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15 September 2026

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Qwen-Image-Edit adds precise text editing to image editing

Qwen-Image-Edit is an image editing version of Qwen-Image, built on the 20B Qwen-Image model. It extends text rendering capabilities to editing and combines semantic and appearance control.

Qwen-Image-Edit pipeline:
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Qwen-Image-Edit is built on the 20B Qwen-Image model and extends its text rendering capabilities to image editing, enabling precise text editing. It feeds the input image into Qwen2.5-VL for visual semantic control and into the VAE Encoder for visual appearance control. This allows both semantic and appearance editing in one tool.

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  • Qwen-Image-Edit is the image editing version of Qwen-Image.
  • It is built upon the 20B Qwen-Image model.
  • It extends Qwen-Image’s unique text rendering capabilities to image editing tasks, enabling precise text editing.
  • It simultaneously feeds the input image into Qwen2.5-VL (for visual semantic control) and the VAE Encoder (for visual appearance control).
  • It achieves capabilities in both semantic and appearance editing.

Sources

  1. Qwen blog (Alibaba)Text stored 15 September 2026

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