So from now on, image generation is not done by Dall-E by default in ChatGPT, but by the GPT-4o model. This development has also been integrated into the Sora video generator. The descriptions and demonstration images are quite promising, so I thought I would try what this tool can do. Update: it is no longer available in the free version, so I have not tested the service yet. I will only highlight a few official images.

According to OpenAI, a good image generator should not only be able to create spectacular photorealistic, fantasy, and surreal images, but also be useful and functional.

When creating the new image generation model, attention was paid to ensuring that the texts appearing in the generated images were accurate. The model not only monitors the correctness of the text, but we can also specify the exact arrangement of the text, so we can write poems or create beautifully illustrated recipes or infographics.

The model also supports differentiated imaging, so after image generation, we can easily modify the existing image by entering a short prompt.

Furthermore, this model can easily create comics and even user interfaces (UI) for games with full visuals and consistent icons.

This latter feature could be a game changer, as it will now be possible to create UIs and infographics with precise text much faster and more efficiently.

Sample images

Unfortunately, access to the new image generator has now been disabled in the Free version, so I’ll only show some of the official images:

Example #1 – Infographic

Image credit: OpenAI

Correct captions and convincing depiction.

Example #2 – Reflections and text

Image credit: OpenAI

The reflections look quite accurate. Many AI image generators have trouble representing reflections properly.

Example #3 – UI design

Image credit: OpenAI

We can create computer game visual designs even with consistent icons.

Example #4 – Transparent background

Credit: OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation/?video=1069289433

Example #5 – Illustration for a science experiment

Image credit: OpenAI

Availability

The gpt-4o image generator is now available on Plus, Pro, and Team subscriptions. Due to overwhelming demand, the ability to generate images with the new model was disabled in the free version to prevent server overload.

The service will soon be available in Enterprise and Edu versions.

Performance

This model is a bit slower than Dall-E, as it interprets and processes our prompt more precisely. It can take more than 1 minute to render an image.

Advanced prompting

Since there is no UI element to set parameters (such as aspect ratio, colors used, image style) during image generation, all of this can be specified simply in text form. You can even specify the hexadecimal code of specific colors in the prompt. If you want to create a photorealistic image, you can specify the type of camera or lens or even the style of the photo (example: polaroid photo).

Limitations

The model does not always work flawlessly. There may be problems with rendering multilingual text, hallucinations may occur. Longer, small texts may be incorrectly rendered. There may be problems with content authenticity if we want to display more than 10-20 small icons in an image. We can see examples of this in the official article.

Summary

Based on the sample images on the official website, I can say that the gpt-4o image generator can be a very useful tool for creating illustrations, infographics, UI elements and icons.

Of course, we have to be careful if we want to use the images for commercial purposes. If we have the image made in the style of a specific artist, it can lead to legal problems. This applies to any AI image generator.

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Capricorn is the last earth sign of the zodiac.

Period: 22 Dec – 19 Jan

Motto: “I create order and structure in the right time with responsibility!“

Characteristics of the Capricorn sign

Representatives of this zodiac sign are taking life seriously. They have strong self-discipline and they are making a strong progress towards their goals. This zodiac sign is practical. The predictability is very important for a Capricorn. They love to plan things which gives stability to them. Financial security is another high priority area for them. Capricorn thinks always twice what the want to purchase. Female and Male Capricorns are both full with ambition and working hard both in their job and in private life. They are reliable, accurate, trustworthy. They rarely ask for help, preferring to solve tasks independently. Sometimes they are more productive alone then in a team.

Development opportunities

If you are a Capricorn, then you should try to be more empathetic with others. Try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, even if it’s the hardest thing in the world for you.

Capricorn Celebrities

Eddie Redmayne, Diane Keaton, Kate Moss, Mel Gibson, Orlando Bloom

Prompt

The first prompt is very simple, but gave me (almost) the desired result. I removed the unwanted constellations in the background.

create a highly detailed, cinematic digital concept art of a woman who is a representative of the Capricorn zodiac sign

I cropped the image and removed some unwanted elements in the top left corner.

Prompt #2

Create a 2:3 aspect ratio image: highly detailed, cinematic digital concept art of a man who is a representative of the Capricorn zodiac sign. There should be no constellations in the sky, just a simple starry night sky and rocky mountains in the background.

DALL-E don’t respected my directions about aspect ratio, but the image is quite strong and cinematic.

I hope you enjoyed the AI art gallery of the month: Capricorn. See you soon in the next one!

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It was also mentioned that due to the high energy consumption of gen AI, the AI ​​Art Gallery of the Week is expected to become the AI ​​Art Gallery of the Month. So from now on, instead of the weekly gallery, I will only create one or two thematic AI Art Galleries per month.

This time, get to know the characteristics of the Sagittarius zodiac sign!

Period: 22 Nov – 21 Dec

Motto: “Faith moves mountains! I am capable of achieving great things!”

What do we know about people with the Sagittarius sign?

