How to use Leonardo AI’s Elements to create amazing free AI Art
Leonardo AI is one of the best tools to generate AI art, and you can learn to use it for free.
Leonardo AI is a free, user-friendly app that uses generative AI to create images based on text descriptions. It offers a variety of models and tools for creating visual art, such as animations and 3D models. Users can also customize their art with specific styles, elements, and models.
How to use Leonardo AI:
Sign up
Create an account in leonardo.ai. It has a basic version that’s free, it gives you 150 daily tokens which is great when compared to other expensive alternatives like Midjourney, and it’s a great way to learn to use the tool slowly. It also has paid plans with more features and fewer restrictions. The paid plans are:
Apprentice Plan: $10 per month, allows 8,500 images per month
Artisan Plan: $24 per month, allows 25,000 images per month
Access the App
Find the image generator. Leonardo AI, as most AI generators, have a lots of features you should try: Realtime Generation, Motion, and its Universal Upscaler.
But let’s focus today on the Image Generation.
Generate your first image
Leonardo AI will give you access to most of its features for free. It may feel like a ton of options at once. So, let’s go slowly:
Leave all presets as they are as you start.
Use the finetuned model Leonardo Lightning XL to start. It’s very good.
Pick an Element: These are the general styles for your images: You can pick 3D, scratches, coloring book, etc.
Let’s take a look at them:
3D Sculpt: 3D Digital art, cuteness, Pixar Style.
CGI Noir: Cinematic Noir, moody.
Colorful Scribbles: Hand-drawn, colored illustration.
Coloring Book: Line art, black and white, children’s style.
Colorpop: Digital Illustration, brushes, colorful comic style.
Cute Emotes: Digital art, cuteness.
Cybertech: Technological elements, neon lights, digital art.
Dark Arts: Cinematic apocalyptic, dark mood, magical.
Digital Painting: Digital Illustration, photoshop brushes, sketch art
Fantasy Icons: 3D art, vinyl statue styles
Fiery Flames: Cinematic vfx, fire effects.
Folk Art Illustration: Naive illustration, children’s style, comical.
Glasscore: Glass effects, vfx.
Glowwave: Glowing neon lights.
Kids Illustration: Cute, comical art
Modern Analog Photography: Vintage photography.
Psychedelic Art: Fractals and swirls elements, coloful
Old-School Comic: Black outlines and vintage colors.
Simple Flat Illustration: Vector, minimalist style, flat colors.
Simple Icons: Clean and simple iconic art.
Soft Pastel Anime: Anime style, pastel colors.
Solarpunk: Cinematic tech setting.
Sparklecore: Glitter effects, vfx, colorful.
Toon and Anime: Blend of Toon and Anime art styles.
Vintage Photography: Photography effects.
These are just a few of the options available in Leonardo AI to customize your art. Use the free credits to experiment and learn the tool, as it is one of the best out there.
Thanks for reading!