Amateur Input, Pro Output: AI Art's New Secret

There's a new and totally unique way to generate images with AI, and it totally eliminates the need for things like prompt engineering. With this new method of generating AI images, all you need is sort of a fuzzy idea of what you're looking for and you can hone in on the exact image that you want. The new tool that I'm talking about is called Flow State, and it comes from Leonardo AI. Now, full disclosure, I am an advisor to Leonardo and I've known about this Flow State feature for quite some time now, and I've had to keep my mouth shut about it. And it's been really. Because I thought this was going to be one of the coolest new ways to generate AI images. And I really, really wanted to let the cat out of the bag that this was coming, but I haven't been able to. But now that it's here and it's live, I finally get to show it off. So first I'm going to show you how to use it. Then I'm going to show you a little bit about what it actually does, and then we'll talk about the cost and some of the little details that you're probably going to want to know about it in order to use it. You're going to head over to Leonardo AI and you're going to log in and you'll see this option for Flow State right here. And at the time of this recording, it has a little new icon on it. You can click on Flow State, or if you simply click on Image Creation, you'll have the option to switch between Classic Mode and Flow State. Once you're on the Flow State page, it actually starts you off with some inspiration to choose from. It'll give you three prompts with example images to use. You can start with one of these prompts, or if you have kind of a fuzzy idea of what you're looking for, you can start with that prompt. Let's say I want an image of a robot wolf, but I don't really know the details. I don't know the environment I want it in yet. I don't the style, I don't know the colors. I don't really know anything about what I really want other than I want a robotic wolf in it. I'm going to go ahead and set my image dimensions over here at 16, 9. You have the option for 2, 3, 1, 1, 16 9, or a sliding scale to really dial in more specific dimensions. I'm going to leave all of this on automatic on the left side, and I'm Just going to type a robot wolf. We'll click generate. And what it's going to do is it's going to generate a sort of grid of robo and they're gonna be in all different styles, all different color schemes, basically all different vibes, lightings, shot types and color themes. And here's what's so cool about flow state is if I'm not really seeing an image that jumps out at me as like, that's what I had in mind. I just keep scrolling. It's like an infinite scroll where as you scroll it just keeps on populating with more images. This is why you don't really need to dial in that prompt exactly perfectly. Because it's just gonna keep on generating images and eventually you're gonna. You're like, that's kind of what I had in mind. It might not be exactly, but it's pretty close. So let's just scroll here. I'm going to keep on scrolling. It just keeps on adding eight new images as I just infinitely scroll this thing here. And let's say I really like the aesthetics of this image right here. I like the blues and purples, if you haven't noticed. It tends to be a color scheme that I really like. But the image still isn't quite what I'm looking for. Now if I hover over the more like this you can see, it tells me that the lighting on this is light art and the color theme is cool tones. So if I click more like this over on the left, you'll see it update the style to light art and cool tones color theme. And now all of the images that are showing up in my flow state grid have that kind of color scheme to them. Once again, I can just keep on scrolling and it will generate more and more images as I scroll until I find one that's close to what I'm looking for. This one down here is pretty cool. I like that one. If I hover over the more like this you could see it tells us what the prompt is. Each one of these is now changing to a different prompt. It's still a prompt of a robot wolf. It's still using the lighting of light art. It's still using the color theme of cool tones. It's just giving us different prompts that have those sort of features in them. But I like this one. So let's do more like this. And now it's going to give me a grid of images that are light art, cool tones and use that exact prompt. It's just going to be A whole bunch of different seeds now, but the same exact prompt and the same seed. And you can see now I'm getting images even closer to the last one that I like. And once again, you just keep on scrolling until you find that image. That's the perfect one that you were looking for. Let's try another one. This time I'll leave it as a one to one aspect ratio and let's just do a futuristic alien world. I'll leave everything the default here and click Generate. And now I get a whole bunch of different styles and random images of what a futuristic alien world can look like. It's sort of styled, starts with this wide variety of images, none of them really looking that close to each other. But let's say we really like this one with this sort of red in the background and the silhouettes of the aliens. I can click more like this and you can see it set the lighting as backlit and the color theme as vibrant. And now we have a whole bunch of images with a vibrant theme and that sort of backlit look to it. This one's kind of cool and psychedelic looking. Let's go ahead and click more like this. And now it drills in and starts to really dial in what that image looks like. No additional prompting necessary. You can see it writes the prompts for me. It picks the lighting and the color theme for me, and it just helps me get more and more drilled down into what I'm looking for. Now, if you already know the vibe or the lighting or the shot type or the color theme that you want, you can start with that information already in there as well. So if I jump back into the flow state here and start over, let's say that for vibe, I want it to have an acrylic vibe and I want it to have a vibrant color theme. And let's say I want to do a colorful coral reef with vibrant sea life. We'll click Generate, and all of them are going to start with this acrylic vibe and the vibrant color scheme. So it's already kind of drilled in for us a little bit because I've already preset a little of what I'm looking for. But I can drill down even more. Let's say I like this one. If I hover over it, you can see that it's got mystical lighting and shot type as cute. Keeping my acrylic vibe and my vibrant theme, I can click more like this. It locks in all of these elements of my style. And now all of them are starting to look a little, little Bit closer together. I like this one because it looks like this interesting painting art piece. If I click more like this, you'll see it's just going to use this same prompt now. And now I'm just going to get a whole bunch of variations using the exact same prompt. So now the style is all really close together. It is just so cool. One of the easiest ways to generate images, if you just have that fuzzy idea of what you're looking for but don't want to like, prompt, engineer it and put all the details into it, you can sort of let this tool figure out all the details for you as you go. And they call flow state because you could literally do this for hours. We just drill down and drill down and drill down and eventually you have that image that's just like. That's the perfect image I was looking for. Now, as far as pricing goes, this may change, but as of the recording of this video, if you're on the Leonardo free plan, you can generate up to 150 images a day. If you're on one of the paid plans right now, you get virtually unlimited images using this flow state feature. So free, 150 a day paid, virtually unlimited at the moment. Now, that pricing could change. So if you're seeing this video far in the future after it was recorded, there is a chance that pricing has changed since then. But as of the rollout of this new feature, for the time being, it is available at those sort of pricing levels Anyway, just wanted to show off this feature to you. I know I mentioned it in Friday's news video earlier this week, but I wanted to do a little bit deeper of a dive on this one because I just thought this was a sort of game changing of generating images. You no longer have to think about being a prompt engineer or putting all the details of what you're looking for in an image. You can sort of let the image flesh itself out based on just diving deeper and deeper and deeper. And when you find an image you like, you can save it to your library. You can generate more like this. And then if I head back over to my Leonardo library here, the image that I just saved is right here. I can find it again. I can generate a video from it. I can generate another image based on this image. I could get all of the prompt details around it. It is there and available for me to use whenever I need it inside of my Leonardo library. Anyway, that's all I got. I just wanted to share this one thing for you. Wanted to make a real quick video break this down, play with it a little bit, show it off. I think it's really cool. Again, over at Leonardo AI, you can use it for free right now. Or if you're on a paid plan, you could pretty much go as deep as you want into a flow state and get all sorts of cool images. I hope you enjoyed this video. 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