I've been using GPT Image 2 all week — here's what it's actually good for

Welcome back to Visually AI!

Today’s reading time is 4 minutes.

In today’s edition:

• GPT Image 2 Launch

• Storyboard to Animation: a real workflow using GPT Image 2 + Seedance 2.0

• Cyperpunk RPG Workflow

• Image & Video Prompts

Text rendering — finally works. Multilingual, inside the image, near-accurate. If you’ve ever needed a sign, label, poster, or UI element rendered in the image itself, this is the first time it’s reliably usable.

Instruction following — it actually does what you say. Complex layouts, specific compositions, precise edits. Less fighting the model to get what you described.

4K resolution — high-fidelity output for the first time via the API. Useful if you’re building content for large-format or print.

Reasoning before rendering — the model plans before it generates. The result is more consistent outputs on complex prompts.

Side note: DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 are both being retired on May 12, 2026. If you’re using those via the API, you’ll need to migrate.

For visual creators, the text rendering alone has been a massive boost. Mockups, branded visuals, title cards, and graphic design-adjacent work are now firmly in reach.

This is something I’ve been testing out over the past few days, and the results are worth sharing. You may have seen this on social media.

The core idea: use GPT Image 2 to generate your storyboard frame first including locked compositions, consistent style, defined scene logic, audio. Then add the image to Seedance 2.0 to bring them to life.

The workflow:

1. Build your storyboard in GPT Image 2. Lay out your full sequence as a single image. Panel order, composition, lighting. Think like a director: establishing shot, mid shot, close-up.

2. Feed the storyboard into Seedance 2.0 as your single reference image.

3. Write your motion prompt to animate storyboard as a continuous piece.

The result:

Here is a second result:

Psst, a new Image Model may be coming soon!

Here is another workflow you can use based off the previous one. My goal here was to build a cyberpunk RPG with the loadout as my real AI stack.

GPT Image 2 → four game UI screens (start menu, tool loadout, preset selector, in-world reveal)

Seedance 2.0 → animated clips with UI interactions and fade transitions

DaVinci Resolve → sequenced and edited into a single piece

Full result:

Prompt: Generate a vibrant anti-inflammatory smoothie campaign poster featuring four tall glasses arranged in a diagonal line. From left to right: golden turmeric mango lassi, deep green spinach spirulina blend, bright pink beet ginger shot in a small glass, and creamy purple açaí blueberry smoothie. Each glass has visible condensation droplets, fresh ingredient garnishes on the rim, and a small floating label beneath it showing key benefits in clean sans-serif type: “Anti-inflammatory,” “Gut health,” “Energy boost,” “Antioxidant rich.” Background is a soft gradient from warm sunrise gold to cool mint. Top header reads “DRINK YOUR MEDICINE” in bold condensed uppercase. Bottom strip shows a clean icon row: no added sugar, plant-based, cold-pressed, gluten-free. Bright natural backlighting creating translucent glow through the liquids, commercial beverage photography, high-end wellness brand aesthetic, landscape 16:9 format.

Prompt: A high-end fashion editorial shot on 120mm medium format film. A hyper-realistic, monumentally oversized bright orange nylon puffer jacket, the size of a two-story building, is draped casually over a brutalist concrete bus stop in a bleak, overcast Icelandic landscape. The jacket’s material features intricate micro-wrinkles, matte reflections, and heavy, realistic sagging under its own impossible weight. A single human figure in a sharp, tailored black suit stands beneath the bus stop shelter, providing stark scale contrast. The lighting is diffused, soft, and cinematic, casting deep, realistic shadows in the folds of the nylon. Muted color palette with the orange serving as the sole vibrant focal point. Film grain, subtle halation, hyper-detailed textures.

Prompt: Woman at tactical command vehicle console grips joystick, eating ration bar while screens flicker with tactical data. City lights streak past windows at speed. Locked-off wide interior shot, slight camera vibration from road. Warm amber panel glow against cool exterior blur.

I’ve had some amazing opportunities to work on a variety of projects recently, and I don’t share everything in this newsletter or online. And you know I love testing tools to share.

Take a look at my portfolio to get a quick glimpse of my work:

EXPLORE MY PORTFOLIO

• GPT Image 2

• Capcut - Dreamina Seedance 2.0

• Happy Horse

• Glaido AI Voice Dictation

Thank you for reading.

I hope you have a creative week!

Heather Cooper