Train Your Own Image Model Using Leonardo AI

A Simple Approach To Customize Your AI Images

Made by author in Leonardo AI using the GreyZone fine-tuned model

Leonardo AI is a new generative image tool that has been getting a lot of attention lately, often being compared to Midjourney.

While the focus of Leonardo is on producing high-quality game assets and concept art, Leonardo includes some amazing features such as a slick website UI, image editor, and prompt generator.

But the amazing unique feature of Leonardo is in the image modeling.

Unlike other AI image platforms that run on foundational models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, Leonardo runs on fine-tuned models.

So the first thing you will notice when you login to Leonardo is a selection of featured models. The idea is to select one of the models that are closest to the style of images that you want to generate.

A good way to think about models is like templates.

Select a model and generate AI images with your own prompts.

screencap from Leonardo AI

Community Models

While the featured models are considered the platform models in Leonardo, it gets really interesting when you explore the community models.

These are AI models that users have created themselves using Leonardo and shared for anyone to use.

screencap from Leonardo AI

For example, here is a fine-tuned model called ‘Little Heroes.’

screencap from Leonardo AI

And using this model, here are some images I generated of Will Smith and Harry Potter:

Made by author in Leonardo AI using the Little Heroes fine-tuned model

Cool right?