--- title: "AI – Blog" description: "Blog posts about AI from the IMG.LY team." url: "https://img.ly/blog/tag/ai/" type: "index" --- > This is the markdown version of [AI – Blog](https://img.ly/blog/tag/ai/). For all pages in one file, see [llms-full.txt](https://img.ly/llms-full.txt). For an index of all available pages, see [llms.txt](https://img.ly/llms.txt). --- Every IMG.LY blog post tagged **AI**, newest first. - [Evaluating CoDesign MCP performance in resizing](https://img.ly/blog/evaluating-codesign-mcp-performance-in-resizing.md): One approved design, five ad formats, six AI models, the same brief. All six came back with ads you could ship, and Gemini 3.7 Flash did it for thirty cents. Here is what our automated checks can prove about that work, and what they cannot. - [AI Design Agents in 2026: Which One Fits Your Work](https://img.ly/blog/ai-design-agents.md): Six AI design agents grouped by the work they suit: app screens, campaign assets, or design inside a larger task. Each entry says what you can still edit once the agent stops. - [Introducing IMG.LY AI Benchmarks](https://img.ly/blog/introducing-imgly-ai-benchmarks.md): We ran 15 image models through 37 production design prompts and published every score, every prompt and every generated image. Why we built it, why the scores are weighted per job, and the result that surprised us most. - [The Best GenAI Models for Web-to-Print: A Buyer's Guide](https://img.ly/blog/best-generative-ai-models-for-web-to-print.md): 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. - [How to Leverage Generative AI in Web-to-Print](https://img.ly/blog/how-to-leverage-generative-ai-in-web-to-print.md): 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. - [AI Design Agents and Creative Automation: How to Ship a Full Campaign Without a Designer](https://img.ly/blog/ai-design-agents-and-creative-automation-how-to-ship-a-full-campaign-without-a-designer.md): Most marketing workflows are fully automated now - except one. Design is still a handoff, a wait, a revision loop, and another wait. Here's how AI design agents are closing that gap, and how to run a full campaign production session without leaving a single conversation. - [What Is an AI Design Agent?](https://img.ly/blog/what-is-a-design-agent.md): "Design agent" is being used to mean two completely different things right now. Here's what it actually is - and why the distinction matters for creative teams and non-designers in 2026. - [Best AI Design Tools Compared: 6 Vibe Design Platforms Tested](https://img.ly/blog/vibe-design-tools-compared.md): Vibe design lets you describe what you want and get a polished result. But not all vibe design tools produce the same kind of output, and that difference shapes everything downstream. Here's how Stitch, Figma Make, Lovart, Adobe Firefly Boards, Canva Magic Studio and IMG.LY CoDesign compare. - [What Is Vibe Design? The Definitive Guide for Product Builders, Designers, and Creative Teams](https://img.ly/blog/what-is-vibe-design.md): Vibe design just got a name - but the shift it describes has been building for years. Here's what it actually means, where it came from, and what it means if you're building a product where users create things. - [CE.SDK v1.69 Release Notes](https://img.ly/blog/creative-editor-sdk-v-1-69-0-release-notes.md): Agent Skills turns your AI coding assistant into a CE.SDK expert. Ship editors in minutes, not days. Plus Starter Kits, PPTX import, and video editor updates. - [Introducing IMG.LY Agent Skills](https://img.ly/blog/img-ly-agent-skills-web.md): Inject CE.SDK expertise into your IDE with Agent Skills, turning AI assistants into autonomous implementation partners, building editors in minutes. - [Build in a Day: AI Video Clipping with CE.SDK](https://img.ly/blog/build-in-a-day-ai-video-clipping-with-ce-sdk.md): Build a client-side AI video editor that turns long videos into short highlights using CE.SDK and AI. - [From Prompt to Editor: Running CE.SDK Inside ChatGPT with the Apps SDK](https://img.ly/blog/from-prompt-to-editor-running-ce-sdk-inside-chatgpt-with-the-apps-sdk.md): 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. - [Animate Between Images - AI-Native Video