Midjourney VS Leonardo: Full REVIEW

welcome AI art lovers and Tech enthusiasts in this video I'm going to put mid-journey and Leonardo to the 10th we'll be taking these two AI art generation tools and looking at how they can pair on a number of different factors we'll start off with a user experience and the user interface looking at the features and pricing available before putting them to the ultimate Jewel well we'll look at the same prompt in both platforms and see how it Compares across a number of different situations everything from portraits to Landscapes from game asset design to pet photography by the end of this video you'll have a greater understanding of how these two tools compare you'll understand the strengths and the weaknesses of both and most importantly you'll know which one is right for your project so let's dive in first thing to note is that Leonardo is built on top of stable diffusion which is an open source air generator it essentially a well-rounded UI for stable diffusion whilst mid-journey is built on top of its own unique algorithm one of the big differences between these two platforms is how you access it with mid-journey you access it via Discord but the whole interface is within this chat application and this brings with its own benefits and its own issues you type in your command and it comes up in a chat feed compare that to Leonardo which is not built on Discord it has its own visual interface and you essentially have all of your Generations built scrolling backwards as well as a visual interface for changing the parameters of your work so with this it's easy to change the number of images the dimensions and the guidance scale and other parameters within your work whereas with mid-journey you have to use the UI that exists within that so you have to type in settings and from here you can adjust the parameters as well as adding in text commands to adjust the aspect ratio or other features like stylize so in that regard the interface of Leonardo is much more visual more intuitive and where mid-journey is now linked to Discord it's going to have a little bit of difficulty expanding its feature set without being cumbersome I'd be interested to know if at some point mid-journey will deling from Discord the other issue with the mid-journey use interface is that to view your work you have to go to a separate app which is a mid-journey app where you can view and scroll through all of your Creations whereas with Leonardo it all lives within the same platform making it a more coherent user experience so one of the interesting things that Leonardo and mid-journey offer is the ability to run different algorithms in mid-journey you can go into settings and change the algorithm you can see that there are various iterations of the MJ algorithm as well as an anime specific algorithm for creating anime Illustrated work there are also some older algorithms that were created focusing on photorealistic images so there are five or six different algorithms there of use however with Leonardo there are a lot of different models that you can use they have their own Leonardo diffusion model which is one that I've found very good for high contrast images as well as some very specific models for example this origami paper art style algorithm creates some really beautiful work in this very unique narrow context or there is a pixel art algorithm specifically aimed at creating pixel avatars and this brings me on to the other thing that's possible with Leonardo which is to create your own models you can upload a certain set of images and allow Leonardo to train itself and create your own fine tune models this is a bit like using dreambooth in stable diffusion but it makes it a lot easier mid Journey currently does not have the opportunity to train your own models and with Leonardo there is an opportunity to explore all of the models that have been created in the community as well so there's a whole host of opportunities here to refine your work Leonardo also has a couple of other features that are built directly into the platform that gives it a little bit more capabilities for example you can instantly remove backgrounds of images if you're looking to create a game asset an icon or a sticker and you simply go on to an image that will be suitable of these Sprite designs then click on remove background so if we click on one of these Sprite images and simply click on remove background and you can see here it's immediately removed the background from our image which is a great feature for speeding up your process there's also an interesting prompt generation tool inside of Leonardo where it will help you build out a more complete romp one of the other advantages of Leonardo is that you can have concurrent jobs running whereas in mid Journey with the Pro Plan you have a limit of three at a time let's try and break it so you can see you can simply generate a lot of concurrent jobs allowing you to work quickly whereas in mid-journey unless you upgrade to the most expensive plan you have three concurrent jobs with the most expensive plan you have 12. there is talk from a journey of expanding this level so the speed of generation is relatively similar though with more detail as you add it takes longer inside of Leonardo so if you up the resolution in Leonardo it does take longer at the moment Leonardo is offering a free platform where you get 250 credits per day this will change and they will be offering a premium option but I believe they will always offer a number of free credits that you can use every day whereas mid-journey has three tiers you have the 10 a month the 30 a month and the 60 a month Pro Plan the 30 in the 60 a month plans allow you unlimited Generations though Leonardo is free for now mid-journey has a fairly reasonable pricing structure so let's jump in and take a look at some prompts in both Leonardo and mid Jenny the first one we're going to look at is a female working on a laptop at top of Mountain alpine vintage graphic pink blue grain printed so this on the left is the mid-journey version and you can see it's got a very coherent consistent image with a nice graphical aesthetic coming out