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AI text-to-image AI text-to-image generators are a lot of fun. But here are 5 tools that are helping modern artists work smarter, and harder.
Increasingly, digital artists and content creators are breaking free from traditional methods when creating their works, and artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-image generators are playing a major role in this creative liberation.
In a world driven by deadlines and tightening budgets, tools that help creators deliver high-quality content faster are worth taking the time to learn about. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the best text-to-image generators available that use AI technology to help unlock your creative potential.
As a subset of AI image generators, AI text-to-image generators are tools that use artificial intelligence to generate images based on text prompts. The kind of image generated is based on a combination of the data sets a given tool was trained on and a user’s input text.
Text-to-image generators are able to transform words into pictures through the use of natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, such as semantic analysis, sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging, and semantic clustering. These different processes break down each text prompt into its separate components. Once the AI tool recognizes each part of the input text, it attempts to create visual representations that reflect the prompt as a whole.
In fact, trying our best to understand the nuances of how machines “see” language is an important aspect of learning to work with AI as an artistic medium, like charcoal or clay.
As creative technologist Paul DelSignore notes in a post on Medium, “If you want consistency and the ability to improve your output, you will need to learn how AI responds to language patterns. The AI artists that I follow on community forums and discord channels have mastered this skill, and studying how they write their prompts has helped me at writing better prompts myself.“
Source: Paul DelSignore, Medium.com
Ironically, it’s this prosaic way AI text-to-image generators attempt to understand and translate human language that gives artists creative control over how their artwork looks.
By embracing the devil of these details, one can tune the colors and textures used in their artwork, as well as adjust parameters such as contrast, sharpness, brightness, and saturation, in addition to adding practical visual effects such as aspect ratios and color temperature (or the not so practical, like “redshift style” or “goofiness”).
Ideally, those of us who have little or no artistic or design experience have friends and family members who are falling all over themselves to help us bring our projects to life. Unfortunately, this isn’t a benefit many professionals can count on. For the rest of us, AI text-to-image tools provide valuable support for our day to day content needs.
On the other hand, many artists are also finding novel and thought-provoking uses for these tools. These professionals too are discovering that AI can complement their own strengths and weaknesses in their creative processes (and help push art forward in the process).
But overall, anyone can benefit from how these innovative tools accelerate aspects of the art generation process that often slow down, or even stall, the important things we’re trying to produce.
Here are six text-to-image generators that are worth a try in 2023 (listed in alphabetical order):
The first on our list, Craiyon, actually started off as a lite version of OpenAI’s text-to-image generator DALL·E (originally called DALL·E Mini). As it stands, Craiyon can be used on its own website or downloaded and hosted on a private server.
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DALL·E 2 is OpenAI's newest text-to-image generator, promising four times better resolution quality compared to the original program (DALL·E).
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Many AI art tools work to produce photorealistic images—not so with Deep Dream Generator. Instead, as its name would suggest, it produces high-quality images that often take on a more surreal, ethereal effect.
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Jasper is an AI-powered content tool designed for marketing and business writing that also offers a text-to-image art generator, Jasper Art.
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Unlike the other tools featured here, the Midjourney experience takes place almost entirely through Discord. Midjourney's AI-generated images are sometimes seen as more impressionistic when compared to DALL·E 2. Depending on the needs of a given user, this could be a pro or a con.
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NightCafe Studio's goal is to democratize the art making process. Its name is a nod to the company's favorite artist, Vincent van Gogh.
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There are even more text-to-image generators out there that didn’t make this list, but those above serve as a good sampling of what’s available. Remember, as with anything you use to make art, what you bring to the table matters just as much as—if not more than—the text-to-art tools themselves.
The most important things are your creative vision and how you can most effectively bring that to life.
So try a few tools and see which one matches your style and needs the best. And, if you need a solid place to start, remember you can try Jasper Art for free. Sign up today to experience everything that Jasper can do for you firsthand!
Austin Distel is the Sr. Director of Marketing at Jasper, your AI creative assistant. He's also an Airbnb superhost in Austin, Texas. You can follow Austin's adventures around the internet and the world at distel.com.
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