🎨 Images & design
Image generation, text-in-image, and quick social graphics.
Midjourney
The look-best image generator.
Still the go-to for aesthetic, art-directed images.
BEST FOR: BEAUTIFUL VISUALSPaid plans
Ideogram
Image gen that gets text right.
Posters, logos, thumbnails. Anything where the words must be spelled correctly.
BEST FOR: TEXT IN IMAGESFree plan · paid tiers
Krea
Real-time generation plus enhance/upscale in one suite.
Fast iteration and access to many models in one place.
BEST FOR: RAPID ITERATIONFree plan · paid tiers
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's generative suite, wired into Photoshop.
Commercially minded and fits pro Adobe workflows.
BEST FOR: ADOBE USERSFree credits · paid tiers
New in images & design this week
UseIt Studio: An AI design agent for stuff you can hold: pins, stickers, gift boxes, pop-up cards, and brand kits. Describe it in one sentence, it asks the questions a designer would, and you fix any detail by pointing at it. You get a real, editable design file with true dimensions, bleed, and dielines, ready to print, cut, and fold. It runs in the browser or pops up anywhere on a Windows desktop. It was #1 on Product Hunt for Oct 21. source ↗
Bria Fibo 2.0: Bria's 8B open-weights image model now does generation and editing in one model. Instruction, masked, and multi-reference edits keep what you didn't ask to change (identity, layout, lighting), and text, texture, and hands got better. It ships as Fibo 2.0 Dev (full base, built for fine-tuning) and Edit Turbo (4-step editing). Artificial Analysis ranked it #1 for open-weights image editing on Oct 20. It's trained only on licensed data; the weights are CC BY-NC, so commercial use goes through Bria's API or a deal with them. source ↗
Sunra MCP: One MCP connector that puts image, video, audio, and 3D models inside Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other agents: GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana Pro, Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, ElevenLabs, Meshy, and more. You sign in with OAuth (no API key), and each model is billed at its maker's own API price with no markup. source ↗
FLUX 3 Image Klein (workflow update): Black Forest Labs shipped updated ComfyUI workflows for its small open-weights image model. It runs on consumer GPUs with about 8 GB of VRAM and takes up to 10 reference images. source ↗
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