
Learn to harness ChatGPT's built-in image generation, craft effective prompts, and guide style, lighting, and layout to create logos, posters, infographics, and mockups with artificial intelligence.
Leverage ChatGPT Plus, Midjourney, and Photoshop to generate and refine images, while outlining essential tools, access levels from free to plus, and beginner-focused expectations.
Download the course images folder for AI-generated visuals to practice, and note translations are provided; contact me to fix wording before we move to image creation with ChatGPT.
Explore how ChatGPT functions as a conversational ai, shaping responses from simple prompts to tailored outputs, and begin creating images with ChatGPT in this course.
Learn how to set up and sign in to ChatGPT, create an account, upgrade plans, and manage image generation limits (up to three images per day) for creating graphics.
Create your first image in ChatGPT 4o, mastering how subscription options affect rendering, and learn to direct image style from close-ups to illustrated or coloring pages through practical prompts.
Explore how ChatGPT models vary, when to use four o and o three, and how model selection affects AI image generation in this graphics course.
Explore ChatGPT's sidebar to access programs, the GPTs marketplace, your library of created images, and project folders for organized, tailored image generation and course content.
Learn to direct ChatGPT-4o to generate images in landscape, portrait, and square aspect ratios using beach prompts and iterative rendering.
Direct image creation in ChatGPT 4o by guiding style and aspect ratios to render a beach in watercolor, graphic novel, or aged photograph, and explore twenty-five style ideas.
Direct action in ChatGPT 4o images by guiding subject activity and landscape ratio. Prompts evolve from generic to specific, check anatomy, and depict a skateboarder running with a skateboard.
Direct color in AI images by conversing with ChatGPT 4o to adjust shirt color, hat, and cake frosting; learn about color drift and prompt strategies.
Explore how to direct chatgpt 4o's image generation by specifying camera positions: overhead, extreme close-up, and product shots, and compare prompt styles to control angles, lighting, and texture.
Direct lighting styles for portraits using ChatGPT 4o, rendering studio and natural scenes with loop, split, top lighting, and four lighting setups.
Upload images from your computer or phone to ChatGPT 4o, turn them into cartoons, and use prompts to refine and modify your photos.
Save images created in ChatGPT 4o by clicking the download button that appears when you hover over the image, or save on mobile by pressing and holding the photo.
Explore the PNG file format and transparency in ChatGPT 4o, and learn how pixel dimensions and dpi affect online sharing and print quality.
Explore quick sketch-style prompts in ChatGPT 4o, capturing pencil, marker, and crayon sketches of a cute bird, and learn style transfer by uploading images while maintaining context.
Demonstrates creating kid's coloring pages with ChatGPT-4o by prompting farm scenes with animals and a barn, plus cyberpunk city themes, and turning photos into printable coloring sheets.
Explore knolling image creation in ChatGPT 4o, using top-down, professional photography with a portrait ratio to arrange donuts, bakeware, petals, and fantasy items, with prompts guiding results.
Explore creating icon sets with ChatGPT 4o, including tech business glyph icons in watercolor, papercut, pop art, and glass morphism styles. Learn prompts for transparency and background removal in Photoshop.
Create movie posters with ChatGPT 4o, using nineteen forties style visuals of a goat, with wear and tear, and poster details like title, starring, and director.
Create packaging visuals with ChatGPT by designing book covers, product shots, and aged or black-and-white images, then place them in real-world contexts like board game boxes.
See how to design a family-friendly board game box for bears through ChatGPT, crafting a detailed image prompt for Bear Trail with forest setting, portrait layout, and hand-painted textures.
This lecture demonstrates using AI to edit real photos by changing packaging text, such as turning 'mouth trap cheese curds' into 'mouse trap cheese curds', with a hands-on upload workflow.
Convert uploaded images to sixteen-bit pixel art, using prompts to de-res items like a health potion or spaceship to Sega Genesis style, with Aseprite templates for drawing.
Explore creating sticker images with the ChatGPT 4o sticker style, troubleshoot generation bugs, remove backgrounds, and refine outlines for ready-to-print transparent stickers.
