Image & design
Black Forest Labs
Create stunning, photorealistic images from a simple text description — open-source power that rivals the big names
Using Flux is like having a world-class illustrator on call who can paint anything you describe in seconds, without ever needing a coffee break or a deposit upfront.
Flux is an image generator from Black Forest Labs that turns your written descriptions into high-quality pictures. You type what you want to see — like 'a cozy coffee shop on a rainy evening in Paris' — and it creates the image for you. It's known for producing some of the sharpest, most realistic results available, and unlike many competitors, parts of it are free and open for anyone to use or build with.
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Use case
Creating product lifestyle photos without a photoshoot
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A handmade ceramic coffee mug on a wooden kitchen table, morning sunlight streaming through a window, steam rising, shallow depth of field, photorealistic
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Turn your words into stunning images — just describe what you imagine and DALL-E 3 paints it
Flux tends to produce sharper, more photorealistic images and is partly open-source so developers can build on it, while DALL-E 3 lives inside ChatGPT and is easier for everyday users to refine through conversation and better at putting readable text inside pictures.
Create any image you can imagine — free, open, and runs on your own computer if you want
Flux tends to produce sharper, more photorealistic images out of the box, while Stable Diffusion is easier to run on your own computer for free and has a huge library of community-made versions for specific art styles.
Create stunning images you can actually use commercially — right inside Photoshop and the Adobe tools you already know
Flux tends to produce sharper, more photorealistic results and has open-source versions you can tinker with, while Adobe Firefly is built into Photoshop and the other Adobe apps and uses licensed training data so the images are safer to use commercially.
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