Workflows with CE.SDK and Veo 3](https://img.ly/blog/animate-between-images-ai-native-video-workflows-with-ce-sdk-and-veo-3.md): 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. - [What is Visual Prompting?](https://img.ly/blog/what-is-visual-prompting.md): 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. - [Vibe-Engineering: When AI Does All the Coding, What Do We Actually Do?](https://img.ly/blog/vibe-engineering-when-ai-does-all-the-coding-what-do-we-actually-do.md): When AI handles the coding, our value shifts to orchestrating, reasoning, and adapting. Guiding the process, not writing code. - [IMG.LY x AI](https://img.ly/blog/img-ly-x-ai-future-of-ai-powered-creative-workflows.md): Shaping the Future of Creative Workflows - [AI-first Visual Editor using GPT-4o’s gpt-image-1 Model](https://img.ly/blog/ai-first-visual-editor-for-gpt-4o-image-gen.md): We embedded OpenAI’s gpt-image-1 API into our CreativeEditor SDK, enabling users to generate and refine images directly in their creative workflow, no tool switching. This brings multimodal AI into real-world design tasks with seamless prompting, editing, and visual iteration. - [OpenAI GPT-4o Image Generation (gpt-image-1) API: A Complete Guide for Creative Workflows for 2025](https://img.ly/blog/openai-gpt-4o-image-generation-api-gpt-image-1-a-complete-guide-for-creative-workflows-for-2025.md): 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. - [How OpenAI's Upcoming GPT-4o Image Generation API Will Change Creative Workflows](https://img.ly/blog/open-ai-gpt-4o-image-generation-api-will-change-creative-workflows.md): 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. - [Top 5 Generative AI APIs for Creative Apps in 2025: A Developer’s Guide (GPT-4o, Gemini, Firefly, and More)](https://img.ly/blog/comparing-image-generation-apis-gpt-4o-gemini-firefly-and-more.md): 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. - [How to Build a Short Video Generator Using CE.SDK](https://img.ly/blog/how-to-build-a-short-video-generator-using-ce-sdk-2.md): Build an AI-powered video generator that creates editable, high-quality videos in the browser: no server-side processing needed. - [How I Built a Short Video Generator with AI & CE.SDK in One Day](https://img.ly/blog/how-to-build-short-video-generator-ai-creative-sdk.md): Can AI really accelerate product development? I built a short video generator in one day using AI and CE.SDK to find out. - [IMG.LY Research: AI-based Generative Design Editing](https://img.ly/blog/img-ly-research-ai-based-generative-editing.md): Combine Large Language Models (LLMs) with CE.SDK for design edits and automated creative workflows. - [Cutting Through The Jungle: An In-depth Review of Cloud GPU Providers to Train Your AI Models in 2024](https://img.ly/blog/reviewing-cloud-gpu-providers-for-training-ai-models.md): Embark with us on a journey to finding the best place to host AI models. - [A Remote Data Aggregation Pipeline to Provide Machine Learning Datasets](https://img.ly/blog/data-aggregation.md): This blog explores how we aggregate datasets remotely, keep track of already generated datasets, and download datasets from a remote server using a generalizable architecture pattern. - [Smart Cropping - Automatically crop images to optimal regions with deep neural networks](https://img.ly/blog/smart-cropping.md): Many websites ask you to upload images in specific aspect ratios. Smart cropping allows you to automatically find such images for any aspect ratio. It's powered by Convolutional Neural Networks, predicting the salient areas of a picture. We describe how smart cropping works and why it's important. - [From 2D to 3D Photo Editing](https://img.ly/blog/from-2d-to-3d-photo-editing-948690b7b45e.md): Read about our journey to bring 3D photo edition into our Portrait app. - [When Creativity meets A.I.](https://img.ly/blog/when-creativity-meets-a-i-f48ee9a3612d.md): How we built the Portrait App. - [Deep Learning for Photo Editing](https://img.ly/blog/deep-learning-for-photo-editing-943bdf9765e1.md): Deep learning, a subfield of machine learning, has become one of the most known areas in the ongoing AI hype. 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