Qwen-Image

byAlibaba Qwen team

Posters, packaging and signage where every letter lands in English or Chinese, plus edits that leave the rest of your picture alone

Crimson SHAN HAI perfume bottle with gold Chinese and English lettering on jade stone.

How Qwen-Image works

You write the layout the way an art director would, with words in quotes and positions spelled out, and the model sets the type. Add reference images only when you want to edit or combine.

Real Fuser Qwen-Image node combining dedicated person, jacket and gallery reference inputs.

Quote the words, add references

Put every word to be rendered in double quotes, describe the layout, and optionally name one to three reference images to edit or combine.

Real Qwen-Image controls showing 30 inference steps, CFG scale 4 and landscape image size.

Tune guidance and steps

Start at the default CFG of 2.5, nudge toward 4 for text-heavy layouts, and run 20 to 30 steps for drafts, 40 to 50 for final lettering.

Real Qwen-Image node displaying its generated bilingual tea packaging image.

Pick a canvas and render

Choose a portrait or landscape size that matches your layout, then render and check that each quoted word reads correctly.

What Qwen-Image is good at

Built for pieces where the words must be right: lettering that hugs curved surfaces, edits that keep identity, and structured layouts that arrive tidy.

Cream Chinese and English MOUNTAIN WATER lettering curves around a cobalt enamel tea tin.

Lettering that follows the surface

Quoted English and Chinese text sits on curved glass, packaging and signage with sensible hierarchy and even spacing. Wrap the words in double quotes and state the font traits right after them.

Qwen Edit Plus combines a dedicated man, olive jacket and mauve gallery from three reference images.

Multi-image compositing with edit-plus

Switch to the edit-plus variant to merge a person, a product and a scene while holding identity; official guidance is one to three images. The base variant generates from scratch, while edit-plus needs at least one image and stays close to the source.

A terracotta ROAM bottle placed into a sunny mountain picnic scene using Qwen Edit Plus.

Product insertion that keeps its labels

Place an isolated product into a lifestyle scene with natural shadows, and tell the edit to keep the design unchanged. Targeted text swaps work too: change a sign to a new line and keep the same style and spacing.

Copper sphere, black frame, red cube, ivory paper and clear glass arranged in a spatial still life.

Briefs it lays out faithfully

Spell out where each object belongs, from left to right and foreground to back, and the composition follows your spatial plan with multiple objects and a quoted label. Keep prompts structured: subject, style, lighting, composition.

Made with Qwen-Image

Sleeves, packaging, film frames, lookbooks and archive pages, each carrying real English or Chinese lettering as part of the image rather than pasted on top.

Translucent synthesizer sleeve with lavender cables, mint 07 and SIGNAL / FORM typography.

Translucent synthesizer sleeve with crisp typographic labels

Lilac CLEAR DEW skincare packaging with Chinese lettering on an aqua background.

Skincare packaging with bilingual surface typography

Silver sports coupe in a rain-soaked industrial bay beneath ZONE 08 wall lettering.

Cinematic vehicle frame with stenciled environmental typography

Full-length fashion photograph of a man in a yellow jacket and gray trousers captured mid-jump against black.

High-contrast editorial lookbook with arrested motion

Traditional Chinese calligraphy on an ivory scroll beside an ink dish and brush.

Archival catalog photography with traditional calligraphic script

What people build with Qwen-Image

Designers, brand teams and set builders reach for it when a headline, a label or a sign has to read correctly the first time.

Poster and album-art designers

01

Get headline, subtitle and artwork in one pass, with lettering that follows the layout you describe. Flat, illustrative and graphic looks hold up especially well.

E-commerce teams localizing packaging

02

Mock up labels in English and Chinese on the same pack, then use edit-plus to drop the product into a lifestyle scene while the design stays unchanged.

Fashion and lookbook creators

03

Restyle a portrait, swap outfits or place a model beside a product with identity locked, so one shoot becomes a full lookbook of consistent variations.

Storefront and set designers

04

Build signage, menus and shopfronts with readable text in the scene, then edit the sign wording without redoing the whole frame.

Editorial and infographic designers

05

Turn a structured brief into labeled diagrams, step rows and explainer panels with clean hierarchy and generous white space.

Qwen-Image specs

Plans and credits
Inputs
Prompt (text), Images (up to 16 images), Negative Prompt (text)
Output
image
Cost
28–41 credits per run

Qwen-Image questions

The base variant generates from scratch, while edit-plus works on existing images. Base is for posters, covers, signage and infographics. Edit-plus swaps objects, restyles, changes text on a picture or merges several references, but it needs at least one image and stays close to the source, so it is a poor fit for exploring wholly new compositions.

Use edit-plus. Supply the image and write something like: change the sign text to "OPEN LATE" in the same style and spacing, keep everything else unchanged. It is built for targeted edits with lock phrases, unlike the base variant.

Wrap the words in double quotes, describe where they sit and how many lines, then name the font traits. For final pieces use 40 to 50 steps rather than dropping to 10, and avoid pushing the CFG scale toward 15-20, which oversaturates the image.

Official guidance is one to three images, although this node accepts up to 16. Extra references likely dilute identity, so name each source in the prompt, like the person from the first image and the bag from the second.

It is weak at cinematic film grain, moody photographic realism, exact brand logos and dense small print, and it responds best to explicit, structured prompts rather than vague mood-only ones. Long paragraphs can also produce spelling slips. For cheap rapid sketching, a lighter model fits better.

It was made by the Alibaba Qwen team. The base model arrived in August 2025, and the edit upgrade that powers edit-plus followed in September 2025.

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Posters, packaging and signage where every letter lands in English or Chinese, plus edits that leave the rest of your picture alone