Hands-On: Tencent Hunyuan Image 3.5 Shines in Text Rendering and Editing Control

On September 23, creator HeyAmit posted a thread of hands-on tests with the Tencent Hunyuan Image 3.5 (Hy Image 3.5) preview. His overall take: the model's value goes beyond image quality — it lies in fine-grained control over the generation process and in embedding image generation into a more complete workflow.

Confirmed

• Supports both text-to-image and image-to-image modes, with up to 5 reference images usable as visual context rather than relying on a single prompt.
• For text generation, it can render text across multiple languages, font sizes, and layouts, and understands how typography relates to the composition — the creator found it especially well suited for posters, ads, presentations, and UI concept drafts.
• For image editing, in tasks like scene replacement, style adjustment, and image transformation, the design goal is to preserve key features of the reference image while applying the changes requested by the user; in testing, changing scenes and adjusting styles still preserved the reference image's characteristics.
• Workflow extensions: the creator listed use cases ranging from product shots to ad creatives, ideas to posters, game concepts to UI, and reference images to new visuals, arguing that the model's value goes beyond one-off "generate me an image" requests.

Why it matters

Text rendering has long been a pain point in AI image generation, while multi-reference input and editing with feature preservation determine whether a model can fit into real production pipelines. If performance holds up in practice, Hy Image 3.5 could become a practical tool for posters, advertising, presentations, and UI design. It is currently a preview, so the final release remains to be seen.

2026-09-23 ~ 2026-09-23 · 8 related posts

Full story(3 episodes)→

• Episode 1: Tencent Hunyuan Launches HyImage3.5 Preview with 2K Image Generation at $0.024 Each(2026-09-22, 8 posts)
• Episode 2: Tencent Hunyuan Launches Hy Image 3.5 Preview on ComfyUI(2026-09-23, 2 posts)
• Episode 3: Hands-On: Tencent Hunyuan Image 3.5 Shines in Text Rendering and Editing Control(2026-09-23, 8 posts)

• Hands-on with Tencent's Hy Image 3.5: strong text rendering, editing and 5-image references — HeyAmit_ · 2026-09-23
• [source] Hands-on: Tencent's Hunyuan Image 3.5 preview impresses with text, references and editing control — HeyAmit_ · 2026-09-23
• Hunyuan Image 3.5 supports up to 5 reference images for richer visual context — HeyAmit_ · 2026-09-23
• [source] Hunyuan Image 3.5 tackles multi-language text rendering for posters, ads and UI — HeyAmit_ · 2026-09-23
• Hunyuan Image 3.5 realism test: lighting, materials and camera language — HeyAmit_ · 2026-09-23
• [source] Hunyuan Image 3.5 editing: preserves reference features through scene swaps and restyling — HeyAmit_ · 2026-09-23
• Testing Hunyuan Image 3.5 via Miora's Image Generator workflow — HeyAmit_ · 2026-09-23
• Hunyuan Image 3.5 workflows beyond 'generate a picture': ads, posters, UI — HeyAmit_ · 2026-09-23