Introduction: Ideogram AI is a platform that generates images from text. Its biggest advantage is that it is easy to use, free, and has no generation limits, so it can outperform MJ and SD.
AI painting is a popular field in artificial intelligence, which allows AI to generate various styles of images based on text or images, such as 3D, movies, portrait photography, illustrations, posters, paintings, animations, and doodles. Currently, there are two well-known AI painting platforms on the market: Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. However, these two platforms have some drawbacks: Midjourney requires payment and only supports English; Stable Diffusion is open source and free, but it requires self-deployment and has unstable effects.
So, is there a free and easy-to-use AI painting platform? The answer is yes, it is Ideogram AI.
What is Ideogram AI?
Ideogram AI is a platform that generates images from text. It announced the cancellation of the trial application restriction on August 29, 2023, and opened the Ideogram v0.1 version to everyone for free. Its website is:
Ideogram AI can generate more than 10 styles of images based on text (such as printing effects, photo effects, movie effects, 3D effects, etc.), and can deeply understand the meaning of the text and generate image effects comparable to Midjourney.
The biggest advantage of Ideogram AI is - no geographical restrictions. Currently, it is very difficult to use Midjourney in China, requiring a complex account activation process and expensive fees. Ideogram AI only requires login and registration, which is very convenient for most users.
The team and technology behind Ideogram AI
Ideogram AI was founded on August 22, 2023, and in less than 10 days, it attracted over 90,000 seed users, generated over 3 million images, and received a $16.5 million seed round investment led by a16z and Index Ventures.
Dr. Chen Junle, the co-founder and CTO of Ideogram AI, is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Waterloo. He has previously worked as a research scientist at Google Brain and has rich development experience in diffusion models and Imagen.
In terms of technology, Ideogram AI can directly embed text into images, supporting multiple fonts and text styles; it can generate four images with different effects at once, supporting three ratios: 10:16, 16:10, and 1:1. The text prompt method is basically the same as Midjourney.
How to use Ideogram AI?
Using Ideogram AI is very simple, just follow these steps:
Step 1: Open the website and register/login. When the application was first launched, there was a waiting queue, but now you can use it for free by logging in with a Google account.
Step 2: Enter the prompt words and select the style and ratio. After entering the main interface, users can enter the description of the image they want to generate in the text input box. Note that currently only English is supported.
Next, users can select the image style below. The application has launched 18 styles, including "layout," "painting," or "3D," etc. If the user clicks "Lucky style," the system will randomly generate the corresponding style.
If you want to customize the text in the image, just add "With text 'xxx'" to the prompt of the image to generate an image with the text "xxx."
Step 3: Click the "Generate" button and wait a few minutes to generate four images.
Step 4: Select the desired image and click the "Download" button to download the image to your local device.
What are the applications of Ideogram AI?
Ideogram AI can be used in various creative and design scenarios, such as:
Generating funny images, such as "a picture of an angry cartoon bird holding a sign 'I copied your work, but I had worse results'., cinematic, typography, photo, 3D render, illustration, anime."
Designing text logos or artistic fonts, such as "Company logo 'Macove' simple art white fox, 3D render, anime, vibrant."
Generating movie posters, such as "a movie poster by Disney Pixar, with visible prominent text in full view that spells 'KETAMINA', tranquil WHITE HORSE sat on a pile of white powder, typography, 3D render."
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Ideogram AI?
As an AI painting platform, Ideogram AI has the following advantages:
Free unlimited generation, no need to pay or deploy.
No geographical restrictions, only need a Google account to use.
Supports the generation of images in multiple styles and ratios.
Ability to customize text and fonts.
High-quality generation results, comparable to Midjourney.
However, Ideogram AI also has the following disadvantages:
Only supports English input, does not support Chinese or other languages.
Cannot zoom in or out of images.
Difficult to present rare or complex words.
Sometimes there may be spelling errors or inconsistencies between the image and text.