GPT-Image-2.6 Flare
GPT-Image-2.6 Flare is OpenAI's fast image model for generation and editing in interactive workflows. Besides raster images, it generates SVG graphics and animated GIFs from text, and it edits images from marks drawn over them, like a circle around the object to change. A thinking level sets how much it plans before rendering, separate from rendering quality.
Prompting
How to prompt GPT-Image-2.6 Flare: writing a brief it can plan a layout from, rendering readable text in the scene, and choosing a size from its dimension envelope.
Quality and thinking level
How to set the two effort controls on GPT-Image-2.6 Flare: settings.thinkingLevel to plan a layout, settings.quality to render it, and when to lower each one.
Editing images
How to edit images with GPT-Image-2.6 Flare: one source and a written instruction to remove, recolor, add or replace, and several references combined into one image.
Animated GIFs
How to generate looping animated GIFs with GPT-Image-2.6 Flare: prompting for motion, setting frame count and timing with settings.gif, and sizing the frames.
Markup editing
How to point GPT-Image-2.6 Flare at what to edit with a markup layer: building it, circling one item among look-alikes and marking where a new object goes.
SVG output
How to generate editable SVG files with GPT-Image-2.6 Flare: the reference image behind each file, prompting for clean shapes, and picking the author with settings.svg.
Transparent backgrounds
How to generate cut-out assets with GPT-Image-2.6 Flare: settings.background and the formats it needs, prompts that keep edges clean, contact shadows and frosted glass.