Jan
Product Marketing
Essen
31 posts 
The Best GenAI Models for Web-to-Print: A Buyer's Guide
The best general image model can still fail at print. What decides it (vector output, print resolution, CMYK behavior, legible text) is exactly what general model rankings ignore. This guide gives you eleven print-specific evaluation criteria, a scoring rubric, and a model-by-model read on where each one wins.
24 min read
How to Leverage Generative AI in Web-to-Print
Generative AI changes the economics of web-to-print by doing the part customers were never qualified to do: generating images, fixing resolution, removing backgrounds, vectorizing logos. Here are the use cases worth building, and the print-specific realities to design around.
15 min read
How 600+ Teams Shipped Creative Editing in 14 Days
A data report based on 600+ customers, 28 structured customer interviews, and a self-reported customer survey.
19 min read
Building a CapCut-Like Video Editor with CE.SDK and AI
How to built a browser-based video editor with a dark CapCut-inspired UI, multi-track timeline, and AI-powered content generation... in under 200 lines of code.
13 min read
From Prompt to Editor: Running CE.SDK Inside ChatGPT with the Apps SDK
We built a technical demo running CE.SDK directly inside ChatGPT using MCP, showing how AI chats can open real, interactive editors. It highlights strict MCP contracts, visual-first UX, and how chat becomes a coordination layer for doing creative work.
Introducing CE.SDK Renderer: The Missing Piece of Creative Automation
The CE.SDK Renderer brings fast, reliable, fully licensed server-side rendering to your backend unlocking true end-to-end creative automation with GPU acceleration, perfect fidelity, and scalable image, PDF, and video export.
5 min read
How to Embed an Editable InDesign Template in Your Website
InDesign files hold valuable design structure - yet remain stuck offline. This article shows how CE.SDK turns IDML templates into web-editable layouts with full fidelity, unlocking collaboration and automation impossible in desktop-only workflows.
11 min read
Animate Between Images - AI-Native Video Workflows with CE.SDK and Veo 3
See how we integrated Veo 3.1 into CE.SDK to animate between images in seconds. With generation times as low as 9 s, this demo shows how easily you can embed AI-native workflows from stills to smooth video clips directly inside your Creative Editor.
2 min read
A Guide to Creative Automation with CE.SDK & Javascript
Discover how to build end-to-end creative automation with CE.SDK and React. This guide shows you how to create templates with placeholders, connect them to external data, and automatically generate personalized assets at scale.
9 min read
The Top 7 Video Editing SDKs in 2026
In this guide, we break down the seven leading video editing SDK solutions: IMG.LY, Meishe, Banuba, Shotstack, BytePlus, Rendley, and Picsart, covering their features, platforms, use cases, and trade-offs.
13 min read
What is Visual Prompting?
Visual Prompting is a new way to guide AI using visual input instead of just text. By composing layouts with images, annotations, and design cues directly on the canvas, creators can prompt AI more intuitively. Learn how IMG.LY’s CE.SDK brings this paradigm to life.
6 min read
Build vs. Buy: Is Fabric.js Right for You
This blog article provides a detailed comparison between Fabric.js and IMG.LY’s CreativeEditor SDK (CE.SDK) for teams building in-product design editors. It outlines the strengths of Fabric.js as a low-level canvas library, but focuses on the growing limitations teams face as they scale.
10 min read
OpenAI GPT-4o Image Generation (gpt-image-1) API: A Complete Guide for Creative Workflows for 2025
Learn how to integrate OpenAI’s gpt-image-1 API into modern creative applications. This complete 2025 guide covers technical setup, CE.SDK integration, prompt engineering, and tips for building real multimodal creative workflows.
18 min read
How OpenAI's Upcoming GPT-4o Image Generation API Will Change Creative Workflows
OpenAI’s GPT-4o enables real-time, interactive image generation. Instead of one-off prompts, users can refine visuals through conversation. This unlocks new UX patterns like editable outputs and character persistence. IMG.LY’s CE.SDK makes GPT-4o easy to integrate into your editor.
8 min read
Top 5 Generative AI APIs for Creative Apps in 2025: A Developer’s Guide (GPT-4o, Gemini, Firefly, and More)
AI image generation is quickly becoming a must-have in creative apps. But with so many models and APIs to choose from, picking the right one can be tricky. This guide breaks down the top options like DALL·E, GPT-4o, Gemini, and SDXL to help you find the best fit for your product and users.
7 min read