Is Midjourney in danger? Ideogram’s new version has been making waves all across the internet since its launch. The company announced many new features in its latest model update and users are happy with it. Take a look at what are the new features that have been announced.
Highlights:
- Ideogram 2.0 introduces five distinct image styles, significantly improving image quality and excels in integrating text within images.
- It provides customizable colour schemes for users now, offering more flexibility for designs like posters and ads.
- This new Ideogram is very cost-effective; and can be obtained at a lower price than its competitors.
Introducing Ideogram 2.0 — our most advanced text-to-image model, now available to all users for free.
— Ideogram (@ideogram_ai) August 21, 2024
Today’s milestone launch also includes the release of the Ideogram iOS app, the beta version of the Ideogram API, and Ideogram Search.
Here’s what’s new… 🧵 pic.twitter.com/nvD0ogRh2J
What are the features of Ideogram 2.0?
Ideogram now allows users to generate images in 5 new styles: General, Realistic, Design, 3D, and Anime. Each one of these styles serves a different purpose.
- General gives a basic illustration of your prompt. It balances different elements, providing a well-rounded output that can be used for various purposes.
- Realistic style can be used to create hyper-realistic images, the model takes care of every small detail mentioned in the plot and generates an image that can be almost undetectable that it has been generated by AI.
- The Design style is focused on artistic and graphic design, highlighting creative layouts, modern aesthetics, and stylish compositions. It is ideal for producing visually captivating content such as posters, social media graphics, or branding materials
- For generating images with a three-dimensional effect, 3D style has been introduced. This can be used for creating models and architectural designs.
- The Anime Style is introduced to give your images an anime appearance by implementing features like bold lines, vibrant colours, and expressive characters. This is going to be a treat for all manga fans as they can develop fan art or manga-inspired works using it.
The feature that everyone loves the most is improved text rendering. You can now customize the font and style of the text more effectively. This is important when you’re dealing with design models and need to have a visually captivating output.
The majority of the AI models are struggling with integrating text into their designs whereas the new Ideogram 2.0 generates text according to the mood of the image effortlessly. Many people who have created innovative posters or logos for their companies and websites are praising it a lot.
Ideogram has published results of human evaluators comparing various models based on Alignment, Overall preference and text rendering. Take a look at the results yourself:
One more eye-catching feature is the colour palette. Users can now tailor the colour schemes of their images to match specific branding or artistic preferences. This gives more control of the image to the user and significantly enhances aesthetic appeal.
Struck with not getting inspiration for your latest art piece or design? Don’t worry, Ideogram 2.0 has you covered. Users can browse through thousands of images and prompts generated using ideograms which can help get new ideas.
There are other features like Magic Prompt which lets the AI enhance the given prompt. The described feature lets users upload an image, describe it and re-generate it. Users can now check all the images they have generated under the “My images” tab.
Other announcements done along with the release include the launch of the Ideogram iOS Application and API. Now, developers can integrate this amazing software into their products using API at a really low cost. The model allows users to generate around 20 images in a single day free of cost.
Take a look at some of the amazing images generated by users using Ideogram 2.0 and their reviews on it :
Whatttt!!! the model is too good pic.twitter.com/CuuLORXVo9
— Aditya (@Aditya49966795) August 21, 2024
Just made this.. wow!!! So good pic.twitter.com/1AmMOvtI7F
— Analyst (@BallDominance) August 21, 2024
Congrats. This looks like a real image pic.twitter.com/vnszSoYVNJ
— Muki (@____Muki____) August 22, 2024
It did text-in-image better than pretty much every model before, now it isn't even close… pic.twitter.com/sGlX3uIU7X
— HeinzInJune (@InHeinz) August 21, 2024
Conclusion
Ideogram 2.0 represents a significant advancement in AI image generation technology, going beyond a simple update. It boasts improved realism, enhanced text presentation, and improved features like text rendering and colour palettes, challenging the existing dominance of platforms such as Midjourney and DALL-E 3.