Reve: Reimagine Reality
AI tool for creating and editing images. You can combine elements from multiple images, including adding a character to a scene. There's a free plan with limitations which should be enough to test it.
Reality Check - AI Photo Detection Game
Think you're good at identifying AI images? Try this weekly quiz to test your accuracy. In the week 1 quiz, I correctly identified 75% of the images.
AI Vector: Convert PNG to SVG Online Instantly
AI Vector is a free tool to convert PNG images to SVG format quickly.
WaveSpeedAI
WaveSpeed gives you access to multiple different image and video generation tools by paying for credits based on what you actually use. This looks like a promising option to test out tools or generate a few videos without committing to a larger subscription.
Better Images of AI
This nonprofit is collecting images that represent AI and technology while avoiding the typical metaphors and tropes. All images are Creative Commons licensed.
Real or AI Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference? » Britannica
Test your ability to distinguish between real and AI images with this quiz. I work with AI images a lot, and I still only got 8/10 on this quiz. I appreciate the explanations about what to look for and tips for critical review of media.
Texture and Pattern Repetition: AI sometimes struggles with complex textures or patterns, leading to noticeable repetition or awkward transitions. Students should look for unnatural patterns in textures like hair, skin, clothing, or background elements.
Gemini Image Editing: A Guide With 10 Practical Examples
This article explains how to use Gemini for image editing with examples, showing what works and what doesn't work. Modifying facial expressions and body poses worked fairly well in this author's testing, making this one option for generating sets of character images.
When graphics improve liking but not learning from online lessons
Sung and Mayer research on different types of graphics and how they affect learning. Graphics improve satisfaction and may improve motivation through affective engagement, even if they're irrelevant. Images are divided into 3 categories: instructive, decorative, and seductive.
AI Art Generator: Free AI Image Generator & Editor | OpenArt
Generate consistent character images in multiple scenes starting from a single image. You can also use image to video tools.This integrates with other tools and gives you the option to train your own AI model with your style for illustrations. The free plan is limited, but there are paid plans at different levels.
Say What You See - Google Arts & Culture
Learn how to write better prompts for images with this tool. Describe what you see in an image and see how close your generated image is to the original. This tool uses AI to analyze your results and how accurate you were.
The power of generative marketing: Can generative AI create superhuman visual marketing content?
This abstract of a marketing research paper explains how they compared AI-generated images and ads to human-created ads. The AI images were not just comparable, they were better than what people created. While this research is specific to marketing, I think it's relevant to images we use in training and elearning.
First, we prompt seven state-of-the-art generative text-to-image models (DALL-E 3, Midjourney v6, Firefly 2, Imagen 2, Imagine, Realistic Vision, and Stable Diffusion XL Turbo) to create 10,320 synthetic marketing images, using 2,400 real-world, human-made images as input. 254,400 human evaluations of these images show that AI-generated marketing imagery can surpass human-made images in quality, realism, and aesthetics. Second, we give identical creative briefings to commissioned human freelancers and the AI models, showing that the best synthetic images also excel in ad creativity, ad attitudes, and prompt following.
illustration.app - AI Vector Illustration Generator
I haven't tested it out yet, but this looks like another viable option for creating vector illustrations in consistent styles. One feature I haven't seen elsewhere is the color palette generator. Give it a word like desert, nature, or neon, and it will generate a color palette that you can use in your images. You can edit and recolor images or make the background transparent directly in this tool.
The Accessibility Icon Collection - The Noun Project Blog
25 public domain icons about accessibility, including icons for accessibility testing, inclusive design, neurodiversity, screen reader, and transcription.
Free AI photo editor - Edit images online with AI | Freepik
Freepik's online image editor includes some non AI-features like cropping and color adjustments plus some AI features like generating variations and AI backgrounds. Limited generations and downloads on the free plan.
Alt Text: What to Write
How do you write good alt text? What images need alt text? This article from the NN group answers both questions. I learned something new about adding periods to the end of alt text.
End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text.
Summary: Images are decorative, functional, or informative. Skip alt text for decorative. Describe the action for functional. Convey the message for informative.
