The Midjourney Killer? Ideogram VS Midjourney VS DALL•E (Prompt BATTLE + Full-Comparison)

Summary

This script is a detailed comparison of three AI art generators - DALL-E (Darly), Midjourney, and the new contender Idiogram. The author extensively tests the platforms' capabilities through various prompts, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses in terms of prompt adherence, image coherence, text rendering, speed, pricing, and community. The analysis covers photorealistic renderings, illustrations, product designs, and examines factors like color palette, composition, and anatomical accuracy. The author's critique culminates in a personality-based metaphor for each AI art generator, presenting a comprehensive and entertaining assessment to help users navigate the evolving landscape of AI-powered creativity.

Takeaways

• 😎 The video compares the AI art generators Midjourney, DALL-E, and the new Idiogram in terms of features, prompt adherence, image coherence, text rendering quality, speed, pricing, and community support.
• 🎨 Idiogram claims to outperform Midjourney and DALL-E in prompt alignment, image coherence, overall preference, and text rendering quality.
• 🔍 The video conducts prompt battles across different styles (e.g., animal photography, human photorealism, illustrations) to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each AI art generator.
• ⚡ In a speed test, Idiogram was the fastest, followed by DALL-E and then Midjourney.
• 💰 The pricing for unlimited monthly plans is $20 for Idiogram and DALL-E, and $30 for Midjourney (with some additional benefits).
• 🌐 Midjourney offers a more cinematic and curated experience, while Idiogram provides more dynamic and realistic interpretations, and DALL-E often produces overly intense and saturated images.
• 📝 Idiogram excels in text rendering and prompt adherence, especially for complex prompts with relational elements.
• 🔞 Midjourney and DALL-E have stricter restrictions on creating NSFW content or using copyrighted styles, while Idiogram is more lenient (to some extent).
• 🤖 The video anthropomorphizes the AI art generators, portraying Midjourney as an arrogant French connoisseur, DALL-E as a wide-eyed child, and Idiogram as the new kid on the block.
• 🤔 The choice of the best AI art generator depends on the specific use case, as each tool has its own strengths and weaknesses.

Q & A

What are the three AI art generators compared in the video?

The three AI art generators compared are Midjourney, Dall-E, and Idiogram.

According to the video, what are the key strengths of Idiogram?

The video claims that Idiogram excels in prompt adherence, image coherence, overall preference, and text rendering quality compared to Midjourney and Dall-E.

How does the video describe the visual style of Dall-E's outputs?

The video describes Dall-E's outputs as having intense highlights, high dynamic ranges, and saturated colors, sometimes to an overwhelming degree.

What does the video say about Midjourney's ability to render photorealistic human images?

The video suggests that Midjourney renders photorealistic human images more effectively than Idiogram and Dall-E, with a cinematic and tasteful approach.

According to the speed test in the video, which AI art generator was the fastest?

According to the speed test, Idiogram was the fastest, followed by Dall-E, and then Midjourney.

What does the video say about the pricing of these AI art generators?

The video mentions that the unlimited monthly pricing is $20 for Idiogram and Dall-E 3, and $30 for Midjourney. However, Dall-E 3 also includes ChatGPT Plus.

How does the video compare the AI art generators' abilities to render text and fonts?

The video suggests that Idiogram has the best ability to render text and fonts accurately, followed by Midjourney, while Dall-E struggled with this task.

What does the video say about the limitations of these AI art generators regarding NSFW content?

According to the video, Dall-E is the most restrictive with NSFW content, Midjourney is slightly more lenient, and Idiogram allows the most leeway for provocative or NSFW content, but still has limits.

How does the video personify the three AI art generators at the end?

The video personifies Midjourney as an arrogant French individual with the best taste, Dall-E as a wide-eyed, woke child obsessed with bright things, and Idiogram as the new kid on the block.

What additional features or functionalities of Idiogram does the video highlight?

The video highlights Idiogram's ability to create memes and its potential for graphic design work, thanks to its effective text rendering capabilities.

Outlines

00:00

🤖 idog: The New AI Art Generator

This paragraph introduces idog, a brand new AI art generator, and outlines the plan to compare its features and performance against Darly and Mid Journey through various challenges, including prompt adherence, image coherence, speed, pricing, community, resolution, and limitations like handling NSFW content.

05:01

🎨 Comparing the User Experience

The paragraph delves into the user experience of Darly, Mid Journey, and idog. Darly is run inside ChatGPT, allowing conversational prompting but limited fine-tuning. Mid Journey offers a blend of simplicity and advanced controls. idog has a decent image library management but could benefit from a full-screen prompting experience.

10:02

⚔️ Prompt Battle: Animal Photography

In the animal photography challenge, the paragraph compares the three AI generators' interpretations of a dog surfing prompt. Mid Journey's image receives the most votes, followed by idog and Darly. The paragraph analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each image in terms of composition, color palette, realism, and prompt adherence.

15:04

🖼️ Prompt Battle: Human Photo Realism

The paragraph presents the challenge of creating a photorealistic image of a girl in a cafe. It analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each AI generator's output, focusing on aspects like anatomy, perspective, color palette, and overall realism. Mid Journey's cinematic approach and idog's dynamic interpretation are highlighted.

20:05

🧙 Prompt Battle: Fantasy Illustrations

In the fantasy illustration challenge, the paragraph compares the three AI generators' interpretations of a cloaked wizard in a misty forest. It discusses the adherence to the prompt, color palettes, level of detail, and overall aesthetic. idog's prompt adherence and detail are praised, while Mid Journey's cinematic approach is noted.

25:06

🏎️ Prompt Battle: Dynamic Action Shot

The paragraph evaluates the AI generators' performance in creating a dynamic action shot of a Mercedes AMG on a race track. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each output, such as motion effects, color palettes, composition, and realism. Mid Journey's cinematic style and idog's intense dynamism are highlighted.

