Thanks to developments in artificial intelligence, making digital art from text has never been this easy. Text to image AI generators can transform simple written descriptions into detailed, high-quality images.
Whether you’re a designer, a content creator, or anyone with even the slightest curiosity to see how far AI has come in unleashing your creativity, this tutorial will walk you through making artwork with text-to-image AI in three easy steps. Let’s get into creating beautiful visuals and remodeling efficiently with these tools.
Step 1: Write a Prompt
First, an image to be generated from the text is a clear and well-descriptive prompt. A prompt in simple terms is a description of what you want the AI to create. Think of it as the base of your artwork. So the better this prompt, the more correct and visually appealing the output would be.
Be Descriptive
A prompt should be as descriptive as possible. Semi-vague prompts, like “a dog in the park,” will get you less specific and imaginative results. Use more details, for example: “a golden retriever playing fetch with a red ball in a lush green park at sunset.” With this prompt, specifics of subject, environment, color, and lighting, the AI is taking that to create a very detailed image.
Consider Artistic Style
Artistic styles are something that text-to-image AI tools can often interpret. Should the output be a painting, a cartoon, or a hyper-realistic image? Be sure to include these details in your prompt. Example: “a golden retriever in bright, colorful cartoon style playing fetch in a park at sunset” vs. “a golden retriever, in a hyper-realistic manner, playing fetch in a park at sunset” will yield different outputs.
Adjust for Emotions and Mood
You can also guide the AI to create artwork that elicits a particular emotion or mood. Adjectives such as “dreamy,” “moody,” and “whimsical” set the atmosphere in which that picture will be placed. Example: a golden retriever playing fetch in a dreamy park at sunset with soft, pastel colors and hazy light, and that would push the AI toward generating an atmosphere-embracing and emotional image.
What that means is, that the more you invest in refining your prompt, the closer it’ll be to your vision.
Step 2: Change General Settings
With a detailed prompt in hand, you will likely want to start by adjusting the general settings of the text-to-image AI tool. Generally, users use these to set detailed resolution, stylistic preferences, and other visual options that control exactly how the image will be generated.
Image Resolution
Resolution is one of the important settings to adopt when generating images from texts depending on the platform or project for which one is creating. You may want to choose between a high-resolution image for print or a lower-resolution image suitable for web use. This would be more appropriately used for posters, presentations, or detailed digital art, whereas it works great on the other end for social media posts or fast mockups with its high resolution.
Most AI platforms give you choices between 1024 x 1024 pixels or even custom sizes, depending on your needs. Note that the higher-resolution images might take a bit longer to generate, but they come out much sharper and more focused.
Style and Artistic Preferences
Beyond the resolution, most text-to-image AI, including PicLumen, lets you delve in and adjust the stylistic approach to your image. As noted above, you can indicate in your prompt what style of art you are looking for, but often the tool’s settings allow you to select or enhance the specific artistic styles.
Some common style options might include:
- Realism: The generation of photo-like, life-like images.
- Impressionism: To achieve softer, more fluid designs where the essence of the subject is required rather than detailed accuracy.
- Surrealism: To create dreamlike, fantastical, or abstract images.
- Sketch or Line Drawing: This would be more of a minimalist nature, based on outlines.
- Pop Art: A style that can be used for vibrant, colorful pieces, and is often retro-styled.
Play around with the sliders or drop-down menus that allow refinement of these latter elements within the tool you use. For instance, PicLumen allows the toggling between different artistic influences to help fine-tune the creative process.
Lighting, Contrast, Color
Adjusting the aspects of lighting, contrast, and color balance can greatly affect the mood of your generated artwork. As an example, high-contrast bright lighting can generate vivid, energetic images, whereas soft enlightening and pastel colors create calm and serene visuals. Keep playing with these settings until the generated image aligns with your creative vision.
These are settings that can be adjusted in PicLumen: friendly controls all the way from bright and dynamic to dark and pastel allow for greater control over the final output.
Step 3: Generate
Now that you have refined your prompt and changed any of the settings you’d like, let’s get to letting the AI do its magic. Click “Generate,” and in just a moment, the text-to-image AI will reveal to you an artwork derived from your input. This may take just a few seconds or minutes, depending on how much the prompt is reaching for in complexity and what resolution you have selected.
Review the Output
When the image is generated, take ample time to observe the image. Is this the result you had in mind, or does it capture all the details in your prompt? Sometimes, the interpretation presented by the AI might be a little different from what you have in mind, but that often leads to surprising, creative results.
Tweak and refine
And if it’s not exactly right, that’s OK! One of the most powerful features of text-to-image AI is the ability to refine an image multiple times until the result is what you had envisioned. This would most certainly be done by refining your original prompt with even more specific details or by adjusting the settings again. Each generation gets closer and closer to the perfect image. For example, PicLumen allows you several unlimited render attempts to play with different prompts and settings to try and get perfection found or tweaked until the final image is just what you need.
Save and Export
Save and then export the art once you’ve achieved the desired result. PicLumen allows you to download images in PNG format, which works well for a variety of uses, from social media and website graphics to digital presentations. This high-quality format ensures that your images retain their clarity and detail across platforms.
Conclusion
The truth is, that creating striking visuals through text-to-image AI is pretty simple once one learns how to write a good prompt and use the tool’s settings. Thanks to PicLumen, for one and all, creating artwork from text has become as easy as a, b, no matter their artistic experience. All that you need to do to generate high-quality visuals fitted to your specific needs is follow these three easy steps: writing a prompt, adjusting settings, and generating your image. So next time these creative visions strike your mind, try Text-to-Image AI and see for yourself how powerful a tool it is, such as PicLumen. With the right approach thrown into the mix, you should have professional-looking artwork up in no time.