Best free GenAI image generators you should be using

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GenAI is quickly becoming an essential tool in our everyday lives, especially with modern day smartphones shipping with many GenAI capabilities beyond just text generation. Image generators can be extremely handy tools for marketers and writers looking to create a specific image for their campaign or blog post, which might be hard to create or find a stock image for.

If you're a small business, freelancer, or content marketer looking to create that perfect image that captures the essence of the message in a matter of seconds, you'll want to check this list of the best GenAI image generators. Best part, they are all free to use and only require a Google sign in. While the amount of usage might be limited per day and certain tools would only be accessible if you pay for a subscription, for the occasional use, they do the job pretty well.

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Leonardo.AI is a powerful image generator that lets you set the image details like aspect ratio, contrast, preset styles, negative prompts, and more. Some features like a larger size and hyper-realistic rendering are reserved for the paid tier. The cool thing is that Leonardo.AI even supports prompts that have names of public figures, which not many models support. You get 150 free tokens daily, which is enough for light work.

Microsoft Designer is accessible right from your Windows 11 desktop, via the Copilot window, or you can log in to the site via a browser. You get 14 boosts daily, which can be used to generate images. Most images created by Designer tend to have a watercolour, illustrated look to them which is fine if that's what you're aiming for.

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Everyone's favourite text generator, ChatGPT can use the DALL-E 3 (just like Designer) LLM to generate images. The results are somewhat similar to what Microsoft Designer produces, and it won't accept names of public figures. If you