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From the start, Recraft has been built as an AI design tool rather than an image generator.

Its text rendering it also exceptional.

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It will be making our list ofbest AI image models.

Dorogush told me: you oughta build something unique.

It’s not enough to produce high-quality images, you should probably build something that captures people’s attention.

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What can you do with Recraft?

Its real power is in the editor, which is independent of the models.

I was very quickly able to create a poster and edit specific elements to better fit my needs.

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Recraft had already established itself as a powerful design platform thanks to the canvas feature and editing functionality.

There are two big advancements that we made, she told Toms Guide.

One is the ability to generate long texts, and the other is aesthetics.

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The output looks better, styles are more consistent and the realism is a marked improvement on previous generations.

All of this led “Red Panda” to top the AI image generator leaderboards.

These involve humans rating the output from two unnamed models from the same prompt.

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Recraft v3 joinedMidjourney, Ideogram and Flux at the top of the chart.

Recraft cracked it with v3.

This also makes it easier to do inpainting edits later on.

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What comes next for Recraft?

Unleash your inner surrealist!

With Recrafts inpainting feature, small changes make big art statements.

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Just snag the lasso, outline the area, jot down the prompt, and click Recraft.

Magritte would be proud.

Imagine you want to create an image for a campaign that features a model.

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That is the current situation without work on character consistency and it wont work for professional design prefs.

On short-term solution could be inpainting and outpainting.

This is a way to edit an existing AI image (or any image) using artificial intelligence.

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“Over the next few months there will be a bunch of improvements, Dorogush said.

This includes editing functionality.

Other updates coming soon including improved outpainting.

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This is very important for production scenarios, she said.

Final thoughts

Recraft is the latest in a growing line of AI products.

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