Seedream 5 Pro

The design-intelligence flagship for precise edits, layer-aware compositions, multilingual text, and dense visual layouts.

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What Seedream 5 Pro Does Best

Precision Editing

Use a point, lasso, or sketch to guide a targeted edit while keeping the surrounding image context in view. Check the result before relying on it in a final composition.

Layer Separation

Use layer separation to identify and isolate subjects, backgrounds, text, and other elements as part of a structured revision workflow.

Native Multilingual Text

ByteDance says Pro supports in-image text across 10+ languages, including non-Latin scripts. Our one-run poster documents both successes and errors, so proofread generated text before publishing.

Dense Layouts & Infographics

Plan and render complex information layouts — charts, diagrams, multi-panel compositions, packed posters — that stay coherent and legible instead of dissolving into noise.

Five prompts, five first outputs

These five prompts are fixed in the page manifest. Each card shows the first reviewed output from its exact prompt, with notes limited to what is visible in that file.

After Midnight

A portrait-format fictional fashion campaign beneath an elevated train at midnight.

Seedream 5 Pro9:16

A shaved-head adult-presenting fashion model in chrome shoulder armor and a black bodysuit stands on a wet red-and-cyan-lit street beneath an elevated rail structure.

First output: the adult-presenting subject, shaved head, freckles, eyebrow scar, chrome shoulders, red-and-cyan wet-street lighting, and two natural-looking hands are clear. The opaque bodysuit covers the chest and pelvis beneath a sheer floor-length train, but no train carriage is visible under the elevated structure.

Exact prompt

A vertical 9:16 luxury fashion campaign for a fictional independent label. One fictional adult model, age 29, full body, standing beneath a rain-slick elevated train at midnight. She has a shaved head, visible freckles, a small healed eyebrow scar, and wears sculptural chrome shoulder armor over an opaque ink-black silk bodysuit with a long translucent organza train; chest and pelvis fully covered. Both hands fully visible with natural anatomy. Wet pavement reflects deep crimson signage and cold cyan streetlight. 50mm editorial photography, believable skin texture, restrained film grain, confident direct gaze, high-fashion composition, no legible text, no logos, no celebrity likeness, no explicit nudity.

Skin of the Future

A square fine-art portrait built around translucent resin, organza, body paint, and gold leaf.

Seedream 5 Pro1:1

An adult-presenting subject in cobalt coverage poses in side profile behind rippled resin and billowing ivory organza with gold contour lines across the back.

First output: an adult-presenting subject appears in side profile behind rippled resin and flowing ivory organza, with cobalt coverage, gold contour lines, and a prominent five-finger hand. The gold reads as fine linework rather than literal leaf, and a second hand is faintly visible.

Exact prompt

A square 1:1 contemporary gallery portrait of one fictional androgynous adult dancer, age 34, posed behind rippled translucent resin and suspended sheets of ivory organza. Bare shoulders, upper back, and legs are visible; opaque cobalt body paint and sculptural fabric panels fully cover the chest and pelvis. Thin gold leaf traces the shoulder blades like a topographic map. Side profile, calm expression, one hand pressed against the resin with five natural fingers visible. Museum-grade fine-art photography, soft hard-edged shadows, mineral palette, tactile skin and fabric detail, mature and provocative but non-sexual, no visible nipples or genitals, no text, no logos, no celebrity likeness.

ORBITAL / 07

A landscape product-launch board for a fictional watch, exploded components, and specified typography.

Seedream 5 Pro16:9

A black-and-copper ORBITAL 07 watch launch board with exact headline and specification text beside labeled core, bezel, and strap components.

First output: every requested headline, subhead, component label, and specification line is legible and exact in a clear black-and-copper launch board. The assembled watch has an unusually busy three-control case side, but the product and exploded-component hierarchy remain coherent.

Exact prompt

A premium 16:9 product-launch board for a fictional modular wearable named "ORBITAL / 07". Exact headline: "ORBITAL / 07". Exact subhead: "ADAPTIVE FIELD WATCH". Center a photoreal black-ceramic watch with a luminous copper inner ring. To the right, show three clean exploded components labeled exactly "01 CORE", "02 BEZEL", and "03 STRAP". Along the bottom, include one compact specification strip with the exact text "72H POWER · 10 ATM · TITANIUM" and "AVAILABLE 07.18". Matte obsidian background, burnished copper accents, strict Swiss editorial grid, generous negative space, crisp small text, no logos other than the fictional ORBITAL / 07 wordmark.

