Stable Diffusion is an open source generative AI for images. You may be able to find resources available More on reddit.com

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I'm a Midjourney fan too, and haven't found any others I like as much, for the type of images I enjoy. But if I was looking for advice about what free image AI is the best, I wouldn't start by asking on the MJ sub ;) I'd start by googling for comparative reviews, and then if I still had questions, I'd try r/aiArt . BTW you should know that MJ has a LOT of features and something of a learning curve to get on top of them all. You don't get the best MJ image just by typing in a prompt. Check out some of this stuff, just for starters: https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/32859204029709-Parameter-List https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/32764383466893-Full-Editor And lots more. But every image AI has DIFFERENT functionality in terms of e.g. modifying images, scaling, style and character continuity, all that. All the tech stuff that lets you control your output above and beyond what's in your prompt. In other words, it's not just the output quality that makes a great image AI. It's the whole package. You should be looking at features as well as results. More on reddit.com

I am crazy with AI. I have midjourney, pixeldojo, aitubo, suno, runway, and openart.ai and i also run numerous programs from huggingface. I will say that I do not use midjourney for photorealism. Also, to be honest, a lot of the AI companies that run businesses have horrible customer service. I think its because a lot of them spend all their money on equipment and engineers. This is an ever expanding field and i think a customer-facing product is merely a means to funding further research. I could be totally wrong but I have found that usually crowd-wisdom is the best option. Plus, the real money is in enterprise solutions and not individuals. I like to use Recraft v3 or Flux Pro 1.1 Raw version for photorealism. They are relatively much pricier than standard Flux Dev or SDXL models. I don’t bother with SD3.5. In case you don’t know, i don’t want to sound condescending, you have Recraft which kinda came out of the blue and blew away Flux Pro in the image leaderboards on HuggingFace. Flux is from some former members of the Stability AI team (essentially the OG diffusion model that really kicked off this crazy race in image generation models). Flux comes in a couple of different flavors: Flux Schnell (super-fast, decent images, however, difficult to avoid that plasticky look to people and images), Flux Dev (to my understanding, is the best open-source model you can run on a high end computer. It is significantly slower but you get much better images and prompt adherence. This model can be very picky about CFG values - similar to stylization in midjourney - to avoid the plasticky look). Flux Pro which is a high end model and provides fantastic photorealism. Flux Pro Ultra is a step better and i found that lighting, shadows and anatomy are amazing here. Flux Pro Raw is fantastic for images that look like photos taken from an iPhone, polaroid, etc. I think they are the closest to fooling people if you were deep-faking. There are lots of different options as well such as SDXL, SD 1.5, SD 2.0 (garbage imho), Recraft (great images but for me personally i prefer the flux pro raw), SD 3.0 and SD3.5 (Flux is still a better model in my opinion), Ideogram which is god-tier for text and vector illustrations. Then there are some lesser known ones like Stable Cascade, Kolors, etc… these are not bad but there is just much more support and research done in the others. In Midjourney, you can get some amazing results and I still prefer midjourney for non-text art type models. I have been able to achieve some amazing things with midjourney that i cannot duplicate in the others models. One thing I do is set my stylize low, like 50, and then set my weirdness and variety to 0. Then, i put in the Raw over Standard model in options, and I turn off personalization. Then I put in a very simple prompt like “dog in a field” then i append —sref {random, random, random}. This will generate three jobs with one style each. Find one that matches the style you like (might take a while) and write down the code you see in the image parameters (for example, sref 166397). Then everytime you want that style you just attach —sref and that number. It works like a charm. From there you can experiment with the stylization values (i like to get it as high as possible because i find the quality and artifacts in the image go down as stylize goes up). I wouldn’t touch weird if you are going for photorealism, and you might play around with variety. I hope it helps and feel free to correct me of i am wrong. More on reddit.com