Why Try AI

Why Try AI

How to Test Your Text Prompts With Free AI Art Generators [+Video]

Using tools like DeepAI and Craiyon to test prompts quickly and at scale.

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Daniel Nest
Sep 22, 2022
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Man, the AI art scene went wild this summer!

From DALL-E 2 to Midjourney to Stable Diffusion (Dream Studio) from my last post, we’re drowning in a sea of apps that can create art from a simple text prompt.

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Most of the top-shelf AI art tools let you generate dozens of images for free. Then they start charging a nominal fee to request more images.

As fun as it is to play around with the new art-creating AI and watch it spit out random images, if you want get specific and precise results out of them, you’ll have to get better at providing the right text inputs.

This takes some practice to get right…and that’s exactly where free text-to-image tools come in handy.

Why use free text-to-image generators?

While the big players’ fees are honestly quite affordable—typically around $10 dollars for hundreds of images—they do cost money.

Do you know what doesn’t cost money? Free AI art generators. (You heard it h…

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