Cathedral of Noise

A square album-cover concept with a biomechanical cathedral, lightning, and restrained title typography.

Seedream 5 Pro1:1

An album cover titled CATHEDRAL OF NOISE shows an obsidian-and-bronze cathedral under white lightning with a tiny red figure at its entrance.

First output: the exact title and artist name frame an obsidian-and-bronze cathedral under white lightning, with the tiny red figure providing scale. The forms remain architectural rather than anatomical, with no gore or borrowed character.

Exact prompt

A square 1:1 album cover for a fictional experimental record. Exact title: "CATHEDRAL OF NOISE". Exact artist name: "VANTA CHOIR". A colossal biomechanical cathedral rises from a black salt flat during an electrical storm; its arches are made from polished obsidian, bronze resonators, and translucent membranes, architectural rather than anatomical. One tiny red-cloaked figure stands at the entrance for scale. Integrate the title as restrained monumental typography across the upper third and the artist name as a small line at the bottom. Radical contemporary album design, deep blacks, oxidized bronze, violent white lightning, tactile print grain, no gore, no existing logos, no copyrighted characters.

Tidal City 2089

A landscape architectural concept for a climate-adaptive floating district built around a tidal turbine.

Seedream 5 Pro16:9

A storm-ringed floating district surrounds a luminous tidal turbine beyond a wet garden promenade with cyclists and two orange-suited figures.

First output: a luminous tidal turbine anchors a layered floating district with a greenhouse bridge, gardens, cyclists, wet reflections, and exactly two orange-suited figures. Several circular built and water bands make the requested three-ring count less literal, while the cutaway systems are visible only at small scale.

Exact prompt

A cinematic 16:9 architectural visualization titled only by its visual concept, with no written text: a climate-adaptive floating district in the year 2089, built as three concentric inhabited rings around a luminous tidal turbine. Foreground: a wet public promenade with gardens, cyclists, and two adult engineers in orange pressure suits seen from behind. Midground: a transparent greenhouse bridge crossing left to right between timber towers. Background: a storm wall over the ocean split by one shaft of warm sunlight. Include a coherent cutaway through one ring showing homes, transit, water storage, and public gardens. Physically believable scale, weather, reflections, and structural connections; premium film and architecture concept art; no text, no logos.

One Image, Many Languages

ByteDance says the model supports in-image text across 10+ languages, including right-to-left Arabic. That broader maker claim is not what this single run verifies; below we report only the six-line poster we generated and inspected.

On 2026-07-16, we generated this poster once with Seedream 5 Pro at 2048×2048. It contains the same greeting in six languages; we did not regenerate for quality.

What the one run actually produced

4 of 6 lines were exact: English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and French. The Arabic words were joined and right-to-left, but the embedded Latin brand appeared as ‘Studio Seedream’ with misplaced punctuation. Hindi rendered मे instead of में—the anusvara was missing—while the स्व conjunct remained legible.

This is one dated prompt and output, not proof of universal language accuracy. Treat generated in-image text as draft artwork and proofread it.

One-run multilingual poster: English, Chinese, Spanish, and French are exact; Arabic reverses the Latin brand order, and Hindi omits the anusvara in में.

Five edits, compared directly

Drag each comparison to inspect the approved source and result. Every card includes the exact registry prompt and bounded notes about what is visible.

Open closed eyes

A targeted change in a couple's park portrait.

After edit: the park portrait with the woman's eyes openBefore edit: a couple's park portrait with the woman's eyes closed
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The woman's eyes are opened while the couple and park remain recognizably consistent.

This visual comparison does not establish mathematical identity preservation or prove that every detail is unchanged.

Exact prompt

In the uploaded group photo, detect every person whose eyes are fully or partially closed and open only those eyes. Preserve each person's original eye shape, eyelid crease, iris color, pupil size, gaze direction, and the lighting on their face. Keep all facial structure, expression, skin texture, pores, hairstyle, head tilt, and camera angle exactly as they are. Do not remove eyeglasses, reflections, or shadows. Do not add, remove, or reposition any person. Do not enlarge, brighten, or sharpen the eyes beyond what matches the rest of the face. The final image must look like a single real photograph taken at the same moment, with everyone's eyes naturally open and consistent with the original scene

Remove background people

A street photograph with a central subject and a crowded crossing behind her.

