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AI image generators like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney have suddenly burst into mainstream consciousness.
Here are the ones you might use right now—today.
Midjourney Beta
Midjourneystrikes a good balance between ease of use and impressive results.
Joe Fedewa / Midjourney
All you’re gonna wanna use it is a Discord account.
Midjourney offers some nice additional features like upscaling and variations.
Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusionis an open-source machine learning image generator.
Joe Fedewa / Midjourney
Stable Diffusion runs locally on your own computer.
We have ahandy guide for getting it up and running.
You will need to confirm your machine meets the requirements, though.
Jason Fitzpatrick / Stable Diffusion
There are also other websites hosting Stable Diffusion online.
Bing Image Creator
Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator is a DALL-E powered image generator.
Think of it as the AI art equivalent toBing’s AI Chat feature.
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Unlike DALL-E,Bing Image Creatoris completely free with no limits.
You just might have to wait a bit.
you might access and use Bing Image Creator on the web athttps://www.bing.com/images/create.
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It’s simple and easy to use—all you need is a Microsoft account.
Microsoft launched it on March 21, 2023, on the same day Google releasedGoogle Bard.
However, it’s super easy to use with no accounts or anything else.
Joe Fedewa / NightCafe
You just enter a text prompt and let it do it’s thing.
NightCafe
NightCafeis a web tool that creates images from text prompts in specific art styles.
NightCafe also includes the ability to make videos, and it has a pretty decent community around it.
Joe Fedewa / Dream
To create more than that, you’ll need to purchase additional credit packs starting at $7.99.
Dream by Wombo
Dream by Wombois a similar implementation to NightCafe.
However, you do have the option to choose “no style” if you’d like.
Zachary Wander / DALL-E 2
Dream is accessed on the web, and there’s a mobile version as well.
Dream is completely free to use and there are no daily limitations.
DALL-E 2
DALL-E 2is probably the AI image generator you heard about first.
Many consider it to be the best of these tools, though the competition is catching up quickly.
DALL-E 2 has an easy-to-use interface and will spit out some mind-blowing creations.
Every user gets 50 free credits in the first month, then 15 every month after that.
it’s possible for you to purchase more credits.
As you could see, some of these AI image generators are more accessible than others.
There area lot of these tools available, and more will quickly pop up.
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