Explore creating website and app mocks with ChatGPT 4o, including logo design, applying logos to sites, and rendering visuals on devices like an iPhone to explore biking trails.
Explore invitation image design using ChatGPT to quickly generate customizable event details for kid's birthday parties and weddings, with a light, kid-friendly sci-fi theme featuring robots, planets, and rockets.
Create infographic images with ChatGPT by turning sketches into guides, including time and temperature details. Design for portrait mode and leverage the LLM to fill in steps.
Create plush toy images in ChatGPT 4o by transforming uploaded images into plush designs and crafting prompts that specify background, lighting, textures, and toy details.
Turn a simple sketch into digital illustrations and 3d assets with ChatGPT 4o, refining details and iterating styles for embroidered graphics, game-ready renders, and other visuals.
Learn to add backgrounds to images with ChatGPT 4o by explicit prompts for backdrops, like a wooden table, compare four o and o3 outputs, and explore motion and digital illustration.
Demonstrates product placement by merging a stock model with sunglasses using natural language prompts in ChatGPT four o, showing close detail and iterative refinement.
Create a loon sticker with a transparent background and white border to illustrate how transparency enables clean product placement on Redbubble, and compare against a blue background to show differences.
Compare ChatGPT o three and four o image rendering, showing how o three uses advanced reasoning to build robust prompts and deliver detailed visuals like an iOS game icon.
Learn to generate prompts from an image to reproduce it with ChatGPT. Compare GPT-3 and GPT-4 on prompt quality as you experiment with Midjourney prompts.
Describe an image with ChatGPT, obtain a blueberry donut recipe, generate an infographic, and explore image-based ideas for design and living spaces using AI.
Explore world-building with AI by turning an image of a pizzeria into a narrative, imagining owners, popular dishes, and a street of quirky shops, using image prompts and AI visuals.
Describe and adapt AI-generated images with ChatGPT, then upscale with Topaz gigapixel and finalize a 36x24 poster at 300 ppi using Photoshop for print.
Explore Sora, an OpenAI platform for image and video creation, and compare its ecosystem with ChatGPT, including user creations, prompts, and media management in My Media and Explorer.
Demonstrates image generation in Sora using prompts, aspect ratios, and presets to produce multiple images and variations. Compare Sora’s prompt-driven workflow with ChatGPT and Midjourney for image creation.
Explore Sora's community image prompts, transfer ideas to ChatGPT 4o to generate realistic home scenes and appliances, then refine prompts in landscape or portrait ratios.
Explore Sora's video generation capabilities and limitations using a coastal living room photo, 9 by 16, 720p, and note prompts, variations, plus and pro plan constraints.
Explore OpenAI's image generation limits, including cropping, hallucinations, and high binding problems. Understand how precision, multilingual rendering, and editing constraints affect dense visuals.
Identify limitations in ChatGPT four o image generation: yellow drift, blue drift, and camera drift. Start a new thread to avoid compounding and note selection tools differ from in painting.
Discover what makes Midjourney different from ChatGPT-4o, compare their strengths in image generation, and learn to leverage their synergy to create awesome graphics.
Compare Midjourney and ChatGPT 4o, highlighting speed, artistic range, coherence, fidelity, and tooling; learn how prompts, batches, and LLM mode shape image generation.
Explore Midjourney's advanced image generation, editing, and organization tools, queue and manage dozens of images, apply style references, profiles, and mood boards to personalize visuals.
Learn a workflow that uses Midjourney and ChatGPT 4o to clean up images, making objects more coherent while preserving a sketchy feel.
Explore a practical workflow for cleaning up multi-object images from midjourney with ChatGPT-4o, improving coherence while preserving detail and exploring prompt-driven style control.
Compare retexture in Midjourney with style transfer in ChatGPT 4o to achieve pencil sketch aesthetics. Evaluate speed, coherence, and liberties for a synergistic workflow.
Explore how Midjourney uses outpainting and inpainting to fix camera drift and extend frames on images generated by ChatGPT, with prompts and edits.
Forge cohesive AI graphics by blending midjourney base images with ChatGPT-4o image generation, building prompts, and blending elements like satellites into space scenes to leverage cross-platform synergy.
