WHAT’S NEW
We’re constantly making Visual Electric better.
Here are some highlights.
Nov 20, 2024
Control how many images you generate

One of our most requested features is now live. Set how many images you generate — and how many volts you use — when you hit the generate button. To see how many volts the generate button will use, just hover over the button.

Oct 18, 2024
Sign in with Apple

Today we launched Sign in with Apple — with more log in methods coming soon.

Oct 10, 2024
Introducing the History tab

You can now access every image you have generated from the canvas left hand sidebar, and easily insert the images into your canvas.

Oct 3, 2024
Introducing Visual Electric for Mobile Web

Visual Electric is now optimized for the mobile web. Access VE on your phone or tablet and generate images from the new Images tab.

Oct 3, 2024
Fast Generations Counter

From your profile menu you can now easily see how many fast generations you have used in your current billing cycle and when your cycle will reset.

Sep 23, 2024
Introducing the Images tab

Browse all of the images you have generated across all of your canvases in one place — and for the first time you can generate new images outside of the canvas.

Aug 26, 2024
New Style: Collage

This vintage inspired style is perfect for illustrating blog posts, articles, and social posts. Combine multiple concepts together into beautiful collages that help tell your story.

Aug 22, 2024
New Style: Vintage Poster

Create nostalgic images in this retro-future style, that references the paperback covers and movie posters of the 70s and 80s.

Aug 15, 2024
Sidebar Refactor

The right-hand sidebar has been refactored to be much more performant. Animations are now much smoother and overall canvas performance is snappier and more responsive.

Aug 8, 2024
New Style: Simple Outline

Create beautiful simple illustrations in a outlined aesthetic with this new style.

Aug 7, 2024
New Style: Flat Design

Create illustrations in a flat design aesthetic with this new style.

Aug 6, 2024
New Style: Isometric

Create beautiful, intricately detailed 3D worlds in our new isometric style.

Aug 1, 2024
27 new and updated VE2 styles

Today we launched 13 new styles (16m Film
, Airy
, Calotype, Comic book, Fashion Photography, Product Photography
, Metal Relief
, Moody
, Splash
, Tilt Shift
, Voxel
, Wood Engraving
, X-Ray) and updated 14 styles (Black and White
, Cinematic
, Clay
, Craft Paper Sketch
, Cyanotype
, Digital Illustration
, Film
, Fisheye
, Low-Poly
, Manhwa
, Photography
, Pixel Art
, Portra 400
, Infrared Film) to take advantage of VE2, our brand new model.

Aug 1, 2024
VE2

Introducing VE2 — a brand new model for Visual Electric. With VE2 you get hyperrealistic photos, accurate text, and better prompt adherence.

Aug 1, 2024
Fast Mode

Choose between two generation modes: Highest Quality and Fastest Speed to generate images 2.5× faster.

Jul 30, 2024
Auto Layout

Create complex layouts that dynamically adapt to content and artboard sizes.

Jul 19, 2024
Introducing Art Director

Describe the change you would like to see in an image and let Visual Electric handle writing a new prompt.

Jul 19, 2024
Teams

You can now create a shared workspace for your team.

Jul 18, 2024
Canvas Sharing & Multiplayer

You can now share a canvas with a link and collaborate in real-time.

Jun 11, 2024
New Home View

We have completely redesigned the home view to be easier to navigate.

May 21, 2024
Layers Sidebar

Now you can easily see all of the layers on your canvas, with all of the features you expect — drag and drop, multi-select, and layer nesting.

May 8, 2024
Align & Distribute

Align tool allows you to align objects to each other, or individual objects to the containing artboard. Distribute tools allows you to evenly distribute space across 3 or more objects.

May 8, 2024
Nudge Elements with Keyboard

Use your arrow keys to nudge elements by 1px with your arrow keys, or 10px with shift + arrow keys.

May 8, 2024
Image Fill

Choose between fit, fill, and stretch for how images are displayed.

May 8, 2024
Corner Radius

Change the corner radius of artboards, images, and shapes.

May 8, 2024
Constraints

Constraints allow you to define how elements should behave when the parent artboard is resized. This enables even greater control over layout.

