AI image generation tools enable you to enter a text description and get an image in a flash. For creative pros, these tools can accelerate the creative process and help generate assets. For everyone else, these tools enable the effortless creation of images for presentations and reports—or just for fun.

The open-source Stable Diffusion platform is known for its power, customizability, and ability to be run locally rather than through an online service. In this course, imaging expert Ben Long explores Stable Diffusion, sharing tips for creating effective prompts, using sketches or existing images as prompts, expanding Stable Diffusion through extensions, training Stable Diffusion to render subjects it previously couldn’t, and much more.