Qwen Image

Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0: very long prompts, text as small as 10 pixels in 12 languages, and text that sits on real materials like glass and paper.

What it nails

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Qwen Image is Alibaba's picture model from the Qwen team, and version 3.0 (announced 22 July 2026) is built around one word, "Real": rich content, authentic details, deep knowledge. Its speciality is long, precise content: prompts of up to about 4,500 tokens, legible text as small as 10 pixels, and native text in 12 languages. Whole poems, menus and dense layouts come out readable.

The Lab runs Qwen Image 3, up to 4 pictures per run.

At a glance: Qwen Image. The live spec card, price calculator and Generate button show here on the site.

What Qwen Image is secretly great at

Pages of text, every line in place

Give Qwen the exact text line by line and describe the lettering. It renders a 12-line poem in calligraphy without dropping a word.

Vertical Western European 19th-century illustrated poetry page, Romantic maritime farewell theme, international English visual tradition, not an East Asian painting. The composition is a vertical art print or vintage book page with aged ivory paper, fine engraved linework, muted blue-gray watercolor washes, and elegant negative space. The main feature is a long English poem rendered clearly in elegant English copperplate-inspired calligraphy, highly legible, English alphabet only, standard left-to-right reading order, top-to-bottom layout, correct punctuation, exact line breaks, natural ink pressure, dark sepia-black lettering, subtle vintage letterpress texture, refined international typography. Below and around the text, illustrate a cold twilight seashore: gray stones beside the sea, a small boat floating near the shore, distant ships moving toward a haven under low hills, pale evening mist over the water, faint moonlight, soft ripples, a lonely coastal atmosphere, melancholic but restrained. The mood is poetic, timeless, and elegant, like a Victorian English maritime lyric. No Chinese characters, no Chinese painting style, no seals, no stamps, no modern objects, no illegible glyphs, no random letters. Render exactly the following 12 lines from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's public-domain poem "Break, Break, Break"; do not render the title or author name:
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
O well for the fisherman's boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!
And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still.
High resolution, masterful long-form English text rendering, poetic, elegant, museum-quality Western illustrated book page.

Example by Alibaba Cloud · source ↗

Text that lives on real materials

Alibaba highlights text blended into physical materials: gold ink on paper, a menu screen-printed on glass with a reflection over it.

A lifestyle-style male food portrait with a cinematic, on-location feel. The subject is a young man in his early twenties with clean, fresh features, gentle eyes and brows, and naturally clear skin that retains realistic texture detail. He wears a soft, off-white chunky knit sweater over a plain white T-shirt peeking out at the collar, giving off a warm, refined, and relaxed lifestyle vibe. He sits at a cozy Western restaurant table, leaning slightly forward, cutting into a Beef Wellington on his plate with a silver knife and fork in his right hand while his left hand rests naturally on the edge of the table. He tilts his head slightly toward the camera with a faint, relaxed smile and a warm, life-filled gaze. The wooden tabletop is set with an elegant Western meal, alongside a vintage stemmed glass holding an amber-colored drink and a small, delicately arranged vintage flower vase. Behind him is a clear glass wall printed with a light gold, handwritten French menu that reads "Menu du Jour," the text applied to the glass in a silkscreen-like finish with a subtle ambient reflection. The scene is lit with warm yellow overhead interior lighting that softly bathes his face and the food on the table, giving the food an appetizing sheen, while cool ambient light filtering through the glass from outside creates a cinematic contrast between warm and cool tones. The shot is a close, eye-level composition with a slight off-center angle for a natural, breathing feel rather than a stiff, centered framing. A shallow depth of field softly blurs the glass wall and restaurant setting in the background into warm bokeh, with the foreground flowers and drink edges also softly out of focus. The overall tone is warm and comforting, full of everyday atmosphere and mouthwatering appeal.

Example by Alibaba Cloud · source ↗

A hand-drawn watercolor illustration on soft, off-white watercolor paper. The paper surface shows the characteristics of traditional botanical art, including clearly visible pigment granulation and the soft color bleeding produced by wet-on-wet technique. In the upper-center area of the composition is a cluster of violets and pansies. The petals blend gradients of light purple, deep purple, and lavender, with golden-yellow flower centers. Beside the flowers are small, emerald-green leaves rendered with translucent watercolor washes and finely detailed veins. Soft directional lighting illuminates the scene, highlighting the texture of the watercolor paper and the subtle variations in the pigment. Directly below the floral motif, horizontally centered in the lower half of the paper, is the word "Виолета." The lettering is written in an arched calligraphic script using metallic gold ink. The letterforms are rendered with fluid, continuous strokes and a subtle embossed, three-dimensional quality, giving off a soft metallic sheen under the light.

