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Image & Video AI

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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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Building image & video conversion that never leaves the browser
Dev.to · Ken Lee 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Building image & video conversion that never leaves the browser
How VisualRefiner converts HEIC, compresses images, and transcodes video with no server, no upload,...
I Curated 1,500+ AI Product Photography Prompts. Here's What Actually Works
Dev.to · Gedianming Jeremy 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Curated 1,500+ AI Product Photography Prompts. Here's What Actually Works
Over the past few months I've been building an AI image workspace, and part of that work meant...
I Thought Better Models Would Fix AI Image Editing. I Was Wrong.
Dev.to · Gaven 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Thought Better Models Would Fix AI Image Editing. I Was Wrong.
For a while, I assumed the biggest problem in AI image editing was obvious: the model just wasn’t...
Google Expands Free Gemini Personalized Image Generation to Eligible US Users
Dev.to · Ali Farhat 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Google Expands Free Gemini Personalized Image Generation to Eligible US Users
Google has expanded free personalized image generation in the Gemini app to eligible users in the...
Build an Image-to-Video Shot Planner MCP Server with TypeScript
Dev.to · Thornton Terazes 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Build an Image-to-Video Shot Planner MCP Server with TypeScript
Turning a still image into a convincing short video is usually less about writing a longer prompt and...
I Built a Photo-to-Cross-Stitch Pattern Maker That Runs in Your Browser
Dev.to · 陳小聰 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Built a Photo-to-Cross-Stitch Pattern Maker That Runs in Your Browser
Photo-to-cross-stitch conversion looks like a resizing problem. It is not. A pixelated preview can...
AVIF Format Guide: The Next-Generation Image Compression STD
Dev.to · Uglypear Data 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AVIF Format Guide: The Next-Generation Image Compression STD
Original URL: https://www.uglypear.com/en/blog/avif-format-guide.html What is AVIF? This article...
I Stopped Building "Another Image Converter" and Started Building an Image Processing Suite
Dev.to · Akhouri Anmol Kumar 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Stopped Building "Another Image Converter" and Started Building an Image Processing Suite
Most desktop image tools solve one problem. Some convert images. Some compress them. Some edit...
Designing an AI Photo Restoration Workflow That Feels Trustworthy
Dev.to · Sean 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Designing an AI Photo Restoration Workflow That Feels Trustworthy
Old family photos are emotionally valuable, so an AI restoration tool has to do more than produce a...
How to Convert Images to Buildable Minecraft Pixel Art with Exact Materials
Dev.to · Davis Xie 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to Convert Images to Buildable Minecraft Pixel Art with Exact Materials
title: How to Convert Images to Buildable Minecraft Pixel Art with Exact Materials published: true ...
Can image tokens cost less than text tokens - Explaining Gemini API Image Token Economics
Dev.to · Kushagra Mehrotra 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Can image tokens cost less than text tokens - Explaining Gemini API Image Token Economics
When building multimodal applications with Google Gemini API, understanding how visual inputs are...
How to Turn a Flat AI Image into Editable Layers
Dev.to · lily 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to Turn a Flat AI Image into Editable Layers
AI image generators are excellent at producing a finished picture. The problem starts one step later:...
Image API Selection: A JSON Prompt Contract for a Chat Model
Dev.to · YukiKobayashi880 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Image API Selection: A JSON Prompt Contract for a Chat Model
Short answer: Choose the image generation API whose job lifecycle you can verify, then put a...
WaiT for the Signal: Why Image Generators Should Build the Big Picture Before the Texture
Dev.to · Prabhakar Chaudhary 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
WaiT for the Signal: Why Image Generators Should Build the Big Picture Before the Texture
If you have built with diffusion or flow-matching image models, you have seen the central tension: a...
Image Upload Moderation Beyond Node.js: Classify NSFW and Violence with Multimodal Chat
Dev.to · JamesAnderson121 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Image Upload Moderation Beyond Node.js: Classify NSFW and Violence with Multimodal Chat
Use multimodal chat with a strict JSON schema when your policy needs explainable labels for uploaded...
Best Image Generation API for US/EU SaaS: Node.js REST, Pricing, Safety, Commercial Use
Dev.to · AidenSterling3417 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Best Image Generation API for US/EU SaaS: Node.js REST, Pricing, Safety, Commercial Use
Short answer: For an MVP, I would start with a direct text-to-image REST call, keep the provider...
