DALL·E Introducing Outpainting

Outpainting by David Schnur

Extend creativity and tell a bigger story with DALL-E images of any size

Today we’re introducing Outpainting, a new feature which helps users extend their creativity by continuing an image beyond its original borders — adding visual elements in the same style, or taking a story in new directions — simply by using a natural language description.

DALL·E’s Edit feature already enables changes within a generated or uploaded image — a capability known as Inpainting. Now, with Outpainting, users can extend the original image, creating large-scale images in any aspect ratio. Outpainting takes into account the image’s existing visual elements — including shadows, reflections, and textures — to maintain the context of the original image.

Original Outpainting by OpenAI

More than one million people are using DALL·E, the AI system that generates original images and artwork from a natural language description, as a creative tool today. Artists have already created remarkable images with the new Outpainting feature, and helped us better understand its capabilities in the process.

Original Outpainting by Tyna Eloundou

Outpainting is now available to all DALL·E users on desktop. To discover new realms of creativity, visit labs.openai.com or join the waitlist.

Original Outpainting by Danielle Baskin

DALL·E Now Available in Beta

DALL·E, the AI system that creates realistic images and art from a description in natural language, is now available in beta. Today we’re beginning the process of inviting 1 million people from our waitlist over the coming weeks.

Every DALL·E user will receive 50 free credits during their first month of use and 15 free credits every subsequent month. Each credit can be used for one original DALL·E prompt generation — returning four images — or an edit or variation prompt, which returns three images.

Original Outpainting by Chad Nelson

A powerful creative tool

DALL·E allows users to create quickly and easily, and artists and creative professionals are using DALL·E to inspire and accelerate their creative processes. We’ve already seen people use DALL·E to make music videos for young cancer patients, create magazine covers, and bring novel concepts to life.

Other features include:

  • Edit allows users to make realistic and context-aware edits to images they generate with DALL·E or images they upload using a natural language description.
  • Variations can take an image generated by DALL·E or an image uploaded by a user and create different variations of it inspired by the original.
  • My Collection allows users to save generations right in the DALL·E platform.
Original Outpainting by Emma Catnip

Subsidized access for qualifying artists

We hope to make DALL·E as accessible as possible. Artists who are in need of financial assistance will be able to apply for subsidized access. Please fill out this interest form if you’d like to be notified once more details are available.

We are excited to see what people create with DALL·E and look forward to users’ feedback during this beta period.

DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.

Images: Courtesy of OpenAI
Soruce: OpenAI, August 30, 2022
https://openai.com/