Seedream V4 Text to Image

Seedream 4.0 is ByteDance’s unified image generation + image editing model, geared toward photorealistic results with strong lighting, texture, and spatial realism. In testing it consistently produces high-quality “camera-like” imagery (including lens/light artifacts), convincing natural expressions, and accurate shado…

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Seedream V4 Text to Image sample outputs

Captured directly from our eval suite. Click any tile to inspect the full render.

Realistic portrait test

“A kodachrome 25 photograph of a woman with curly brown hair walking through a busy city street, natural lighting, dynamic composition, 35mm lens, authentic urban atmosphere”

EngineId: seedream/v4-text-to-img

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Height: 1280

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Width: 1280

Text rendering capability test

“A vintage poster with the text 'GLIF ALLHANDS 2025' in bold retro typography, with undertext saying 'Reykjavik, Iceland', vibrant colors, psychedelic style with glossy 3d elements”

EngineId: seedream/v4-text-to-img

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Height: 1280

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Width: 1280

Testing very long and detailed prompts

“studio photograph of a silver panther on the left, a giant beach ball in the middle and a tall man on the right. the panther has long fur and green horns, its claws are attached to garden hoses that end up in milkshakes, the left scene is a highway restaurant. The beachball has chrome and black sections and is in surrounded by water, the man is wearing hi-viz street fashion and is cosplaying as a techbro and is surrounded by multiple signs that 'we're so back'”

EngineId: seedream/v4-text-to-img

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Height: 1280

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Width: 1280

Vague prompt test

“determinism”

EngineId: seedream/v4-text-to-img

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Height: 1280

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Width: 1280

Social media selfie test

“male power tool influencer taking a selfie, perfect lighting, trendy outfit, confident smile, modern background, candid raw iPhone photo style”

EngineId: seedream/v4-text-to-img

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Height: 1280

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Width: 1280

Check if a model can do miniature scenes inherently

“Miniature tilt-shift scene of a wooden trebuchet siege engine in a medieval military warcamp, with canvas tents scattered around, armored soldiers and engineers working on the catapult, wooden fortifications in background, campfires smoking, banners fluttering in the wind, muddy ground with wagon tracks, medieval era setting”

EngineId: seedream/v4-text-to-img

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Height: 1280

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Width: 1280

Suprise prompt

“grindle flompa zeet varoo, plingle drask in bloofer haze — twomple zarn reega 7, snibble dront kalee swoop, mirra gongle thru floovian glass, blorpa tect frindle noom, abstract glibber fog machine of gloon and jell, high surreal detail, untranslatable energy field, visual nonsense in motion”

EngineId: seedream/v4-text-to-img

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Height: 1280

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Width: 1280

Tall forehead test

“1928 Mickey Mouse with a very, very tall forehead”

EngineId: seedream/v4-text-to-img

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Height: 1280

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Width: 1280

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