DALL·E: Introducing outpainting

DALL·E: Introducing outpainting | OpenAI

August 31, 2022

DALL·E: Introducing outpainting

Extend creativity and tell a bigger story with DALL·E images of any size.

Illustration: August Kamp × DALL·E, outpainted from Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

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Today we’re introducing Outpainting, a new feature which helps users extend their creativity by continuing an image beyond its original borders—adding visual elements in the same style, or taking a story in new directions—simply by using a natural language description.

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DALL·E⁠’s Edit feature already enables changes within a generated or uploaded image, a capability known as Inpainting. Now, with Outpainting, users can extend the original image, creating large-scale images in any aspect ratio. Outpainting takes into account the image’s existing visual elements—including shadows, reflections, and textures—to maintain the context of the original image.

More than one million people are using DALL·E, the AI system that generates original images and artwork from a natural language description, as a creative tool today. Artists have already created remarkable images with the new Outpainting feature, and helped us better understand its capabilities in the process.

Tyna Eloundou × DALL·E, original outpainting

OpenAI × DALL·E, original outpainting

David Schnurr × DALL·E, original outpainting

Sonia Levesque × DALL·E, original outpainting

Danielle Baskin × DALL·E, original outpainting

Danielle Baskin × DALL·E, original outpainting

Chad Nelson × DALL·E, original outpainting

Emma Catnip × DALL·E, original outpainting

Outpainting is now available to all DALL·E users on desktop. To discover new realms of creativity, visit labs.openai.com⁠ or join the waitlist⁠.

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