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FOBIE.ai

Make decent pictures for my business

A menu, a van livery, a social post, a poster for the window. This job is about getting usable artwork without a designer on retainer.

What a good result looks like

Use this to judge a demo. A tool that cannot do these is not doing the job, whatever it is called.

  • It produces something at print resolution, not just a screen thumbnail.
  • It gets text inside images right, which is where most of them fall down.
  • The licence plainly allows commercial use.
  • You can adjust the result rather than starting again.

What usually goes wrong

The things people find out after they have paid.

  • Check the commercial licence on the actual plan you are on. Free tiers frequently do not include it.
  • Generated images of identifiable people, or in a named artist's style, carry real legal risk.
  • Brand consistency is hard. Ten posts from ten prompts look like ten different businesses.

3 tools that do this

How this list is ordered — and why money is not one of the reasons
  1. 1. How squarely the tool does this job. A tool built for this job comes before one that can be made to do it. A tool that needs wiring up comes last.
  2. 2. How much we actually know about it. A tool we have used ourselves comes before one we have only researched, which comes before one only a reader has written in about, which comes before one nobody has assessed. A tool low on this list is not bad. It is unknown.
  3. 3. How technical you need to be. Where the first two signals tie, the one a non-technical person can set up alone comes first. This site is for people who are not going to write code.
  4. 4. How recently we checked the listing. A listing we checked last month is worth more to you than one we checked last year, so it breaks the remaining ties. Listings we have never checked come last.

Nothing commercial appears on that list, and nothing commercial is given to the code that orders it. How we make money, and how you can check.

  1. Canva

    by Canva

    Templates mean you start from something that already looks right, which is why non-designers finish here.

    Built for thisListed, not reviewedNo setup help neededFree tier to try it

  2. ChatGPT

    by OpenAI

    Makes images from a description, including text in images, at social-post quality.

    Does this wellListed, not reviewedNo setup help neededFree tier to try it

  3. Midjourney

    by Midjourney

    The best-looking images in this group, but you are starting from a blank prompt, not a template.

    Does this wellListed, not reviewedSome setting up

Reviews against this job

Listed, not reviewedIt is in the directory. Nobody here has assessed it yet.

Nobody here has assessed any of these tools against this job yet. The listings above describe what each one is sold to do and how squarely it fits — which is real information — but none of it is a verdict, and this page does not pretend otherwise.

Used one of these for this job? Tell us what happened — reader reports are published as reader reports, in your words, clearly labelled.

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