How to use AI Text to Image Generator: Turn a Written Prompt Into a Picture
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Write the description
Type into the box labelled Describe the image you want to generate. Concrete nouns, a stated setting and a named light source do more than a pile of adjectives; the placeholder text shows roughly the level of detail that helps.
- 2
Choose the shape
Aspect Ratio offers Square 1:1 at 1024 by 1024 pixels, Landscape 16:9 at 1024 by 576, and Portrait 9:16 at 576 by 1024. There is no custom dimension field and no larger option.
- 3
Pick an art style, or none
Any style other than None appends a set phrase to your prompt. Leave it on None when your own description already fixes the look, so your wording and the preset are not pulling in two directions.
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Press Generate Image
The button locks and reads Generating Masterpiece while the request is in flight. A refusal surfaces as a visible message rather than an empty frame, and the endpoint is allowed up to sixty seconds before it gives up.
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Download it immediately
Download Image fetches the picture and saves it with the extension that matches the bytes actually returned. If your browser blocks the direct download, right-click the picture and save it that way instead.
Features
Three fixed output sizes
1024 by 1024, 1024 by 576, or 576 by 1024 pixels, selected with the Aspect Ratio menu.
Style presets you can read
Each preset appends a stated phrase to your text, so the extra instruction is never hidden from you.
Watermark suppressed at the source
The request asks the provider for the picture without its own logo burned into a corner.
No account, credits or queue
The request goes straight out. There is no balance to top up and no generation history to manage.
Downloads named after their real contents
The saved file takes its extension from the returned data rather than from an assumption about the format.
Failures are reported, not swallowed
A refused or malformed response raises a message on screen instead of leaving the panel blank.
Why the same prompt keeps giving you the same picture
The image is not held in a gallery on this site. It exists as a web address that contains your prompt and the dimensions, and your browser loads it the way it loads any other picture. That design has a consequence people notice within a minute: press Generate again without changing a word and you will usually get the identical image back, because you have requested the identical address.
To get something different, change the request. Adding a detail, reordering the clauses, switching the style preset or moving from square to portrait all produce a new address and therefore a new picture. Rewording is the only dial available here — there is no seed field, no variations button and no strength slider.
The same property explains why a picture you made last month may not load today. Nothing on ToolMela keeps a copy, so if the external service changes how it answers that address, the link simply dies. Anything you intend to use should be downloaded the moment it appears.
It also means your description travels in the clear, inside a URL, to a third party. The privacy note further down this page describes the hop to ToolMela's own endpoint accurately, but the picture itself is fetched from the Pollinations service, so keep client names, addresses, unreleased product details and anything else confidential out of the description box.
Supported formats and limits
- Output dimensions
- 1024x1024 for 1:1, 1024x576 for 16:9, 576x1024 for 9:16
- Output format
- Chosen by the image service; the download is named after whatever arrives
- Art styles
- None, Photorealistic, Anime, 3D Render, Cyberpunk, Watercolor, Fantasy
- How styles work
- A fixed phrase is appended to your prompt, not sent as a separate setting
- Where the picture is made
- On the Pollinations image service, requested by your browser
- ToolMela's part
- One endpoint that validates the prompt and builds the address
- Request timeout
- The endpoint is allowed up to 60 seconds
- Prompt length
- No cap is imposed, though very long descriptions dilute the parts that matter
- Not available
- Seed, negative prompt, custom sizes, batch runs, image-to-image, upscaling
- Text inside pictures
- Unreliable; expect misspelt words on signs, labels and captions
Privacy and security
Processed on ToolMela's server
Your prompt is sent over an encrypted connection to ToolMela's /api/generate-image endpoint, processed in memory, and returned to you — it is not written to disk or retained after the response.
Where is my prompt processed, and is it stored?
Processing happens on ToolMela's server. The prompt is uploaded over HTTPS, held only in memory while the image library transforms it, and the result is streamed straight back to your browser. Nothing is saved to disk, added to a database, or kept after the request finishes. If you would rather nothing left your device at all, use a tool marked "Runs in your browser".
Example
A recipe blog needs a header picture for a post about winter squash soup. The slot is 16:9, the budget is nothing, and the editor does not want another stock photograph that three competing sites already use.
Type a bowl of orange squash soup on a dark wooden table, steam rising, a torn sourdough roll beside it, window light from the left into the description box. Set Aspect Ratio to Landscape 16:9 and leave Art Style on None, because the description already states the lighting and the surface. Press Generate Image and a 1024 by 576 picture arrives. The soup is right but the bread looks wrong, so change torn sourdough roll to two slices of dark rye and generate again — the reworded prompt is a different address, so a genuinely different picture comes back. Download the version you want straight away, then send it through the image compressor before it goes into the post, because 1024 pixels of uncompressed header will still cost more than the page can afford.
Frequently asked questions
Which AI model actually draws the picture?
The request is handed to the Pollinations image service, which decides. ToolMela does not run a model of its own for this page and does not offer a model chooser, so this page cannot honestly name the network behind any particular image.
Why do I get the same image every time I press generate?
Because the picture is addressed by a URL built from your prompt and your chosen dimensions. An unchanged prompt is an unchanged address, so the same picture comes back. Reword the description, switch the style preset, or change the aspect ratio to get something new.
Can I use these images commercially?
That depends on the current terms of the service that produced them and on the law where you are, and ToolMela can decide neither for you. Check the provider's terms before a generated picture goes into paid work, packaging or advertising.
Why is the writing inside my picture gibberish?
Image models assemble letters as visual texture rather than spelling words, so signs, labels and captions usually come out wrong. Generate the scene without any text in it and add the wording afterwards in an image editor.
Can I set an exact pixel size?
No. Three fixed shapes are offered and the longest edge is always 1024 pixels. If you need a specific dimension, generate at the nearest shape and then set the exact size with the image resizer.
Is my prompt private?
No. It goes to this site's endpoint and then forms part of the address your browser requests from an external image service. Keep personal details, client names and confidential plans out of the description box.
Can I generate a picture of a real person?
Results that resemble a named individual are unreliable, and using them can be unlawful or defamatory however convincing they look. This page has no likeness controls, so treat any resemblance as accidental and never present a generated image as a photograph of someone.
Where is my prompt processed, and is it stored?
Processing happens on ToolMela's server. The prompt is uploaded over HTTPS, held only in memory while the image library transforms it, and the result is streamed straight back to your browser. Nothing is saved to disk, added to a database, or kept after the request finishes. If you would rather nothing left your device at all, use a tool marked "Runs in your browser".
Related tools
- Image Compressor — Brings a 1024-pixel generation down to a page's size budget before you publish it.
- Image Resizer — Sets the exact dimensions the three fixed shapes here cannot give you.
- Image Enhancer — Enlarges a generation that is too small for the space it has to fill.
- Magic Eraser — Removes the spare hand or stray object a model invented in the corner.
- Background Remover — Lifts a generated subject off its background so it can sit in a layout.
