Dall-E 2, the amazing AI artist
OpenAI team created an AI that generates images with English text as its input. This AI is called Dall-E. The responses it generates are so amazing that you can consider Dall-E as your personal AI concept artist.
In this article, I will share a few capabilities (with illustrations) of this amazing AI artist, Dall-E.
All the images used in this article were generated by Dall-E based on my text prompts. Including the above cover photo of this article, where I asked it to generate “An AI artist robot creating an amazing artwork, a digital art”.
How to get yourself access to Dall-E?
At the time of writing this article, they’ve opened up Beta access and plan to provide access to over a million individuals over the next few weeks. So, apply for access on their page.
I got my access earlier during their private beta testing. So I’d say I’m grateful to be an early member to try out Dall-E.
Limits on the number of Dall-E requests
Once you get access to Dall-E, you will get 50 free successful requests for the first month and 15 free credits every subsequent month. Free credits get expired at the end of each month if unused. You can also buy 115 additional credits for $15. These paid request credits have an expiry of 12 months.
Usage of the images generated
With the beta release, OpenAI announced that you may use these image generations for any legal purpose, including for commercial use, as long as the images that are generated comply with their policies. You can read more about their terms and policies here.
Capabilities of Dall-E 2
I tried to list down a few different styles of images Dall-E is capable of generating. And these are just a few styles I wanted to show and it's capable of way more than what you see below.
I suggest, don’t just scroll through, but observe the details in each image along with the text I used for the input which I mentioned in each image’s caption.
Concept Art
Planning to make a movie? Say, a story of a monkey sage in Stonehenge.
Dall-E helps you to generate amazing concept art given a good prompt.
Mimic artist styles
How about mixing the art and art styles of legendary artists?
Say, a mixup art piece of Leonardo Da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh
Photography
Realistic photos with a specific shot type and even a specific focal length.
OH, MY DSLR!
Creative Digital Art
You use the words to your imagination and let Dall-E take care of the artwork.
Pencil art style
Imagine the impossible and put it into words for the fastest pencil artist ever.
One-line drawings
Me: Hey Dall-E! Don’t lift the pencil off, while you draw this.
Dall-E: Challenge accepted!
Synthwave-style
Beautiful usage of synth-wave colors in an artwork.
3d Renders
A 5-second quick 3d render is generated just using words in your mind.
Pixelated art
Create your own pixel art sprites for your 2D games
Upload your own photos and fill in what you want
You can even upload your image to Dall-E. It allows you to erase a part of the image and then let you enter a prompt and Dall-E fills in the erased part based on your text prompt.
Limitations
Dall-E is not completely perfect. The images it generates are sometimes not accurate. The images are not always razor sharp. Below are a few more notable limitations.
Text in the image
Although it accepts text as input to generate an image. It somehow cannot put up words in the image. It shows some gibberish text.
Faces
If you try to generate human faces, they are most of the time blurred out or distorted. But this limitation is understandable.
And you may have observed too that the face of the Mona Lisa — Van Gogh image you saw up there was also not super accurate. But, at least it tried.
There are a few more such limitations. But overall it's an amazing tool. Apply to access it and try out your own creations.
Conclusion
What we saw are just a few simple prompts that I was able to come up with in a matter of a few minutes. Companies out there, are even creating magazine covers using this tool.
As for me, I always wanted to learn to create animated movies. Coming up with good concept art always seems to be a starting trouble. Now, I found my personal AI concept artist to draw whatever I want in a few seconds.
Believe me! The results are so amazing when you get the prompts right.
I can’t imagine what the future looks like with a tool like this in every creator's hands. It speeds up a lot of creative tasks.
Like Dr. Karoly always says, What a time to be alive!
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