Example by Alibaba Cloud · source ↗

Whole layouts from one prompt: websites and slides

Describe every zone of the page (headline, cards, badges, footer) with the exact words, and Qwen lays it all out. Alibaba shows a full website and a physics slide, each from a single prompt.

A widescreen desktop UI design for an immersive website exploring the sounds of an Asian rainforest. The overall mood is dark and tranquil, inspired by vintage field-recording equipment and analog scientific instruments. The color palette centers on deep emerald green, rich obsidian black, and soft earthy brown, creating a calm and serene atmosphere. The interface features subtle mist and haze effects, with soft, dappled light refraction simulating sunlight filtering through a dense canopy, and the background incorporates natural textures such as fine paper grain and leaf veins. The overall image is highly realistic, in a style comparable to a premium BBC nature documentary, with a cinematic composition and extremely fine rendering detail. A minimal, semi-transparent navigation bar spans the very top of the page. On the far left is the brand mark, formed by an intertwined line-art illustration of a vintage analog microphone and monstera leaves, paired with the brand name "RAINFOREST ARCHIVE" in an elegant, soft cream-colored serif font. On the right side of the navigation bar is a menu with four minimal text links in a matching font and color: "Expeditions," "Species," "Field Notes," and "About." The upper two-thirds of the page is the main visual hero banner. The background is an ultra-high-definition, richly atmospheric photo of an ancient Southeast Asian dipterocarp rainforest, wrapped in soft, drifting mist, with blurred dark-green fern fronds in the foreground creating a natural vignette. Overlaid on the left of the banner is the main headline, in a large, high-contrast, elegant serif font: "Voices of the Canopy." Directly below the headline is a smaller, refined subtitle in light cream: "An auditory journey through the ancient dipterocarp forests of Southeast Asia." The text has a subtle typewriter texture, with slightly irregular character spacing that reinforces the vintage, analog-equipment feel. In the lower-middle of the banner is the core audio interaction component: a precision player modeled after a vintage field-recording reel-to-reel deck, inspired by classic Nagra or Marantz tape recorders. The player body is brushed dark gunmetal-gray metal with subtle natural scratches and wear marks, and features two large knurled metal knobs printed with small, clear sans-serif labels: "GAIN" and "MONITOR." At the center of the device is a classic VU meter with a warm, soft amber backlight, its needle resting near the zero mark. To the right of the meter is a heavy-duty physical toggle switch, flipped up to indicate "PLAY" status. While audio is playing, the VU meter emits slowly expanding concentric ripples, resembling gentle water ripples or faint sound waves, in a translucent misty green tone that blends naturally with the hazy background. Below the banner, the page layout shifts to a clean, documentary-style grid used as the sound library section. At the top of this section is an elegant small heading in wide-spaced, all-caps type: "CURRENT EXPEDITIONS." Below the heading is a tidy two-column grid displaying four soundscape cards, each with a distinct style. Card 1 (top left): background is a moody, misty riverbank thumbnail, with the title "Dawn Chorus in Danum Valley," and below it the caption "Location: Sabah, Borneo" and "Duration: 42:15." A small amber badge on the right of the card reads "Currently Playing." Card 2 (top right): a close-up of wet, broad green leaves, with the title "Monsoon Rain on Broadleaves," caption "Location: Khao Yai, Thailand" and "Duration: 1:15:30," and a thin-outlined button labeled "Listen." Card 3 (bottom left): a hazy silhouette of the forest canopy at dusk, with the title "Nocturnal Gibbon Calls," caption "Location: Khao Sok, Thailand" and "Duration: 58:02," and a thin-outlined button labeled "Listen." Card 4 (bottom right): a macro close-up of tree bark texture, with the title "Hornbill Wingbeats," caption "Location: Taman Negara, Malaysia" and "Duration: 24:40," and a thin-outlined button labeled "Listen." On the far right of the soundscape grid, a vertical panel spans the lower half of the section, styled after a page from a vintage field science notebook. The paper has a soft, aged cream texture, with a faint coffee stain in the bottom-right corner. The panel title uses a typewriter monospace font reading "FIELD NOTES," with elegant, slightly faded ink-toned body text: "Recorded using parabolic microphones and Nagra IV-S tape recorders." Humidity: 94% Temp: 24°C. Next to the text is a finely hand-drawn dark brown ink sketch of a pitcher plant. At the very bottom of the page is a minimal footer spanning the full width, with a thin dark green divider line above it. The footer reads "Copyright 2024 Rainforest Archive" on the left and "Funded by the Wildlife Conservation Society" on the right, both in a soft, understated small serif font.

