 Hello everybody welcome back to another AI video on this one. I want to compare mid-journey version 5 which is currently the king of AI art and AI image generators versus a free one which is powered by Microsoft Bing in particular their image creator and that has running Dolly 2 or in fact not even Dolly 2 it's more of an advanced version of Dolly 2 and more specifically it's completely free and unlimited so I want to compare the two and then for those of you that are you know trying to decide which one to if it's worth paying for mid-journey or not this is probably the tutorial the video for you also keep in mind mid-journey canceled they're free 25 images so you can't really play around with mid-journey you got to pay for it so let's take a look at them both and do a comparison now before we get into that I want to show you I came up with some prompts over here so what I did is I use chat GPT and I just said hey chat GPT can you create a bunch of prompts for images and art and I said you are a AI art random prompt generator it says and I asked if it understood it understood and then bang I said please create five random prompts and here they are so in no particular order these are the five prompts we're going to compare a few of them and then I'm going to add a sixth prompt in which is basically for photo realism and we're going to compare the two because traditionally mid-journey is better at details and the hyper realistic type look where dolly and stable diffusion aren't quite as good at the photo realism so we're going to compare them and you're going to be pleasantly surprised actually so anyways let's go so I'm going to go ahead and take the first prompt here I'm just going to command C or control C I'm going to copy it we're going to go into Microsoft Edge and we're going to run it in edge now please note that I recommend edge over another browser you can access the image creator in chrome for example but I want to show you a key difference in chrome if I right click on this image I can save it and open it in a new tab etc etc but watch this if I go to Microsoft Edge and I right click on it now I'm in edge check this up I can edit the image and why is that important because if you look at this image for example and you look at her fingers she's got five fingers and a thumb and this one well she's got some sort of raven hawk type grip so I would do something like this and maybe then hit enter and yeah crop it so just keep in mind that this is why I highly recommend using Microsoft Edge over other browsers anyways I'm going to click out of that but there you go you got a use case already so here we go let's go ahead and drag and let's copy and paste that one in create an abstract painting inspired by the colors and patterns of a tropical sunset you'll notice here that I've got 84 of these tokens right you start off with 99 and basically what it is is you got 99 fast you get like 99 fast hour or 99 fast I guess generations and after that it's still free it just slows down a little bit so keep that in mind this is completely free it's just I'm using some faster responses here so I'm going to go ahead and click on create and it's going to do its thing we're going to go switch back to discord and now I'm going to do the same thing in discord again command V create an abstract painting inspired by the colors of a tropical sunset and I ran this prompt twice already so you guys can see here what it's going to you know the kind of ideas that it gave me and I'll be honest with you they're really really good but when I go to Microsoft Edge and I look at this these are also really really good and if you really think about what abstract art is or an abstract painting this is probably a little better because this is more in keeping with proper abstract art with if you look at the mid-journey style or pardon me I clicked on the wrong one there mid-journey uses more of a I guess more of like an impressionistic abstract style so they're both great but um yeah there's definitely they're definitely both good but the free version there in in Microsoft Edge is just as good in my opinion so let's go ahead and go back to the art or to chat GPT and now we're going to draw a portrait of a mythical creature that combines the features of a dragon and a unicorn we're going to call it drag a corn why not okay so we're going to make a drag a corn let's go ahead and go into Microsoft Edge I'm going to delete this prompt or actually let's just delete this prompt and then I'm going to command v and copy paste in the new one I'm going to click on create and it's going to work it's magic we're going to go into discord and back into mid-journey I'm going to go forward slash imagine copy and paste drop that bad boy in there and presto here we go so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to run out a couple more of these prompts and then when I've done them all I'm going to come back and we can do a direct comparison all right everybody welcome back so we've run all five of the prompts or so here in both the free image creator here the Microsoft Bing image creator powered by Dolly and we've also run it in mid-journey over here so let's start with the free version I'm going to take a quick look at the first one this was the abstract paintings and if we click on one of them honestly these are fantastic these are exactly what come to mind for me when I think of a traditional abstract painting compare that to mid-journey again these are also fantastic don't get me wrong they're a little bit of a different style but both fantastic you can't go wrong either way and if you wanted one to look more like the other you just have to you know add in a little bit of a more specific prompt maybe state what type of artist you were looking at or you know in the style of a certain artist so let's go to the next one here which is draw a portrait of a mythical creature that combines features of a dragon and unicorn and a unicorn okay so in mid-journey we put that in and we got four very different styles and if I'm being honest I mean they're all really good I mean the top left one makes the most sense although the bottom left one here the third one is kind of fun and I wouldn't have it at a kids party maybe but you know what they're very very cool and this looks like a proper sketch anyways you got a very diverse different types here in mid-journey if we go over to our other program here let's go over to Bing image creator we got more of the traditional sketch styles and you know what there's no wrong nothing wrong with that because in an you know to be honest we put in draw a portrait so these are very much in a traditional portrait style although this cool uh I don't know cool little abstract type style dragon also good so when it comes to like traditional artwork you can't go wrong with either program both are good let's go back into mid-journey and look at the third one here this is the hidden waterfall family of deer doing their thing in a landscape of a serene forest so it's like a landscape painting of it so again for very cool looking images all good if we go over here to Microsoft Edge and we look at their version you can start to see a little bit of the difference this is a lot more I guess it just looks a lot more painted where if you look at the one in if you look at mid-journey it it is looks painted but there's more realism in it so I would probably give the edge if I was a judge I would give the edge to mid-journey although there are a lot of old school painters that painted just like this and that might be the look you're going for and there's nothing wrong with that so this is just it just lacks the detail but I don't know if that's on purpose um presumably it is but again who knows so all right let's click and keep rolling through here this is design a futuristic city escape with towering skyscrapers flying cars and holographic billboards all right some real blade runner stuff here okay let's take a look at okay well these look really good um this is great looking stuff this has that sort of cool future punk style cyberpunk-ish really cool look here uh you know I mean you can't go wrong with any of these things let's take a look at mid-journey over here back into mid-journey mid-journey I mean personally I think it's a little more detailed but there the the gap between the two of them is not much so personally I think they're both good um the last one I put in as a photorealistic porch of an old man looking straight ahead this is traditionally where mid-journey in the details can beat all of its competitors and if we look at these these pictures here like this literally looks photorealistic like this these people don't exist but they look like they should exist or they do exist mid-journey wins here in almost everything that said if we go over over here let's take a look at what this came up with and you know what the image creator came up with pretty good like this one is not too bad it's not great um they all know that one's actually pretty good but it's not it's not as good as um mid-journey I'm just going to be blunt this one here the details they're just not as believable the like if you look at his whiskers and his mustache it looks sort of painted on versus actually organic so I'm going to say mid-journey wins in this one by quite a margin that said if you look at this one here that I did earlier I said attractive lady reading a book photorealistic if you can look past the fact that her hands are wonky as hell everything else looks really really good and one of the reasons why is if you add the word photorealistic in with no spate with no hyphen it generally tends to do a very good job I did this one here earlier I put in photorealistic style and uh yeah this just doesn't look right this looks like it's borderline you know something that belongs in the sims uh same one here I did it with a hyphen photorealistic and I mean we got this guy here everything's pretty good but his facial features are wrong like he looks like he wears the helmet in and out of rafting if you know what he means so anyways guys that's a comparison the new image creator by microsoft bing is incredible it's free it's virtually unlimited and it is worth a crack and I think it's awesome anyways thanks for watching