Leonardo AI: Secrets of Powerful AI art Studio

The Leonardo AI (leaonardo.ai) is counted among one rising stars in the AI generative Art. The Leanardo.Ai or Leonardo Ai is a revolutionary swiss army knife of AI image Generation which is used to generate incredible game assets like concept arts, images, textures and high quality objects. It is a complete AI Production Studio with the capability of generating complex AI Prompts from simple words, AI Image Editing, manipulating, painting, scaling. and  Engineers can create stunning game assets as well as.

The tool is one of the OPenAI‘s Midjourney strongest competitors in the AI Image Generative market share. Althought, as compared to Leonardo Ai, MidJourney is generating far better results, providing more features, custom model training and higher number of prompts for image generation.

AI Image Generation Historical Background

The research shows that the journey of Generative Image using AI began in the late 1960s, as the first AI image was generated in 1973 by American computer scientist Harold Cohen. 

The name of the Image Generation tool was Cohen used his AARON, to make the artwork you see here. 

It was designed using generative adversarial networks (GANs) and rules transformers.  By 2014, Cyberspace floated with AI art generation tools and apps. 

The AI Image generative race is accelerating, with hundreds of thousands of new models being trained and numerous apps being developed using their API. Midjourney by OpenA in July 2022 has given more attention to the generation of images using prompt.

History of Leonardo Ai

According to Tracxn the company was founded in 2022 with the name Leonardo.  Ai by JJ Fiasson along with Ethan Smith, Jachin Bhasmein and Peter Runham in Sydney Australia. However as per JJ Fiasson’s LinkedIn profile experience section the Leonardo.Ai company was created in January 2022. Hence the company’s Owner is JJ Fiasson is Owner and Founder of the Leonardo Ai.

Finally the Leonardo Ai Web Application was officially released for the public via request access on 7th December 2022, as per WebArchive on the same day subreddit was also created. 

On December 9, 2023 Leonardo Ai’s discord server was Launched. Also the first post on their official Facebook Page was shared on the same date. Their official twitter account was created in November 2022 and the first post was made on January 31 2023.

What is Leonardo.Ai

The Leanardo.Ai or Leonardo Ai is a revolutionary swiss army knife of AI image Generation which is used to generate incredible game assets like concept arts, images, textures and high quality objects. It is a complete AI Production Studio with the capability of generating complex AI Prompts from simple words, AI Image Editing, manipulating, painting, scaling. and  Engineers can create stunning game assets as well as. As per response to the Leonardo AI Frequently Asked Questions  on Discord Server which states that : 

The vision for the platform is for it to become an entire content production suite that incorporates all sorts of generative AI on one platform, and links them together in a logical and cohesive way.

Initially, the launch features are focused on 2D asset and image generation, providing model finetuning and hence stylistic consistency and control. This will rapidly expand to include a whole swathe of features, including 3D when a production-ready solution comes available (either via our own efforts or an open source model).

As tech progresses, we want to be at the forefront of integrating all the fun and interesting things that are coming out. This is why we have such a big team (30 at the time of writing), and a core ML/AI unit of absolute gurus.

We’re also not just thinking about gaming but multiple other areas including marketing, fashion, product design, and so on. If you’re interested in chatting about other use cases please reach out to the team, we’d love to hear your thoughts.

The platform is very flexible and can accommodate all sorts of uses. It just so happens that we come from a gaming background and that makes the most sense in terms of our principal initial focus

As of 19 May 2023 there are 1,064,209 registered users on their discord server. The reason for such a huge number of users is Because of Leonardo Ai’s aesthetic, intuitive and simple User Interface is gaining a lot of attention from the AI Artisans. 

The way the number of members are rapidly increasing seems that it could cross the number of users of the Midjourney. A recent comparison shows that it has awesome conceptual detailing with high quality asset generation for the gaming industry very close to the Midjourney. It supports different models for generating realistic images and game assets. 

Unlike its competitors the Leonardo AI has a prompt template system where users can customize, generate prompts for getting desired Images. The creative studio interface comes up with three main customization features of prompts, styles and settings. There is a huge list of predefined prompt templates. A large number of image generation styles like abstract and realistic etc. An easy image Appearance customization settings comprises customization, transformation, and custom color selection. 