After edit: the woman in front of a synthesized empty crossingBefore edit: a woman standing in front of a crowded street crossing
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The crowd is removed, and a plausible empty crossing is synthesized in its place.

The reconstructed crossing is a generated interpretation, not a recovery of the hidden background.

Exact prompt

Remove all people in the background of the uploaded image. Preserve the main subject exactly. Do not change the subject's face, body, clothing, pose, or expression. Reconstruct the background naturally where the people were removed, matching the original location, architecture, lighting, shadows, and depth. Do not crop, blur, or stylize. The result must look as if the photo had originally been taken without people in the background.

Add golden-hour light

A portrait relit with a warmer color atmosphere.

After edit: the portrait with warmer directional light and changed color contrastBefore edit: a portrait in cooler, flatter light
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The result adds warmer directional light and also changes saturation and contrast.

The comparison does not isolate lighting as the only change.

Exact prompt

Front-side sunlight, fully preserving every original detail of the photo without changes, except for the lighting and the color atmosphere. Enhance loose strands of hair against the backlight. Strengthen facial definition with a high-detail scale enhancement without altering the features. Strict rule: Do not change the face, hair, or background structure of the subject. Do not change the composition.

Change the expression

A portrait edit requested to change only the facial expression.

After edit: the indoor portrait with a subtle closed-mouth smileBefore edit: an indoor portrait with a neutral expression
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The neutral expression becomes a subtle closed-mouth smile while the framing, room, hair, and clothing remain visibly consistent.

Visible consistency is not a mathematical identity guarantee; smaller facial details may have been reconstructed.

Exact prompt

Change the facial expression of the person in this photo to SMILING. Keep the person's identity, age, bone structure, face shape, eye shape, nose, lips, and jawline exactly as in the original. Preserve skin texture, pores, freckles, moles, facial hair, and hairstyle. Adjust only the muscles involved in the new expression — mouth, cheeks, eyes, and eyebrows — so the change looks anatomically natural. If the expression involves a smile or laugh, show teeth only if appropriate and keep them consistent with the person's real teeth shape and color. Preserve the original lighting direction, shadows, skin tone, and color grading. Do not change the head position, pose, gaze direction, clothing, or background. The result must look like a real photo of the same person captured a moment later with a different expression.

Restore a damaged photo

A portrait-format comparison of a creased and cracked archival photograph and its edited result.

After edit: a plausible restoration with cracks and folds removedBefore edit: a damaged portrait photograph with cracks and folds
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Cracks and folds are removed, and missing detail is reconstructed into a plausible restoration.

“32k” appears only in the quoted prompt; it is not a measured output resolution or proof of historical accuracy.

Exact prompt

Restore this photo with period-accurate techniques, addressing any age-related issues it may have, such as blurring, damage, fading, scratches, tears, folds, worn-out areas, or being in black and white. First, analyze the image to identify the approximate era and original photographic process to ensure a historically accurate restoration. Make it look fresh and clear by gently sharpening soft edges and facial features without overdoing it, smoothing out grainy spots or noise if present, and reconstructing missing parts with realistic textures that match the original. If color is added or absent, bring the image naturally and vibrantly but true to the era's photographic technology without looking artificial; balance colors to match natural lighting, adjust brightness and contrast so everything pops nicely, and maintain original tonality. Add subtle details to faces, objects, or backgrounds that might have been lost, like fine lines in clothing, lifelike skin textures, or small elements in the scenery, while keeping the overall feel authentic, preserving natural grain patterns, and not changing the composition. Ensure the whole image is balanced, with no harsh shadows or washed-out areas, remove technical defects with a respecting the nostalg charm and exposure qualities of the time. Finally, upscale it to a higher resolution like Full HD 32k for clarity, outputting in a photo-realistic style that looks like a professionally restored or recent high-qua photo.

Frequently Asked Questions

Seedream 5 Pro is built for design-heavy image work: structured layouts, in-image text, layer separation, and precise changes guided by points, lassos, or sketches.

Use it for campaign imagery, product-launch boards, editorial portraits, album artwork, architecture concepts, infographics, and other compositions where hierarchy and controlled detail matter.

Yes. You can describe a targeted change or guide it with a point, lasso, or sketch. The examples on this page show the exact prompts beside their before-and-after results.

Yes. We publish the exact prompt for every example and describe only what is visible in that specific result. Generated showcase images use one output each, without quality reruns.

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