How I built a local image-to-ASCII converter with TypeScript and Canvas
Dev.to · can4hou6joeng4 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I built a local image-to-ASCII converter with TypeScript and Canvas
Most image-to-ASCII tools begin with the same request: upload your image. That is a poor default for...
I Wrote a Rust Image Compressor That Survives WeChat's Brutal Re-Compression
Dev.to · 星TAP 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Wrote a Rust Image Compressor That Survives WeChat's Brutal Re-Compression
How WeChat/Instagram silently re-compress your photos, and a Rust + mozjpeg tool that fights back with 4:4:4 chroma, CAS sharpening, and a JSON interface for AI
🚀 I Built a Full Image Processing Suite Instead of Another "Image Converter"
Dev.to · Akhouri Anmol Kumar 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
🚀 I Built a Full Image Processing Suite Instead of Another "Image Converter"
Most image tools do one thing. Convert images. Compress images. Resize images. Crop images. I...
AI Landscape Design in 2026: Why the Generative Model Is the Easy Part
Dev.to · Fh Ndiritu 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
AI Landscape Design in 2026: Why the Generative Model Is the Easy Part
If you've used any modern image model, you already know it can redesign a backyard photo into...
Generator Gambar AI Terbaik 2026: Panduan Prompt dan Cara Membuat Visual Menarik Tanpa Skill Desain
Dev.to · Renee 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Generator Gambar AI Terbaik 2026: Panduan Prompt dan Cara Membuat Visual Menarik Tanpa Skill Desain
Mengapa Generator Gambar AI Menjadi Game-Changer di 2026? Jujur saja, banyak dari kita—terutama para...
A Schema for Turning Visual Evidence into Reusable Image Prompts
Dev.to · Vullnetf Kodrat 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
A Schema for Turning Visual Evidence into Reusable Image Prompts
Reverse-engineering an image into a useful prompt is not the same as writing a caption. A caption...
Gemini Expands Personalized Image Generation to Eligible Users Across the U.S.
Dev.to · Ali Farhat 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Gemini Expands Personalized Image Generation to Eligible Users Across the U.S.
Google has expanded personalized image generation in Gemini to eligible users across the United...
What a Portal's Resize Pipeline Actually Does to a Real Estate Listing Photo
Dev.to · casanovalabs 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
What a Portal's Resize Pipeline Actually Does to a Real Estate Listing Photo
Chroma subsampling, resampling kernels and colour-profile handling are where a resize-and-recompress pipeline quietly degrades a photo — the documented sharp/li
Deploying ImgProxy – Process, Resize, Convert Images on the Fly
Dev.to · Sanskriti Harmukh 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Deploying ImgProxy – Process, Resize, Convert Images on the Fly
ImgProxy is an open-source image-processing server — resize, convert, and transform images on the fly...
How to Compress Images in the Browser Without Uploading Them
Dev.to · Tanya 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How to Compress Images in the Browser Without Uploading Them
A screenshot can be 4000 pixels wide even when a page renders it at 900 pixels. Lowering the quality...
Building a Reliable AI Hairstyle Try-On Pipeline
Dev.to · hushuai wang 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Building a Reliable AI Hairstyle Try-On Pipeline
Virtual hairstyle try-on looks like a straightforward image generation task: Upload a...
Building a Reliable Image-to-Structured-Text Pipeline for Web Apps
Dev.to · hushuai wang 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Building a Reliable Image-to-Structured-Text Pipeline for Web Apps
Images are becoming a common input type in modern web applications. Users upload screenshots,...
How AI Removes Watermarks From Images — A Developer's Guide to Image Inpainting
Dev.to · Yu Robin 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How AI Removes Watermarks From Images — A Developer's Guide to Image Inpainting
If you've ever uploaded a photo to an online tool and watched a watermark vanish in seconds, you've...
Face Swap Artifact Guide: Eyes, Hairline, Jaw, Mouth, and Skin
Dev.to · LION ZHANL 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Face Swap Artifact Guide: Eyes, Hairline, Jaw, Mouth, and Skin
A face swap can look acceptable at thumbnail size and fail the moment you zoom in. One eye points in...
How Generative AI Is Moving Beyond Text Generation
Dev.to · Tom Billings 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How Generative AI Is Moving Beyond Text Generation
Generative AI has rapidly evolved from being a tool that primarily generates text into a technology...
