In Search of AI Perfection: Midjourney AND Leonardo.ai

Another “combination” article that just may change the game this time?

David W Litwin
5 min readNov 18, 2023

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Image(s) created by the author

Study the image(s) above. Can you spot it? Pay attention t0 what appear to be slight discrepancies. The hand at the bottom left doesn’t quite match up. The color on the left side shoulder is just a touch dark in as it curves. The lines in the windows are just slightly askew.

No, this isn’t the fault of the AI, that dreaded multiple finger scenario. No, this is two SEPARATE IMAGES from two DIFFERENT AI Platforms. Look again…

image on Left created in MidJourney | Image on Right created in Leonardo.ai with IMAGE GUIDANCE

I have been using Midjourney for months, but after reading this story: https://medium.com/@ThomasTTollerer/leonardo-ai-is-the-new-game-changer-in-the-ai-world-it-puts-midjourney-to-shame-8b9a3a55960d by 42_AI Diaries I decided to give Leonardo.ai a chance. I have subscriptions to both MidJourney and Adobe Firefly, and have been experimenting with the combination of both, as I spoke of in this article:

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