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Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, DALL-E, Sora, ControlNet and AI video generation

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WebP's Compression Secret: How a 1MB PNG Becomes a 200KB WebP
Dev.to · swift king 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4d 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 4d 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...
When rotating an image isn't actually rotating an image
Dev.to · Javonn 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 5d 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...
How to Automate Image Compression with an API: A Node.js & PHP Guide
Dev.to · Roman Klymenko 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1w 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
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.
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,...
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...
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...
Image Captioning API: Auto-Generate Alt Text and Descriptions
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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: Six Approaches, One Decision
Dev.to · Atlas Cloud 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo 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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Stop One User From Hogging Your Laravel Queue
Dev.to · Yan Gus 🎨 Image & Video AI 3mo ago
Stop One User From Hogging Your Laravel Queue
The Problem I Ran Into I was building an AI image generation service. Users submit...
How I Built a Chrome Extension to Automate Grok AI Video Generation
Dev.to · Tomson Lee 🎨 Image & Video AI 3mo ago
How I Built a Chrome Extension to Automate Grok AI Video Generation
If you've used Grok AI for image and video generation, you've probably hit the same frustrations I...
Stable Diffusion WebUI vs ComfyUI: Compared
Dev.to · selfhosting.sh 🎨 Image & Video AI 3mo ago
Stable Diffusion WebUI vs ComfyUI: Compared
Quick Verdict For beginners and casual image generation, Stable Diffusion WebUI...
Comparing AI Video Generators at Scale: Latency, Quality, and Cost Tradeoffs
Dev.to · SIKOUTRIS 🎨 Image & Video AI 3mo ago
Comparing AI Video Generators at Scale: Latency, Quality, and Cost Tradeoffs
AI video generation went from a novelty to a legitimate production tool in 2025. Sora, Runway Gen-3,...
Benchmarking AI Image Generators: Building an Automated Visual Quality Pipeline
Dev.to · SIKOUTRIS 🎨 Image & Video AI 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...
Prompt to Video App API
Dev.to · shrey vijayvargiya 🎨 Image & Video AI 3mo ago
Prompt to Video App API
Prompt to Video App Building AI video generation app Tags: Remotion, Honojs, Nextjs,...
How People Actually Use AI Image Generation: Data from 4,900+ Users
Dev.to · Dylan HUANG 🎨 Image & Video AI 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.
LoRA and FT Are Unnecessary: How to Approach Distilled Models
Dev.to · soy 🎨 Image & Video AI 3mo ago
LoRA and FT Are Unnecessary: How to Approach Distilled Models
Introduction Fine-tuning (FT) a distilled model is either ineffective or leads to...
How I Built an AI Image Generation Platform That Reached 48K+ Users
Dev.to · Adib Ghamri 🎨 Image & Video AI 3mo ago
How I Built an AI Image Generation Platform That Reached 48K+ Users
Every developer dreams of building something that takes off. For me, that dream became NanoGenArt —...
How to Copy Any Pose in ComfyUI and Fix AI Skin
Dev.to · Esha Sharma 🎨 Image & Video AI 3mo ago
How to Copy Any Pose in ComfyUI and Fix AI Skin
This is a summarized guide. For the full JSON workflow and download files, check the original...
Hunyuan Video 720p on RTX 3090: Full On-Premise AI Media Pipeline E2E
Dev.to · Jörg Fuchs 🎨 Image & Video AI 3mo ago
Hunyuan Video 720p on RTX 3090: Full On-Premise AI Media Pipeline E2E
Running AI video generation on consumer hardware - here is our full E2E pipeline that generates...
🛠️ 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...
Mini Tip of the Day - Preloading the License into the Docker IRIS Image
Dev.to · InterSystems Developer 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
Mini Tip of the Day - Preloading the License into the Docker IRIS Image
Who hasn't been developing a beautiful example using a Docker IRIS image and had the image generation...
How to automate OG image generation for every blog post
Dev.to · Custodia-Admin 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
How to automate OG image generation for every blog post
Generate unique Open Graph images for every blog post automatically using PageBolt API — no design tool needed.
# 🧬 Math as an Organism: Why Generative Art Beats Grinding DSA
Dev.to · Vinay Daggupati 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
# 🧬 Math as an Organism: Why Generative Art Beats Grinding DSA
There’s something truly magical about watching mathematics come to life. Not in a dusty classroom or...
Tiny Diffusion
Dev.to · Unica2804 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
Tiny Diffusion
Have you ever wondered how the diffusion model works? I also wondered about it for a long time. It's...
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...
Automate OG Image Generation for Your Website (No Design Skills Needed)
Dev.to · GrabShot 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
Automate OG Image Generation for Your Website (No Design Skills Needed)
Every time you share a link on Twitter, Slack, or Discord, the preview image matters. A good OG image...
From Static Assets to Dynamic Synthesis: Mastering DALL-E 3 and Vercel AI SDK in Next.js
Dev.to · Programming Central 🎨 Image & Video AI 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...
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...
Neural bicameral LoRA Decoupling logic style
Dev.to · Thyago Carvalho 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
Neural bicameral LoRA Decoupling logic style
1. The Era of the Generalist Giant In the current landscape of AI, we rely heavily on...
Day 4: Generating Animated GIFs with Go 🎨
Dev.to · Rohan Nilatkar 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
Day 4: Generating Animated GIFs with Go 🎨
Today’s focus in my Go journey was moving beyond the console and into binary image generation. I’ve...
6 Pitfalls of Dynamic OG Image Generation on Cloudflare Workers (Satori + resvg-wasm)
Dev.to · DeVoresyah ArEst 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
6 Pitfalls of Dynamic OG Image Generation on Cloudflare Workers (Satori + resvg-wasm)
A deep-dive into the real issues we hit generating dynamic Open Graph images on Cloudflare Workers with Satori and resvg-wasm — and how we solved each one.
Seedance 2.0: How ByteDance's Dual-Branch Architecture Changes AI Video Generation
Dev.to · Jessie J 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
Seedance 2.0: How ByteDance's Dual-Branch Architecture Changes AI Video Generation
ByteDance released Seedance 2.0 in February 2026, and its architecture makes some genuinely...
Midjourney Alternative for Professionals
Dev.to · Kristjan Retter 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
Midjourney Alternative for Professionals
Midjourney was one of the first great generative models, and it remains an incredible tool for...
Inside the Prompt Black Markets: The Underground Trade of Proprietary Prompts for Midjourney, GPTs, and DALL-E 3
Dev.to · VelocityAI 🎨 Image & Video AI 4mo ago
Inside the Prompt Black Markets: The Underground Trade of Proprietary Prompts for Midjourney, GPTs, and DALL-E 3
You've seen the images. They're stunning, hyper-specific, and unlike anything you can generate with...
Dev 006 - Stable Diffusion, GPU Too Old
Dev.to · James 🎨 Image & Video AI 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...
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 4mo 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...