The text-to-image technology allows students to create images to help create their own books. Text-to-image generators help students create visual stories without the frustration of drawing with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Inspiration
My daughter is in second grade and loves to write and draw. I was playing with text-to-image generators and wanted to see if I could create a book. I created my first digital book based on Princess Panda since my daughter loves all things panda. She loved the book so much that I created a second book as a case study in how to write a digital book using all AI. The second book shows all the prompts I used in creating the story and the output the AI generator produced. I inspired my daughter through my two books I put on her iPad that she came home from school one day with her own book she drew. I took the text from her drawings and converted them into another story for her.
How:
I used Ideogram.ai to create the images for this new book. I took a different approach from previous books than I this book, I kept the main part of the prompt and just added or deleted parts of the prompt to get a more consistent look throughout the images. I also use the "Remix" option for each image. After an image is generated on ideogram.ai, you can click on the three dots (...) to get more options.
I used Ideogram.ai rather than other text-to-image generators such as Adobe Express or Microsoft designer due to the quality of the output desired to create a storybook image of a "pandacorn". As in all AI, it needs to be "trained", the concept of a "pandacorn" was not received well by the previous mentioned generators.
At the end of Penelope the Pandacorn book, you can see her original story and pictures she drew. She underlined the rhyming words in her story so I kept it in the book.
I think with all AI, trying different AI engines will give different results. One just needs to find results that work for you.
Have fun playing and feel free to reach out in the comments if you have any questions.
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March 29, 2024
Congratulations to Meghan! Tell her she is a very accomplished author - loved the story and great idea to use AI for the images. It’s nice to have a book artist in one’s pocket. And Meghan did a great job with her art too!
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