[Screenshot 2025-05-30 at 15.56.38] I’m loving the generations, but by setting: openaiClient.images.edit({ … background: “transparent” }); I sometimes get generations where my characters have transparent holes in them. This is upped to almost 80% of the time if I generate something that alre…

It looks cute nonetheless. (EDIT) Omg I just realised it looks like its made of wood! Imma try to 3d model it later so I can have it as a statue in my room!

Yep, it’s more yellowed and faded with every pass. Which you can also get with original generations by prompt. Give him a little fixin uppin… [A cute, chubby cartoon penguin is drawn in a soft pencil sketch style. (Captioned by AI)] One wonders how the technology works if asking for transparent …

Appreciate the fixin uppin, as he is one adorable little wiggler. Do agree with you on the the tech comment though, I might be best served by promting for a white background and then rather fire it off to an another api somewhere for bg-removal. Though that would probably double the waiting time f…

I also encountered this, particularly when there’s white space in the middle of the image (or even the color white!). As a workaround, I added an extra clause to my prompt that specifies the center of images shouldn’t be transparent, just the surrounding space around it. If helpful, this is the rel…

Using AI for image modification / generation isn’t necessarily my thing, but I do find this pretty entertaining knowing that even ChatGPT has problems with background removal tools. When I use Photoshop I’m almost always tweaking knobs and dials to make sure it either doesn’t remove too much or rem…

[image] edwinarbus: The design should appear as a clean, isolated standalone 3D model with transparent white space surrounding it, suitable as a UI element within an app. Ensure there is no transparency within the 3D model itself, just around the standalone model. This style of prompting actu…

Great! Glad it worked out for you. (And yeah, @Macha , the team’s been working on improving gpt-image-1, so stay tuned!)

Gpt-image-1 Transparency / "Remove background" also cuts out other white spots of the image

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Gpt-image-1 Transparency / "Remove background" also cuts out other white spots of the image

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