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My Favorite Creator Tools
OpenArt has a wide variety of image generation models (including Flux), image-to-video using Kling or Minimax Hailuo (right from the OpenArt platform), incredible upscale options, a feature-packed editor with everything from expand and inpaint to cropping, background removal, and even editing facial expressions.
If that’s not enough, OpenArt is on the frontier of consistent character image and video generation with several options for creating a character (text description, a single image, or 4+ images) and multiple ways to generate with your character (prompt & reference, precision posing, or place in an existing image.)
There are so many other features and tools on OpenArt for generating, editing, and styling images. The folks behind it are always working hard to add new features and improve existing tools.
Thumbnails, channel banner, logo, visual social media posts, and videos – create them all in one place that’s really easy to use. It took me about 5 minutes to fall in love with how much easier it was to create something in Canva than it was in PhotoShop or other over-complicated software.
The brand-kit makes it easy to use consistent colors, fonts, logos, and anything else in whatever I’m working on. The background remover is excellent and the assets available to put in a design in one click – photos, videos, graphics, and more – saves me so much time.
It’s my favorite text-to-speech platform, but it does much more than text-to-speech – like creating sound effects from a text description, dubbing in multiple languages, and the most accurate AI transcription available.
ElevenLabs has a huge library of voices to choose from, many created by users with unique voice characteristics and a natural quality that adds to the character or voiceover. You can create your own voice clone in a few minutes with an Instant Voice Clone or, for a wildly-accurate voice, create a Professional Voice clone with a few hours of recorded audio.
I’ve been using VidIQ for a long time. I use the keyword tool to figure out what people are searching for and what’s trending. VidIQ shows me (right within YouTube) videos that are performing well (not just my videos, all the videos.) The VidIQ app gives me new video ideas daily, based on my channel and what’s happening on YouTube.
When it’s time to upload, VidIQ saves me time by providing title suggestions, keyword suggestions, and tag suggestions. It also keeps a score and a checklist to make sure I don’t overlook any of the best practices when going through the upload process.
Remember when I first talked about Kling AI? Yeah, it wasn’t pretty. Picture this: the shiny new toy everyone’s raving about, and there I am, watching my video eternally stuck at 99% processing. Talk about a cliffhanger!But here’s the kicker – some folks had the audacity to suggest I should’ve...
Leonardo AI users with a paid plan will see unused tokens go into a rollover bank, instead of losing them. The rollover bank limit is 3 times the plan’s monthly allotment. so, if you’re on the Apprentice plan (that’s me) and you get 8,500 tokens per month, your rollover bank...
Hedra AI creates the best lip sync video clips I’ve seen so far. As of this writing it’s free to use since the model it uses for lip sync, called Character-1, is in research beta. Generating a lip sync video is really simple in Hedra. It needs some audio and...
Pictory is this awesome tool that uses AI to read your text and then suggests images, clips, and even voiceovers to match your story. It’s got ElevenLabs AI Voices built right in, meaning you get super natural-sounding voiceovers without needing to jump between platforms. All of this techy goodness is...