Seedream 5.5 on PixelDojo: exact quoted text and see-through PNGs

Seedream 5.5 from ByteDance is on PixelDojo as of November 12, 2026. I am not going to pretend we were first. A lot of other tools added it earlier in the week. What I can tell you is what it does well, based on the prompts and results on the model page and the prompting guide. The short version: it makes a sharp 2K image in about 15 seconds, it spells the words you put in quotes, it can edit your own photos with up to 10 reference images, and it can hand you a PNG with nothing behind the subject. That last one is handy when you make stickers, logos, or product cutouts, because you can skip a second round in a background remover. The live tool is on this page: Seedream 5.5 on PixelDojo If you want the copy-ready prompts and the notes next to each one, use the Seedream 5.5 prompting guide. This post is the shorter version of that. How to prompt Seedream for exact quoted text and see-through PNGs Quoted text is the part that stands out. Put each line in double quotes, say where it sits, and end with something like "the text must be exact, no other text anywhere." The plant-shop photo in the guide comes back with a painted wall sign, a chalkboard line, and a paper tag on a pot, all spelled as typed. A concert poster in the same guide carries four separate lines the same way. See-through backgrounds are the other one. In the tool, pick See-through in the Background menu and say "transparent background" in the prompt. The guide uses that for a six-sticker sheet and a circular surf-school badge. Both come back as PNGs you can drop onto a slide or a product page without cutting anything out by hand. It is also fine as a regular camera. The guide's portraits, product bottle with a label, library interior, and ramen shot are each one prompt, at 2K. If you describe the lens, the light, and one or two physical details (individual hairs, wool fibers, droplets on glass), it tends to keep them. Edits are another mode. You can attach up to 10 reference images. The prompt pattern in the guide is boring and effective: list what must stay first, then describe the change. In the harbor-wall portrait example, the prompt asks it to keep the same man, face, smile, and tight 85mm framing, then move him to a snowy street in a camel coat. The face held. The coat, the street, and the snow were new. What Seedream costs on PixelDojo These are the public credit prices on the model page and the guide, not a comparison against anyone else's per-image API. From a text prompt: 1 credit at 2K, 0.5 credits at 1K With reference images: 1.5 credits at 2K, 1 credit at 1K For context, Seedream 5 Pro is 2.75 credits at 2K on PixelDojo Seedream 5.5 is included in every plan, from $10/month. It is also a model choice in Character Studio, Character Sheets, Consistent Characters, Reality Polisher, and Canvas, if you already work in those tools. A Seedream prompt pattern you can steal Here is the plant-shop one from the guide, unchanged. It is a good template for any scene that has more than one piece of type in it: Photograph on a 35mm lens at eye level: a beautiful woman in her late twenties with long glossy chestnut hair, bright green eyes, flawless glowing skin and a radiant smile, in a fitted cream knit top and a mustard corduroy jacket, stands behind the counter of a small plant shop at golden hour, holding a terracotta pot with a fern. A hand painted wooden sign on the wall behind her reads "THE GREEN ROOM". A small chalkboard on the counter reads "REPOTTING EVERY SATURDAY". A paper tag tied to the pot reads "FERN 14". Low warm sun through the front window lighting her face, dust in the light, shelves of plants softly blurred, shallow depth of field, natural skin texture, the text must be exact, no other text anywhere. Three habits make this kind of prompt work: Give each piece of text its own sentence: what it is written on, where it sits, and the words in double quotes. Name the lens and the light. "35mm at eye level" and "low warm sun through the front window" do more than a list of quality words. If you are editing a photo, lock the face, the framing, and anything else that must not drift, then describe only the change. If you are making a poster or an infographic, write it top to bottom. Headline, second line, the picture in the middle, then the lines at the bottom. Short labels of two or three words come out cleaner than long sentences. Seedream compared with other image models this week People have been posting same-prompt grids of Seedream 5.5 against MiniMax H3 Image, Nano Banana Pro, and GPT Image 2.6. PixelDojo now has Seedream 5.5 and MiniMax H3 Image in the same place, plus Seedream 5 on PixelDojo if you want to see the previous Seedream next to it. I am not going to pick a winner in this post. The prompting guide is a better place to look at the actual frames and decide for yourself. If you want to try it, start on the Seedream 5.5 tool page, or skip straight to the Seedream prompting guide and copy one of the ten prompts.