Configure AI-generated images for your Byword content
Each Byword article comes with AI-generated images to complement your content. The latest model (Flux - Oct 2024) delivers high-quality visuals that are uniquely generated for your content.
Byword offers two distinct image styles to match your content needs:
Illustrative: Creates digital artwork and illustrations with clean lines and abstract elements
Photographic: Generates more realistic, photo-like images
Illustrative images work well for:
Abstract concepts
Technical topics
Brand-focused content
Modern, clean aesthetics
Illustrative images work well for:
Abstract concepts
Technical topics
Brand-focused content
Modern, clean aesthetics
Photographic images work well for:
Product reviews
Travel content
Food-related articles
Topics that benefit from realism
You can switch between these image styles in your account Settings page.
Choose between two file formats for your images:
.jpg (default): Smaller file sizes (better for SEO), with compression options
.png: Higher quality but larger file sizes
When using .jpg format, you can further customize:
PNG files provide the best quality but can approach 1MB in size, which may impact page load speed.
Byword offers both landscape and portrait aspect ratios:
Square: 1:1
Landscape options: 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4
Portrait options: 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5
For portrait orientation (vertical images), the dimensions are flipped from their landscape counterparts.
Customize the colors in your generated images by specifying a color scheme in the settings:
Control how many images appear in your content:
1 (default): Header image only
2-4: Header image plus additional inline images throughout the article
All inline images use the same aspect ratio as your header image. They’re automatically positioned at logical breaks in your content.
Images are styled with inline CSS using:
width: 100%
max-width: 600px
This ensures they align with your text width up to a maximum of 600 pixels.
Images are automatically uploaded to your media library and set as the featured image for the article.
Images are automatically uploaded to your media library and set as the featured image for the article.
Images are uploaded to whichever CMS collection field you specify during integration setup.
These methods return the image asset URL in their results for you to handle as needed.
For HTML exports (both clipboard copies and CSV exports), images are not embedded directly. Instead:
In the single article generator, right-click to copy or save the image
In CSV exports, you’ll receive links to the images
All images are generated by Byword’s custom AI model, meaning:
You don’t need to worry about copyright or royalties
Each image is unique to your article
You won’t find these images elsewhere online