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- Okay, I have been so shocked
by the most recent print-on-demand news.
Printify has released their own AI image generator
that is optimized for print-on-demand products,
and they've made it 100% free.
Midjourney has stepped up the game by now generating images
in 4K high resolution, which can be printed as is.
The DALL-E 3 image generator is now inside of ChatGPT,
which as you will see, makes prompting images
way easier than before.
Printful just released a huge update
that makes their products dramatically cheaper.
Oh, and Microsoft has been massively censoring AI art,
which is leading some people to wonder
if they are trying to destroy it.
Seriously, the news is huge, and if you have missed it
don't worry because I have rounded up
all of the big news stories so that you don't have to.
So, let's get started by taking a look at Midjourney's
incredible new feature that lets you generate AI images
in 4K resolution that can be printed.
Yes, so in my most recent news update
I said that Midjourney was probably quite scared
because DALL-E had released
their own amazing image generator,
and they went and made it completely free.
Well, maybe it's DALL-E who is now scared
of Midjourney because they just clapped back
with this massive new feature, and it's really easy to use.
So, first come and generate an image
in Midjourney that you want to use
and then click to upscale it.
Once Midjourney has finished upscaling your image
you will now see new buttons letting you
upscale the images even further.
Currently, the most that you can upscale an image
is four times, which will generate the image
to be 4,096 pixels by 4,096 pixels,
which is perfect for small to medium-sized products.
Because for those products you can literally
just upload these images as is.
Yep, so for example,
if I wanted to sell this image on a phone case
I can now just upload it as is and it's gonna be printed
in super high quality, and it's gonna print really sharply.
And I'll tell you something,
print-on-demand phone cases can make a lot of money.
Take for example these phone cases here on Etsy.
Alura estimates that these
have made over $100,000, (cash register ringing)
which is pretty crazy.
Personally, I don't know about you,
but I am loving all of this competition
inside of the AI image-generating space.
It means that they're all having to innovate to compete,
which is great for us.
And speaking of AI image competitors,
Printify has now created their own free
AI image generator optimized for print-on-demand products.
Yes, I'm gonna be honest,
I would never have guessed that they would do this.
So, Printify has gone ahead
and they have released their own free image generator,
plus they have also added in an additional
background remover tool for it as well.
And something else that really surprised me
is that they've made it free for everybody to use.
You don't need to have a premium account.
Just log in and come to the catalog
and choose a product that you want to make an image for,
and then choose which product variants
you want of it if they have them.
Then select the AI image generator,
which is currently in beta.
Then choose the style that you want your image to be in.
And then like other AI image generators
just describe what you want your image to be about,
and then generate it.
Printify will currently generate
four different images for you,
and all four of these images get saved into your history.
And currently you get 15 free image generations a day,
which effectively means then that you get 60 free images.
And here are two important tips you need to know.
The first is that Printify has added in a tool
that lets you remove the background of their AI images.
You get three free credits a day for this.
And secondly, you may have noticed that the image says
that it's in low resolution.
Well, Printify has also built in a free upscaler too,
so when you save the product with an AI image
Printify will upscale the image for you,
even if it says that it's in low resolution.
Which is really awesome because just like Midjourney now
Printify has removed the need to pay
for an external AI image generator,
and we all love saving money, right?
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but for now back to the news.
And actually back to some Printify news,
and that is that they have released some trendy,
new high-profit products.
And that is these, calendars for 2024.
District Photo has released a new calendar
shipping from within the USA and Prima Printing
have released a new desk calendar
printing from within Australia.
And as I said, these can be high-profit items.
If we come, for example, over to Etsy
I noticed that custom wall calendars on here
were going for around 30 to $40 with free shipping.
Well, with a Printify subscription
you can currently buy these for $7.47,
and shipping is an additional $6.29 charge,
which when combined is $13.76.
So, if you have a selling price of about $30
that leaves you with a big profit margin, over 40%.
And speaking of profits, Printify's biggest competitor,
Printful, just got way more profitable
by slashing the prices of their products.
Yep, so a while back I mentioned how the print on demand
at Printful had released their own Printful Growth
membership as a closed beta program.
When you joined this you got big product discounts.
I was in the closed beta,
and I loved it because it saved me a bunch of money.
