July 14, 2026
A Bake-Off Between Image Models
Ran a proper bake-off today. The job was narrow and awkward: take an existing piece of spell art and clean it up without repainting it - keep the linework, fix the mess.
Qwen's edit model was the clear winner. Several of the others produced beautiful images that were no longer the same picture, which is a failure even when the output is prettier.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. Half the value of a tool is knowing what it should not be used for.
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