30:07

🧸 Prompt Battle: 3D and Playful Illustration

In this challenge, the paragraph compares the AI generators' interpretations of a playful student enjoying an outdoor playground. It analyzes aspects like character design, expressions, physics, and color palettes. idog and Mid Journey's engaging character designs are praised, while Darly's approach is described as unusual.

35:09

🅰️ Prompt Battle: Font and Text Rendering

The paragraph tests the AI generators' ability to render text effectively by asking them to create a quirky, children's font. It evaluates idog's impressive adherence to the full alphabet, Mid Journey's usable font design, and Darly's unique but incomplete letter forms.

40:11

🐰 Prompt Battle: Surreal Anthropomorphic Characters

In this challenge, the paragraph compares the AI generators' interpretations of a futuristic cyberpunk bunny character. It discusses aspects like character expression, color palettes, realism, and overall visual appeal. Mid Journey's cinematic taste and idog's intense dynamism are highlighted.

45:11

👠 Prompt Battle: Product Rendering

The paragraph evaluates the AI generators' performance in rendering futuristic women's shoes designed for exploring other-worldly terrains. It analyzes aspects like material reflections, product photography style, and overall visual appeal. idog's and Darly's interpretations are preferred over Mid Journey's.

🃏 Prompt Battle: Tarot Card Illustration

In this challenge, the paragraph compares the AI generators' interpretations of a tarot card illustration. It discusses aspects like floral details, text rendering, composition, and adherence to the tarot card aesthetic. Darly's coherent style and composition are praised as the winner in this round.

🚀 Speed Test and Relational Prompts

The paragraph conducts a speed test among the three AI generators and evaluates their performance in understanding relational prompts involving multiple elements. idog emerges as the fastest, while idog and Darly demonstrate better adherence to complex, relational prompts compared to Mid Journey.

🔞 Restrictions on Content Generation

This paragraph discusses the varying levels of restrictions imposed by the AI generators on creating NSFW content, famous people's likenesses, and using styles from other artists. Darly is the most restrictive, Mid Journey is slightly more lenient, and idog allows for more provocative content within certain limits.

💰 Pricing and Subscription Plans

The paragraph compares the pricing and subscription plans offered by the three AI generators. It highlights the unlimited monthly plans, including Darly's bundled offering with ChatGPT Plus. It also mentions the author's decision to purchase subscriptions for all three tools to support the channel.

😂 Meme Generation with idog

This paragraph showcases idog's ability to generate memes by prompting it to create memes about British men, Americans, and AI art. The resulting memes are presented, demonstrating idog's humorous and relevant interpretations of cultural stereotypes and the impact of AI art.

🏆 Summarizing the AI Art Generators

The paragraph provides a summary and personification of the three AI art generators based on their strengths and characteristics. Mid Journey is likened to an arrogant French man with impeccable taste, Darly is portrayed as a wide-eyed child obsessed with bright and shiny things, and idog is depicted as the new kid on the block.

Keywords

💡AI Art Generator

AI Art Generators are software tools that use artificial intelligence algorithms to create visual art, such as images, illustrations, or designs, based on text prompts provided by the user. The video extensively compares and contrasts three popular AI Art Generators: DALLE (referred to as 'Darly'), Midjourney, and Idiogram, evaluating their strengths, weaknesses, and unique characteristics. AI Art Generators are a central theme throughout the video.

💡Prompt

In the context of AI Art Generators, a prompt is the text input or instruction provided by the user to the AI system, describing the desired visual output. The video frequently mentions prompts and conducts 'prompt battles' where the same prompt is given to different AI Art Generators to compare their interpretations and outputs. The quality and specificity of the prompt heavily influence the generated artwork.

💡Prompt Adherence

Prompt adherence refers to the ability of an AI Art Generator to accurately interpret and follow the instructions provided in the user's prompt. The video highlights that Idiogram and Darly tend to have better prompt adherence, meaning their outputs more closely match the described scene or elements in the prompt, compared to Midjourney which may sometimes deviate from the prompt.

💡Image Coherence

Image coherence refers to the logical and visually consistent representation of elements within the generated artwork. The video mentions that Idiogram excels in image coherence, producing images where the various components, such as anatomy, proportions, and physics, make sense and appear natural, without any glaring inconsistencies or distortions.

💡Text Rendering

Text rendering is the ability of an AI Art Generator to accurately recreate and integrate text elements within the generated image. The video claims that Idiogram has superior text rendering capabilities compared to Midjourney and Darly, seamlessly incorporating legible text and fonts into the artwork, making it suitable for graphic design tasks.

💡Cinematic

In the context of the video, the term 'cinematic' is used to describe the visual style and aesthetic quality of the generated artwork, particularly from Midjourney. Cinematic images are characterized by a polished, film-like quality, with carefully curated compositions, lighting, and color palettes, resembling professional photography or movie stills.

💡Photorealism

Photorealism refers to the ability of an AI Art Generator to create images that appear highly realistic and indistinguishable from actual photographs. The video evaluates the photorealistic rendering capabilities of the three AI Art Generators, using prompts for realistic scenes and human subjects. Idiogram and Midjourney are noted for their strong photorealistic outputs.

💡Saturation

Saturation is a term used to describe the intensity or vividness of colors in an image. The video highlights that Darly's outputs often exhibit an overly saturated, high-contrast aesthetic, with intense colors and highlights. This stylistic choice is seen as a weakness by the video's narrator, who prefers the more subtle and nuanced color palettes produced by Midjourney and Idiogram.

💡NSFW (Not Safe For Work)

NSFW, or 'Not Safe For Work,' refers to content that may be considered inappropriate, explicit, or offensive in professional or public settings. The video discusses the varying levels of restrictions and limitations imposed by the different AI Art Generators on generating NSFW or adult-themed content, with Idiogram being the most lenient and Darly being the most restrictive.

