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OpenAI releases “4o Image Generation”
PLUS: Figma releases “Color Contrast” Color Picker, ツSupercut releases “Public Beta,” and more.
Steven Van
March 30, 2025
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TOP STORY
🖼️ OpenAI releases “4o Image Generation”
This week, OpenAI released “4o Image Generation,” which integrated native image generation and editing directly into ChatGPT (spoiler: it went viral).
Unlike its predecessors that relied on external tools like DALL-E, GPT-4o allows users to create photorealistic images, render accurate text, and follow complex prompts with precision—all within a single model.
The new 4o image model is currently only available for paying ChatGPT users.
The OpenAI GPT-4o image-generation feature skyrocketed to viral, largely due to its uncanny ability to churn out Studio Ghibli-inspired images.
“Studio Ghibli” is a renowned Japanese animation studio, co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki, celebrated for its hand-drawn films like Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.
Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki famously criticized AI-generated animation in 2016, calling it “an insult to life itself” after viewing an early demo.
For context: Hand-drawn anime, like Miyazaki’s films, involves immense dedication—Studio Ghibli’s “The Wind Rises,” for instance, features a four-second crowd scene that took animator Eiji Yamamori 15 months to complete, with each film containing 60,000–70,000 hand-drawn and watercolored frames.
Today, ChatGPT users can create a single frame in just a minute — while it won’t be as good, it’s undeniable that the technology is impressive.
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Besides the Studio Ghibli-inspired images, the internet found other things the AI model is great at creating 👇️
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Infographics
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Mockups
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DESIGN
🎨 Figma releases “Color Contrast Checker”
This week, Figma released a new “Contrast Color Checker,” integrated into the color picker, which is aimed at helping designers ensure their work meets Website Color Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards.
The WCAG are rules to make websites easy for everyone to use, especially people with disabilities like blindness or trouble seeing colors.
They help fix problems like hard-to-read text or tricky navigation so folks with visual, hearing, or other challenges can access the internet.
This feature will roll out to all users over the next few days.
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The new color picker will detect whether you’re working with text or graphics, applies WCAG standards, adjusts for text size and weight, and then displays a pass/fail indicator with the contrast ratio if it doesn’t meet requirements.
Here’s a quick walkthrough of the new feature 👇️
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VIDEO EDITING
💻️ ツSupercut releases “Public Beta”
This week, ツSupercut publicly launched their new screen recording and video sharing tool after being in private since November 2024.
The tool is currently free while in public beta, and will release with a free plan.
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🎨 Create multiple brand layouts – Create videos with your brand assets.
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📗 Smart navigation – Auto-generated chapters for effortless viewing.
💬 Comments & reactions – Right on the timeline.
🖥 Up to 4K Resolution – Crisp, professional visuals.
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OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞️
ElevenLabs released “Actor Mode” in Studio, enabling users to use their own voices to guide the delivery of scripts spoken by AI voices.
Notion announced a new “Notion Creator Program.”
Figma is rolling out Spanish product and support localization over the next few weeks.
Contra now allows users to import their portfolios from Dribbble or Behance in seconds.
Framer announced that P3 color support is coming to Framer next week.
Framer released a new dashboard for “Framer Creators” — you can now easily tack clicks, sign-ups, sales, and earnings all in once place.
Webflow released “Shared Libraries,” a new way to share the same branding across multiple sites.
Opus Clip now allows users to upload animated overlays to their brand templates.
Freepik released “Mockup Generator,” allowing users to create mockups from scratch with a prompt, an image, or by using its library.
Recraft released new vector logo styles.
Adam released “Creative Mode,” a new feature that allows users to generate 3D objects from a single image.
Pika released a new feature that combines your selfie video with an old photo of yourself.
Kling AI released “AI Sounds,” enabling users to create sounds for their video creations.
Opus Clip released “Smart Search Box,” a 3-in-1 tools that combines Search, Reprompt, and AI suggestions, right on the result page.
Luma AI released “Edit Thread” in Dream Machine, a new way to organize your creations — this enables users to keep 720p, 1080p, 4K, and audio versions of the same asset, all in once place.
Framer now supports 4 new fonts: YUNGA, Cal Sans, Bonbance, and FT88.
Suno updated its homepage — there are now handpicked songs and For You, Following, and Trending feeds to scroll through.
Descript has made text boxes easier to use, and abbreviations (ie, Dr., Mrs., Inmate No.) don’t cause random line breaks.
Opus Clip released “Grid View,” allowing users to quickly scan through multiple clips at once, and adds a new “Trending” label, “Scheduled” icon, "collapsed views of disliked clips, and a new “Edited” filter.
Opus Clip has revamped its learning center to be more up-to-date and interactive.
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