Being a fire sign, they are eternally restless, tireless, curious, a true explorer.
They love to travel, they would love to travel the whole world.
He has great enthusiasm, a great sense of justice.

Sagittarius is important for his sincerity and straightforwardness.
Representatives of this zodiac sign are eternally cheerful, their optimism never leaves them.

He dreams big, furthermore he tends to soar too high, to “fly away like a balloon”. It is good if he has a practical (earth type) partner by his side, who brings him down to the ground of reality.
In the best case, he is a real social figure, a real “party face”, as he has good speaking skills.
In a relationship, he is a chivalrous, romantic, attractive man or a seductive woman.

Development opportunities

Sagittarius must make sure that he can “bring down” his good ideas and lofty ideals to the physical level. He should be able to put knowledge into practice. Don’t just dream big and have his feet not touching the ground.

Scorpio Celebrities

Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears

Prompt

A 3:2 digital 3D render, a true masterpiece with amazingly rich details, depicting a half-shirtless, muscular, athletic man in black pants in a side view, who holds his bow at about 45 degrees to the sky, ready to shoot. The bow and arrow, half aimed at the sky, symbolizes lofty ideas. In the background, ash and embers glow. The kind of fire that remains after a big campfire and can still catch fire. In the distance, dark mountains stand and the sky is a light gray shade. The lights are dramatic, sublime, epic. The character is heroic, full of optimism, enthusiasm and energy. The image has a warm, optimistic yet dramatic atmosphere.

I used DALL-E to generate this image and I made a little post production in Affinity Photo to extend the upper part of the image because the bow was cutted at the top.

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Period: 23 Oct – 21 Nov

Motto:
“I get to the bottom of things, even at the cost of my life!
What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger!”

How do we get to know Scorpio people?

Scorpios are energetic, passionate and brave. Based on these signs, they look like fire signs, but in fact their element is water.

They have a solid vision of the ideal world. They have a huge inner drive, they are passionate and determined towards the goals they set for themselves.

Their strong intuitive instincts make them very good at knowing people.

The representatives of this zodiac sign are sensitive and vulnerable inside, but they hide this well from outsiders.

They are often able to reach great emotional depths within themselves and characterized by extreme emotional states: love or hate, but no middle ground.

They remain stable even in difficult and dangerous life situations, they are real survivors.

If they get to know, experience and overcome their emotional extremes, they can greatly help others.

They are attracted to the deep connections of life, secrets and taboos.

Development opportunity for Scorpio Zodiac sign

In human relationships, Scorpio should practice being able to let others get closer to him or, if necessary, let them go.

Scorpio celebrities

Leonardo DiCaprio, Katy Perry, Ryan Gosling, Julia Roberts

Prompt

A beautiful gold-plated metal scorpion statue on the lakeside, finely crafted and engraved, with small ruby ​​red jewel inlays. Fine damages and scratches are visible on its metallic surface. This indicates that it has taken on difficult tasks and has been injured many times in its life due to external and internal battles. The scorpion statue is the precise goldsmith work of ancient Egyptian culture.

The statue is on the shore of the lake, in the upper right corner of the picture. The water of the lake is crystal clear, small stones and aquatic vegetation can be seen on the shore and in the water. Toward the lower right edge of the picture, the lake suddenly deepens and we cannot see the bottom, only the deep blue darkness. The scorpion seems to come alive and want to crawl into the water. There is some negative space on the edges of the image so that the scorpion does not completely touch the edge of the image.

I made this picture with DALL-E.

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There are a lot of changes, new functions in these free AI image generators. I can mention some new and powerful AI image tools which are released this year.

There are some changes, for example OpenAI enabled to use DALL-E 3 free, but with limitations.

Playground AI made a huge update in 2024: v3 beta is available.

Black Fores Labs introduced Flux image generator.

Midjourney is unfortunately not free due to the high demand and popularity, you must pay for the subscription.

DALL-E 3

https://openai.com/index/dall-e-3/

OpenAI was among the first to create an AI image generation tool. The free version of DALL-E 3 became available a few weeks ago in ChatGPT. You can learn from this article how to create images with different aspect ratios.

There is an another way to generate images with DALL-E 3 for free: it is embedded into Microsoft Copilot as well.

General information:

• You can create 2 images per day with ChatGPT

Benefits of the free version:

• easy to use
• ChatGPT can enhace your prompt to make it more detailed and accurate

Limitations of the free version:

• changing the parameters is not easy

Playground AI

https://playgroundai.com/

Playground AI made a huge update in this year. They released v3 beta and implemented the so called Design function.

If you navigate to the website you can first select a project type (for example Logo, Seamless Patterns or Social Media Post) and after that you can choose from a large list of templates. Many templates are free, but some are available only with Pro subscription.

If you selected the template, than you can change the image and change the style.

I’m plan to write an article about this brand new design tool, so check back later.

You can generate images with the original create tool of course.