💡Meme

A meme is a humorous image, video, or piece of text that is widely shared and replicated online, often with variations or iterations. The video showcases Idiogram's capability to generate memes based on prompts, creating amusing visual jokes and commentary on various topics, such as British culture, American stereotypes, and the rise of AI art.

Highlights

The video compares the performance of three AI art generators - Midjourney, DALL-E, and the newly introduced Idog - in terms of features, prompt adherence, image coherence, text rendering, speed, pricing, and community/resolution limitations.

Idog claims to outperform Midjourney and DALL-E in prompt alignment, image coherence, overall preference, and text rendering quality, according to their research.

The video demonstrates Idog's impressive text rendering capabilities, opening up possibilities for graphic design work.

The video conducts a prompt battle, inputting the same prompts into each AI art generator and evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the resulting images.

Midjourney often produces more cinematic, curated, and visually appealing images, while Idog's images are more dynamic and realistic.

DALL-E's images tend to be overly intense, saturated, and lacking in nuance, but can be improved with effective prompting.

Idog and DALL-E demonstrate better prompt adherence and understanding of complex, relational prompts compared to Midjourney.

The video conducts a speed test, revealing that Idog is the fastest, followed by DALL-E, and then Midjourney.

DALL-E has more restrictions, such as not allowing the creation of famous people, using styles of other artists, or NSFW content, while Midjourney and Idog are more lenient.

The pricing for unlimited monthly plans is $20 for Idog and DALL-E 3, $30 for Midjourney, with DALL-E 3 also including ChatGPT Plus.

The video showcases Idog's ability to generate memes and compares the AI art generators' personalities.

Midjourney is likened to an arrogant French person with the best taste, DALL-E to a wide-eyed, woke child obsessed with bright and shiny things, and Idog to the new kid on the block.

The video provides a comprehensive comparison of the three AI art generators, highlighting their strengths, weaknesses, and unique characteristics.

The video encourages viewers to explore more AI-related content and courses offered by the creator.

The creator welcomes constructive feedback from viewers to improve the channel and their understanding of AI art.

