Lesson 39 of 1234
Making Your First AI Image
Type a sentence. Get a picture. It feels like magic. Let's make your first one together and talk about where the pictures come from.
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The main moves in order
- 1Type a sentence, get a picture
- 2generative art
- 3image prompts
- 4training data
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Section 1
Type a sentence, get a picture
AI image generators are programs that turn words into pictures. You type 'a cat wearing a wizard hat painting a sunset' and a few seconds later you have a picture of exactly that. No drawing needed. No Photoshop.
Tools to try (some are free, some are not)
- Bing Image Creator: free, uses DALL-E, easy on phones
- ChatGPT: can make images if you have a paid plan
- Gemini: free image generation built into Google's AI
- Midjourney: the fancy one, makes beautiful art, costs money
- Adobe Firefly: makes images with tools you already know
Where did the pictures come from?
The AI learned by looking at millions of pictures made by real artists. Paintings, photos, cartoons, everything. Some artists are upset because they never said yes to their art being used. This is a big argument in the art world right now.
Your picture, your style
- 1Start with what you want to see
- 2Add a style (watercolor, pixel art, claymation, 1980s cartoon)
- 3Add a mood (cozy, scary, silly, dramatic)
- 4Try it, then change one thing and run it again
- 5Keep the ones you love
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Key terms in this lesson
The big idea: AI can make pictures from your words. It is a fun tool. But real artists are still real, and the best AI art still needs your imagination to get started.
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