Describe what you want to see. Free accounts get one 1024×1024 image per request; Pro unlocks up to 4 images per request and landscape/portrait sizes.
You have written the thing. It is good. And now it needs a picture at the top, because a post without one looks unfinished in every feed it will appear in — and the stock library wants forty dollars for a photograph of a laptop that eleven other people used this week.
That is what this is for. Describe the picture, get the picture, carry on with your evening. The useful part is knowing how to describe it, which takes about four minutes to learn and saves you every time afterwards.
Most first attempts fail the same way: they name the subject and stop. But a subject is a category, and a category has an average — so the model returns the average, which is the image everybody else already has.
A header image for a blog post about remote work
remote work
Returns a laptop on a desk. So does every stock photo site, and the reader has seen it four hundred times.
A cluttered kitchen table at 7am serving as a desk — laptop, cereal bowl, a child’s drawing taped to the wall behind, morning light through a window
Specific enough to produce an image nobody else has. The clutter is what makes it read as true.
An illustration for a children’s story
a cute fox
You will get a fox. Style, mood and context are all left to chance, and chance has bad taste.
A watercolour fox in a red scarf reading a book under a maple tree, autumn leaves falling, soft muted palette, storybook illustration style
Medium, subject, action, setting, palette, style. Six decisions made by you rather than by the model.
A background for a presentation slide
abstract business background
The single most generated phrase in the history of this technology. You will get blue swooshes.
A close macro photograph of folded grey linen, soft diffused light from the left, shallow depth of field, muted and desaturated
Texture rather than imagery. Text sits on it legibly, which is the actual requirement a slide background has.
The pattern underneath all three: subject, then action, then setting, then light, then style. You do not need all five every time. You need more than one.
The trick that works most often
Add one detail that would only be there if the scene were real. A cold cup of coffee. A cable running off the edge of the desk. A chair pushed back at an angle.
Perfect scenes read as generated because real rooms are never tidy. The imperfection is what makes the eye accept it — the same reason a photograph of a kitchen table with a cereal bowl on it beats a photograph of a kitchen table.
Worth knowing before you spend twenty minutes discovering it. These are not settings you can adjust — they are limits of the technology as it currently stands.
Text inside the image
Ask for a shop sign reading OPEN and you will get something that looks like OPEN from across a room and like nonsense up close. If you need words on an image, add them afterwards in any editor.
Hands, and counting generally
Six fingers is the famous one, but it extends to anything countable — chair legs, windows, people in a crowd. Prefer compositions where the hands are doing something, or out of frame.
The same character twice
Generate your fox, then generate the fox again in a different pose, and you will get a different fox. There is no memory between requests. For a series, generate once and crop.
Precise spatial instructions
"The mug to the left of the notebook" is a suggestion, not an instruction. The model composes by feel. If placement matters, generate the elements and arrange them yourself.
Square works almost everywhere
Instagram, LinkedIn, a blog thumbnail, an avatar. It also crops down gracefully, which landscape does not — a wide image cropped to square loses whatever was at the edges, and the edges are usually where the context was.
Landscape and portrait, on Pro
For a blog header, a slide background or a phone wallpaper, where the shape is the whole point. Pro also generates four at once, which matters more than it sounds: the second or third is usually the one you want.
Once you have the image, the writing around it is the other half of the job. The word counter is free and unlimited, and how long a blog post should be answers the question that usually comes next.
Everything here runs in your browser — nothing you type is uploaded anywhere.
Word Counter
Words, characters, sentences and reading time, live.
Case Converter
Upper, lower, and Title Case done properly.
Word Cloud
Which words you actually lean on.
Readability
Flesch-Kincaid and three others at once.
Word Unscrambler
Every valid word in a jumble of letters.
Reading Time
How long a piece takes to read.
Citation Generator
APA, MLA, Chicago and Harvard.
Essay Counter
Word goals and progress for longer drafts.
X / Twitter Counter
Weighted counting and the real limits.
Instagram Counter
Where your caption gets truncated.