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How to Create Text to Image AI Art in 2025
Creating AI images is exciting and offers endless possibilities for creativity. If you’re wondering how to create text to image AI art effectively, this guide will break it down into four simple steps. However, it can also feel overwhelming for beginners when the results don’t match the vision in your mind. That’s why this guide breaks down text-to-image AI art into four simple steps. This way, you can have fun and see results right away—without the stress of navigating endless platforms, workflows, and tools.
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Step 1: How to Choose Your Text to Image AI Art Generator
The first step in creating text-to-image AI art is selecting the right platform. Here are two beginner-friendly options to get started:
1. Ideogram
Ideogram provides a user-friendly interface with a freemium plan, offering up to 40 free image generations per week. It’s perfect for experimenting with styles and learning how prompts work.
- Magic Prompt: Automatically enhances your prompt with additional keywords. While helpful for beginners, I prefer to turn it off for more control.
- Aspect Ratios: Choose between vertical, square, or wide images to match your creative vision.
- Style Options: Pick specific styles like “Illustration” for logos or “Photo” and “Cinematic” for realistic imagery.
We recommend watching the video for detailed guidance, starting at 01:18 when Ideogram is introduced.
2. Leonardo AI
Leonardo AI is another excellent choice, offering 15 daily tokens to create 5-15 images depending on the model. It supports more customization options and advanced features like the Flux AI model.
- Select the Flux Schnell model for cost-efficient generations or Flux Dev for higher quality.
- Adjust resolution, aspect ratio, and style settings as needed.
- Set the prompt enhance to “off” and the style to “none.”
- In Freemium mode, the resolution and number of generated images per prompt are fixed at four.
Check out the video at 02:18 for an overview of Leonardo AI’s features.
More Freemium Apps for Free AI Images
There are many more freemium AI generators. In this blog post, I’ve listed four additional tools. You’ll also find two platforms where you can pay per image without a subscription. Drawing from two years of AI art and filmmaking experience, I’ve shared my top AI generator recommendations.
Step 2: How to Find Inspiration and Keywords for Text to Image AI Art
Finding the right inspiration and crafting effective prompts are essential for success in text-to-image AI. Here are some top resources to guide you:
- CivitAI: Explore a vast collection of AI-generated images and copy their prompts to kickstart your projects.
- MidJourney Gallery: Discover trending styles and themes, and adapt them to your creative needs.
- PromptHero: A platform dedicated to sharing and discovering creative prompts tailored for AI art.
We recommend watching the video at 04:01 for a detailed walkthrough of these resources.
Categorized Art Styles
For more inspiration, visit our AI Art Styles blog post, which includes 120 AI art styles categorized into six groups for easy navigation.
Step 3: How to Start with Small Prompts in Text-to-Image AI
When starting with text-to-image AI, simplicity is key. Using small, focused prompts gives you more control and helps you understand what each keyword produces. This approach allows you to:
- Understand how the AI interprets different keywords.
- Avoid frustration from not knowing which keywords produce specific results.
- Build confidence in creating effective prompts.
- Enhance creativity by allowing the AI to demonstrate its full potential.
Below, are some keywords to start with. These examples provide inspiration and guidance on startig with small prompts and how to create text-to-image AI, helping you achieve stunning results in your projects. All keywords are taken from the Ultimate Prompt Toolkit.
Mindful Prompting
Use mindful prompting to experiment with single keywords and observe how adding a new keyword changes the prompt. This is especially useful if you want to create your own specific image style.
While copying other creators’ prompts is useful to achieve specific styles, mindful prompting helps deepen your understanding of text-to-image AI prompting.
We recommend watching the video for more insights, starting at 05:51 when this step is explained.
Step 4: Achieving Consistent Styles and AI Characters
Creating consistent styles and characters was a challenge in the early days of text-to-image AI art but has become more advanced with the right techniques. Here’s how you can do it:
4.1 Advanced Prompt Structure for Consistent AI Image Styles
- Focus on Two Key Elements: Use strong iconic keywords that define the identity of your images. For instance, in our warrior woman images, we used “sword and sorcery” for the genre and added “wuxia” to enhance the scenery. These keywords set a clear tone and visual direction.
- Specify Your Image Style: Lock in a fixed genre and medium or select a photography style. This helps anchor your visuals and ensures consistency. Include detailed descriptions of your subject and use effects like lighting and color to establish mood and uniformity.
- Foundation for Storytelling: Once you’ve set your style and tone, use this as a foundation to create a narrative. With this foundation, you can start writing stories and create various shots by changing:
- Shot types to capture different perspectives.
- Actions to add dynamism.
- Scenery to enrich the visual context.
- Subject emotions to bring your characters to life.
We recommend watching the video starting at 08:31 for a demonstration of this process.
4.2 How to Maintain Consistency Across Text-to-Image AI Images
And as long as you keep most of the keywords in the style layer and effect layer the same, your image style will remain consistent. As you can see in the examples below, where I extended the small Cyberpunk prompt from the video tutorial, the yellow keywords represent the fixed ones, while the white keywords are the substitutes, allowing us to change the shot type, emotions, actions, and scenery.
4.3 Using LoRA Models for Consistent AI Characters
LoRA models allow you to train AI on specific styles or characters. You can combine LoRA with platforms like Flux AI to create consistent outputs across multiple generations.
For a detailed guide, check out our blog post on creating consistent characters: Creating AI Movies with Runway Act-One.
Conclusion
By following these four steps, you’ll be well on your way to mastering how to create text to image AI art effectively. Start with beginner-friendly platforms like Ideogram and Leonardo AI, find inspiration from resources like CivitAI and PromptHero, and refine your prompts for consistent, high-quality results. With practice, you’ll unlock the full creative potential of AI art.
Explore more resources and tutorials on our website to enhance your skills further.
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