whereas with the Leonardo option you can see that it has a strong striking contrasts and relatively coherent image but overall the consistency is not as intriguing as mid Journey it can also look there is a little bit of difficulty maintaining coherence in the image on Leonardo with some elongated parts of the body here these huge shoulders on this girl and here this girl has laptops legs as well as a strange baby-like growth coming out of her head but upscaling one of these images improves adherence a lot you can see that this was my favorite I upscaled it and it's a pretty good output it could definitely work well for poster whereas comparing this to the upscout output that I got for mid-journey there's a much more refined aesthetic as well as the consistency is very good apart from these claw-like hands so let's move on to a mystical landscape in a Studio Ghibli style this on the left is the Leonardo output I chose this one on the left upscale and you can say we've got a fairly decent image everything is working well apart from the characters you would say is letting it down slightly but the colors the composition the coherency is fairly good in this instance now let's look at the mid-journey option which I would have to say is more detailed and more closely following the exact style of a Studio Ghibli film but I was using the basic Leonardo diffusion algorithm here and I think if you were to train your own algorithm with a set of Studio Ghibli images you'd be able to get something much closer it's important to note that also these prompt differently so to really get the best out of each of one you have to Wrangle them slightly differently as this is built on stable diffusion Leonardo does often require some negative prompts to improve the images whereas with mid-journey you can pretty much put anything in and the results you get out are beautiful so now let's take a look at comparing some prompts inside of my journey and Leonardo it's important to bear in mind that but you do need to write your prompts differently to get the most out of these different platforms Leonardo is built on stable diffusion and it has special importance to use negative promise whereas mid Journey you can pretty much put anything in and you're likely to get a fairly aesthetic image out so I'll show you a few more examples there is a chat so a chat called Paul this signal I hope that I'm not butchering your name who has done some great comparisons between the two or linked to his blog post in the description so you can check out all of his examples but here he was trying out a beautiful landscape of an alien planet comparing mid-journey and Leonardo and you can see I would say that the the winner for me personally there is mid-journey but Leonardo is very close it has a very different aesthetic it's more constrained and graphic whereas mid journey is more detailed and let's take a look at some portraits on the left is Leonardo with very hard harsh contrasts whereas on the right we have mid-journey which has a softer more more balanced feel and both of these create very beautiful life-like women let's take a look at a pet portrait I would have to say that the fur in particular is being rendered more effectively in mid-journey on the left and on the right we do have a beautiful sincere looking cat but it's almost like taking two photographs two photographers and asking them to picture the same scene the one on the left has taken a little bit more Care on Nuance it's almost like they're a slightly more experienced curator of imagery whereas the one on the right is it's like asking an amateur to take a photograph with an iPhone and that's exactly what I think is one of the key differences between Leonardo and mid-journey is that with Leonardo you have to be more specific more intentional with what it is that you want to get out and it takes a little bit more crafting but this is like giving you a wider set of brushes a wider set of tools to create your images with and it takes some care and craft to get the most out of it but if you're looking to have complete control over what it is that you're getting out Leonardo stands out here we have an old-fashioned car and I would say that in this instance there is not much to choose between the two especially if you're looking at the aesthetic of the image they'll actually hear Leonardo from the left has some great evening light and finally we have an old Viking here and I would say in this instance both platforms perform extremely well these very intense elderly gentlemen have battle-worn eyes I always say for me personally there's a little bit more life in the eyes of the mid-journey version on the right and I would also say there's a slight bit of issue with the rendering of the fine hairs in his beard here mid-journey and Leonardo are both extremely capable tools for creating a IR I think they have their own strengths and are suitable for using in different use cases I like to use mid-journey when I want something quick and to look very aesthetic it creates a better coherent image but you have the issue that there's not so much control that you get inside of mid-journey you're essentially quite stuck with what you get out and you don't have the option to refine or improve it in the way that you do with Leonardo Leonardo also gives you the option to build out your own models and use a whole host of additional features what is good though what I like to do is to take an image for mid-journey and put it in the Leonardo to develop it further Leonardo also has the option of outpainting mid-journey doesn't have so there are strengths to using mid-journey or getting greater aesthetic quality more detailed and coherent images whereas Leonardo gives you the option of using more features more capabilities and having more control I think there is a place for both of these Platforms in any artist's workload and I can't wait to create more with them and for more on AI pick up this video let me know what you think of these two AI art tools and thanks for watching

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Length: 12min 38sec (758 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 21 2023