Howard Lewis, Ph.D., CPT on LinkedIn: Learning Visual Design - Learner Perspective
Summary of research comparing learner perceptions for graphic (illustrated) versus photorealistic characters. Different image styles may be better for different audiences and goals.
If you give FLUX1.1 a prompt like "IMG_1018.CR2" you get back images that are so very hard to tell they're AI.
An odd tip from Twitter/X--use a file name with an extension for raw images as part of the prompt to generate realistic looking photos. I assume this is somehow prompting the model to look for those raw photos, but I wouldn't have thought of trying this.
Free Image Vectorization
Convert PNG files to SVG. Useful for converting AI-generated PNG illustrations to SVGs for editing. Works best with flat illustrations without much detail.
Disabled And Here: free stock images (with attribution)
Free stock images of people with disabilities, emphasizing people of color. While AI images are already usable for many purposes, I find that images of people with disabilities are still hard to generate. Images of actual disabled people are still useful. These are mostly photos, plus a few illustrations.
Make consistent and editable vector graphics with AI
Brushless is an AI tool focused on creating consistent illustrations, icons, and vector graphics. The tools make it easy to edit the colors, and you can create multiple images in a consistent style. You can get a small number of images as SVGs for free, and for low prices for more downloaded images.
https://leonfurze.com/deepfake-game/
Can you identify which images are generated by AI and which ones are real? Test yourself with these 10 pairs of images. I got 9/10 right, but I think more of these AI images would have fooled me if they weren't in a context where I knew one image in each pair was fake.
Image Upscaler - Upscale Your Photo for Free with AI
AI-powered image editing tools from a small Ukrainian company. Upscale, unblur, cartoonize, remove backgrounds. Use limited free credits per month or use promo code BESTEDITOR to buy credits.
Img2Go.com - Online photo editor and image converter
Multiple image generation and editing tools powered by AI. Upscaling, background removing, face blurring (automatically detecting all the faces in a crowd and blurring them all for privacy), inpainting, image comparison. This site has some basic image editing tools like cropping, rotating, and compressing as well. The basic plan is free, with paid plans for credits for more advanced tools.
MIDJOURNEY: (176) Photorealistic Tokens Cheat Sheet
Rory Flynn's guide to prompting for photorealistic images in Midjourney. Part of the challenge in prompting is that many of us don't know the specific vocabulary to describe aspects of images we want. We may not know examples of cameras or photo effects. This guide gives you phrases to make your prompts more specific. Download via Gumroad for free or an optional donation.
65+ Best Affinity Designer Templates & Assets 2024 (Free & Premium)
How Midjourney Evolved Over Time (Comparing V1 to V6 Outputs)
Great examples of how much Midjourney has improved in the past two years, with sample results from the same prompt in different versions.
Rory Flynn on LinkedIn: Hacking Multiple Characters in Midjourey. | 156 comments
While you can create multiple poses of a single character in Midjourney, it's really tricky to get two or three characters in a single scene. Rory Flynn has a suggested process that involves creating multiple character sheets as the starting point then creating scenes with multiple --cref URLs or using Vary Region to add another character.
RenderNet: Create AI images with character consistency
RenderNet is an AI image generation tool specifically designed for creating consistent characters
AI Story Generator (Free, No Signup & Unlimited)
This seems like something that could be done with a combination of other tools (an LLM plus an image generator), but this is a tool that creates stories plus images to accompany them. It would be interesting to experiment with as inspiration for training scenarios. However, note that the site claims copyright of all stories created, so don't plan to use this for commercial purposes. Use it for inspiration rather than as the actual content of a story.
Vidnoz AI Tools: Create FREE Engaging AI Videos 10X Faster
Vidnoz AI has several tools. Their AI video generator is similar to Synthesia, although the voices and avatars seem to be not quite as good. if you want to try out AI video generation, this looks like a great option for experimenting and exploring because you can generate 3 minutes of video for free. This site also has other tools, some with a freemium model, such as face swapping and background removal.