Images
What would AI content be without an AI-generated image to accompany it?
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What would AI content be without an AI-generated image to accompany it?
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Each Byword article comes with one or more AI-generated images, which you can upload to your CMS.
This article, and indeed the screenshot above, cover the latest Byword image model (Flux - Oct 2024). This has been the default image model on new accounts since the start of October, and is recommended for use. You can toggle the image model version on your Settings page, if you'd like to revert to prior image models.
Byword can generate images in two styles:
Illustrative, you can see examples of this at the top of the page
Photographic, you can see examples of this immediately below
You can switch between these image modes on your Settings page.
On your Settings page, you can toggle between having Byword generate in .jpg and .png filetypes. By default this is set to .jpg, but you can switch to .png if this works better for your site.
When your file type is set to .jpg, you'll also notice a small icon allowing you to customise your file settings. Clicking this will present you two options:
Prioritise filesize - this will generate an image typically around 1-200kb, at the cost of some quality
Prioritise quality - this will generate an image with minimal compression, but usually over 500kb
Prioritise filesize is on by default, as smaller image filesizes are typically preferable from an SEO perspective, but feel free to change this.
.png files will typically be the largest. They are the best option for quality, but can come in close to a megabyte each.
Byword allows you to choose between 9 square, landscape, and portrait aspect ratios. The dimensions corresponding to each are:
1:1 - 1024x1024
5:4 - 1088x896
4:3 - 1152x896
3:2 - 1216x832
16:9 - 1344x768
To find the vertical dimensions, simply swap the height and width around (e.g., 9:16 is 768x1344).
You can force Byword to stick to a certain colour scheme by specifying it on your Settings page.
Your colour scheme should ideally:
Contain one or two colours
Contain zero or one modifier per colour
Good examples therefore are:
orange
pastel orange
pastel orange and turquoise
pastel orange and faded turquoise
Poor examples are:
orange blue green white Too many colours
deep rich ocean-like blue Too many modifiers
generate in the style of andy warhol Not relevant to the images' colour
Byword also lets you generate inline images; images which sit inside the body of the article. All inline images are generated using the same aspect ratio as your header image. You can change the number of images you'd like generated per article on the settings page:
Note that the number selected here includes the header image:
If you select 1, then only the header image will generate.
If you select 4, then the header image and 3 additional inline images will be generated.
Advanced
The image is styled via inline CSS to use width: 100% and max-width: 600px. This means that, when exported to a site, the image will try to be the same width as your text, up to a maximum of 600px.
Byword's direct integrations (WordPress and Webflow) will all handle image syncing automatically:
In WordPress, the image is uploaded to your site's media library, and then associated with your article as its featured image.
In Webflow, the image is uploaded into whichever CMS collection field you specify during the integration setup.
Indirect integrations (Zapier, API, CSV) will return the image asset URL in their results, so that you can handle the image however you like.
Note that in HTML exports of Byword articles (both when copying to clipboard from the web interface, or in CSV exports) the images are purposefully not embedded into the HTML. This was a conscious choice made because of the variety of ways that different CMSs handle images. Instead:
In the single article generator, you can right-click and copy/save the image
In CSV exports, you'll see a link to the image(s)
The fact that these images are generated by a customised AI model means that you don't have to worry about copyright or royalties. The images are all totally unique to your article, and you won't find them elsewhere online.