Supporting WebP Uploads: 6 Things I Learned While Building an Image Tool
Dev.to · Human Reviews 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Supporting WebP Uploads: 6 Things I Learned While Building an Image Tool
Supporting WebP Uploads in Web Applications: Lessons Learned WebP offers excellent compression, but...
Compressing an image to exactly 50KB in the browser, with no server
Dev.to · Manoj Pathak 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Compressing an image to exactly 50KB in the browser, with no server
Indian government exam portals have a rule that has quietly shaped a lot of my code: your photo must...
AI-powered Image Recognition Tools
Dev.to · Diksha Kakade 🎨 Image & Video AI 3w ago
AI-powered Image Recognition Tools
Introduction to AI-powered image recognition tools has revolutionized the way businesses operate,...
Ultimate Image Processing Toolkit by SECourses
Dev.to · Furkan Gözükara 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Ultimate Image Processing Toolkit by SECourses
Ultimate Image Processing APP Premium by SECourses : Batch Cropping, Zooming In, Resizing,...
OpenCV Blog 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Building the Next Generation of Synthetic Media – OpenCV Live Ep. 218
Join us this week for a presentation titled “Building the Next Generation of Synthetic Media,” where CraftStory’s Victor Erukhimov shows us how generative AI is
How to Convert CCITT data to TIFF image (Tutorial)
Dev.to · IDRSolutions 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
How to Convert CCITT data to TIFF image (Tutorial)
What is CCITT data? CCITT is used to compress black and white image data. Using Huffman...
I Built a 100% Free Image Compressor & Resizer That Never Saves Your Files to Disk
Dev.to · Mudasir ahmed 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built a 100% Free Image Compressor & Resizer That Never Saves Your Files to Disk
Hey DEV Community! 👋 As a Full-Stack Developer with 5+ years of experience building web...
The Future of AI Image Processing Tools
Dev.to · mohamed khi 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Future of AI Image Processing Tools
Discover the latest advancements in AI image processing tools and how they're revolutionizing the way we edit and manipulate images
Identity Consistency Is the Hard Part of Two-Person Image Generation
Dev.to · Mia Tanaka 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Identity Consistency Is the Hard Part of Two-Person Image Generation
Generating one convincing person from a reference photo is close to solved. Generating two specific...
Routing Between Video Models Without Leaking the Abstraction
Dev.to · leojxu 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Routing Between Video Models Without Leaking the Abstraction
If you build on a single video generation model, you will rewrite your integration when it gets...
A State Model for AI Image Workflows That Don't Lose Context
Dev.to · 张文超 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
A State Model for AI Image Workflows That Don't Lose Context
Most AI image interfaces are optimized for one event: submit an input and receive an output. Real...
I turned a photo of my handwriting into a real font, then open-sourced the whole pipeline
Dev.to · Danilo 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I turned a photo of my handwriting into a real font, then open-sourced the whole pipeline
I wrote my alphabet in a spiral notebook, took one photo in dim light, and got an installable TTF out...
How to Change Camera Angle Without Losing Your Background
Dev.to · minhvu0510 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Change Camera Angle Without Losing Your Background
You have one image. You want the same scene from a different angle — say, facing straight at a shelf...
Character consistency isn't a seed trick: a 2-stage image pipeline that actually locks the face
Dev.to · Ryan - building OwnStack 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Character consistency isn't a seed trick: a 2-stage image pipeline that actually locks the face
If you're building an app that generates the same character across many scenes, you've probably hit...
Mage-Flow: How Microsoft Built a 4B-Parameter Image Model That Competes with 32B Models
Dev.to · Prabhakar Chaudhary 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Mage-Flow: How Microsoft Built a 4B-Parameter Image Model That Competes with 32B Models
Mage-Flow: How Microsoft Built a 4B-Parameter Image Model That Competes with 32B...
WebP vs AVIF vs PNG vs JPEG: A Practical Format Guide for 2026
Dev.to · 吴美良 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
WebP vs AVIF vs PNG vs JPEG: A Practical Format Guide for 2026
After spending 2 years building an image compression tool, here's my no-nonsense format guide. ##...
Enhance Your JPG Images with Ellipse Annotations Using Java REST API
Dev.to · Shahzad Ashraf 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Enhance Your JPG Images with Ellipse Annotations Using Java REST API
Adding ellipse annotations to JPG images can be surprisingly straightforward with the right tools....