Transcripts

idog is the brand new AI art generator

on the Block in this video I'm going to

put idog darly and mid Journey to the

test through a number of challenges to

see which is the air generator to roll

them all or which one is best in your

different situation and we're going to

look firstly at the features before

moving on to a prompt battle we'll put

the same prompt into each of these I

generators and then we'll evaluate the

strengths and weaknesses of the images

that come out next up is speed well have

a little prompt race and we'll see how

long it takes to generate an image in

each of these platforms next up is

pricing where we'll take a look at how

much it costs to make the use of each

one of these softwares finally we'll

have a little discussion about the

community the resolution and the

limitations that each of these has

that's why we'll talk about

NSFW there's nothing like spending hours

at your laptop crafting the most

beautiful Godly

shapely boobers so ladies and gentlemen

I've put on a shirt today so we're

really talking business now it's time to

dive in and explore which is the best AI

art generator together on the

announcements page of idiogram they've

shared a rather intriguing graph

showcasing some research that they have

performed rating their platform against

both Dar and mid journey and here you

can see that they say using an

evaluation protocol we find that human

rers prefer idiogram one over D 3 and

mid Journey V6 in prompt alignment image

coherence overall preference and text

rendering quality so it's saying here

that it smashes both darly and mid

Journey on prompt alignment which is

prompt adherence making sure that what

you get out is what you put in image

coherence which is essentially how much

sense the image makes if people have

extra limbs eyes teeth or hands fingers

toes and overall preference which is

essentially how much do you enjoy the

aesthetic Taste of the image and text

rendering quality which is how much the

AI art generator is able to accurately

recreate the text that you have asked

for and it even looks as if that it was

a closer Run Race Against darly than

against mid Journey which surprises me I

mean especially I would say on the

overall preference metric I'm very

shocked that number one that darly

outperformed mid Journey on this metric

and number two that it was not a lot

closer some dodgy polling going on there

I'd say it's like those Russian polls

that come out and say Putin with 99.9%

of the vote yeah I I believe that and

also looking at this data we can see

that where idog is really stepping out

in front of these other to is on the

text rendering capabilities and this is

particularly interesting because it

opens up an Avenue for incredible

graphic design work so you can really

start to uh create work such as posters

apps website designed inside of an AI

art generator just look at some of these

designs coming out of idiogram the text

is coherent the spelling is correct each

of the characters is rendered accurately

and coherently and it opens up a whole

world of possibilities for design but I

was curious to run a little poll on my

channel and see which is the favorite

air generator and mid Journey came out

way ahead with 60% of the vote followed

by stable diffusion and then darly and

Leonardo coming up lower down so we'll

have a little chat about the features

and the user experience of these

platforms firstly Dary is best run

inside of chat GPT and this gives it its

own unique flavor that you can

essentially have a conversation with

chat GPT about creating images this is

both an advantage and a drawback what's

good is that you can actually ask chat

GPT for its opinion on the works that

you are creating and work with it in a

conversational manner you can say okay

make it more bright make it more

futuristic and it can update using this

conversational language which is quite a

usable way to interact with an air

generator however it's extremely

difficult to fine-tune the algorithm

them to uh adjust the settings and

parameters inside your works now mid

journey is uh currently working both in

a Discord Channel version and they're

building out their own website where you

can create as well now mny has an

interesting blend of uh being both

usable in a simple way where you can

simply enter a prompt and get out very

beautiful images that work very well

with little understanding of both visual

taste or prompt engineering and it also

offers more advanced users the

capabilities to adjust and fine-tune the

algorithm in different ways for example

you can create consistent Styles you can

add in different parameters which adjust

how the algorithm works this includes

how much it adheres to your prompt how

much of its own stylistic intent it adds

and much much more so it has a nice uh

entry point where it's quite easy to

pick up and start off and then there is

a lot to learn if you go further down

that rabbit hole now I would say also

mny has a very good library of

collecting your images so it's easy to

navigate through all of the works that

you have created you can put these into

folders you can filter them and you can

search for them in this uh very elegant

and organized way and if we have a look

at ideogram igog is running in the

browser and it has its own site uh it

has a fairly decent uh Library

management system and the prompting

window uh Works fairly well however I

would say that I would like to see a

full screen prompting experience it's

quite unusual to have this very small

modal window where you have to select

all of the different elements for your

work so let's move on to a prompt battle

and this is where I've put in the same

prompt to each of these AI art

generators and I've collected these so

we can compare them now we're going to

run through a few different styles and

mediums and we're going to look for

which ones are working well and who wins

on each round so first up we have animal

photography and the prompt for this is a

joyful dog riding a surfboard catching

away so I won't read out all of the

prompts I will give you a little idea of

what the prompt is but if you are

interested in seeing the whole prompts

and also looking at these images

yourself more closely I'll leave a link

to this document in the description

below so now you've seen the prompt I

will show you three images and I'm

actually going to ask you to have a

think about which one you like the most

and how they compare without knowing

which is from which AI art generator yet

this is to prevent any bias because we

might have developed some sort of love

and affiliation with a software and its

purpose in the world Long Live which is

highly impossible because art can stir

great motivations in the heart great

dependencies on the philosophy and

notion of what type of world we want to

live in is it a world envisaged by Dar

mid Journey or idiogram idiogram

ideogram idog so here are the three

images do you prefer doggo number one

doggo number two or doggo number three

make your choice now so I can tell you

that doggo number one was from dar doggo

number two was from mid journey and

doggo number three is from the new

player in the game ideogram now I also

asked this as a poll on my channel so

let's take a look at the results doggo

number two came out way ahead with 57%

of the vote next up was Dogo number

three which is from idiogram and finally

it was darly so in this public vote we

had a preference for Mid Journey and

then for idiogram and finally for Dary

but mid Journey really dominated the

vote so my choice it's certainly mid

journey and idiogram stand out above

Dary I quite enjoy the ears coming up

from the idiogram version gives it a

slightly humorous depiction of this dog

but I'm not sure if that's physically

possible that in this moment it looks

like as if his momentum is coming down

and so it's unusual that his ears are

flopping up at this time there is it

yeah beautiful balance and composition

of this piece I like the way that it

really leads you into the center of the

image that there are these shapes that

really point and direct us to the focal

point of the image which is the dog on

the surfboard so the leading lines work

very well and it has a nice balance of

colors I would say the expression of the

dog looks a little bit gormless maybe I

would prefer it if he was uh looking

more directly into the camera or there

