AI Image Generation — Create Any Visual You Need

AI Image Generation in 2025

You Can Now Create Any Image From Text

Type a description, get an image. No design skills needed. No Photoshop. No stock photo subscriptions.

In plain English: AI image generation is like having a professional illustrator who works for pennies and never sleeps. You describe what you want in words, and they create it.

What Can You Create?

Marketing materials: Social media graphics, ad creatives, email headers
Presentations: Custom illustrations, data visualizations, backgrounds
Product mockups: Show your product in different settings without photography
Website assets: Hero images, icons, backgrounds, illustrations
Brand identity: Logo concepts, color palettes, brand imagery
Content creation: Blog post images, YouTube thumbnails, book covers
Personal projects: Art, cards, invitations, fun creative projects

The Major Tools

Tool	Made By	Quality	Price	Access
DALL-E 3	OpenAI	Great	Included in ChatGPT Plus ($20/month)	Easiest
Midjourney	Independent	Best artistic quality	$10/month	Via Discord
Stable Diffusion	Stability AI	Great (open-source)	Free (self-hosted)	Technical
Imagen	Google	Great	Included in Gemini AI Pro ($20/month)	Easy
Flux	Black Forest Labs	Excellent	Free tier available	Various platforms

For beginners: Start with DALL-E (via ChatGPT Plus) — it's the easiest to use. For best quality: Midjourney produces the most visually stunning images. For free: Flux via various free platforms.

Legal and Ethical Considerations

You generally own the images you generate (check each tool's terms)
Don't generate images of real people without consent
Don't mimic specific artists' styles to deceive
Commercial use is allowed on most platforms, but check terms
Watermarks may appear on free tiers

Next up: Lesson 2 — Creating Images with DALL-E.