Artificial Intelligence in Graphic Design: 13 Productivity Tools
June 18, 2023, 6:35 p.m.
Artificial intelligence can help enhance your productivity as a graphic designer, but what are the best tools you can use? AI tools don’t always have to be novelty. While it can be fun to create a spooky version of your favorite pop star riding a unicorn in space, you can also benefit greatly from adding AI tools into your graphic design workflow. AI helps you save time and frustration on the small and annoying parts of the process, allowing you to focus on the big picture in your graphic design projects. Here are 13 AI tools to boost your graphic design workflow.
Khroma is an AI color tool built for designers. It sets a personalized algorithm based on the initial colors you choose. This algorithm generates infinite color combinations that relate to your chosen colors. If you’ve never chosen a color—such as yellow—it won’t appear in your AI-built algorithm unless you retrain Khroma that you like yellow.
Midjourney is a text-to-image AI tool that allows you to write a prompt and quickly visualize it. Using Midjourney’s Discord server, you can get four generated results per prompt. It's easy to use this AI tool, and we've written a guide for using Midjourney.
Adobe Sensei is a built-in Adobe tool that features across the Creative Cloud range, including content-aware fill, font recognition, automated color matching, and much more. While it isn’t one specific feature you can find and use, its integration to Adobe software elevates your entire graphic design workflow, no matter which program you’re working in.
Fontjoy is an open-source tool that helps create the best font combinations using font vector technology. The choice of typefaces to use can be paralyzing sometimes, but Fontjoy uses filters and generators to cut down your time searching and increase your time perfecting.
Nero AI Image Upscaler enlarges and upscales images in high quality. If you’ve got a pixelated image that you need in high resolution, use Nero AI to quickly enhance it.
Microsoft Designer is an AI-based template design tool. It works similarly to Canva and Adobe Express, but it is entirely run on AI. Use text prompts to find images and templates, generate color palettes, and more. This is a tool that can make your social media designs take a couple of minutes rather than a couple of hours.
RemoveBG is an AI tool that removes backgrounds. It’s as simple as that. Upload an image, and use Remove BG to remove the background, leaving a transparent background only.
Galileo AI calls itself the co-pilot for interface design. It creates UX/UI design using AI from just a text prompt written by you.
Using Flair AI you can turn text prompts into product photography. Just type how you want your product to be photographed—background, props, lighting, and themes—and Flair will generate the photo.
Uizard has a few helpful AI tools for UI designing, such as app and web design. You can use Uizard to design wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for web design, but its AI features make the tool shine.
Fronty uses AI to convert images into HTML and CSS code. You can create a functioning website in minutes without needing to be a web developer.
While ChatGPT isn’t a design tool itself, its powerful chatbot AI tool can be very helpful to any designer. You can use ChatGPT to create bulk designs in Canva or use ChatGPT to generate prompts for AI image generators.
Adobe Firefly is a beta tool for Adobe’s newest set of AI tools and features. Some of these AI tools have been integrated into Adobe products like Adobe Express Beta. While Firefly is still in beta mode, we can’t be sure how all the tools will be integrated.
With these 13 tools, you can be assured there’s an AI tool to help with your graphic design workflow. Graphic design software is changing more every year, and no longer do you have to put blood, sweat, and tears into every aspect of design. Use AI to share the burden of your least-liked design parts, so you can focus most on where your skills excel. AI doesn’t have to be the enemy of a graphic designer. Invite it to your workflow and make the best of it.