Example by Alibaba Cloud · source ↗

A professional educational PPT slide with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The background is an extremely subtle blue-gray gradient, overlaid with a very low-opacity sine-wave pattern and a faint dot-grid texture, creating a rigorous academic physics atmosphere with a tech-forward feel. Centered at the top of the slide is the main title area, with the text in large, bold, dark navy sans-serif type: "AC Circuit Analysis: Resistor with Sinusoidal Voltage." Directly below the title is a bright thin orange horizontal line as a visual divider, with small circular end caps at both ends to add a sense of ceremony to the layout. The main body of the slide is split into two columns using a strict grid-alignment system, with the left and right columns in roughly a 1:1.2 width ratio, giving the complex formulas on the right ample display space. At the top of the left column is a rounded-rectangle orange header bar with centered bold white text: "PROBLEM DATA & WAVEFORM." The header bar has a subtle drop shadow at the bottom, giving it a slightly raised, three-dimensional feel. Below the orange header is a light gray-white rounded data card with an extremely thin light blue border, containing four vertically arranged data points. Each point has a minimalist, solid-gray line icon to its left — in order, a resistor symbol, a wave line, a voltage arrow, and a clock symbol. The text for the four points is in clear dark gray type, reading in order: "Resistor (R) = 10 Ω," "Waveform = Sinusoidal," "Peak Voltage (V subscript p) = 311 V," and "Period (T) = 0.02 s," neatly laid out with comfortable line spacing, with key numbers highlighted in a slightly darker color. Below the data card is the chart area, with a dark gray chart title centered at the top: "Voltage vs. Time." The chart itself is a 2D coordinate system with light gray gridlines. To the left of the vertical Y-axis is the dark gray label "Voltage (V)," with tick marks labeled "+311," "0," and "-311" in dark blue text on white background boxes. Below the horizontal X-axis is the dark gray label "Time (s)," with tick marks labeled "0.01" and "0.02." At the center of the coordinate system is a smooth, full, slightly glowing bright red sine-wave curve of moderate line weight, showing perfect periodicity. At the peak of the sine wave, a dark blue vertical double-headed arrow indicates the amplitude, labeled in dark blue text: "V subscript p = 311 V." Above one full period on the X-axis is a dark blue horizontal dimension line with vertical lead lines at both ends, labeled in the center in dark blue text: "T = 0.02 s." The chart area has generous white space overall, keeping the visual focus on the red waveform. At the top of the right column is another rounded-rectangle orange header bar, aligned in height with the left header, with centered bold white text: "SOLUTION STEPS & CALCULATIONS." Below the orange header, four light-blue gradient rounded cards are arranged vertically with even spacing between them and generous internal breathing room. The first card has a dark blue circular numbered badge in the top-left corner with a white "1" inside. The card title is bold dark blue text: "1. Maximum Current (I subscript p)." The body below is laid out in three lines in the visual style of standard mathematical notation — with fraction bars, sub/superscripts, and radicals rendered elegantly — reading in dark gray: "Formula: Ohm's Law, I subscript p = V subscript p over R," followed by the calculation "I subscript p = 311 V over 10 Ω = 31.1 A." In the bottom-right corner of the card is a bright yellow rounded highlight box with bold dark blue text: "I subscript p = 31.1 A." The second card's badge shows "2," titled "2. AC Voltmeter Reading (V subscript rms)." The body includes the note "Voltmeters read RMS value," the formula "V subscript rms = V subscript p over square root of 2," and the calculation "V subscript rms = 311 V over 1.414 ≈ 220 V," with the bottom-right highlight box showing "V subscript rms ≈ 220 V." The third card's badge shows "3," titled "3. Actual Power Dissipated (P subscript avg)." The body includes "Using RMS values," the formula "P subscript avg = (V subscript rms) squared over R," the calculation "P subscript avg = (220 V) squared over 10 Ω = 48400 over 10 W = 4840 W," with the bottom-right highlight box showing "P subscript avg = 4.84 kW." The fourth card's badge shows "4," titled "4. Joule Heat in Half Cycle (Q subscript half)." The body includes "Energy = Power × Time," the time calculation "Time = T over 2 = 0.01 s," the main calculation "Q subscript half = P subscript avg × (0.01 s) = 4840 W × 0.01 s = 48.4 J," with the bottom-right highlight box showing "Q subscript half = 48.4 J." All four cards' highlight boxes are aligned uniformly in the bottom-right corner, creating a tidy visual alignment and reading flow. At the very bottom of the slide is an extremely thin light gray horizontal divider, below which is centered small light gray sans-serif text: "Experimental Physics - AC Circuits Analysis Module." The footer area remains minimal, with the rest of the background kept as clean graphics and white space. Lighting and shadow are handled with restraint, adding depth only through subtle drop shadows beneath the cards and slight highlights on the header bars, resulting in an overall highly polished, clearly structured, and information-rich professional physics teaching slide.

