ByteDance Poster & Campaign Studio

Seedream V4: a poster studio with a 4K canvas

ByteDance Seedream V4 pairs editorial layout sense with a canvas that scales to 4K per dimension — built on RenderFlow AI for key art, covers, and campaign systems.

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Seedream V4 — Enter Your Prompt

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5 credits per image.

A high-fidelity image model for detailed scenes, editorial visuals, and prompt-rich compositions.

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Enter a prompt and click 'Generate Image' — or start from an example:

Examples

Seedream V4 examples from real prompts

Explore generated Seedream V4 outputs, open any image for a closer look, and adapt the prompt to your own subject.

Fashion editorial

Fashion editorial

Prompt: High-fashion editorial photograph of a model in a sculptural cobalt-blue gown with exaggerated pleats, standing in a brutalist concrete stairwell, one shaft of hard sunlight cutting diagonally across the scene, fabric catching the light while the rest falls into deep shadow, medium-format camera look, 80mm lens, bold composition with strong geometry, fashion magazine quality.

Character illustration

Detailed character scene

Prompt: Detailed painterly illustration of an elderly clockmaker in his cluttered shop at night, leaning close over an open pocket watch with a jeweler's loupe, hundreds of brass gears and hanging clocks around him glowing in warm lamplight, his cat watching from a shelf, rich storybook detail in every corner, cozy amber palette, square composition.

Large-format detailed scene

Prompt-rich city composition

Prompt: Ultra-detailed cinematic cityscape of a rainy evening in a dense old-town shopping street: paper lanterns and neon signs reflecting on wet cobblestones, a ramen shop with steam curling from its window, commuters with transparent umbrellas, a cyclist splashing through a puddle, layered depth from foreground lanterns to a misty temple gate far down the street, atmospheric teal-and-amber grade, photorealistic, rendered at 4K with crisp fine detail throughout.

Cover design

Magazine cover concept

Prompt: Magazine cover concept for a fictional food quarterly: overhead shot of a long harvest table crowded with roasted vegetables, breads, and shared plates, hands reaching in from the edges, warm candlelit tones. Render the masthead "GATHER" in large cream serif capitals across the top, and one cover line "THE SLOW TABLE ISSUE" in small type at the lower left. Realistic print magazine layout with confident hierarchy.

Product lifestyle image

Product lifestyle mockup

Prompt: Lifestyle product photograph of a pour-over coffee set — glass carafe, ceramic dripper, and a small bag of beans with a blank kraft label — arranged on a sunlit kitchen windowsill with trailing pothos leaves, steam rising softly from the carafe, warm morning light, calm slow-living aesthetic, realistic textures, square format for a web shop.

Nature editorial

Wildlife editorial spread

Prompt: Editorial wildlife photograph of a puffin standing on a cliff-top carpet of pink thrift flowers, beak full of silver sand eels, soft overcast light, the sea a muted blue-gray blur far below, crisp feather and flower detail in the foreground, medium telephoto compression, nature-magazine double-page composition with breathing room on the right.

What makes Seedream V4 a poster studio?

Seedream V4 is ByteDance's layout-aware image model: it plans where headlines, subjects, and negative space go instead of scattering elements, which is why posters and covers come back with a hierarchy you can actually ship.

On RenderFlow AI, width and height each scale from 1024 to 4096 pixels at a flat 5 credits per image, with a seed field for locking compositions — enough room for print-adjacent key art and a week of social cutdowns from one master.

Why Seedream V4 behaves like a poster studio

Type that sits in the layout — Seedream V4 reserves space

Type that sits in the layout — Seedream V4 reserves space for headlines and captions rather than sprinkling letters, so a concert poster or magazine cover returns with real visual hierarchy. Quote short strings in the prompt and they become part of the design.

A 4K canvas on every dimension — Width and height run independently from 1024 to 4096 pixels, so one master visual can cover a wide banner, a tall poster, and square crops. Large canvases keep fine texture like paper grain and fabric weave that smaller outputs smear away.

A 4K canvas on every dimension — Width and height run independently from 1024 to 4096 pixels, so one master visual can cover a wide banner, a tall poster, and square crops. Large canvases keep fine texture like paper grain and fabric weave that smaller outputs smear away.

Editorial range, not one house style — The same model moves between photoreal campaign shots, flat illustrated posters, and type-driven covers without drifting into a single recognizable look. That range matters

Editorial range, not one house style — The same model moves between photoreal campaign shots, flat illustrated posters, and type-driven covers without drifting into a single recognizable look. That range matters when one brand system spans a full launch week of assets.

Seeds you can build a series on — Locking the seed turns a lucky layout into a repeatable starting point, letting you nudge copy or palette while the composition stays put. It is the practical route from one good poster to a coherent campaign set.

Seeds you can build a series on — Locking the seed turns a lucky layout into a repeatable starting point, letting you nudge copy or palette while the composition stays put. It is the practical route from one good poster to a coherent campaign set.

The campaign work Seedream V4 is sized for

  • Poster and key art design
  • Magazine and editorial covers
  • Campaign visual systems
  • Social cutdowns from 4K masters

Art-directing Seedream V4: canvas, copy, seed

Set the canvas before the copy

Pick width and height first — 2048×2048 is the default, but posters usually want a tall frame like 2048×3072 and banners a wide one like 4096×2048. Sizing early matters because Seedream V4 composes to the frame you give it.

Brief it like an art director

Name the format (concert poster, magazine cover, product key art), the visual hierarchy, and the mood. Then add the exact words in quotes and say where each line sits: masthead across the top, subtitle below, footer small.

Fix the weakest line, not the whole prompt

Review the first output for type errors before touching the art. If one line is wrong, shorten it or cut the number of text elements and regenerate — rewriting everything usually costs you a layout that already worked.

Lock the seed to iterate the design

When a composition lands, copy its seed into the Seed field and change one variable at a time — palette, background, or a single line of copy. Locked seeds turn one good poster into a coherent campaign set.

Drop to Seedream 3.0 for budget volume

For high-volume social variations where 4K is wasted, run the same prompt on Seedream 3.0 at 4 credits and smaller sizes. Keep V4 for the master visuals that need the big canvas.

Frequently Asked Questions

What resolutions can Seedream V4 output on RenderFlow AI?

Width and height are set independently from 1024 to 4096 pixels per side — anything from a 1024×4096 banner strip to a full 4096×4096 square. The default is 2048×2048, and the 5-credit price stays flat whatever size you pick.

How is Seedream V4 different from Seedream 3.0?

V4 raises the canvas ceiling from 2048 to 4096 pixels per side and brings noticeably stronger layout and in-image text handling. Seedream 3.0 remains available at 4 credits with a guidance-scale control, which suits established Seedream 3 workflows and budget bulk generation.

Can Seedream V4 render readable text in posters?

Yes — short quoted strings like headlines, dates, and labels are one of its strengths, especially when you say where each line sits in the layout. Long paragraphs and many separate text blocks still risk letter errors, so keep copy tight.

Seedream V4 or GPT-Image-2 for text-heavy designs?

GPT-Image-2 offers three quality tiers and stricter accuracy on small copy, while Seedream V4 counters with a bigger native canvas (4096px per side) and a flat 5-credit price. For an important poster, run the same headline test on both and keep the winner.

What should I do when a layout comes back with garbled words?

Shorten the offending string, reduce the number of separate text elements, and describe placement explicitly ("masthead across the top"). Then regenerate with a fresh seed — rewriting the whole prompt usually sacrifices a layout that already worked.