DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting

DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting

Extend creativity and tell a bigger story with DALL-E images of any size

DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Original outpainting by Emma Catnip

Today we’re introducing Outpainting, a new feature which helps users extend their creativity by continuing an image beyond its original borders — adding visual elements in the same style, or taking a story in new directions — simply by using a natural language description.


DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting

Original: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer
Outpainting: August Kamp

DALL·E’s Edit feature already enables changes within a generated or uploaded image — a capability known as Inpainting. Now, with Outpainting, users can extend the original image, creating large-scale images in any aspect ratio. Outpainting takes into account the image’s existing visual elements — including shadows, reflections, and textures — to maintain the context of the original image.

More than one million people are using DALL·E, the AI system that generates original images and artwork from a natural language description, as a creative tool today. Artists have already created remarkable images with the new Outpainting feature, and helped us better understand its capabilities in the process.

DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Original outpainting by Tyna Eloundou
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Original outpainting by OpenAI
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Outpainting by David Schnurr
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Original outpainting by Sonia Levesque
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Original outpainting by Danielle Baskin
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Original outpainting by Danielle Baskin
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
Original outpainting by Chad Nelson

Outpainting is now available to all DALL·E users on desktop. To discover new realms of creativity, visit labs.openai.com or join the waitlist.


Featured artists:

DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting

Emma Catnip


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August Kamp


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Sonia Levesque


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Danielle Baskin


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Chad Nelson


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