Happy New Year 🥂 and Welcome to Meta Minded week 2! 🧠

This year brings 365 news days of opportunity for each of us as we enter a full year chances, inspiration, passions, and new tech! I hope that this newsletter can spark something in you to explore or create within the AI realm. Whether you're just AI curious or a seasoned pro looking for inspiration, you can find it here. Also, if you notice that this weeks layout is different than the last, I am simply playing around with the structure as I receive feedback from subscribers. If you have any suggestions, just hit "reply" to this email. 📩

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If you've been looking into AI image generation, chances are you've come across these three big names. When you try to do your own research, you can get lost in a sea of explanations on how the tech works and AI jargon. Here, we are going to skip to the simple, important stuff. So what's really the difference between the three and which is best for you?

Stable Diffusion

How to access: Online you can access this through sites that use SD like huggingface or Lexica.artStrengths: Customization, open source / can run locally, advancements are impressive, good pricingCons: More advanced, overwhelmingBest for: Customization through training your own model

Midjourney

How to access: Their Discord serverStrengths: Easy to use, great results, great community, best for beginners, good pricingCons: Privacy costs more money, ONLY available via DiscordBest for: More creative, out-of-the-box images

Link here

Dall-E

How to access: Creating an account through their siteStrengths: Easy to use, photorealismCons: Most expensive option, not open source, lacking community - more audience focus for Openai is on ChatGPT, site is underwhelmingBest for: Imitating real photos, places, and people

Link here

Interior design mockups: Link here 🛋Dozens of creative tools: Link here 🎨Create stunning game assets: Link here 🎮

Finding that your prompts are producing images that are nowhere near what you imagined in your head? Here are some tips to really strengthen your prompt game. 🔥1. Search through sites like Lexica.art and Prompthero.com to see what prompts are working for others.2. Play around with sizing to see how differently the AI will produce the image based on the space you give it.3. Continue to produce variations of an image until it get's closer to what you like.4. Input color palettes in a creative way. Example: forest green colors.5. What kind of photo are you looking for? Specify if it's photorealism, pixel art, painting, manga, or whatever else you wanted!6. Include the name of artists you like to get similar results to their work.7. Apply weight to certain prompt words so they have a bigger impact.Learn more here (specific to Midjourney)

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"Circle of Life" - generated using Midjourney