is a little bit more life in his eyes

and the other point I would like to

mention is the surfboard seems a little

bit small especially the rear end and we

can also look at an element of physics

here it looks as if the the beach is

very shallow here that the water is very

close to the Sea Flor and it looks as if

he's on a huge wave so perhaps that

doesn't make a lot of sense but overall

I'm quite keen on this image and I think

realistically it looks very good it's

been rendered effectively The Prompt

adherence is there and the image

coherence so if we look into the moury

version you can you can see that the

it's got a very different approach it's

very interesting to see the contrast

between how Dynamic the idiogram image

is compared to how calm and relax the

mid Journey images now I prefer the more

restricted color palette coming out of

mid Journey here you can see that it has

really dominant blues and then just

these highlights of the dog in the

middle which are these more subtle

earthy oranges which contrast very well

to the blues so it starts to look a

little bit stylized with this very

restricted color palette but it's more

visually pleasing to me perhaps it's

slightly less realistic but it's more

artistic it's almost as if a

photographer had really curated the

scene for the visual effect it it's more

cinematically engaging so I appreciate

that about the mid Journey version I

also would say that I would probably

prefer to have this dog in my life than

this dog oh my God now you can see the

surfboard is pretty Tiny But apart from

that the physics look look fairly

accurate let me know if you see anything

in any of these images that I miss any

unusual elements that don't make sense

especially and finally we have the DAR

image and here you can see the classic

effect of Dar which is to really

saturate everything and add in very high

Dynamic ranges so the image has really

intense highlights and very dark shadows

and also some I would say yeah very

intense elements I find it to be like

the sun is extremely overwhelming it's

almost the most dominant element in the

whole piece for me it distracts a little

bit from the subject matter to have this

very intense Sun like this very harsh

intense light so the lighting is often

very harsh and intense in darly and it

really comes across in this image though

I do like the the textures coming out of

the water here in the reflections are

very artistic very abstract and uh I I

appreciate these as well as the the Mist

the fine Mist coming off of the wave

actually is it's it's quite tactile so

let's put them all side by side to see

how they compare I noticed my internal

system gets most activated and irritated

by the idiogram and dar versions I find

the mid Journey version more calming and

soothing I must say I really appreciate

the variety in the answers to the prompt

that each one of these has a very

different approach and yeah it's really

beautiful to see that we have these AI

art generators that are actually taking

their own Direction it would be very sad

if they all came out with very similar

images so I would like to Comm in them

all for at least attempting to develop

their own style and vision for an AI art

generator now let's move on to human

photo realism I think I'm always more

impressed by an AI art generator's

ability to recreate photorealistic

depictions of life rather than surreal

or abstract painted mediums and I think

this really puts the AI art generators

to the test I think that for True

application of this technology we are

going to be looking at how it's going to

work with realistic situations this is

really where it's going to uh be used

the most and have the biggest impact on

the largest amount of Industries so this

is the photorealistic prompt that I used

a beautiful girl in a cafe looking

directly into the frame cinematic High

detail ultra realistic cinematic

lighting shot on 50 mm lens Ultra wide

angle depth of field hyper detailed

beautifully colored coded beautifully gr

so let's take a look at how these images

compare first up we have idiogram

and what's interesting about this

depiction is it has a slightly painted

effect a slightly stylized aesthetic it

almost looks like paint Strokes coming

off of the cabinet here it's got a very

clear Central perspective leading Us in

through the image you can see the lines

are all drawing us very clearly into the

image you can see this line coming up

here yeah so it's quite I would say a

yeah an intense tense

perspective that they've applied onto

this image it feels a little bit

overwhelming it's like these shots from

Alfred Hitchcock where they zoom in very

intensely and accentuate the perspective

around the character so it almost has a

horror film feeling to me I would say

this is elevated by the Lacy outfit of

this young girl though I would say

anatomically she looks fairly accurate

perhaps this forearm is a little bit

long it looks as if this arm is a little

bit longer than this arm let's just see

if that's true yes so it does look as if

this forearm is at least 10 to 15%

longer so some slight deviations

anatomically there now also her nose

looks a little bit unusual to me the

middle part of the nose what is that

called Christ septum I think it is

called the septum let's roll with septum

you can see the septum is quite narrow

unusually so and there's unbalanced

about her mouth here it's like slightly

heavier on the left side than on the

right side and there's also an unusual

Watermark added in here that was not

requested for unreal as for the color

palette I would say I I quite like the

these opaque softer Shades these these

pinks and reds are balancing out quite

well this uh the visual balance of the

colors is is very coherent here I like

the yeah the larger amount of this Peach

over here uh being balanced out with the

darker intense red perhaps is a little

bit distracting than actually on the

subject I would say that the eye is

certainly drawn more to these bold

colors rather than to the subject in the

middle of the screen now let's move on

to the mid Journey version and it's yeah

it's a real contrast here you can see

that the composition we have is much

more closely zoomed in it's got a very

strong bcka effect which is a blurred

background and this yeah it gives us a

completely different feel from the

previous image it's uh really incredible

how different the interpretation is I

really appreciate the freckles that have

been added in and if we look at the nose

the nose certainly is more realistic

here so anatomically I cannot see

anything that I would say is different

from reality I would like to pay

particular attention to the detail of

the individual strands of hair and how

naturally they seem to fall on her face

and shoulders maybe this hair here is

the only one that seems a little bit

unusual to me can you see any unusual

hairs now just compare that to the hair

of the first image and you can see that

there are still individual strands

coming through from idiogram but it

looks like a block doesn't look like a

lifelike set of hairs it looks more like

an imitation of hair now we take a

closer look at Dar whoa once again darly

has this incredibly high contrast overly

saturated image I wonder what happened

in the training of Dary it reminds me

very much if you see people who are just

starting out in photography and they're

posting things on Instagram they have a

tendency to add way too much Clarity

contrast and saturation when they're

editing their images and I think there

is a real potential for Dar if there is

like a less saturated lower contrast

image perhaps my fear with darly is that

they created a beautiful AI art

generator and then it was shown to a

person in management who had the final

say and said oh can we give it a bit

more Jazz like why is this not got

enough Jazz and then they're saying okay

we can do this and they just offer a

quick fix where they add this intense

contrast and saturation and he's like I

love it I love it it's amazing give it

more Jazz more Jazz and then that was

the model that was delivered to the

public so I did two things here firstly

is I took the image from darly and I

manually adjusted some of the effects of

it to reduce the contrast the clarity

the saturation and lower the highlights

and raise the darks in the image and for

me I would say that it certainly looks

