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Testing free AI image generators

I’ll admit that I wasn’t the first to hop on the bandwagon when ChatGPT and Generative AI made their big splash. BUT, their prevalence and persistence wherever my eyeballs met a screen (personal texts, headlines, social media, email) piqued my interest enough to break through the warm cocoon of resistance to explore a new world. So the big question is — As a designer, how can GenAI help me?

If your’e new to Generative AI — GenAI for short, it refers to machine learning systems that can create computer generated content such as music, video, and text. This definition only scratches the surface of its potential.

I digress, back to my question: As a designer, how can GenAI help me?

To answer this question, I immediately gravitated towards AI image generators such as Adobe Firefly, Craiyon, and Midjourney. I tested a handful of these GenAI tools with the same text prompt (Prompt: Butterfly made up of flowers in an enchanted forest) to get a feel of how they work and what sort of imagery each tool would spit out. One tool blew the rest out of the water. Here are my results.

Stable Diffusion

Clean interface and easy to use. It took about 20 seconds to render our prompt, which is pretty fast compared to other AI image…

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Written by Charlene Nuval

Experience Designer & Feng Shui Aficionado

Responses (8)

What are your thoughts?

MidJourney is imho the best tool, you should've included it.

An article came out this week about AI taking jobs. It was a serious study. So far, not one job has been lost to AI. It’s added 5% more jobs to the US, Canadian, and European economies,

Oh man, gotta say Adobe Firefly sounds straight fire! 😎 For all my peeps struggling with image gen, this could be the game changer. As a designer, this AI stuff doesn't steal our jobs, it just gives us dope new tools, right? Can't wait to experiment with Firefly, gonna be sick!