GPT Image 2.5 AI Image Generator

Sample prompts to try with GPT Image 2.5

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  Cartographer's desk flat lay

  Top-down flat lay of a cartographer's desk on a worn walnut surface. Arranged in a tidy grid: a hand-inked coastline map with no lettering, a brass compass, a pair of steel dividers, three sharpened pencils of different lengths, a magnifying glass, a small pot of indigo ink, a folded linen napkin, and a white cup of black tea casting a round shadow. Soft diffused daylight from the top left, subtle paper texture, muted ochre, indigo and cream palette, crisp focus edge to edge, editorial still-life photography.

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  Botanist in a Victorian glasshouse

  A botanist in a heavy canvas apron and rolled shirt sleeves repotting a young fern inside a tall Victorian glasshouse. White-painted iron ribs arc overhead, staghorn ferns hang in wire baskets, a row of numbered clay pots sits on a slatted bench, and a watering can with a copper spout rests at her feet. Soft overcast light filters through fogged glass panes, humid haze in the air, green and weathered white palette with a touch of rust. Medium shot at 50mm, natural skin texture, calm documentary mood.

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  Vintage dining car at dusk

  Interior of a mid-century train dining car at dusk, empty and ready for service. Tables on both sides are set with white linen, folded napkins, heavy silverware, small brass table lamps with pleated shades glowing warm, and a single orange tulip in a bud vase on each table. Through the windows, a motion-blurred landscape of golden fields and a pink-violet sky. Walnut veneer walls, burgundy velvet seats, one-point perspective down the aisle, 24mm lens, warm tungsten against cool dusk, cinematic and precise.

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  Spiral library staircase

  Looking straight up the center of a tall cylindrical library where a white stone spiral staircase winds past curved walls of bookshelves. Books with plain cloth spines in muted greens, ochres and greys, a rolling brass ladder, small reading niches with green lamps, and a round skylight at the top pouring soft daylight down the well. Strong spiral composition, ultra-wide 16mm lens, crisp architectural detail, calm and luminous.

Sample images are illustrative; results vary by model.

What GPT Image 2.5 does well

Complex instructions, every detail kept

GPT Image 2.5 handles long, specific prompts without dropping items. The breakfast counter sample asks for seven objects in a fixed order from left to right, from a carafe of orange juice and a colander of lemons to a soft-boiled egg, a dish of butter and a sprig of rosemary, plus a sage tiled wall with three copper pans. Each one is in place and countable. OpenAI's guide suggests organising a prompt like this into labelled parts for scene, subject, details and constraints, which gives the model a checklist to work through.

A marble breakfast counter photographed straight on, with exactly these items in this order from left to right: a glass carafe of orange juice, a blue enamel colander holding five lemons, a wooden board with a sliced loaf of sourdough, a single soft-boiled egg in a yellow egg cup, a small ceramic dish of butter with a knife resting on it, a stack of two white plates, and a sprig of rosemary in a narrow glass bottle. Behind the counter, a sage green tiled wall with one open shelf holding three copper pans. Morning sun from the right casting crisp long shadows, 50mm lens, editorial food styling, every item clearly separated and countable.

Same object across revisions

OpenAI names subject preservation as a main improvement in both versions. The kettle lineup keeps the same round body, wooden handle, spout angle and soft top light in all four copies, and only the enamel colour moves from sky blue to matte black. The same behaviour applies to a real product: upload a photo, ask for a new colour or a new setting, and state what must stay fixed. OpenAI still advises restating those fixed details in every round of edits and checking each result against the one before.

A studio product lineup of the same round stovetop kettle shown four times side by side on a continuous pale grey sweep, identical shape, identical wooden handle, identical spout angle and identical soft top light. Only the enamel color changes from left to right: sky blue, mustard yellow, forest green, matte black. Each kettle casts the same soft shadow, reflections consistent across all four. Clean catalog composition with even spacing, 85mm lens, high-end industrial design photography.

Image and type in one layout

OpenAI says GPT Image 2.5 improves layout and infographic accuracy, and it treats a page as a design rather than a picture with words laid on top. In the sample, a magazine spread pairs a full-bleed photo of a speckled ceramic tea bowl with the single word SLOW in large serif capitals and grey lines standing in for body copy. For layouts, give the exact wording in quotes, the typeface style and where each block sits, and ask for no other text so the model does not invent captions.

A printed magazine spread lying flat on a linen tablecloth, seen from slightly above. The left page is a full-bleed photograph of a hand-thrown speckled ceramic bowl filled with dark tea, the right page is mostly cream paper with the single word "SLOW" set in large elegant black serif capitals near the top, and neat grey horizontal lines below it standing in for body copy. A folded corner, soft paper texture, gentle window light from the left, terracotta and cream palette, crisp typography, premium editorial design.

GPT Image 2.5 specs and pricing

Every price below comes from the live price list, so it changes here as soon as rates change. Credits are charged per image, or per second of video.