more uh one realistic and two I would

say I prefer the the visual appeal of it

now I also asked darly to do this itself

and it came out with this version which

I would say is a vast Improvement so

when you're working with DAR it really

helps to tell it that you don't know

what your you don't know what taste is

I'm in charge here and you're going to

listen to me I don't want none of your

damn high contrast and if we take a look

at all these images together we can see

how we feel about them I would say that

for me for some reason the initial darly

image that came out with feels more like

an alien than a human being I notice I

am most drawn to the mid Journey version

I think the strong blood background

effect really draws the eye in it gives

it this cinematic feel the idiogram

version has very intense perspective and

colors and then the updated darly

version certainly improves the the

aesthetic and gives you something

completely different so I would say the

most realistic rendering comes from mid

Journey followed by idiogram followed by

darly though Dary certainly works better

if you know how to use it now we're

going to take a look at illustrations

next fantasy style illustrations and the

prompt for this round was an or

inspiring cinematic illustration of a

mysterious cloaked wizard standing

amidst a misty Forest so before we jump

into this round I thought I would tell

you a little bit about why I have the

experience and background to comment on

these software well I have a background

in Art and Design I've exhibited my arts

in countries from London to Saudi Arabia

and I've worked as a designer and

collaborated with global Brands like

GoDaddy Raffin the Sundance Film

Festival Barkley's and many more I've

run my own design studio for the last 10

years and we've also Sold Design

templates to creatives so we've been

creating tools and templates for other

designers to work more effectively this

was way back when I had to make

everything by hand you ever seen a man

draw it's where he takes a stick and he

rubs it on a piece of paper oh dear yeah

I used to create some on line drawings

this was one of my Styles as an artist

so let's get back to our prompt battle

and now we're on to illustration and

we're going to walk through the

different images first up we have have

idiogram and it's got a really beautiful

image actually I love the sense of Story

coming through in this that we have the

wizard looking at this mysterious castle

and he is actually in the moment of

casting a spell directed towards this

beautiful castle which has some sort of

event going on in the courtyard the

composition the story the colors are all

excellently executed and there is

nothing anatomically or physically

incorrect next up we have mid journey

and it has yeah a really different

atmosphere that's come out in the image

like if you just notice how you feel

looking at this image compared to this

image this is so much more dark intense

boding and this is slightly more

adventurous and light-hearted certainly

for me gives a a little bit more of a

feel of Lord of the Rings and perhaps

The Fellowship of the Ring where they're

visiting the Elven Town it reminds me a

little bit of Rivendell ESP the almost

spring like tones coming through now

we'll finally look at the DI version and

again there is something else that is

quite consistent with darly images is

that when you have buildings you have a

lot of intense spiky spires now one

thing that we had in the prompt was to

summon a mighty meteor and it looks as

if idiogram has done this mid has not

done this and Dary has done it very

accurately like that is certainly a

meteor there's no doubt about it whereas

idog like H yeah that could pass for a

meteor I could see how that's happening

but uh mid journey I mean unless this is

like a very very faded meteor slowly

coming into shot it has not adhered to

The Prompt there so one thing to bear in

mind is that idiograms prompt adherence

is extremely high Dar is effective and

mid Journeys is a little bit lacking so

we take a look at these more closely

together and once again idiogram and

darly has gone for extremely similar

color palette there is a lot more detail

in the idiogram image if you see that a

lot of the elements inside of Dary look

very repetitive it's almost a

symmetrical border from these trees

three trees on each side with very

similar Styles which gives it a little

bit of balance but almost a feeling of

there was less intent placed on it it

was like okay we'll just repeat it on

the other side M Journey offers a real

contrasting aesthetic but it has not

adhered to The Prompt as closely so I'd

say there are strengths and we

weaknesses to each of these I would say

that the aesthetic is more mature in the

mid Journey image The Prompt adherence

is Best In Dary and I would say that the

detail is clearest in idiogram

especially I love the The Frayed

elements to this wizard cloak it's it's

a really beautiful extra detail that

they've added in there it adds like a

real rawness and personality to this

wizard next up we're going to be looking

at a dynamic action shot of a Mercedes

And The Prompt is a high performance

Mercedes AMG on the lemon circuit so

first up we have idog and I really like

the the drama of the piece especially

these flying elements coming from the

side here of this there must be leaves

it's not quite clear what they are it's

clear that it has picked up on the

leaves and dust from the bront and added

those in for a real element of motion

and dynamism however i' would say the

the man's face he's got an

extraordinarily large nose hello my

name's Mr pig nose and and it's rendered

the logo of the Mercedes very well and

accurately and if we move on to the mid

Journey version it certainly looks like

a shot from an advertising scene I I

like the Blurred nature of the elements

apart from the car that it has this yeah

this very beautiful effect of blurring

everything apart from the car which is

in Focus which really leads your eye

into the car perhaps the colors are

almost too restricted here in this mid

Journey Edition it's really just uh

yellow tones there is no contrasting

colors if we look at the idiogram

version it's more realistic though I

find the the airbrushing effect on the

metal of the car seems a little bit too

much a little bit too intense and also

the perspective is accentuated and

rotated so it's not a level image it's

quite interesting that they've done this

in the idiogram version so this would be

like a level photo with the Horizon flat

but it hasn't it's giving this this

leaning effect which I find to be

slightly disorientating and nausea

inducing but it does add that sense of

motion and dynamism to the piece they

also did this curiously on the earlier

photo of the dog surfing yeah I J has

done it a little bit but it does feel

like there is a a more stable nature to

the image and finally we have the darly

image and I would say yeah the again the

strength of a darly image is with the

mist and the dust coming up it has quite

got the composition right because hasn't

included the driver and if we take a

look at all of these together I would

say that again idiogram mid Journey are

out in front with different strengths

mid Journey certainly has a more

cinematic refined style and idiogram has

more of an intense Dynamic approach the

darly image seems to me to be a little

bit childish and overly intense lacking

nuance and more intelligent composition

now we'll move on to a slightly more

childish type of illustration 3D and

playful and this is where we might

expect darly to do a bit better as that

really plays the strengths of the styles

that are effective In Dary I'll read you

the prompt or the first part of the

prompt at least a cacing illustration of

a playful student enjoying a vibrant

outdoor playground so the ideogram has

produced us a very interesting life

image Whimsical and playful Bountiful

and full of life nice composition it

selected a good moment within the

timeline of this child going down the

slide to put them right in the middle

the peak moment of enjoyment though I

don't quite understand why it's put a

block where he's going to land that's a

little bit evil now we look at Mid

Journey the mid Journey version has got

a few distortions in it actually you can

see that the the face is not rendered

particularly clearly with the nose