Learn to finish images with Photoshop by using layers and adjustment layers to correct color drift, brighten, and save for print, integrating AI tools like ChatGPT 4o and Midjourney.
Explore how to access Photoshop through Adobe Creative Cloud, understand pricing plans, and use the Creative Cloud desktop app to install and manage Photoshop.
Create a new Photoshop document using the web preset 1366 by 768 at 72 ppi, and explore the interface, RGB and CMYK color modes, bit depth, and layers.
Master the basics of layers in Photoshop by painting on separate layers, using the color picker, and exploring how stacking and blending create cohesive graphics.
Master rectangular and elliptical marquee tools to select and move parts of layered graphics, and use the lasso tool to refine selections across visible layers.
Load downloaded images into Photoshop, unlock background layers to normal, and use quick selection to isolate the subject, then paste into a new file for compositing.
Combine a beach photo with a character, add white text using the type tool and a speech bubble, export a PNG, and refine ideas with ChatGPT.
Master Photoshop adjustments for brightness, levels, curves, exposure, and color balance, using auto tone, auto contrast, and auto color; understand destructive versus non-destructive edits on layered images.
Explore non-destructive edits with adjustment layers in Photoshop, applying color balance, brightness and contrast, exposure, and gamma corrections while stacking and toggling layers without altering pixels.
Explore the ai generation tool inside Photoshop for in painting and out painting, and use it for quick edits like removing rosy cheeks and generating fills.
Learn to fix common ChatGPT image issues using Photoshop, including color balance, yellow drift, brightness, contrast, and generative expand to correct crops and enhance images for seamless AI-assisted graphics.
Explore the OpenAI image generation API and learn to build custom apps that interface with it, enabling image creation, editing, and using images as reference.
Explore how a developer-focused app uses the OpenAI image generation API to build a gallery with prompt reuse and configurable settings for layout, quality, moderation, and transparency.
Explore ChatGPT image creation and tools like Midjourney, Photoshop, Gigapixel, and Redbubble to unlock AI graphics potential.
Unlock your creative potential with Create Awesome Graphics with ChatGPT 4o — the ultimate, hands-on guide to mastering image generation using the powerful tools built into ChatGPT 4o.
Whether you're a total beginner or a seasoned designer curious about what AI can do, this course will walk you step-by-step through the exciting world of AI-generated visuals — and the best part? No prior design skills or software experience required. Just curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to play.
What You'll Learn
We start with the essentials:
How to navigate the ChatGPT interface with ease
Understanding how prompts work and what makes them effective
Creating your very first images in ChatGPT 4o with guided examples
From there, we level up your skills by diving into advanced image prompting techniques, including:
Styling your images with artistic direction
Directing color, lighting, and layout
Using aspect ratios, camera angles, and composition like a pro
Combining multiple images, adjusting transparency, and layering elements
Hands-On Projects and Real-World Examples
This course is packed with sample images, prompt templates, and step-by-step walkthroughs to help you practice as you go. You’ll create a wide range of visuals for both fun and professional use, including:
Logos, product packaging, movie posters, and infographics
Stickers, kids’ coloring pages, pixel art, icons, and knolling layouts
Invitations, mockups, and custom illustrations
You'll also gain experience in editing and enhancing your AI-generated images using tools like Photoshop, and learn how to take your creativity even further by integrating with tools like Midjourney and Sora.
Tools, Templates, and Prompts Galore
We don’t just tell you what to do — we give you the tools to do it:
Prompting guides to help you master the art of crafting image instructions
Downloadable sample images for inspiration and experimentation
Assignments and practice exercises at the end of each section to apply what you've learned
Prompt formula breakdowns and real-world use cases to jumpstart your imagination
By the End of This Course...
You’ll be able to confidently use ChatGPT 4o to:
Generate stunning images with precision
Customize outputs to match your personal style or brand needs
Collaborate with AI as a creative partner in your visual projects
Build a portfolio of AI-generated graphics that you’re proud to share
Whether you want to create eye-catching social media content, bring your business ideas to life, or simply explore the boundaries of what’s possible with AI art — this course is your complete creative toolkit.