Best Apps For Stunning AI Art (Midjourney Alternatives)

Summary

The video provides a comprehensive ranking of popular AI art generators, with Midjourney V5 rated as the top choice due to its superior aesthetic quality and handling of human features. Alternatives like DALL-E 2, NightCafe, and Leonardo.ai are discussed for their unique strengths and free usage options. The video also covers other tools like Stability AI, Canva, and Runway, highlighting their specific use cases. The speaker explains how to make money with AI-generated art through platforms like Wirestock, and encourages participation in creative AI art events hosted on Discord.

Takeaways

• 🎨 Midjourney V5 is considered the best AI art generator, especially for photorealistic images, with significant improvements in generating human features like hands, teeth, and faces.
• 💰 Midjourney is now a paid service, and the free trial has been removed, though sometimes it is briefly re-enabled.
• 🖼️ DALL-E 2 by OpenAI is an A-tier AI art generator, particularly strong with abstract and cartoonish art, but not as effective at generating realistic human characters.
• 🧑‍🎨 NightCafe is user-friendly and offers good quality AI art, but struggles with generating human figures, especially complex body postures like ballerinas.
• 🎮 Leonardo.ai is a highly recommended free-ish AI art generator, especially good for generating humans, with access to multiple models and the ability to fine-tune them.
• 💻 Wirestock allows creators to sell AI-generated art on major stock marketplaces like Adobe Stock, Pond5, and DepositPhotos, taking an 85% cut for creators.
• 📈 Beginners can use platforms like Dreamline Art and Deep Dream Generator, which offer artsy and user-friendly options but may not match the quality of higher-tier services like Midjourney.
• 💡 Stability AI’s Dream Studio allows fun features like auto-expanding images, but like most Stable Diffusion models, struggles with human characters.
• 📷 Canva’s AI image generator, despite being convenient, produces poor results when generating human images, earning it a C-tier rank.
• 🎥 Runway is notable for its text-to-video features, but its text-to-image results are below average, particularly with generating human characters.

Q & A

What makes Midjourney V5.1 the top AI art generator according to the script?

Midjourney V5.1 is considered the best due to its ability to generate highly aesthetic, photorealistic images, particularly when it comes to human anatomy, faces, hands, and other challenging details. It stands out among competitors for its superior quality.

Why did Midjourney remove its free trial, and how does this affect users?

Midjourney removed its free trial, which previously allowed users to generate 25 images for free. This change forces new users to pay for the service. Occasionally, the free trial is re-enabled temporarily, but it is typically a paid service.

What differentiates Dall-e-2 from other AI art generators?

Dall-e-2, created by OpenAI, uses a custom model rather than stable diffusion, which is open source. This unique model gives Dall-e-2 its own capabilities, particularly excelling at cartoonish and abstract images, but it struggles with generating photorealistic humans.

How does Night Cafe rank in terms of user experience and image quality?

Night Cafe is praised for being very user-friendly, with presets, competitions, and examples to inspire users. While it excels at generating certain types of images, it struggles with photorealistic humans, especially in complex compositions like body anatomy.

What are the strengths of Leonardo.ai, and how can users access it?

Leonardo.ai offers 150 free credits daily and excels in generating human-like images. It allows users to fine-tune models and has a wide selection of styles, including a diffusion model with dark and aesthetic qualities. Users need to sign up for early access, which takes 3-5 days.

Why is Stable Diffusion often criticized for generating human images?

Stable Diffusion, which underpins many AI art generators, tends to struggle with rendering realistic human anatomy, especially in complex poses or faces. This often leads to distorted or unusable images when trying to depict people.

What features make Wirestock an attractive option for selling AI-generated art?

Wirestock simplifies the process of selling AI-generated art by uploading images to multiple stock marketplaces simultaneously, like Adobe, Pond5, and DepositPhotos. Creators get an 85% cut of sales, and Wirestock is developing an AI upscaler to help artists meet resolution requirements.

Why does the video place Canva's image generator in the C tier?

Canva's image generator is based on Stable Diffusion, which struggles with human images. However, it's ranked in the C tier due to its convenience, being integrated into Canva's design tools, which makes it useful for simple tasks.

What does the script suggest about Dream Studio by Stability AI?

Dream Studio, created by Stability AI (the company behind Stable Diffusion), offers fun features like auto-expanding images. However, the script suggests that while it can be enjoyable for enthusiasts, it lacks the quality found in top-tier generators like Midjourney.

What are the downsides of lower-tier AI art generators like Crayon or Lensa AI?

Lower-tier generators like Crayon (based on Dall-e Mini) and Lensa AI are limited in quality. Crayon delivers simplistic and often underwhelming images, while Lensa AI, which became viral for its photo remixes, is inferior to Midjourney in terms of quality and flexibility.