Multimodal AI · TRACK 03/04
Image Generation
Diffusion, prompting for pixels, and the open image stack.
// THE TRACK
01 · START HEREDiffusion ModelsUnderstand the core idea behind AI image generation — denoising — and why starting from pure noise produces photorealistic pictures.BEGINNERPrompting Image ModelsLearn how to write effective prompts for DALL-E 3, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion — covering structure, style keywords, negative prompts, aspect ratios, and inpainting.BEGINNERImage Prompts vs LLM PromptsLearn the building blocks of an effective image prompt and why techniques that work on chat models fail on diffusion models.BEGINNERStable DiffusionGet oriented in the open image model world — what Stable Diffusion is, the ecosystem it spawned, and how to run an open model yourself.BEGINNERDiffusion vs AutoregressiveUnderstand the two competing architectures for image generation, why text rendering favors one, and which approach the frontier labs use where.INTERMEDIATEInpainting & OutpaintingLearn how masks, denoising, and context let you erase, replace, or extend parts of an image — and which tools make it easy.INTERMEDIATENegative PromptsUnderstand what negative prompts do, why they exist, and how to use them to remove common image artifacts.BEGINNERControlNet & Guided GenerationLearn how ControlNet locks image generation to a pose, depth map, or sketch so you get composition you can actually control.INTERMEDIATEImage-to-Image GenerationUnderstand how image-to-image starts from an existing picture and how the strength setting controls how far the result drifts.BEGINNERStable Diffusion (SDXL)You will understand what Stable Diffusion and SDXL are, how open-weight diffusion turns text into images, and why this family still anchors the open image ecosystem.INTERMEDIATEFLUXYou will understand what FLUX is, why it is considered the open-weight image-quality leader, and how a diffusion-transformer image model differs from earlier diffusion models.INTERMEDIATEComfyUIYou will understand what ComfyUI is, how its node-graph workflows give precise control over diffusion pipelines, and why it became the power-user standard.INTERMEDIATEMidjourneyYou will understand what Midjourney is, why it is known for aesthetic output, and how a hosted subscription image generator differs from open-weight models.BEGINNERNano Banana (Gemini)You will understand what Nano Banana is, how Gemini-native image generation and editing work, and why SynthID watermarking is part of the output.BEGINNER