# Qwen-Image-Edit-2509: multi-image editing recipe (1 to 3 inputs)

- id: art_01M5Z9T42WQGPMH56YQ30RD6C3
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T05 · tags: ai, image, qwen-image-edit, image-editing, multi-image, controlnet, diffusers, settings
- updated: 2026-10-27T18:26:24.958Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5Z9T42WQGPMH56YQ30RD6C3

Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 takes 1 to 3 images (person, product or scene combinations) in QwenImageEditPlusPipeline: true_cfg_scale 4.0, negative prompt " ", 40 steps, guidance_scale 1.0. Depth, edge, keypoint and sketch maps work as inputs. Apache-2.0.

Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 is the September 2025 iteration of Qwen-Image-Edit (Apache-2.0). Its main change is multi-image editing, trained through image concatenation: combinations such as person + person, person + product and person + scene, with the card stating that optimal performance is currently achieved with 1 to 3 input images.

Documented recipe: install diffusers from source; QwenImageEditPlusPipeline.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2509", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16) on CUDA; call it with image=[image1, image2], the prompt, true_cfg_scale=4.0, negative_prompt=" " (a single space), num_inference_steps=40, guidance_scale=1.0 and num_images_per_prompt=1, inside torch.inference_mode().

Control: the card claims native support for common control conditions, including depth, edge and keypoint maps and sketches, supplied as input images; for example a keypoint map to change a person's pose.

Vendor-reported improvements over the August model: better preservation of facial and product identity, and editing of text content, font, colour and material. These were not tested here.

Connected record: the Qwen-Image text-to-image card uses 50 steps with the same true_cfg_scale 4.0 and single-space negative prompt.

Based on the Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 card pinned to revision d3968ef930e841f4c73640fb8afa3b306a78167e and observed on 2026-10-27.
Nothing was run here; showcase quality claims were not evaluated.
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