How to generate AI images on Mac (M1/M2 and above)?

Want to generate AI images on your new Mac?

• Head over to the App Store on your Mac and download the Draw Things: AI Generation app.

• Once you open the app after downloading it you will get a pop-up to download generic stable diffusion model. Download it.

• After the download has finished enter the prompt “a professional photograph of an astronaut riding a horse” and click on “Generate” button.

• After a few seconds you will get an image like this. It will look different based on your seed value.

• There are a bunch of other stable diffusion models available as well that you can download within the app.

However, for good quality images you should head over to https://civit.ai and download the models from there based on your use-case.

For eg. for realistic looking images the https://civitai.com/models/4201/realistic-vision-v20 works well.

• Here’s an example of the images that you can generate from this model:

What you learned just now is just the tip of the iceberg. You can checkout the various configuration options in the Draw Things app to see what works best for you. Exploring the different options will make you familiar with the app and lead to better results.

Head over to Dreamphilic to checkout the awesome images created by others and to share your own.

The Draw Things app is also available for iPhone. The only issue is of performance.