Ideogram V4 same typography, bigger file
If a graphic is going onto a screen above Full HD, or to print on a roll-up, version three starts running out at 2048 pixels. This one goes to 3840, and does it faster.
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Specification
- Built by
- Ideogram
- Starts from
- a written brief
- Size
- 512 – 3840 px
- Reference photos
- none
- Render time
- about 20s
- Cost
- 1 credit per image
What it is good for
- Up to 3840 px
- Almost twice version three. Enough for full-screen creative, for a homepage banner and for material somebody will print.
- Twenty seconds
- A quarter faster than V3 at the same class of typography. Across a series of creatives for one campaign that is a real difference.
- A sparing layout
- It keeps plenty of empty space and does not crowd the frame. For ad creative that is a virtue: a headline should read from a distance, not up close.
When to pick something else
There is no variant that takes reference photos — none at all. That means two things: you cannot place your own product in the graphic, and you cannot ask it to hold the style of a previous creative. Both of those leave Ideogram V3, which reads references as style, or Nano Banana 2, which reads them as content. It is also a separate model from V3 rather than a revision of it, which is worth knowing only when you are comparing the two.
See every modelHow to brief this model
The things this engine handles differently from the rest. The habits that hold for every model are collected separately, in the help centre.
- List the headline and the subhead separately, in quotation marks, and say there is no other text. Same as V3 — otherwise the model adds small print of its own.
- Ask for a spare layout. This engine handles empty space well and comes out better with one object and one line than with three blocks.
- Go to 3840 px when the graphic will be cropped or printed. Otherwise the higher resolution changes the layout not at all, only the file size.
- Do not plan on your own product here. This model has no variant that takes reference photographs — not one — so the item from your warehouse cannot go in.
- If the new graphic has to match the style of the last one, go back to Ideogram V3, which reads references as style, or Nano Banana 2, which reads them as content.
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- Z-Image TurboTen seconds to a clean composition. You add the text yourself, in the editor.
- Bria Product ShotYour photo, a new scene. The product stays exactly the same.
Try this model on your own product
Sign up without a card and get 40 credits. Switching model is one click, so you can send the same brief through several of them and keep the best frame.