I’ve been using Midjourney in small ways to generate images for a couple of years. Recently I saw email touting Ideogram 3.0 as a new, highly flexible image generator. I decided to feed it some of my old Midjourney prompts to see how it would do. TL;DR – Midjourney rules! In the following, the prompt is followed by the best Midjourney image, then the best Ideogram image.
two young adults, a man and a woman, leaning together to read a message on a phone she is holding, they appear concerned about the message they are reading, the young man has an olive complexion, dark curly hair, and is clean-shaven, the young woman has a mop of blond hair and horn-rimmed glasses which she has pushed up onto her head
In several tries, Midjourney just could not understand glasses “pushed up onto her head” but the rest was very satisfactory
Ideogram got the glasses right in one (1) of 4 tries, but also in only one of the four was the man clean-shaven. The other three men had a moustache or a beard.
I read a cheap SF novel which featured a green-skinned humanoid female warrior, and decided to see if Midjourney could do SF illustrations.
Style of frank frazetta: The alien female has light green skin and bronze hair in a long braid, with intricate tattoos on her arms and face. She wears an armored vest and black trousers and carries a futuristic rifle and has pistol in her belt.
Frank Frazetta was a well-known SF illustrator whose style featured voluptuous space babes. Midjourney had some shaky details in the guns, and the “pistol in her belt” is reduced to some sort of empty holster. But the mood and the expression are excellent.
Ideogram had no idea what Frazetta art was like. It got the guns right, but the style is totally wrong.
One of the images I used to illustrate “Annie’s Song” used this prompt:
a mature caucasian couple enthusiastically hugging seen from the side both wearing off-white garments background out of focus garden
Midjourney took “mature” to mean “old”, which was OK for what I wanted. Certainly it imagined a pleasant couple of people.
Let’s see what Ideogram makes of that:
Oooops! Count her fingers! Ideogram is making the kind of “hand errors” that Midjourney and DALL-E were ridiculed for in 2023. In addition, it threw in some out of focus vegetation in the foreground as well as the background as requested.
OK, enough. Clearly Midjourney wins, at least for my usage.
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