General features:

• User gallery (Community Feed)
• Possibility to remix generated images by others
• Keyword search
• Canvas editor
• Designer
• Ability to change image aspect ratio
• Various filters

Limitations of the free version:

• 10 images in 24 hours
• 30 prompt expansions / month
• 5 creative upscales / month
• 30 subtle upscale / month
• Maximum resolution of generated images: 1024 x 1024 pixels in case of 1:1 ratio
• Slower image generation, the Pro
• Other image quality restrictions
• Not all design templates are available for free

Leonardo Ai

https://leonardo.ai

Leonardo Ai is even better then in 2023. In this year some new innovative features was added to this tool, like the Phoenix preset. In the early days of computer generated images it was a big problem to render text on the image, but Leonardo Ai solved this problem with Phoenix.

General features:

• User gallery (Recent Creations)
• Possibility to remix generated images by other users
• Canvas editor
• Realtime Canvas (originally called live canvas, see my article and youtube video)

This application has additional extra features such as:

• texture generation for 3D models
• video generation

Limitations of the free version:

• 150 fast tokens, resets once per day
• no private generations
• Images can be up to 1024×1024 pixels (in case of square ratio)

Flux

https://blackforestlabs.ai

There is a new AI art generator tool on the market created by Black Forest Labs. The rumor is that this is a revolutionary AI image generator because it can create photorealistic images.

I heard that the people worked on Stable Diffusion made Flux as well.

If you scroll down on the Flux website then you can see that many images seems to be photorealistic in thumbnail size and looks even as a real photo if you enlarge it. So Flux is very convicing, I will try it soon.

Interesting is that it’s open source, so everyone can download it for free and experiment with it.

Flux has three different versions:

• pro – for professionals – this is unfortunately not free
• dev – still very quality model, but only for non-commercial usage
• schnell – the fastest model, for personal use, you can install and run it on your own computer and generate images in a couple of seconds depending on your computer speed

Summary

The free AI image generators mentioned above providing a good possibility to try AI-based image generation. If you’re on a limited budget or just curious to see what these apps can do, it’s worth trying at least one of them out. I personally recommend Playground AI and Leonardo Ai because of the wide variety of customisation possibilities even in the free version.

I would like to see your creations! Feel free to try the apps above and share your results!

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With this step, the company has achieved that you can also test this tool (if you are registered on chat.openai.com) and generate two images per day with the AI. DALL-E 3 is available from September for ChatGPT Plus subscribers.

I also tried this quickly and in this article I will present the results.

The tests

I will also share the pictures and the prompt with you. The pictures are original size and I have not done any post-processing on them.

Test #1

In the first test, I wanted to examine both how well DALL-E understands the prompt I wrote and what texts it can produce on the car.

I gave this prompt: “Draw a racing car in side view, racing on the race track, its wheels and the background are blurred by the high speed, the car’s side is supported by the inscriptions “chatGPT”, “Dall-E 3”, sunset, golden hour, unreal engine, hyper realistic“

The result is of good quality, it brings the atmosphere I imagined. The texts are not perfect, we can correct them afterwards with an image editing software.
(It is possible that the caption would already be accurate after multiple generations.)

Test #2

The second image generation option was inspired by a book I read about Norse mythology. My idea was to represent the tree of life, Yggdrasil.
Another interesting thing is that I did not give a detailed prompt, but only a few words.

The short prompt: “Draw an oil painting of the Yggdrasil from the Northern mythology.“

Which chatGPT automatically replaced with a long, detailed description with four paragraphs (I inserted the first and last paragraph only):

“Imagine an oil painting of Yggdrasil, the immense and mystical ash tree that connects the Nine Worlds in Norse mythology. The tree stands tall and grand, its sprawling branches reaching up to the heavens, filled with lush green leaves that shimmer with an otherworldly glow. The trunk is thick and gnarled, with intricate patterns etched into the bark, symbolizing the ancient runes of wisdom...

The painting exudes a sense of ancient power, mystery, and the interconnectedness of all things in the Norse cosmos, with vibrant colors and rich textures that convey the majesty and sacredness of Yggdrasil.“

The picture turned out to be very atmospheric, although to me it looks more like a digital painting than an oil painting.

How to generate image with custom aspect ratio?

With a very easy trick you can customize the image aspect ratio, so you are able to create not only 1:1 images but also, for example header images (landscape format) or portrait format images.

The trick is to indicate in the prompt which aspect ratio you want to see in the final image.

I used this prompt to generate the drawing robot image with chatGPT:
Create a 3:2 ratio vector illustration for 12-14 year old children: a humanoid robot drawing an image with colored pencil on a piece of paper which is on a desk. The robot is lightblue, the colors of the room are warm, the pencil has an orange color.

Summary

OpenAI’s goal is certainly to get as many people as possible to try the DALL-E image generator and to subscribe to chatGPT Plus to create unlimited images.

I recommend to try chatGPT DALL-E 3 for free, but think carefully about which prompt you use. Because you only have two options per day.

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