Leonardo Review: Our Insider Tips and Verdict [2023]

Leonardo AI is a feature-rich AI image creation platform and community.

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Added: May 24, 2023

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Leonardo Review: Our Insider Tips and Verdict [2023]

Leonardo AI is a feature-rich AI image creation platform and community.
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Added: May 24, 2023

What does Leonardo do?

Leonardo AI is an image generation platform that lets you create your own pictures and share them with an enthusiastic community. When you first load up the app, you’ll see there are several ways to generate an AI image, including via text and image prompts.

Those that want to go even further can leverage Leonardo AI’s Prompt Generation feature, which allows you to input a basic text prompt and then adds some AI magic to create up to eight new prompts that expands upon your original idea. Tapping on the accompanying Generate button for any of these AI-manifested prompts then creates a batch of AI-generated images.

If this all sounds like a Russian nesting doll of AI within AI, that’s very much what using Leonardo AI is like. There are options on top of options, each one seemingly offering you more and more customizability, allowing you to truly tweak your images so you can get them just the way you want them. And with a whole community of creators who can not only view your work but also remix it for themselves, you’ll likely find yourself spending plenty of time tinkering in Leonardo AI.

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Leonardo AI’s community feature not only provides inspiration, it also offers access to other’s prompts, as well as models for creating your own AI images.
Leonardo AI’s community feature not only provides inspiration, it also offers access to other’s prompts, as well as models for creating your own AI images.
I found Leonardo AI’s text-to-image generation results to be among some of the best that I have used. It didn’t take much to create photo-realistic results.
I found Leonardo AI’s text-to-image generation results to be among some of the best that I have used. It didn’t take much to create photo-realistic results.
Leonardo AI’s upscale feature produces decent images without excess smoothing or loss of detail.
Leonardo AI’s upscale feature produces decent images without excess smoothing or loss of detail.

Features

  • Text-to-image creation.
  • Image-to-image creation.
  • Tools for reworking uploaded images.
  • A community feed to share your work.

Use-Cases

  • All generated images are public, unless you pay for a monthly plan.
  • The volume of options and features may be overwhelming (or just plain unnecessary) for some users.

Our Insider Tips

  • Find an image you like within the Leonardo AI community and then use the Copy Prompt feature to generate a fresh image based on the same text prompt.
  • Upscale your images by three times their original resolution using the built-in Smooth Upscale tool.

Pros

  • An all-in-one platform for creating, reworking, and sharing AI images.
  • Your work is automatically stored in a Personal Feed folder.
  • The free tier offers a generous number of usage tokens that reset daily.

Cons

  • All generated images are public, unless you pay for a monthly plan.
  • The volume of options and features may be overwhelming (or just plain unnecessary) for some users.

Alternatives

  • Midjourney
  • Adobe Firefly

Our Verdict on Leonardo

Some may find the community aspect of Leonardo AI offputting, but considering there are numerous rich prompts and image seeds to pull from, it’s also one of the platform’s most powerful features.

In many ways, Leonardo AI has a lot in common with Midjourney, but its user interface makes it ostensibly more approachable. That’s not to say there isn’t complexity here (there are numerous tabs, dropdowns, and buttons strewn throughout), but most shouldn’t have to revert to a YouTube tutorial before they dive in.

Overall, Leonardo AI is a very impressive platform, especially for those looking for an full-featured AI image creation tool. The resulting images are as good as any of its competitors, and with a solid free tier, it’s almost too good to pass by.

Leonardo Pricing - Apprentice

$12.00/mo

Or purchase Yearly with 15% discount

This tool comes with a generous free tier. AllThingsAI always recommends trying before you buy

Leonardo is suitable for enterprise usage. Get in touch with the team for higher usage limits, better security options and other enterprise-grade features

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Tom Wilton is a writer and filmmaker specialising in audiovisual AI tools.

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