, we’ll build PixelSqueeze, a modern desktop image compression tool using Python. By...
Image Classification with CNNs – Part 4: Dealing with Variations in Input
Dev.to · Rijul Rajesh 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
Image Classification with CNNs – Part 4: Dealing with Variations in Input
In the previous article, we have processed the input through the neural network and predicted the O...
Midjourney Alternative for Professionals
Dev.to · Kristjan Retter 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
Midjourney Alternative for Professionals
Midjourney was one of the first great generative models, and it remains an incredible tool for...
From Pixels to Precision
Dev.to · Zipporah P. 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
From Pixels to Precision
How Algorithmic Insight and Scalable Architecture Turn Noisy SEM Images into Reliable...
Dev 006 - Stable Diffusion, GPU Too Old
Dev.to · James 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
Dev 006 - Stable Diffusion, GPU Too Old
I'm convinced it's just a short time more until we see sprite sheets being generated entirely with...
I rebuilt my old image processing library with Rust + WebAssembly
Dev.to · dnyh2 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
I rebuilt my old image processing library with Rust + WebAssembly
Rebuilding an old browser image library with Rust + WebAssembly I originally started this...
Multimodal Visual Understanding in Swift (aka: "why is this still so hard on-device?")
Dev.to · Timothy Fosteman 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 5mo ago
Multimodal Visual Understanding in Swift (aka: "why is this still so hard on-device?")
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about one thing: how to get good image-to-text...
Real-time, open source, AI video generation is here and here's what you can build with it
Dev.to · Vibor Cipan 🎨 Image & Video AI 5mo ago
Real-time, open source, AI video generation is here and here's what you can build with it
I think that most people think of AI video as "type a prompt, wait 30 seconds, get a clip." Sure,...
Dev 03 - Asset Creation with Photoshop Pattern View
Dev.to · James 🎨 Image & Video AI 5mo ago
Dev 03 - Asset Creation with Photoshop Pattern View
I am still very hopeful that I will be able to utilize Stable Diffusion for more texture generation,...
Dev 02 - Stable Diffusion - Pixel Art
Dev.to · James 🎨 Image & Video AI 5mo ago
Dev 02 - Stable Diffusion - Pixel Art
I spent a day getting Stable Diffusion installed locally so I can use it to generate pixel sprites...
Slashing torch.compile Warmup & LoRA Swapping Times with Pruna
Dev.to · Sara Han 🎨 Image & Video AI 5mo ago
Slashing torch.compile Warmup & LoRA Swapping Times with Pruna
PyTorch introduced torch.compile, a powerful feature that significantly boosts performance by...
How I Use Google Veo 3.1 & Sora API Without Breaking the Bank
Dev.to · Emmanuel Mumba 🎨 Image & Video AI 5mo ago
How I Use Google Veo 3.1 & Sora API Without Breaking the Bank
Working with video APIs can be tricky. Between juggling API keys, figuring out the right endpoints,...
Text-to-LoRA & AReaL: AI Builder Breakthroughs
Dev.to · Dr Hernani Costa 🎨 Image & Video AI 5mo ago
Text-to-LoRA & AReaL: AI Builder Breakthroughs
Text-to-LoRA & AReaL—Two Quiet Breakthroughs Every AI Builder Should Know By Dr....
Stop Using Math.random(): The Art of Deterministic Chaos
Dev.to · Eric 🎨 Image & Video AI 5mo ago
Stop Using Math.random(): The Art of Deterministic Chaos
We are all addicted to randomness. But in generative art, true chaos is actually the enemy. As a...
When Pendulum Physics Becomes Art: Implementing a Pollock-Style Generative Art Generator
Dev.to · usapop 🎨 Image & Video AI 5mo ago
When Pendulum Physics Becomes Art: Implementing a Pollock-Style Generative Art Generator
Clicking the Paint button generates a different pattern each time. The embed above may be...
Why I Still Prefer Sora to Nano Banana for Image Generation
Dev.to · Federico Moretti 🎨 Image & Video AI 5mo ago
Why I Still Prefer Sora to Nano Banana for Image Generation
I’m using AI to create cover images only for blog posts, so I don’t have high expectations. I thought...
Amazing Z-Image Workflow v3.0: Complete Guide to Enhanced ComfyUI Image Generation
Dev.to · Garyvov 🎨 Image & Video AI 5mo ago
Amazing Z-Image Workflow v3.0: Complete Guide to Enhanced ComfyUI Image Generation
The Amazing Z-Image Workflow v3.0 represents a significant advancement in ComfyUI-based image...
Deep Maze Solver
Dev.to · Dinesh Kumar Gnanasekaran 🎨 Image & Video AI 6mo ago
Deep Maze Solver
Introduction A few days ago saw a X Post explaining that diffusion models could be used to...
Building a Video Generation Pipeline with Angular, Veo 3.1, and Firebase Cloud Functions
Dev.to · Connie Leung 🎨 Image & Video AI 6mo ago
Building a Video Generation Pipeline with Angular, Veo 3.1, and Firebase Cloud Functions
Building a Video Generation Pipeline with Angular, Veo 3.1, and Firebase Cloud...
Useful if you're building agents or gateways that need to support image generation with OpenAI-compatible APIs.
Dev.to · Mrunmay 🎨 Image & Video AI 6mo ago
Useful if you're building agents or gateways that need to support image generation with OpenAI-compatible APIs.
Building AI-Powered Image Generation with OpenAI-Compatible...
Building AI-Powered Image Generation with OpenAI-Compatible Responses API
Dev.to · Karolis Gudiškis 🎨 Image & Video AI 6mo ago
Building AI-Powered Image Generation with OpenAI-Compatible Responses API
Building AI-Powered Image Generation with OpenAI-Compatible Responses API ...
Everyone Is Talking About AI Agents — Here’s What They’re Missing
Dev.to · Jefree Sujit 🎨 Image & Video AI 6mo ago
Everyone Is Talking About AI Agents — Here’s What They’re Missing
AI agents are everywhere today. From image generation to content creation, from coding assistants to...
Measuring What Matters: Objective Metrics for Image Generation Assessment
Dev.to · Sara Han 🎨 Image & Video AI 7mo ago
Measuring What Matters: Objective Metrics for Image Generation Assessment
🎊 Announcement: Try our performance models for free, P-image and P-image-Edit, here. Just 1 second...
Thinking Like a Diffusion Model
Dev.to · Andrew Eddie 🎨 Image & Video AI 7mo ago
Thinking Like a Diffusion Model
A reflection on why "vibe coding" works, and what it might teach us about partnering with AI. ...