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Seedream 4 | The Next Level Image Editing & Generation
Sep 11, 2025
Seedream 4 by Bytedance can generate and edit images, making editing accessible to anyone. Access Seedream 4 and other AI models - https://lanhive.com
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By dance an upgrade to Cedream 3. Meet
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Cedream 4, an image generation and image
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editing model that competes and in some
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cases outperforms models like Google
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Nano Banana or Flax context. Here are
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some of the examples from the official
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release. So you can see from this one
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image, you can generate this multiple
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views and be able to maintain the same
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character. So you can see this character
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here is the same in all the three
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images. Another example I liked is this
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one where I can give it a logo and
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generate other visual assets. And you
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can see the consistence of each one of
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these with the logo. You can also use
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Sidream 4 for style transfer. So you can
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see we have this image and we're able to
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generate all these images in the style
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of the first image which is very good. I
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also love this one where I can get a lot
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of different objects in different images
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and combine them to make one image like
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this one. So you can see every piece
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that is here, every object that is here
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is also there on the photo. So there are
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more examples on the Sidream official
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page which shows the use cases of this
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model. So I decided to try it to see how
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it compares to other reading models. The
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results were interesting. I used Lanhive
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for this test. On Lanhive, you can have
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access to all the best AI models for
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image and video. It is by far the
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cheapest platform and easiest to use.
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I'll read the link in the description.
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So you can just go on create photos and
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once you're here on the model here you
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can click the drop down and you can
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choose from all these models here. So
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we're just going to select Cream 4 and
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we can also choose the aspect ratio that
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we want from here. In here we can put
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our prompt and we can generate our
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image. So for the first one I wanted to
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try out the knowledge generation. This
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model has knowledge about our world. You
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can give it a math problem. it will
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solve it and give it as a photo. You can
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try different charts and timelines and
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it will be able to give you results. So
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in this case I asked it to draw a chart
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that shows the difference between a
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hotel and a motel and this is what it
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generated. So it generated the photo for
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the hotel and the motel and highlighted
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the difference there. Although we can
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see that it's comparing the same things
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but you can see that the icons it used
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are different and the amenities and
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location here in board but room size is
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not but ultimately this is a very good
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result to be able to make this without
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using a photo editing software is very
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good. For the next one I asked it to
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design a book cover and gave it this
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prompt to design a professional book
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cover with a title, the author and the
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number of copies sold. And this is what
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it produced which is very good. You can
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see the colors are good. Everything we
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ask for is here. The design is
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minimalistic but it's very good. In
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comparison you can see what other models
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generated. So you can see that the
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colors for Sidream are vibrant. For Nano
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Banana they look a little bit filtered.
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And for GP image one as usual it has
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that yellow goddish tint that it always
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has. And also this is very plain. These
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two at least have a lot of details which
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is very good. For the next one, I asked
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you to generate a movie post and I gave
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it a very simple prompt. Make a movie
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poster for a movie titled Trapped in
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Time. And this is what it generated. So,
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you can see that this poster is time
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themed from the broken croc here to all
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these that it generated. I personally
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loved this one. It does not have a lot
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of details, but it's themed on time. In
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comparison, this is what other models
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generated. I like this one because it
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has a lot of details, but again, you can
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see this is vibrant. and the colors are
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good. Automatry, each of these models
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did very well. So after image
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generation, I moved on to editing. When
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it comes to image editing, you can just
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go on edit photos. Here you can upload
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the photos that you want to edit. Then
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here you can choose the model to use. So
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I'll go for Cream 4. Then you can
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describe the edits that you want to make
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in the prompt here. For the first edit,
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I gave it these two photos and ask it to
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generate an image of the man and a woman
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talking in an office. This is what it
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generated. I was disappointed. I
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expected something better. In
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comparison, this is what Nano Banana
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generated. So, you can see the
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difference between these two images is
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huge. This one doesn't even look
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realistic, but this one looks very real.
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So, in such a scenario, I think I'd go
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with Nano Banana. For the next edit, I
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gave it a much more complex prompt. So,
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you can see the prompt that is here.
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There's a lot going on in this prompt.
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So, I get this result. Again, I was not
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impressed. I expected something better.
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In comparison, you can see what I got
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with Fra Context Dev. So, you can see
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the two images are miles apart. This is
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far much better than this one. For the
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next one, again, I used a complex
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prompt. You can see again this is a very
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complex one. There's so much going on.
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And this is the result it generated.
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Again, I was not impressed. I expected
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something better. By comparison, you can
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see again what I got from Frags Codex
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Dev. It's far much better than what I
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got here. Then for the last prompt, I
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tried a similar prompt from the one
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shown on the official release page. So I
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had the landhive logo here and I wanted
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to generate different visuals. So you
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can see I gave it this prompt and this
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was supposed to be a three column grid,
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but it didn't follow the prompt. It's
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not very bad, but when you compare it to
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the one I generated with Nano Banana,
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you can see that there's a huge
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difference. Nano Banana here did a far
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better job and follows the prompt. So
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what I learned ultimately is that
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Cedream is a very good model especially
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for image generation and in some cases
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for imaging it does a very good job but
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there are times where it gives very bad
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results and in such cases you have to
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use a different model and that's what
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I've observed generally about all AI
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models is that they have different
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strengths. So what fails in another AI
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model may work best in another one. So
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it's best to try out different models
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depending on what you want to generate.
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If you want to access Cedream 4 and many
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other top AI models, I'll leave the link
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to learnhive in the description below.