Example by Alibaba Cloud · source ↗

Long briefs, followed to the letter

Qwen reads very long descriptions, so you can art-direct a whole scene: where the product stands, the light, the palette, the empty space.

Commercial lifestyle hero photograph for an adaptive recreation equipment campaign. Feature one premium all-terrain beach wheelchair as the unmistakable hero product: lightweight matte cobalt-blue tubular frame, supportive charcoal mesh seat, footrest, push handles, safety belt, and three oversized pale-gray balloon tires designed for soft sand. Place it at the end of an accessible timber boardwalk where it meets a broad windswept beach, angled three-quarters toward the ocean so the complete product and wheel construction are clearly visible. Low coastal grasses bend in the breeze, shallow tidal pools reflect the sky, and distant white surf creates layered depth. Fresh late-afternoon light after rain, luminous turquoise, cobalt, sand, and soft coral palette, crisp natural textures, subtle wet highlights on the tires, premium outdoor editorial photography, realistic engineering and proportions. Wide landscape composition with the wheelchair occupying the right-center foreground and open shoreline extending left, generous breathing room, low camera height, 35mm lens character, polished but believable, no people, no logos, no text.

Example by Runware · source ↗

Finished landscape wall artwork, not a framed mockup: a dramatic cutaway view through a tidal strait where the world above and below the waterline appears in one continuous composition. Above water, low wind-shaped islands, a tiny lighthouse, distant working boats, and wheeling seabirds beneath a broad dawn sky. Below water, three elegant tidal turbines stand on the rocky seabed as powerful currents sweep through their blades; schools of silver fish curve around the machinery, kelp forests cling to the rocks, and layered current lines reveal the flow of the sea. Render as a sophisticated hand-carved reduction linocut with bold simplified forms, visible carved marks, tactile ink grain, and slight handmade registration variation. Restrained palette of deep indigo, oxidized teal, warm bone, coral red, and muted mustard. Strong panoramic rhythm, turbine silhouettes concentrated across the lower middle, generous sky for visual calm, balanced asymmetry, crisp printable edges, refined contemporary maritime art suitable for an architect's office or museum design shop. No lettering, labels, border, frame, room interior, or signature.

Example by Runware · source ↗

Qwen Image 3 in the Lab

SettingWhat you get
Pictures per runUp to 4
ShapesSquare, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16
Reference picturesNot in the Lab yet: Qwen runs text-to-picture here

For text-heavy pictures, write the exact words in the prompt, in quotes, one block at a time, and say where each block goes. Qwen follows long prompts, so detail helps.

How to prompt Qwen Image

From Alibaba's Model Studio guides.

  1. Structure the prompt: subject, scene, style, lighting, composition.
  2. Put the exact text you want to appear in the prompt, in quotes.
  3. Go long when you need control. Qwen accepts prompts of about 4,500 tokens.
  4. Name the material the text sits on (glass, paper, neon, embroidery) for text that looks real.
  5. Write in English or Chinese.

FAQ

What is Qwen Image best at?

Long, dense text and layouts: poems, menus, posters and pages, in 12 languages, with text as small as 10 pixels.

Can I write my prompt in Chinese?

Yes. Qwen Image reads Chinese and English prompts.

Can I upload a reference picture?

Not with Qwen in the Lab yet. For reference-based work, use Nano Banana, Seedream or Kling Image.

Why are the example prompts so long?

Because Qwen follows long prompts faithfully. Longer, more exact prompts give more control over text and layout.