Adobe Firefly
Adobe
Adobe's generative AI for images, effects and video, built into Creative Cloud.
- Text-to-image
- Generative Fill and Expand in Photoshop
- Text effects
Best AI Image Generation tools
AI image generators turn a written description into an illustration, photo-style image or design asset. They differ in image style, how well they follow complex prompts, how they handle text inside images, and what commercial-use rights their plans include.
5 tools in this category, listed alphabetically. Inclusion is editorial and not paid unless marked “Sponsored”.
Canva
Canva
Online design platform with AI features for graphics, slides and video.
- AI image generation
- Background remover
- Resize designs for different formats
Free planFree trial
Leonardo.Ai
Leonardo.Ai (Canva)
Web-based image and video generation with fine creative controls.
- Multiple image models and style presets
- Canvas editor with inpainting
- Custom model training
Midjourney
Midjourney, Inc.
Highly stylised AI image generation from text prompts.
- Text-to-image generation
- Image references for style and character
- Variations and upscaling
Stable Diffusion
Stability AI
Open-weight image models you can run on your own computer.
- Downloadable model weights
- Runs locally on your hardware
- Community interfaces like ComfyUI
Open weights / open sourceFree
Guides for ai image generation
How to Generate AI Images: Prompts, Tools and Rights
Write image prompts that work, pick the right generator, edit results and understand commercial-use rules.
2 min read
Midjourney vs DALL·E (ChatGPT Images): Which Image Generator Wins?
Compare Midjourney with OpenAI's image generation in ChatGPT on quality, ease of use, editing, text in images and pricing.
2 min read