Did Freepik Just Kill MidJourney?

A few weeks ago, I started to use Freepik’s Pikaso to generate assets for my designs and realized I don’t need MidJourney anymore! My workflow is much more powerful and efficient using the suite of tools from Freepik. So, in this not-sponsored-video, I’m sharing why I’ve stopped using MidJourney and I’m showing you my new workflows.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:27 Speed
2:30 Fine tuning
3:58 Upscaling
5:15 Other creative tools

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[freepik]

Well, this video just made our day! Thanks for your kind words. We'll be working hard to improve our tools, so that creatives minds like yours can make use of it. 👏💙

[hyperadapted]

Its faster and more options yes but they all look so much worse than MJ

[JamesTolias]

Thank you so much! You convinced me to keep using midjourney!

[tylerbeaty]

Freepik looks like Midjourney from a year ago…

[Metaworldwide]

When someone clearly doesn't understand Art. Yes, more options. But terrible results.

[kyleglazier]

The quality of the art from midjourney is obviously better.

[MojaveHigh]

I'm late to the party. I am an avid MidJourney user and love its quality. But many of the tools they talk about doing in the future exist now already here in Freepik. Remove (and inpaint) a background, expand (which is zoom and resize and pan all in one) and new things like Sketch work really well.

The reason the grass wasn't working in his sketch was that "grass" needs to be in the prompt.

[herrDOS]

I wonder if they simply store everything their clients generate and add those variants generated by others to your results. They are an image bank after all.

[HogbergPhotography]

I dont feel limiting yourself to a few options of lighting or styles is really a good road to follow.. You should just be able to "prompt it" - like some of the simpler ai image generators where you are forced to prompt everything you want and use your own creativity, like telling your own story /writing a novel.

[cosmokitcat]

Freepik, is far from the quality of midjourney.
The freepik ai generator is equivalent to dall-e.
The render parameters that you use with graphic interface in freepik are available in text format parameters to include in the prompt of midjourney.
For the speed, you have 3 levels of speed for midjourney.
For the moment, midjourney remains the leader.
Maybe it will change in the future, but not for today.

[nikhilyadav]

After the upscale tool, the image you get is literally MidJourney level but only after the upscaling before that it will look unpolished. Though you only get 20 upscale a day which is not bad you just have to choose wisely which image you want to upscale.

[LeoRibeiro__]

The sketch to image is great. The ui overall is more tuned to designers rather than midjourney's more code like style which can be a plus for some and the upscaler is quite better too.
But after quite some testing i find it that for my liking I can get to a great final image way faster in midjourney and that the overall results are far superior, granted that the way to "speak" to the models is different and i could probably still optimise further in freepik. The 20 image max upscales in freepik, however, is not good at all, specially cus all the real "magic" happens there. Im glad to see some competition and to see they're doing quite allot of it right. will be keeping an eye on this tool.

[QuantumGrooveNetwork]

Thank you! This solved my issue. I couldn't get what I wanted from any other models. It actually gets hands right and I love the multiple choices. Definitely worth trying out with the trail. Made my last video so much easier.

[edualarcon]

Thanks for the video! IMHO getting the workflow right and supporting creators in all critical parts of their journey is the key here. The gap between models will be non-existent in months anyway, and those who nail user experience will be the winners.

[RetzyWilliams]

Content policy is much more strict than Midjourney, which was already strict

[austinandriese]

The drawing workflow has me excited. That’s going to be a game changer when creating custom imagery

[CieloSkin]

Could I ask what software do you guys use for screen recording? A video on how to would be awesome!
Love your content btw🩵

[musicbysazid]

Yes, I know this is not the best and definitely not better than Midjourney. But this will get better with time for sure. I'm optimistic here

[kunalwankhade]

I am also using it from the last 4-5 months and was wondering why no one in Design community is not talking about it

[camilaramos]

Just the video that I needed, thank you for sharing!🎉