Leonardo AI performance 

Leonardo AI performance in terms of processing time taken for  image generation is quite promising. The image generation time depends on the number of features, parameters used for image generation and number of active users. However, the average execution for each prompt is up to 4 – 12 seconds, even for complex prompts.

Leonardo AI image Resolution’

There are six image resolutions from 512×512 to 1024×1024 are defined on the interface along with two resolution sliders for adjusting width and height of image and accept ratio given in the image dimension tab. The minimum resolution for generating images on Leonardo AI is 512×512 and the highest available resolution is 1536 x 1536 pixels.  The system consumes a single token up to 1024 x 768 while there will be 4 tokens charged from your account for generating a single image without any variation of 1536 x 1536 (1:1 ratio).

Leonardo.Ai  Models

Leonardo.Ai has seven different fine tuned models to generate images. These seven different fine tuned models are  Leonardo Diffusion, Leonardo Creative, Leonardo Select, Leonardo Signature, Stable Diffusion 1.5, Stable Diffusion 2.1, Custom Model.   Custom model let you choose your own fine tuned model. You can pick another model from Your Models, Favorite Models, Platform Models, and Community Models.

Each model is fine tuned with a specific resolution and generate image accordingly. The following image has the variations of the same image prompt using all the available models including custom one.

What is a Custom Model and How does it work?

Leonardo.AI is the first ever Generative Artificial Intelligence program, which provides users to build and train their own mode. The Custom Fine Tune modeling is one of the best features which makes the Leonardo.Ai special than the other platforms like Midjouerny. The users can generate the art using pre-trained models or train their own models using their custom modeling feature. Also it runs on fine-tuned models.

These custom models are made publicly available after a successful review. 

Ideat : Leonardo AI Prompt Generator

Ideate, is another distinct, powerful and brainstorming prompt idea generation feature of leonardo.Ai.  It allows generative AI designers to generate a highly complex prompt from a simple word for a superb image generation. One prompt costs a single token only, however up to 25 prompts can be generated simultaneously. 

For example, I have entered the term “Taj Mahal” in Enter a basic prompt idea box and hit the 💡 Ideate Button.

Boom!

The program generated two complex prompt based on the given idea.

Next I just clicked on the Generate button in front of 2nd Prompt ie

2. An intricately carved marble monument, the Taj Mahal stands as a symbol of love and devotion, its beauty radiating in the golden light of the setting sun.

It excuted on the already selected model that was stable diffusion 2.1. The here is the result :

Leonardo.ai the Photoshop of AI

The revolutionary leonardo.Ai is the Photoshop of Generative Imaging. Just like Photoshop which is considered as the standard for creating, editing and manipulating digital images, Leonardo Ai can be counted as a tool of trade for photoshopping the AI images, including custom fine tune modeling.

Ai Leonardo.Ai is merely not an AI image generation tool like Midjourney but a complete AI Image Editing and Creating Suit known as Leonardo.Ai Canvas Editor. According to their discord announcement the tool was launched on 2 February, 2023. Which is only available to the desktop users.

A stunning AI image Editing suite which is a completely Digital Image creative studio production unit, where artists can edit, color enhancement, manipulate, prompt paint, transform, control parameters and generate custom prompts on their uploaded image. The advanced AI enhancement tool is a standout feature of Leonardo.Ai which enhances the details on photos in a blink. 

What is inpainting and outpainting

In image generating AI inpainting refers to the filling the altering (adding, removing and fixing, filling) the image using paintbrush tool and generating prompts. Where the term outpainting is the opposite of the inpainting which is used to enlarge the image by generating and filling the outer area of the image using prompts.

Leonardo AI Pricing and Plans

Leonardo AI is not completely free but it has an awesome free plan with 150 image generation per day.  Initially Leonardo Ai  was freely available for use but  On 18 March 2023, the company announced three new different pricing plans including Free, Apprentice, Artisan and Maestro. 

Let’s discuss FREE first!

You may be surprised to know that currently, Leonardo Ai offers a free plan with 150 tokens per day.  150 tokens means a user can generate up to 150 images or complex prompts in a single day.  Which means you can generate 4500 creative AI images per month freely using leonardo Ai free token. 