having an unusual line across it and

also I would say maybe this hand is

missing or it's not very clear exactly

where this hand is and something about

the toes look very flat here and if we

take a look at the darly version uh so

very intense colors a very different

layout and style but I I like the trees

the style of these trees fairly

interesting the child looks less

engaging I would say I'm less curious

about the character of the child in this

one for the character design compared to

the other two so let's take a closer

look at all of these together I

certainly would say that the character

design of the child in mouran idiogram

are much more engaging they they really

feel like real people that I want to

understand more of like why are they

there why have they not put their

backpacks on the ground because I asked

them to have a child for a backpack

probably B yeah the joyful expression is

really coming through on both of these

characters I like the stylized trees

that IDR has created these abstract

bubble trees are very beautiful so again

you can see that ID Graham and dar have

really saturated images very high in

intensity in their contrast and dynamic

ranges mid Journey has a more subtle

subdued color palette the physics of the

ideogram image is probably the best

apart from this block blocking the poor

child and darly has come out with a very

different approach really very unusual

now one area that idiogram claims to be

heads and shoulders above the

competition is in effective text

rendering and in this round we're going

to put that to the test I spent some

time exploring in mid Journey version 6

its font rendering capabilities its

ability to render text effectively and I

was able to create a number of working

usable fonts using mid journey and I

even made a course on this entire

process if you're interested I'll leave

a discount coupon for everyone watching

this video in the description below and

so I wanted to put that process to the

the test in both Dary and iog and the

prompt was a font and then with the

alphabet and then children's quirky cute

black and white full alphabet small flat

Joy tone and this is the igram version

that came out and I have to say this is

pretty impressive font design first of

all it's almost got the entire alphabet

correctly in it's only got a few letters

incorrect or rendered in a nonsensical

way for example this is a mystery letter

and this is a mystery letter here this

looks more like a little Garland to wear

on your shirt now it's also made the

mistake of giving us different color

styles within the same font so this

would make it more complicated to render

out now this was the mid Journey version

that I got and it did very well at

creating a usable font design however

the issue was it really struggled to get

the entire alphabet out it only got

about half of the letters but for the

actual quality of the individual

character designs it is uh beautiful now

finally the darly version didn't quite

understand that we were looking for a

font design but the letters it has

designed are interesting aesthetic and

this really does give a good basis for a

font design I really appreciate the the

playfulness of this R and also the extra

leg coming out of the W so I think

they're very beautiful letter forms but

it hasn't quite adhered to the exact

text that I was looking for I I would

say that idog has followed most closely

the text adherence actually getting

closest to the full alphabet I would say

that mid Journey has given us the most

usable font design letter design that

there is the most consistency between

the characters in the mid Journey

version though aesthetically I really

like the style of the letters coming out

of Dary I I think they're particularly

original and unusual and would really

work well for a font the issue is though

this is a lot more work to use this to

build out a font so these letters coming

out of mid Journey are exceptionally

good for creating a font straight away

because we have very clear

differentiation from the letter to the

background and there's a nice amount of

spacing in between whereas this is a

little bit of an issue with the idiogram

version and they've also colored

different letters in different styles

and then also the darly version they've

grouped letters completely together and

put them on this sticker like background

now we'll take a look at a surreal

anthropomor challenge where we'll take a

stunning cinematic image of futuristic

cyber Punk bunny this is the ideogram

version you can see that he's eating at

bunny bow and the menu has the bunny bow

logo etched across it I like the

intensity coming through from this

character and the blue and pink cyber

Punk style is working well next time we

have mid journey and oh yeah wow it's

like I like this and then I look at the

mid Journey version I'm like H okay well

there's something that suddenly touches

me a little bit differently about it

it's like this is this is okay this is

good uh but mid Journey for some reason

it just understands taste more

effectively and looking at the darly

image we have again really high

intensity saturation and a fully focused

image with the whole image really in

Focus which somehow detracts from the

overall experience of the image I do

appreciate the steam coming off of his

little plate of food and he does look

very interested in whatever he's reading

on the computer that there a real sense

that that that's an engaging Tik Tok

video he's got going on there so looking

at them all together I most appreciate

the version coming out of mid Journey

for some reason the realism comes

through a lot stronger here especially

with the rendering of the fur and the

whiskers on his little face I appreciate

the intense expression from coming out

of videogram and the more playful nature

coming out of Dary next up we're going

to look at rendering products and for

this we have used the prompt a stunning

3D render of futuristic women's shoes

designed for exploring other worldly

terrains first up we have idiogram it's

got a reasonable pair of shoes I

appreciate the colors and also the

reflections coming off the Neon Lights

of the shoe onto the Rocks after this we

have mid journey and I would say that it

has not particularly understood the

nature of what we were looking for here

and the style is quite intense and flat

rather than realistic after that the

darly version has a nice set of shoes

certainly has the product photography

style down and another Telltale sign of

Dar is that it has often got this

vignette effect on all of its images

where the corners are much darker than

the center of the image I like how

there's almost a little face coming out

of the darly shoes here the smile on the

two eyes this is a nice touch which of

these would I actually wear I'd probably

wear the idiogram ones first then the

darly versions and and the M ones look

more like some sort of cowboy boot

crossed with a futuristic shoe and I

like the the style and the reflections

on the materials of audiogram I'm really

getting a a very good sense of the

different features of the material used

on the webbing on top compared to the

under layer now if we take a look at the

next design and it's a tarot card

illustration and for idiogram we have

yeah a beautiful illustration

I appreciate the subtle floral details

they do have a little bit of a watermark

added in here of a artist signature

which I don't appreciate I think this

should not be in there you should add

this yourself because obviously if you

want to use this you're going to have to

edit that out and it looks like the

person's name was Jor gay the skeleton's

fingers are not rendered particularly

anatomically correctly and for some

reason there is a gap here of the grass

not being colored in correctly I also

think that the text rendering if they're

going to put text in it needs to say

something one that makes sense and two

that uses a consistent font style and

you can see here that the word starts

off particularly reasonable and it

deteriorates at the end next up with the

mid Journey version I appreciate again

the floral elements are

Illustrated accurately and with a nice

set of both consistency within the

different elements and variety so not

one of these flowers looks the same yet

they all fit together in harmony again

we have the same issue with the text

