DALL•E explained: FAQ, information and guide

Everything you might want to know about Open AI’s DALL•E 2, the revolutionary new AI artwork creation tool.

🎨 Using DALL•E: a guide

• Is DALL•E real?
• Three ways to use DALL•E
  1. Prompting with text
  2. Asking for variations
     • Varying a DALL•E output
     • Varying a free-to-use image
     • Varying your own work
  3. Editing an existing image
     • In-painting an image
     • Revealing a scene with out-painting
     • Making landscape & portrait images
• What is prompt engineering?

👀 Behind the scenes

• Who created DALL•E?
• How does DALL•E work?
• What images were used to train DALL•E?

🔑 Getting access to DALL•E

• Can anyone use DALL•E?
• How do I get a DALL•E invite?
  • Joining the DALL•E artists / creator program
• How much does DALL•E cost?
• Is DALL•E open source?
• What computer do I need to run DALL•E?
• Are there limits on DALL•E usage?

🧑🏻‍⚖️ DALL•E rules, limits and legal stuff

• What are the rules of using DALL-E?
• What safety measures does DALL•E have?
• Who owns the IP / copyright of DALL•E images?
• Other legal issues to consider
• Can I sell the images DALL•E I create on DALL•E?
• What about the images DALL•E was trained on?

🎨 Using DALL•E

Is DALL•E real?

Yes, my sweet summer child - I can I assure you it is very real!

How do you use DALL•E?

Using DALL•E to create AI artwork is remarkably simple.

There are three main ways to create an image: text prompts, variations, and edits.

Let’s take the most well-known method first - text prompts.

How do you prompt DALL•E with text?

The main interface for DALL•E is this: literally just a text box.

Figure 1: The DALL•E UX.

You can type anything you like - this description is also called a ‘prompt.’