Ideogram 4.5
Make the first image
Start from a written prompt, or add up to 5 reference images. Pick low, medium or high quality and make up to 4 images at a time.
Image model by Ideogram
Edit an image with Ideogram 4.5
Ideogram 4.5
Edit the same picture over and over, and the parts you didn't mention stay put. Drag through eight edits to one café front, each started from the one before.
Original
The original
Made with Ideogram 4.5 from a written prompt.
The prompt for this step
Street photograph of a small corner bakery-café on a cobbled street in Lisbon, mid-morning. The shopfront has a deep bottle-green painted fascia with a hand-painted gold sign that reads "LUMEN" in large serif capitals, and below it, smaller, "BAKERY & COFFEE". Blue-and-white patterned tiles cover the wall beside the door. A cream-and-green striped awning shades two small marble bistro tables with iron chairs. A wooden chalkboard stands by the door, blank. Tall windows show shelves of pastries inside. Soft warm sunlight, straight-on eye-level view of the whole shopfront, realistic detail. No people.
What each edit touched
We compared every step with the one before it, pixel by pixel. Highlighted areas moved by more than 10%. After all eight edits, about 11% of the café differed from the original, and the eight changes we asked for make up most of it.
All edits made with Ideogram 4.5 Precise Edit on Predis.ai on October 27, 2026, at medium quality. The change maps are our own comparison of the files.
Two models, one job each
Ideogram 4.5 Precise Edit
Change one thing in it
Give it the image to change plus up to 4 reference images, and describe the edit in a sentence. Quality runs from very low to high.
Where it missed
The right words, the wrong sign
For a ninth edit we asked for new chalk text on the board by the window. Ideogram rewrote the gold sign above the door instead, turning its letters white and adding "10 ANOS", and left the board as it was.
The prompt
On the chalkboard in front of the right-hand window, replace the chalk text with "OBRIGADO, LISBOA" on the first line and "10 ANOS" on the second line, in the same neat white chalk lettering. Change nothing else.
Point at a unique spot
With two signs in the frame, the edit went to the wrong one. Name something only one object has, such as "the A-frame board on the pavement".
Placement is approximate
The geraniums landed in front of the window, not under it, and the baguettes missed the bike's basket. Check where things go.
Text edits can spread
Our first chalk edit also made a faint pass over the main sign. Look at nearby lettering after any text edit.
Drift adds up slowly
Each edit left the rest of the picture nearly untouched, but small changes still pile up over many rounds. Compare your latest version with the original every few edits.
Ideogram 4.5 questions
What is Ideogram 4.5?
It's Ideogram's image model, released on September 30, 2026, which Ideogram calls its most precise edit model. On Predis.ai it comes in two parts: Ideogram 4.5 makes images from text or up to 5 reference images, and Ideogram 4.5 Precise Edit changes one part of an image you give it.
What does Ideogram 4.5 Precise Edit do?
You give it one image and say what to change, and it changes that part while leaving the rest as it was. Ideogram built it so you can edit the same image again and again without the picture drifting. Every step of the café on this page started from the step before it.
How much of the image changes with each edit?
In our test, each of the eight edits changed between 0.2% and 3.5% of the picture, depending on how big the change was. After all eight, about 11% of the image differed from the original, and the eight changes we asked for account for most of that.
Can Precise Edit use reference images?
Yes. On Predis.ai it takes the image you're editing plus up to 4 reference images, for example a product shot to drop into a scene.
Is Ideogram 4.5 good at text in images?
Yes, text and sign edits are where it scores best on public leaderboards. On this page it chalked a price on a board, translated a sign line and lettered a window card. It also once put new text on the wrong sign, so check where each edit lands.
Is Ideogram 4.5 open source?
Not yet. Ideogram has said open weights are coming but hasn't given a date. On Predis.ai you use the hosted model.
Change one thing at a time
Upload a photo, say what to change, and keep going.