 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Leonardo.ai video, or Leonardo AI video, and this one I want to talk to you about, not just Leonardo AI, but why I think it is a legitimate competitor to mid-journey. It is doing a lot of things really, really well, and in a lot of ways it's better than mid-journey. In some ways it's not quite as good, but let's talk about that. So the first way, and probably the biggest thing is it is extremely user friendly, and it is basically UI, UX, visual based. And what I mean by that is if you go to Discord and you jump into your mid-journey bot, it is prompt based. It's text based, you type in a bunch of prompts, and then you get what you get, something like that, right? And you see all these text prompts. Leonardo's not really like that, Leonardo uses models, and you can actually just go ahead and click on a model, like for example, if I like this RPG style, I can literally click on this, I get a visual representation of what I'll be creating and what it should kind of look like within reason, and then here are a few of the latest examples done using this, and then I just click generate with AI and bang, I'm creating artwork. And when I'm talking about a visual style and user friendly, like on the user friendly side, look at the left here, it's super simple, like I want to create a number of images for dimensions, whatever the dimensions are, you can change them as you see fit, I'm going to use the custom dimensions that came with it, but you can adjust them. If I want a different aspect ratio done, click the button, guidance style, how strongly your prompt is weighted, stylizing or seating, so to speak, all there, step count, tiling, using an image as a input. So if I had an image of a, I don't know, let's say, let's go to my pictures file here, and I wanted to use this B as an input, or as sort of like an idea as to what I want my thing to look like, I just drag and drop it in there, bang, I can adjust the strength. It is incredibly user friendly, super easy. If I click generate, I know exactly what I'm going to get. I'm going to get four images because I selected four up at the top here. It'll take a few seconds. It's going to use the model that we selected and bang. I mean, here we go. I've just entered in zombie eating a sandwich on the beach. So you can still use text based prompts. In fact, you have to, but you don't have to do all of the other stuff that you can find yourself doing in mid journey, like, you know, forward slash imagine, you know, a zombie comma eating a sandwich comma on the beach comma high definition comma photo realistic comma, you know, octane render comma, et cetera, et cetera. Blue background comma, you know, stuff that, you know, if you know what you're doing and you're an expert or you're a prompt engineer, go nuts. It works great. But if you're not that, this has some really, really good options. Unfortunately right now it's a little slow because everybody and their dog is using the program, but usually it only takes about 15 seconds for these to render. But here you go. Okay. Oh, look at this. Haughty. Oh my Lord. I wonder if she's single. Oh, she's got two sandwiches. Damn. Okay. See, but you see how easy that was? It was just like that. And if you want to, you know, take a look at the other things that I like about Leonardo AI, it's got its own quick buttons here. So if I want to upscale this, I don't have to, you know, click you one, you two, you three, you four. I just click upscale. It has a free editor as well. So if I want to make edits and these are only rudimentary edits, but mid journey does not have this mid journey kind of has, you know, nothing. You got to take it into Photoshop and Photoshop granted is probably a much better choice. But if you don't have Photoshop, but you still want to make a few little things like you want to draw a mask and I don't know why you would draw a mask on this Haughty, but there you go. I drew a mask on that Haughty. If I want to erase one of the sandwiches, I can go in there and I can erase the sandwich really, really intuitive, easy to use, basic functionality. Another reason why I think Leonardo has an advantage over mid journey is here it is, it's free, at least at the moment as a February 20th, you get 250 tokens a day, and you can just recharge them every 24 hours. If you use more than 250 tokens, well, you're a power user and well, just create a second account. But don't tell them I told you that. But there you go. It's super easy to use. And again, it's just it's free. There's like all these different models is another thing like, you know, testing things out in mid journey. A lot of it is trial and error where this one is a lot less trial and error because if we go through the models here, you know, there's all these different models. And if I like this, you know, cute character type thing, or if I want, I don't know, maybe I want some sort of crystal deposit or whatever this is Leonardo select, I just click on it and I'm working on it and it's working. So keep that in the back of your head. The other thing I really like about Leonardo is right here. And again, this is the big thing, custom models, custom data sets, very simply put, you can create your own model that has your own style. And I've done a few different options here. Most of them are Pixar based. But here's one I did. I just said create I wanted to train a model. So I just click on a button and it says train model. And then I can just go ahead and add in the pictures that I want to use. Actually, why don't we just do one? You know what? Let's do a new data set. I'm going to show you how to do it. Well, I got you a train. I'm going to call this Carvi, Carva and whatever. I just want to go quickly to show you how this works. I'm going to create a data set. This is step one, step two. You just grab the images you want to use. So I'm just going to grab, I don't know. Let's grab all these images here, drag and drop them in. Bang, they're going to select all of them. And now these are going to be used as inputs into your model. Now, once you've got them input and it takes just a second, you just click on train model and then you just add in a few things. You know, I'm just going to call it a, a, I'm just going to go quickly through this. Yeah, I don't want to make, because I'm not going to use this as a real model, but you could input your model name and description if you want to. And then bang, click on start training. And then once it's done, it will send you an email. Once you get that out of your way, you can now go back to fine tune models here on the left side. And if you click here, you've got a model and mid journey does not have this. You cannot create your own models. You can kind of create your own set of text prompts that you can reuse over and over again, but it doesn't save a model for you like I've done here. And here's an example. I've got caravaggio and it's all done with his painterly style. And here's some examples that I've made using his style and it works great. And if I want to use it, I just click on the button and automatically select it. So incredible stuff here by Leonardo AI. Mid Journey does not have this type of functionality at this time. That said, Mid Journey does have some things that are much better than Leonardo. And I mean, the biggest one has to be the quality of the output. Mid Journey kind of has its own special sauce. Like they have their own way of doing it. Whereas Leonardo, it uses stable diffusion as its backbone. So that's a significant component of it. So in theory and in application, actually, you usually can get a better image out of Mid Journey. If you know what you're doing or if you get lucky, but usually if you know what you're doing. So keep that in the back of your head. The other thing is you can actually adjust for some of these issues that Mid Journey has by using a reference sheet like this. So here is a version for reference sheet. And in this one, I can go here to the bottom. And if I like, you know, if I'm in Mid Journey, reference sheet here and if I'm like, hey, you know, I want to know how to make characters, but I want them in Tom Bagshaw style. You can you can go through here and you can go through like the different paintings and different painters and select their styles and take the prompts. And then also you can go to something called Noonshot. And this is a visual prompt helper for Mid Journey. And this sort of kind of closes that gap. So if I was like, you know, imagine dog reading a book is my prompt, but I want, you know, a different style as opposed to just sort of, you know, typing in and guessing, you can go through here and you can see a visual representation of different types of styles. So, you know, if I like this chromatic look, for example, I will just go ahead and click Continue. And then if I want to use a different type of lighting, for example, like I want Moonlight, I will just go ahead and click on that and hit Continue. And what's happening here is it's building out the prompt, but we're building it using the visual cues, which is what makes Leonardo so really, really great. So keep that in the back of your head. There are Mid Journey hacks like this one. If I want a particular artist, let's say I wanted Van Gogh, I'll add Van Gogh to it. And then what it's done here is it's created a prompt. I just copy the prompt and then I go into Discord and then I just go Command V and then bang, it will do that up in the style that I selected using this prompt here, or if you wanted to use a reference list. All of these things, at the end of the day, I think Mid Journey has its strengths. I think Leonardo has its strengths. But if you're a new user and you're visually, you know, you're a visual based type person and you want to see what you're getting before you input it, Leonardo AI is maybe the way to go, guys. Let me know what you think in the comments below.