SeaArt AI review: nine prompts tested, first output kept and scored

a neon sign above a ramen shop that reads "OPEN UNTIL 3AM", night street, shallow depth of field

• ✓An atmospheric alley with a moody, cinematic feel, its one saving grace
• ✗The sign reads "REEEN/REGEN", not "OPEN UNTIL 3AM", the requested text essentially absent
• ✗All background signage is melted into illegible shapes
• ✗Loose, ill-defined silhouettes throughout; its worst image and lowest adherence
• •Part of a clear pattern: curved and neon text fails where flat printed text later holds

a product box for "NOVA MINT" toothpaste, brand name clearly printed, teal and white packaging, studio light

• ✓The brand name "NOVA MINT" is clean and correct, legible on two surfaces
• ✓A tidy logo lockup with a correct ® registered-trademark mark
• ✓It recovers on flat printed text, confirming the flat-OK, curved-fails pattern
• ✓Correct packaging with a clean, readable layout, comfortably beating rivals on this prompt
• ✗A plain horizontal carton with an unadventurous composition, its lowest sub-score is aesthetic

close-up portrait of a 60-year-old fisherman, weathered skin, natural window light, 85mm lens, no retouching

• ✓A gallery-grade portrait with exceptional weathered skin
• ✓The most literal reading of "natural window light" of any tool in the test
• ✓A tight 85mm framing with genuine no-retouching realism
• ✓Sound anatomy and an unedited, documentary feel
• ✓Ties the leader on photorealism, one of its strongest images

street photo of a rainy Tokyo crossing at night, wet asphalt reflections, neon signage, 35mm documentary style

• ✓The only tool to render an actual Tokyo crossing, with a real crosswalk, intersection and cars mid-turn
• ✓The best wet reflections in the whole test, with a filmic quality
• ✓Strong adherence to the rainy-crossing brief, leading the field on this prompt
• ✗Background signage garbles into illegible shapes
• ✗Distant background figures are soft on close inspection

two hands exchanging a coffee cup, close-up, all ten fingers visible, natural pose

• ✓The only genuine cup exchange in the test: a real handoff, left hand on the mug, right hand taking the handle
• ✓Clean anatomy on both hands, the "exchanging" verb that broke other tools
• ✓Its top sub-score is adherence, beating even Ideogram on the depicted action
• ✗Minor flattened fingertips on close inspection
• ✗A slightly soft thumb joint on the receiving hand

a skincare serum bottle with a dropper, minimalist beige background, soft reflections, premium cosmetics photography

• ✓A flawless bottle form with convincing glass and a believable fill line
• ✓A correctly straight internal pipette, the exact detail that broke weaker tools
• ✓Clean premium studio lighting and staging
• ✓Its top sub-score is coherence, the physical form is essentially perfect
• ✗The serum label is left completely blank, consistent with the text weakness and the gap versus a top product shot

anime-style portrait of a young woman with short blue hair, school uniform, soft cel shading, detailed eyes

• ✗The headline failure: the anime prompt produced a live-action cosplay photo of a real woman in a blue wig and uniform
• ✗The core "soft cel shading" style clause was inverted, photoreal instead of illustration
• ✗On its supposed home turf it scored lowest of the three anime tools, its joint-lowest image
• ✓The subject is right: blue hair, a school uniform, and detailed eyes
• •You would likely need to pick a specific anime model manually; the default missed the style entirely

a red cube on top of a blue sphere, to the left a green pyramid, plain white studio background, even lighting

• ✓A full spatial pass: a real pyramid to the left, cube on the sphere, every object and colour correct
• ✓The best material realism of the shapes, with tactile painted-wood texture
• ✓Proper contact shadows grounding each object, leading the field on this prompt
• ✓A genuine square-based pyramid, not a tetrahedron substitute
• ✓Reflects its benchmark-topping instruction-following, the highest adherence of any tool

a split scene: left half desert at noon, right half snowy forest at night, clear vertical divider down the middle

• ✓Nailed the hardest split: a real desert-noon left and snowy-night right
• ✓Its desert reads more convincingly as "noon" than any rival's
• ✓A crisp central divider, tying the benchmark leader on this prompt
• ✓Perfect adherence, its top sub-score on the suite's toughest brief
• ✗The seam between the two halves is slightly abrupt