How to use ChatGPT Images 2.0? Practical tests on beef noodle menu, magazine covers, and multilingual science explanations

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 Raw Image Tool, Highlighting Powerful Complex Layout and Multilingual Text (Including Chinese) Processing Capabilities, This Article Provides a Comprehensive Introduction to Images 2.0 Features, Highlights, Free and Paid Plan Functions, and Real-World Generation Results.

What Is ChatGPT Images 2.0? Main Features and Highlights Explained!

Is there an AI image generation tool capable of competing with Gemini Nano Banana 2? OpenAI announced the release of ChatGPT Images 2.0, powered by the all-new GPT Image 2 model, focusing on excellent image capabilities such as selection, arrangement, and information revelation. Here are the three main features of ChatGPT Images 2.0:

Powerful Layout and Multilingual Text Processing

One of the most obvious features is the significantly enhanced layout and multilingual text processing ability of ChatGPT Images 2.0.

Foreign media TechCrunch pointed out that previous AI image generation tools mostly used diffusion models, which often struggled with spelling text. ChatGPT Images 2.0 can accurately render tiny text, icons, and user interface details.

OpenAI states that Images 2.0 has made remarkable progress in handling non-Latin scripts, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali, all of which can be generated with high clarity within images.

Image source: OpenAI ChatGPT Images 2.0 official generated example

New Thinking Capabilities and Internet Search

Besides layout and multilingual text processing, ChatGPT Images 2.0 also offers new thinking capabilities, allowing real-time internet searches to assist in image generation. The model’s knowledge base is updated through December 2025, helping generate content related to recent events.

Image source: OpenAI ChatGPT Images 2.0 official generated example

Supports 2K Resolution and Diverse Aspect Ratios

ChatGPT Images 2.0 supports image generation up to 2K resolution and offers a broader range of aspect ratios, from wide 3:1 to tall 1:3.

OpenAI researcher Boyuan Chen stated that the Images 2.0 architecture has been comprehensively redesigned, making it a versatile model that, with simple text prompts, can handle 3D-style perspective shifts and complex spatial reasoning.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 Free and Paid Plan Features

Is it worth paying for? Different tiers of ChatGPT Images 2.0 users unlock different features, summarized as follows:

• Free Users: Currently able to use the basic ImageGen 2.0 model for standard image generation tasks. The basic version already includes many core upgrades, such as better command adherence, stronger text rendering, multilingual support, and more aspect ratio options.
• ChatGPT Plus, Business, and Enterprise Users: These paid users can enable the new thinking model. In this mode, the chatbot’s image generator uses internet search information, creates visual explanations based on uploaded files, and performs structural reasoning before actual image generation. Up to 8 images can be generated simultaneously per request, ensuring consistency in characters, objects, and styles across scenes.
• Pro Users: These users gain access to the more advanced ImageGen Pro model. Although OpenAI has not yet detailed the exact differences between Pro and the thinking feature, enterprise users can consider the thinking function as a substantial upgrade, suitable for tasks requiring factual basis, transforming internal documents into explanatory images, or maintaining visual consistency across multiple assets.
• API Developers: Now able to integrate the gpt-image-2 model, supporting high resolution and flexible aspect ratio settings.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 Real-World Tests: Menus, Magazines, Explanation Charts, etc.

How does ChatGPT Images 2.0 perform in actual tests? Does it meet OpenAI’s promotional claims? Let’s try some.

Testing a Beef Noodle Shop Menu

The editor of “Crypto City” tested the free plan of ChatGPT, creating a Taiwanese beef noodle menu with a simple prompt: “Generate a menu featuring Taiwanese beef noodle dishes, using Traditional Chinese characters, showing each dish’s name, price, and image info.”

Here are the results:

Image source: ChatGPT Images 2.0 generated

For content generated with the free plan, it looks quite decent at first glance. However, closer inspection reveals that Images 2.0 still has issues with writing errors in more complex Traditional Chinese characters, perhaps better results are available with paid plans.

The generated results are close to Taipei beef noodle prices, and it even includes a free extra noodle serving for dine-in.

However, if you plan to print your menu, converting the images provided by ChatGPT Images 2.0 into vector formats (like EPS, Adobe Illustrator .ai files, or PDFs) and using CMYK color mode is most suitable for printing. While printers may accept JPG and PNG files, if you have high printing quality requirements, adjustments will be more difficult.

Testing a Science Magazine Cover

Next, a test of a sci-fi magazine cover. This time, “Crypto City” tested complex layout handling. The prompt was: “Generate a science magazine cover in Traditional Chinese, with the magazine name ‘Crypto City,’ theme ‘The Intersection of Blockchain and AI,’ including a title, volume number, barcode, and display date above the barcode, all text must be clear and professionally aligned.”

Here are the results:

Image source: ChatGPT Images 2.0 generated

This test result is similar to the previous one—looks good at first glance but still has issues with complex Chinese strokes upon closer inspection. Also, the font on the cover resembles Justfont’s “Jin Xuan” font used in Taiwan, raising questions about licensing.

Such doubts were also raised when “Crypto City” launched Nano Banana Pro.

• Related report: Nano Banana Pro real-world test: Chinese characters improved! But concerns over animation and font infringement also surfaced

Testing Multilingual Explanatory Charts

“Crypto City” tested a chart explaining earthquake causes in Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The complex multilingual text was roughly rendered successfully. The layout used different colors for different languages, but close inspection shows some blurring issues with complex Chinese strokes, Chinese characters, or Korean text.

Here are the results:

Image source: ChatGPT Images 2.0 generated

Images 2.0 Maintains Character and Object Consistency, Solving Tedious Processes

Additionally, Images 2.0, like Nano Banana 2, offers editability. Clicking the “Edit” button at the bottom left of the generated image allows users to start editing, maintaining character and object consistency, making it easier to create manga pages, social media graphics, or interior room layouts.

ChatGPT Images product lead Adele Li stated that this feature solves the previous tedious process where users had to generate individual images and manually stitch them together, enabling creators to easily produce children’s picture books or brand marketing assets with consistent visual identity.