From Realistic to Flat: The Style Spectrum of Seedream 5.0 Lite Image Editing

Using a single realistic reference image as the sole input, leverage the image-to-image editing capability of seedream-5.0-lite to traverse the style axis from "realistic to flat," producing flattened visuals ready for direct use in editorial illustration, brand visuals, and social media. The work validates the model's instruction following and semantic alignment: while compressing tonal ranges, reducing gradients, and converging to a limited palette, it preserves the original image's compositional framework, subject pose, and scene relationships, avoiding structural drift. aspect_ratio is set to 16:9 for landscape layouts, and resolution is set to 2K. A useful reference for developers who need to rapidly convert photographic material into an illustrative language, demonstrating input formulation and instruction granularity.

Style style-transfer · editorial-illustration · Flat design

Model seedream-5.0-lite

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Image-to-image style transfer: convert the photographic reference into a flattened editorial illustration while preserving the original composition, subject pose, camera framing, and scene layout. Remove photographic texture and soft gradients; render forms with clean flat color shapes, hard-edged shadow blocks, and a restrained palette composed of soft terracotta, warm sand, deep teal, and off-white. Simplify anatomy and clothing folds into geometric silhouettes, keep facial features minimal, add a fine grain-free smooth paper texture, and ensure outlines are no thicker than the shapes themselves. Maintain spatial relationships and object counts exactly as in the reference; add no elements and no text. 16:9 framing, balanced negative space, matte finish, contemporary editorial art direction style.

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