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What makes thisAI image generatorstand out isnt the image quality or realism but the prompt adherence and collaboration capabilities.

Photon is a creative and personalizable text-to-image model that is significantly cheaper than others offering a similar capability.

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You start with an idea and it expands on it through the Dream Machine platform.

To put it to the test Ive mixed realism with creativity.

For the first prompt I started with a simple city scene.

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What better place than London, the greatest city in the world.

I asked for modern double-decker buses and business people walking across the street.

This image of a tiger mid-leap didn’t start out this way.

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The original version of this had white counters, but that is so boring.

This was the final result.

Now, if only I could afford this kitchen for real.

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While this is technically photorealistic, there is something beautiful and watercolor-esq about the image.

This is one where I took the first result as it captured what I wanted.

I’d print this and put it on my wall.

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Although I’d make some refinements using the reply function to remove some umbrella double-ups.

There is something wonderfully serene about snow, particularly mountain snow.

I used the original image with the prompt: “Santa’s hometown.”

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Not sure about the weirdly large and misshapen cat though.

In this case my favorite animal, the Lion, stood proud atop a crystal mountain with majestic wings.

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