Seedream 5.5 keeps unedited areas intact across long edits

ByteDance Seed introduced Seedream 5.5, its next image model.

You can keep revising one image while unedited areas stay intact at the pixel level. ByteDance says that holds across 100 rounds of edits. In its demo, 100 successive edits changed clothing, accessories, and objects on the table, and the model could still adjust small objects such as rings and eyeglass frames.

It can also generate images with an alpha channel, including fully transparent and semi-transparent areas, so you can composite them without a separate background-removal step. ByteDance says lighting, materials, and skin look more natural, and small text comes out more accurately.

Seedream 5.5 is coming to Dreamina, CapCut, and BytePlus, with no date yet. A Pro version is planned to follow.