AI Image Generation
A beginner-friendly tour of AI image tools: how they turn words into pictures, how to prompt them well, how to iterate toward a finished result, and how to stay on the right side of rights and ethics.
Text-to-image basics
Turning words into pictures A text-to-image tool takes a sentence you type — the prompt — and produces a brand-new picture that tries to match it. You describe what you want in plain language, and the tool paints something that has never existed before. Popular tools such as DALL·E, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, and Stable Diffusion […]
Iterating without starting over
The first image is a question, not an attempt Experienced users treat generation as a conversation with the composition. The first result tells you what the model understood; every one after that is a correction. Change one thing at a time Rewrite the whole prompt and you cannot tell which change fixed it or which […]
Where AI images belong, and where they do not
Capability is not permission You can generate almost any image. Whether you should use it depends on what it depicts, who sees it, and what they will take it to mean — questions that have nothing to do with image quality. Generally fine Concept art and mood boards, internal presentations, placeholders in a mock-up, abstract […]