Generating Images

Ideogram is a web application that allows you to browse and generate images from text. Within the user interface, you can generate images, browse and filter previously generated images, curate your user profile, manage your subscription, and more.

Generation

To create an image in the simplest way, type the description of what you want to see in the prompt box, then hit Generate.

Desktop

The Ideogram user interface on desktop platforms.

At the top of the screen, click the input text box to type a description of what you want Ideogram to generate, then hit Generate to start the process.

iOS app / Mobile

The Ideogram user interface on mobile platforms.

At the bottom of the screen, you can click on the "+" button to pull up the generation panel and start typing in a description of what you want Ideogram to generate. Hit the Generate button to start the generation.

Prompts and generations are visible to everyone on Ideogram unless you choose to generate in Private Mode.

Ideogram generates four images at a time using graphical processing units (GPUs) on remote servers. While the generation is happening, you will see previews of the final images with a progress indicator above them.

You can see the previews while the images are being generated.

After waiting a few seconds, your generation is complete!

A preview of your images are available in high-quality when generation is complete.

Generation Actions

When you click on one of the generated images, an information panel will appear—on the right side if you’re on a desktop computer, or below if you’re on a mobile device—offering several additional actions.

Options available for generated images

From this panel, you can:

• Pin the image to your profile.
• Like the image.
• Share your image.
• Download your image.
• Make the image public or private (Subscription).
• Retry generating images with the same prompt and options.
• Use the same Prompt or Magic Prompt again for your next generation.
• Remix your image.
• Upscale your image up to 2x.
• Describe the image.
• Use image as a Style reference.
• Open the current image in Canvas.

  • You can also specify if you want to activate the Magic Fill or Extend tool as well.

• Replace the background of the current image.

  • Click the drop down arrow to select Remove background.

• Use the associated Prompt, Magic Prompt, Color Palette, Negative prompt or Seed for your next generation.
• Copy the the associated Prompt, Magic Prompt, Color Palette or Negative prompt on your clipboard.
• Access More functionalities. See below.

Clicking on the More icon you will give you access to these options:

Options available in the More menu.

You can:

• Use the same Prompt or Magic Prompt again for next generation.
• Retry another generation with the same prompt and options.
• Remix your image.
• Use the image as a Style reference
• Describe your image.
• Upscale your image up to 2x (Subscription).
• Replace the background in the image (Subscription).
• Remove the background of the image (Subscription).
• Open the image in Canvas.
• Edit your image with the Editor (Subscription).
• Make a generation private or public (Subscription)
• Set the image as your profile photo.

  • Note that you can only do this with your own generations.

• Download the image.

  • If you have Ideogram Basic/Plus/Pro/Team, this will download an uncompressed PNG file

  • With the free plan, this will download a slightly compressed JPG file.

• Share a link to your image.
• Report the image.
• Delete the image (all images from the generation set) (Subscription).