May 8, 2024
Line Tool Improvements

Lots of line tool improvements including end caps, alignment, and better resize and rotate logic.

May 8, 2024
Guides

When dragging or resizing anything on the canvas, helpful guides will appear to help you keep everything nice and neat.

Apr 16, 2024
New Style: Ancient

Our newest style is meant to feel very old - Ancient is trained on a diverse dataset of ancient art, such as cave paintings, stone reliefs, and etchings.

Apr 12, 2024
Text

Add text to your canvas, choose from thousands of fonts, and dial it in with advanced typography controls.

Apr 12, 2024
Artboards

Artboards allow you to group things together, organize your canvas, and compose elements.

Apr 8, 2024
New Style: Glitch

Our latest style, Glitch, is inspired by glitch art, datamoshing, and pixel sorting.

Mar 29, 2024
New Style: Lux

Trained on light-leaks and lens flares, this new photographic style is great for creating bright, magical imagery.

Mar 22, 2024
New Style: Concept Art

A digital style designed for realistic concept art that excels in sci-fi and fantasy genres, incorporating elements of loose brushstrokes.

Mar 18, 2024
New Style: Low-Poly

Create stylized and geometric low-poly images with this new style! Great for simplistic environments and blocky characters.

Mar 14, 2024
Introducing Profiles

You can showcase your favorite images, follow other creatives, and discover fresh inspiration all from within Visual Electric.

Mar 1, 2024
Updated Style: Realistic Render

Previously known as “3D Render”, Realistic Render is an improved version of this style that addresses some issues we have seen. There were some cases where a prompt would break the style, producing images that were too photorealistic or too “cute”. This new version will produce more consistent images. We have also introduced a new style called Cute CGI if you are going for a more cartoon inspired 3D style.

Feb 23, 2024
New Style: Cute CGI

Create adorable characters and environments with a cute 3D look!

Feb 15, 2024
New Style: Motion Blur

Capture exciting movement and artistic visuals with this style inspired by Intentional Camera Movement.

Feb 9, 2024
A more powerful Make Variations tool

You can now change the prompt, style, and color palette of your image when you Make Variations.

Feb 9, 2024
Helpful tips to learn how features work

Anywhere you see a ? icon, you can now hover over to get a helpful description of a feature or tool.

Feb 5, 2024
Introducing the Visual Electric Community

We just launched the Visual Electric Community, a place where users can chat, ask questions, give feedback, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how we are building this product. Come say hello!

Feb 5, 2024
More control over upscaling

You can now guide the upscale generation process with a prompt for even greater control.

Feb 5, 2024
New Style: Manhwa

Manhwa is the Korean counterpart to Japanese manga.

Feb 1, 2024
Rotate

Hover over the corner of an image to rotate. Useful for collaging workflow.

Feb 1, 2024
New Style: Dreamy Pastel

Photographic style with soft, peaceful pastel colors.

Jan 28, 2024
Introducing Sketching

Turn loose sketches into high fidelity images.

Jan 22, 2024
Detailed Upscaler v2

Brand new version of our Detailed Upscale tool that uses a completely different technique, with much better results.

Jan 12, 2024
New Style: Modern Anime

Inspired by digital art that is inspired by newer anime, features cute styling but also semi-realistic shading and lighting.

Dec 13, 2023
New Style: Linocut

Linocut is a printmaking technique characterized by bold, graphic designs traditionally carved into linoleum and transferred to another medium.

Dec 12, 2023
Turn mood boards into custom styles

Add images to your canvas and turn them into a custom style

Dec 12, 2023
Introducing Collaging

Combine images into a simple collage and merge them together with AI.

Dec 12, 2023
Updated Style: Japanese Comic

Illustrative style inspired by older TV anime, but with comic-esque features like a thicker outline.

Dec 11, 2023
New Style: Bauhaus

Inspired by the Bauhaus art movement of the early 1900s, abstract with a heavy focus on geometric shapes.

Dec 7, 2023
New Style: Graphic Outline

Bold outlines with colors that won't stay in them, Graphic Outline is great for loose, colorful doodle-esque illustrations

Dec 5, 2023
Launch Day

Introducing Visual Electric — a breakthrough interface for generative AI. Learn more about why we created Visual Electric