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  1. IMAGES

Stability AI

Featured images with Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

PreviousWordPress integrationNextDALL-E 3

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The Stability image model is free for all users while it is in beta - so give it a try and give us some feedback

Overview

Machined can generate featured images using - we currently use the model.

You can configure for articles in clusters or for each article.

Machined provides 70+ and let's you define the of your images.

Usage

Automatic

You can enable automatic Stability image generation for featured images, simply select Stability in the Featured Images dropdown on your cluster, then select the settings you wish to use.

Each time an article is written in this cluster, a featured image will be created with Stable Diffusion using the settings you have selected.

Auto-generation of featured images only runs on articles that don't already have a featured image.

Manual

You can also generate featured images manually using Stability, open the featured image popup for the article in question and navigate the the Stability tab.

From here you can generate images in two ways:

  1. Using the Style and Hue approach

  2. Define your very own custom prompt

When using a custom prompt, you are expected to define the entirety of the prompt and we will not add any keywords, style or overlay to the image - so make sure you are as explicit as you need to be to generate the perfect image.

Storage

Machined will store images for up to 3 months, at which point they will be permanently deleted, so please make sure you export or download all the images that you want to keep.

Pricing

Settings

Machined allows you to use styles and hues when generating images, to help you keep consistency between images in your clusters.

Image size

Machined generates images that are 1366x768 in size

Styles

The image style lets you define which artistic style the image will be created in. Some styles are more suitable that others depending on your niche, topic and keyword.

Below are examples of the available styles, generated for the keyword "how long do swans live".

Hue

The image hue can be used to define a color overtone to the images. This can help you follow a color scheme or a common tone.

Below is an example of a cluster using Teal as the hue:

Troubleshooting

General information and advice

DALL-E 3 is a relatively new model from OpenAI and may still be a bit unstable. We think it will improve over time, especially as OpenAI adds more resources to run the service and perfects the platform but we have noticed a number of issues to be aware of.

I was charged for an image that was not generated

Machined makes use of timeouts and other mechanisms to ensure service stability. This can sometimes lead to us cancelling API requests before we've received a response from OpenAI (when they take too long to respond to us). This can sometimes lead to occasions when an image has not been generated but you have been charged for it on the API.

I used the same style but the image came out different

To ensure images are unique we provide a unique seed ot each image generation and as such, the output can be very non-deterministic. We strive to perfect our prompts to ensure as much consistency as possible but this may not always be possible. If you are unhappy with an image, you can always generate a new one.

Machined does not remove existing images when you generate new ones, so you can always go back to a previously generated image. You can see all images for an article by opening the Featured Images popup as described .

Using Stability to create images is free while it is in beta. Long term pricing will be announced soon but will likely require api keys

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