SeedEdit 3.0 - An image editing model launched by ByteDance

What is SeedEdit 3.0?

SeedEdit 3.0 is an image editing model developed by ByteDance's Seed team, supporting fast and high-quality image editing using natural language commands. Based on the powerful text-to-image model Seedream 3.0, the model accurately understands user commands and completes various complex editing tasks, including style transfer, detail adjustments, text modification, and lighting changes. The model excels in preserving the main subject and details of images, supports high-definition image processing, and is suitable for professional designers, content creators, and ordinary users, greatly simplifying the image editing process and improving creative efficiency. The model is now officially available on Volcano Ark.

Main features of SeedEdit 3.0

• Precise area editingIt supports precise targeting and modification of specific regions within an image.
• Intelligent text processingIt automatically identifies and replaces text content in images, while matching the original image's font, lighting, and style, and intelligently fills in surrounding textures to ensure a seamless and complete image.
• Lighting and Atmosphere AdjustmentIt supports turning night into day, adjusting backlighting, warm tones, and other lighting effects, with natural transitions between light and shadow, creating a cinematic visual experience.
• Style conversionIt supports multiple style conversions, such as "felt style", "watercolor style" and "cartoon style". Users can switch styles with a single command to meet different creative needs.
• Efficient operationUsers can edit images using simple natural language commands without complicated operations. Each image can be processed in just 10-15 seconds, greatly improving creative efficiency.

Technical Principles of SeedEdit 3.0

• Generative techniques based on diffusion modelsThe core generation technique used is a diffusion model. The diffusion model generates images by progressively removing noise, resulting in high-quality, high-resolution images. Combined with a causal diffusion network, it allows for better control over image detail and consistency during the generation process.
• Multi-source data fusion and metadata embeddingIt integrates multiple data sources, including data generated by the internal T2I model, data generated by editing experts, traditional editing operation data, and video frame data. Based on a meta-info embedding strategy, it incorporates labels, descriptions, and editing tags from different data sources into the training process, helping the model better understand and distinguish the characteristics of different datasets.
• Joint learning and reward modelSimultaneously calculating diffusion loss and reward loss ensures that the generated image retains important image details and style while following editing instructions. Multiple reward models are introduced, focusing on attributes of interest to the user, such as facial recognition, detailed structure, and aesthetic effects.
• High-efficiency reasoning accelerationBy employing Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) distillation, conditional and unconditional generated paths are fused to improve inference speed. An adaptive time-step sampling strategy concentrates computational resources on the most influential time steps, further optimizing training efficiency.
• Multilingual supportIt supports Chinese and English commands, and uses a multilingual model (VLM) for task description and annotation to ensure accurate understanding and execution of editing commands in different language environments.

SeedEdit 3.0 project address

• Project official websitehttps://volcenginecn.com/
• arXiv technical paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05083

Application Scenarios of SeedEdit 3.0

• E-commerce product image optimizationQuickly remove backgrounds from product images, add brand watermarks, or adjust lighting and shadows to enhance the professionalism and attractiveness of products and increase sales opportunities.
• Social media content creationBased on different platform styles, adjust the color tone, style, and text content of images with one click to quickly generate creative images that match the theme and enhance the appeal of the content.
• Post-processing of travel photosEasily remove passersby from photos, adjust lighting effects, or change the atmosphere of the scene to make travel photos more perfect and preserve beautiful moments.
• Creative painting and art designIt can quickly generate creative paintings or artworks based on descriptions, inspire creators, and help users quickly realize their creative ideas.
• Restoration and colorization of old photosConvert old black and white photos to color, repair flaws in the photos, give precious memories a fresh look, and preserve the colors of history.