Seedream 5.5 AI Image Generator & Editor

Create with Seedream 5.5 on NovaImage: precise editing across 100 rounds while preserving untouched regions, lifelike lighting and textures, and sharp small text. Use up to 10 reference images and generate in 1K or 2K.

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Created with Seedream 5.5

100-round stable edits, ultra-sharp typography, and lifelike lighting—created with Seedream 5.5 on NovaImage.

AIGreen and purple printmaking poster with the words PRINT PLAY and a person holding a brayer
Bold lettering, hand-drawn notes, and a black-and-white portrait give this printmaking poster its energy.
AIA hand holds clear Seedream lettering above a miniature pool and yellow umbrella
Water-like letters spell out Seedream above a sunlit miniature pool.
AIFrom Seed to Salad infographic with six illustrated gardening steps
A garden infographic uses numbered steps, illustrations, and small labels to tell the story from seed to salad.
AIIllustrated animals raising a sail on a wooden boat inside a sunlit workshop
Sunlight fills a workshop where animal characters raise a sail on a wooden boat.
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Animated still life with a perfume bottle, pomegranate, and flowers against a warm backdrop
A studio still life cycles through different props, including fruit, flowers, and a perfume bottle.
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Animated portrait with changing face paint and accessories
Face paint and accessories change across versions of the same front-facing portrait.

How to Create with Seedream 5.5

Go from a prompt or reference to a production-ready Seedream 5.5 image in four steps.

1

Write a prompt or add references

Describe the image you want, or upload up to 10 reference images and tell Seedream 5.5 what must change—and what must stay pixel-perfect.

2

Choose the format

Pick one of 12 aspect ratios—including auto, 21:9 and 9:21—then select 1K for fast drafts or 2K for sharper finals.

3

Check credits and generate

See the exact credit cost before you start. Generate 1 to 4 Seedream 5.5 images at once; each image runs as its own task.

4

Download or keep editing for 100 rounds

Download the result, or feed it back as the next reference and keep refining—Seedream 5.5 is built for stable multi-turn editing.

Key Features of Seedream 5.5

Seedream 5.5 is ByteDance’s leap for professional visual production: rock-stable multi-turn editing, more realistic images, and dramatically clearer text.

Stable editing across 100 rounds

Stable editing across 100 rounds

Seedream 5.5 preserves unedited regions at the pixel level and eliminates color shifts in those areas. ByteDance demonstrated 100 successive edits on the same image—with far less detail loss and degradation from round to round.

Ultra-accurate small text and dense typography

Ultra-accurate small text and dense typography

Complex character shapes and densely arranged small text render far more accurately in English and Chinese. In ByteDance’s evaluations, severe text errors fell to 0.4% and minor errors to 1.7%—so posters, infographics and newspaper-style layouts stay readable.

More realistic lighting, skin and materials

More realistic lighting, skin and materials

Seedream 5.5 renders natural lighting, finer materials and refined skin texture, cutting excessive gloss and overexposure. ByteDance reports +55.62% image-to-image realism versus Seedream 5.0 Pro—results that look closer to real photographs.

Coherent space when objects move

Coherent space when objects move

Add, replace or rearrange furniture, props and characters—Seedream 5.5 keeps perspective, occlusion and cast shadows consistent with the rest of the scene at every step.

Best Use Cases for Seedream 5.5

ByteDance evaluated Seedream 5.5 across six professional scenarios—e-commerce, marketing, film and TV, gaming, office productivity and fashion design—and reports higher quality scores and usable-output rates than Seedream 5.0 Pro in every category, with more than 2× usable-output rate in film/TV and office.

E-commerce product images

E-commerce product images

Build hero shots and lifestyle sets, then refine backgrounds, props and colors over many rounds while the product identity stays locked in.

Marketing posters and infographics

Marketing posters and infographics

Campaign visuals with dense, legible small text, clear hierarchy and layouts that hold up for ads, decks and social.

Film, TV and game concepts

Film, TV and game concepts

Explore scenes, props and characters with coherent lighting and space—ByteDance reports the largest usable-output gains in film and television.

Fashion design and office visuals

Fashion design and office visuals

Try outfits, fabrics and accessories on the same look, or produce clean, text-rich slides and documents—office productivity also saw more than 2× usable-output rate in ByteDance’s evaluation.

Frequently Asked Questions About Seedream 5.5

Seedream 5.5 is ByteDance Seed’s next-generation image creation model, launched November 2026. Its headline upgrades are 100-round stable multi-turn editing with pixel-level preservation, more realistic lighting, skin and materials, and dramatically clearer text. On NovaImage you can use Seedream 5.5 for both text-to-image and image editing.

Start Creating with Seedream 5.5

Generate lifelike images, nail dense typography, and refine the same shot across 100 stable editing rounds with Seedream 5.5 on NovaImage.

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