Well, Printful has now taken this out of beta
and has released this to everybody,
and the discounts you can get are huge.
For example, take the Gildan 18500,
this is easily the most popular
print-on-demand hoodie out there.
With the Printful Growth membership
these start for as low as $17.75,
whereas previously it would've been $20.75.
While over on Printify,
if you use my favorite print provider for clothing,
Monster Digital, these start from $16.85
with a Printify Premium subscription.
So, Printful is definitely still more expensive,
but it is much closer in pricing now,
making it very competitive if you prefer using Printful
and like their features better.
And I'll tell you something,
given that Printify's prices have admittedly
been creeping up this year thanks to inflation
I for one personally welcome any price competition.
Although, something that a lot of people are not welcoming
is that Microsoft and DALL-E are now censoring
a lot of their AI-generated images.
Yep, so basically what happened is that over the past
couple of weeks Microsoft and DALL-E have added in
a bunch of safety image moderation and censorship
into their new AI image app, DALL-E 3,
which sometimes makes the app unusable.
As you can see from this recording that I made,
when I asked DALL-E to make this image it was banned
even though there was absolutely
nothing wrong with my prompt.
And honestly, people are getting annoyed
at how many prompts are being blocked.
Windows Central summed it up nicely when they said,
"Bing DALL-E 3 image creation was great for a few days,
but now Microsoft has lobotomized it."
And it's funny, when I put the same prompt into Midjourney
it saw nothing wrong with it
and it attempted to make the image,
even if it wasn't quite what I had been expecting.
Microsoft has also added in a different type of censorship
and moderation, and that is that they have started
to block existing characters, people, celebrities,
companies and art styles from being included in prompts.
So, for example, this person here was blocked
from generating an image using two famous living boxers,
which again, when I put this into Midjourney
it had no problem with it
and it generated an image for me just fine.
And take this example here, people are currently blocked
from asking Bing to create images in the Disney art style,
which again, Midjourney has no problems with.
If you give it that same prompt
it'll happily generate images for you.
So, that's a pretty controversial decision.
Do you agree with Midjourney for allowing
these sorts of prompts,
or do you agree with Microsoft and DALL-E
for moderating them and banning them?
I'd be interested to know your thoughts in the comments.
For me personally, I will say at the very least
that their image safety censoring is out of control.
Luckily though, one of Microsoft executives
did acknowledge this in a tweet and said
that it was currently being overzealous in its moderation.
So, hopefully we will see some fixes soon,
which is good because I'm actually pretty excited
for DALL-E 3 to develop, especially now that DALL-E 3
has also been added into ChatGPT
and it's made it way easier to generate
the exact images that you want.
Yes, it's absolutely insane.
DALL-E 3 is now in ChatGPT,
and it's honestly, in my personal opinion,
revolutionized image prompting.
And to show you why let me show you an example.
So, to access it you do need ChatGPT-4.
So, in here come and select DALL-E 3,
then just type in what you want it to create,
DALL-E will now within ChatGPT
make images that you've requested.
Now, here's the part that gets interesting.
You can go back and forth with ChatGPT
and ask it to tweak the images that it's made.
So, here is an example, right?
I started out by asking ChatGPT to draw me a vector
of a dog walking down the road on a white background.
Now, it did draw that, but it also included a lot
of extra details like buildings that I didn't want.
So, then I asked ChatGPT to please modify these images,
and I explained to it which details
that it had generated that I didn't want included.
It then went and generated for me new images,
but this time without the extra additions.
With Midjourney I would've had to have come
and created a whole brand new prompt,
but with ChatGPT and DALL-E it's a collaborative process.
I can take existing images like this
and then request specific tweaks.
It's a lot like working directly with a designer.
So, you know, Midjourney does some things
better than DALL-E, and DALL-E does some things
better than Midjourney.
And again, this competition is great for us
because it's fueling so much innovation.
And something else that I also think is really great
is that DALL-E has indeed clarified
that all of the images that you create with it
using ChatGPT can be legally sold.
So, we're free to use this as much as we'd like
for the merch that we create, yay.
So then, which AI image generator do you think
is currently winning, Midjourney or DALL-E?
Let me know in the comments.
And if you want to catch up on my previous news update
I'll have a link to that video here on screen too.
I'll see you in the next video.