5 Open Source Image Editing AI Models

[AnandGupta]

Just read about image AIs

5 Open Source Image Editing AI Models - KDnuggets

From real-time edits to reasoning-driven image transformations, this guide breaks down five open source AI models that are quietly reshaping how images are created and edited.

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I am not into any image work, but know many members are. Can they throw some light in what benefit a layman (in image) like me can do with them ?
Related to B4X development per se.

 

[zed]

Image processing is an extremely complex task; it requires manipulating pixels. Often, you need to check which pixels are adjacent depending on the desired image processing.
Open-source AI image editing models can automatically perform complex transformations (retouching, generation, restoration, intelligent manipulation) that B4X cannot do natively.

B4X is excellent for creating applications, but not for producing or modifying images, even though BitmapCreator is a very good tool.
The models mentioned in the article offer advanced capabilities such as understanding image content, automatic object detection, face recognition, texture recognition, lighting recognition, etc.

B4X is an application development framework. It excels in databases, networking, file management, and business logic.

However, it lacks an advanced image processing engine, intelligent generation or retouching capabilities, or vision or diffusion models. You can resize an image, draw on a canvas, and apply a few simple filters. But there's no intelligent retouching, no generation, and no restoration.

In conclusion, open-source AI image editing models don't replace B4X. They complement B4X.
B4X can create the application, and the AI can intelligently create or modify the images.
It's easy to integrate this kind of functionality into a B4X app.
Simply call an AI model via API, send an image from your app, and retrieve the modified image.

 

[AnandGupta]

Thanks for info. So it is same like other AI but for image. Okay.

Anyone used them and can give info which is better to check ?

 

[zed]

It all depends on what you want to do. These open-source templates don't all have the same purpose.

FLUX.2 [klein] 9B is a lightweight, fast template. Very good for simple editing and local adjustments. Less powerful for complex transformations.

FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo is a more powerful and faster version of FLUX. Very good for creative transformations, style changes, and reconstructions. Perhaps less faithful to exact instructions, but more "artistic."

Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 is an image editing template from the Qwen family (Alibaba). Very good for precise instructions ("change color," "add an object," "delete this"). Often more stable and more faithful to instructions than FLUX templates.

LongCat-Image-Edit specializes in very long images (vertical or horizontal). Perfect for panoramas, comics, and stretched images. Not ideal for standard 1:1 images.

Step1X-Edit-v1p2 is geared towards consistent editing and preserving detail. It's excellent for complex retouching without distorting the image. Often used in professional workflows.

For general, versatile, and reliable use: Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 is probably the one that most often delivers clean, predictable results.

I haven't tried them yet, but I've done a lot of research. The idea is to add a graphics engine to B4X.