Tip for DALL-E power users
Hopefully you've had a chance to try DALL-E or some of the other AI image generators. If not then get on that, they are pretty magical. In a lot of cases you can get stuff that's better than stock photos, and it's royalty free.
Anyway I found a pretty good strategy for figuring out what to ask the AI..
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Hop on over to one of the big stock photo sites like Shutterstock.com
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Do lots of searches and browsing. Find images that you want to replicate.
For example let's say you want your landing page to have these people. The same weirdly-shaped people that you see on pretty much every software landing page. I like to call them the SaaS People.
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Click on the image details and find the image description. This one is "Working at home, coworking space,...". Descriptions like these are the exact data that DALL-E was trained on in the first place, so this tells you what to query for.
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From looking at those descriptions we see that if we want the SaaS People, the key phrase to include is "Vector flat style illustration". Add that phrase when using DALL-E and you'll get some good results.
Got any other hot tips?
Nice tips - learning from others' creation keyphrases also is a good way to get the result you want and also referencing a picture as inspiration.
That's a nice tip. I tried to generate one recently for a group photo with headshots only and the AI result that I got was literally deformed faces!