[image] OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs Transparent backgrounds are now available in preview for GPT-Image-2 in the API. Generate reusable assets you can place on any background—for product imagery, graphic design, website mockups, and marketing campaigns. pic.x.com/yRhBIYh8uP …

Finally! There are many of us that has been waiting for this:tada:

Touché… well played… it’s about time… :rofl:

Just so you know: I think the record player is on fire - thank me later :+1: (the boy being chased is a really nice vivid demo, thanks!)

This didn’t need a meandering cookbook. One liner: "background":"transparent" is no longer refused by the API with gpt-image-2. Use my existing API AI image editor , where I did not gate the background values by model, to make a “generate” request. Done: [image] Save to PNG, WebP, or GIF file fo…

[image] jeffvpace: Yay, Yay, anywhere that you follow the use cases of the first post here, to create image assets to overlay somewhere, will contaminate the whole of the other imagery with “It’s AI!” watermark detections . [Untitled]

Actually, that was an image edit → transparency. Not quite sure what you are talking about. The image was verified.

What am I talking about? OpenAI uses a SynthID variant to embed AI image identification watermarking into the surface of output imagery. Cookbook’s suggestion: Design-template assets: Generate app icons, stickers, and decorative elements that users can place on any template or background. You …

Sorry, but I quess I’m just simple-minded…

Nice, now we can finally have proper pets! [running-right]

Transparent backgrounds are now available in preview for GPT-Image-2 in the API

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Touché… well played… it’s about time…

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