rendering I have to say it looks as if

his hand has been rendered more

anatomically correctly finally we have

the DI version and this is actually very

impressive there is a coherence to the

style and something more in line of how

I would imagine a tarot card to be

rendered I like the both the floral

elements and the composition there is a

nice balance here in the darly version

to the composition I actually appreciate

the way that they have mirrored the

effects on the left and right hand side

and it works really well in this

situation for an illustrative card and

the skeleton has a yeah quite a sincere

and humble posture of real Intrigue into

the book and the skeleton looks fairly

anatomically correct and I certainly

think it's performed very well here so

for me in this round actually darly is a

clear winner and that's possibly the

only round that I would say Dar has

absolutely knocked the other two out of

the park it also hasn't made the same

error of adding in nonsensical text it

actually hasn't had any any text apart

from this it's more of a pictogram

rather than a piece of nonsensical text

so it actually makes a more usable

design and looking at them together I I

do appreciate the graphic nature to the

darly card I like the the details and

the subtlety to the floral elements of

videogram and the slightly more intense

morbid feel coming out of mid Journey so

to summarize the findings from The

Prompt battle between these three I

would say that idiogram provide the most

photorealistic images with mid Journey

providing a slightly more cinematic

tasteful and curated experience it's

almost as if you looking at the World

Through The Eyes of a talented director

and photographer it adds in that sense

whereas idiogram gives you a slightly

more should we say dynamic wild

interpretation of the world that's I

would say more realistic to what you

actually see but it gives you less

visually interesting images for actual

human renderings I would say that

idiogram and mid Journey present very

beautiful effects but mid Journey has

this this director's eye the

cinemagraphic approach whereas idiogram

gives you something that's uh a little

bit more with a moodiness to it this uh

subtlety that almost becomes a little

bit painted and darly will give you the

most over intense aliens if that's what

you're looking for everyone has their

own fetish each to their own but darly

if you understand its weaknesses you can

actually tell it to counteract those so

it has an inbuilt stylistic intent to

create highly stylized images but this

can be undone with effective prompting

each one of these is starting to perform

very well with text but idiogram has the

best prompt adherence and I think we're

seeing that cons consistently that idog

and dar have the best ability to

understand relational and complex

prompts so if you're looking to create

very specific scenes or continuous

elements then they are working best

however one thing to bear in mind is

that none of these platforms are

presenting effective ways for creating

consistent characters and for that

you'll have to look elsewhere I think

that is something they will all be

looking to perform more effectively at

in future as it's one of the most

requested featur features from the AI

art community now Dar has performed

particularly well in graphic and

Illustrated situations and especially if

you're creating posters or repeating

elements inside of your work now we'll

do a little speed test and see how each

of these Compares we're going to enter

in the same prompt to each and we're

going to run them all simultaneously on

screen to see which one comes up fastest

man wearing a pink hat is sitting

on a blue chair on top of a purple whale

on the left is a dinosaur and on the

right is a pineapple and they are off

ladies and gentlemen this is three

Titans of the game locking horns in a

race to the finish and it looks like

idog gram is taking an early lead whilst

mid Journey has made some progress and

there it is ideogram is first Dary

second and coming up in the rear in

third place is

mid journey in 34 seconds so there we

have it there are the results of the

speed test now let's just take a look at

how well these each performed with

understanding the relational prompt so

idiogram has understood the prompt

effectively on every single addition it

has all of these elements in the correct

places and if we look at darly you can

see it has also performed well on this

front and the other thing to note is

that Dar only gives us one image at a

time

whereas mny has it is also done pretty

well I would say that one of the images

he has not got the chair on top of the

dinosaur but for this relational prompt

it has done pretty well apart from

sometimes it's getting the pineapple in

the wrong place and the dinosaur too so

you would say that for relational

complex prompt adherence that idiogram

and Dary are ahead of mid joury now

let's talk a little bit about

restrictions that Dary is a pretty woke

and tame AI art generator that does not

allow you to have much fun by creating

famous people or using the styles of

other artists or of creating NSFW Works

mid journey is slightly more lenient and

allows you to use styles from artists it

allows you to create the likeness of

famous people they're not all famous

people you cannot create images of XI

jingping and it doesn't give you so much

leeway with NSFW type content more

salacious images of the female

anatomy whereas uh new friend igram

gives us a little bit more leniency with

creating NSFW content it I would say

that it allows a little bit more skin to

come through but it does have a

limitation that if you start going too

far it will tell you no you've been a

very naughty boy this is not safe and it

will come up with a little image that

says naughty content but but you can get

away with I would say things that are

more provocative up to a limit now we'll

talk a little bit about pricing that all

of these plans offer I would say quite

comparable options for their unlimited

versions and the unlimited monthly

pricing is $20 for idog and Dary 3 and

$30 for Mid Journey however Dy 3 comes

with chat GPT plus so you get both chat

GPT Plus and darly 3 which is a pretty

good deal and for idiogram you get

unlimited amount of relaxed generations

and mid Journey also with their standard

plan you get an unlimited amount of

relaxed Generations which means you can

create as many images as you want but

they are slightly slower I've gone ahead

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so a little bit of fun just to take a

look at some of the things you can do

with idiogram that I like is you can

create memes and you can ask it to

create memes so I asked it to create a

meme about British men and it said when

you realize a British man in AA meme

computer hilarity and then next up it

had British man no I'm not C I'm British

this resonates with me quite deeply I

certainly I can handle the cold I can't

handle the heat I'm here currently in

Indonesia and I am sweating one out

consistently and I'm literally not built

for the tropics but I love it then the

next one is when you tell a British man

the the weather is normal and then when

British men discuss the latest fashion

trends well I say I do like the color

burgundy KY Green KY Green is so in

right now then I asked it to do the same

for Americans and it came out with these

it seems like Americans are obsessed

with cheeseburgers barbecues and beer

when you've mastered the art of the

perfect barbecue a lot of fun here and

finally then I asked it to do one about

AI art and these were actually fairly

decent my AI art is better than yours I

liked this and also there when you

realize AI art is taking over the meme

world and I suppose this is a nod to the

Future so to summarize I would say that

mid journey is it's like the Arrogant

French man who knows best at everything

it has the best taste and it looks down

upon everyone else because it simply

understands the reality of style you

cannot teach style you're born with it I

would say darly is this wide-eyed woke

child that is obsessed with bright and

shiny things and has yet to develop a

mature

daring and M is more like H I know what

is the best it is the very particular

you do not understand an idiogram is

like the new kid on the Block it's a

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