These free tokens can also be used for accessing all the amazing features of intuitive AI image generation and designing tools. The free credit will be added in the next day.  This is a huge number of free credits as compared to all the currently available AI Image generation apps on the internet.

The only limit of free tier is private generation, provision of priority infrastructure during peak servers and Relaxed generation queue where users can have very low image generation resources. 

Please remember that a token is a single request or prompt sent by the user to the Leonardo Server for generating complex prompts, images or any specific feature. 

The consumption of tokens depends on the features usage, like image generating, ideate, Prompt Magic V2, Image Scaling and Background removal etc. 

Generating an image of 1025 x 768 takes a single token while generating the same size of image with Prompt Magic feature will use one extra token. 

All the pricing plans are summarized as under, there are two modes of subscriptions: Monthly and yearly. 

Feature	Free	Apprentice	Artisan	Maestro
Price	$0/month	$12/month	$30/month	$60/month
Tokens per month	150	8,500	25,000	60,000
Upscales or unzooms per month	30	1,700	5,000	12,000
Background removals per month	75	4,250	12,500	30,000
Pending jobs	1	5	10	20
Private generations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Priority infrastructure	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Relaxed generation queue	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Model Training per Month	01 Model	10 models	20 models	50 models
Model Retain	1 model	10 models	20 models	50 models
Style-consistent generations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Leonardo Canvas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
3D texturing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Special perks	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

Leonardo Ai image Pose Feature

This feature was announced on 21 February 2023, as per their discord server which says that : 

We are thrilled to announce a new feature on Leonardo.Ai – Image as Pose! 🎉

This powerful new feature allows you to upload an image of a person as an init image, and generate other images of people in the same pose. Imagine being able to get the same character in multiple poses and angles consistently – this makes that possible! 🔥

To use Image As Pose, simply upload an image as an init image (as you normally would), and look for the Image as Pose toggle below the image before generating. *Note that this toggle will currently only appear if the model being used was trained on SD1.5.

Leonardo AI Discord Server Features and Stats

The official discord server was launched on December 9, 2022 and has 1,070,718 members. Right now, It has 36 channels.

On February 21, 2023 it reached about 40,000 members and 186,646 members on March 13, 2023. The amazing Leonardo AI grabbed 1 million uses on 16 May 2023. on April 14 2023 their official announcement they released their news about launching their official subreddit and released API. Please note that currently using  Leonardo Ai without Discord server is not possible

In contrast to the Midjourney discord server,  the utilization of image generation commands such as the “/imagine” feature is not permitted within this server  because The Leonardo Ai Discord server is solely intended for purposes related to membership, announcements, rules, FAQs, community collaboration and other information pertaining to Leonardo Ai.  

Conclusion

In 2022, Leonardo AI was founded and has since become a popular and well-regarded platform for AI artisans. Its intuitive and user-friendly interface has gained widespread attention due to its aesthetic appeal.

One of the platform’s most notable features is the Leonardo.AI Canvas Editor, a comprehensive AI production studio that functions as the “Photoshop” of generative imaging. With this tool, artists can easily edit, enhance, manipulate, and generate custom prompts for images. Additionally, the platform offers fine-tuned models, including custom models that users can train and make publicly available.

Leonardo AI’s prompt template system is another standout feature, allowing users to create their own prompts for generating images. The platform’s pricing plans offer a variety of options, including a free plan with 150 tokens per day for image generation.

When compared to Midjourney, Leonardo AI emerges as a strong competitor in the AI generative art market, particularly in the field of AI image generation. With superior results, a wide range of features, custom model training, and a higher number of prompts for image generation, it is easy to see why.

Overall, Leonardo AI’s ability to generate high-quality images, its comprehensive set of features, and its growing user base position it as a promising player in the AI generative art market, competing closely with Midjourney. As the field continues to evolve, Leonardo AI is committed to integrating new advancements and expanding its capabilities across various industries beyond gaming.

Begin your imaginative adventure today with Leonardo AI and witness the AI image generation of tomorrow. Embrace the limitless potential and unleash your creativity beyond boundaries. Don’t miss out on this chance to join the AI art revolution.