Your First AI Image in 60 Seconds: A Guide

You don't need to know anything about AI to make a good image with one. You need a free account, one sentence describing what you want, and about a minute of patience. That's genuinely the whole learning curve for your first generation on AIGE. No settings to study first, no tutorial to finish before the tool unlocks.

Here's the fastest honest path from landing on aige.ws to holding a finished image: sign up, describe something (or upload a photo), leave the model on whatever AIGE already picked for you, and hit Generate. Here's what that actually looks like, step by step.

Step 1: Sign up free — no card, one checkbox

Every generation on AIGE costs credits behind the scenes, so an account is where those credits live. There's no way around that, and honestly no reason to look for one. The upside: signing up is one click with Google, or an email and password if you'd rather skip that. New accounts start with 25 free credits, enough for several generations before you'd ever need to think about buying more.

The only other thing on that screen is an 18+ confirmation checkbox. Leave it unchecked and the signup buttons simply won't activate. That's the entire form. No card field anywhere on it.

Step 2: Say what you want — type it, or upload a photo instead

Once you're signed in, you land in the Studio on the prompt bar, the text box everything starts from. Type a plain-language description of the image you want: "a woman in a red coat standing in falling snow, cinematic lighting" is a completely normal, working prompt. You don't need camera jargon, model names, or a magic phrase. Just describe the picture the way you'd describe it out loud to a friend.

Don't want to start from a blank prompt? The + button next to the text box uploads a reference photo, of yourself, a product, anything, and AIGE generates from that instead of (or alongside) your written description. Uploading isn't required for image one. It's just there for whenever a description alone won't get you close enough.

Step 3: Leave the model on default (or don't — your call)

Next to the prompt box sits a model picker. AIGE ships with Nano Banana Lite as the default image model. It's fast, inexpensive (about 4 credits a generation), and tuned well enough that most people never touch this dropdown on their first try. Other models are one click away if you want to compare later, but for image #1, the default really is the right call.

Above the prompt box there's also an aspect ratio picker: square, portrait, landscape. If you already know where the image is headed (a square post, a 9:16 story), pick it now. If you don't, square is a perfectly fine place to leave it, and you can change it later.

Step 4: Hit Generate and watch it land

Everything's set now: a prompt (or an uploaded photo), a model, an aspect ratio. Press the Generate button at the end of the prompt bar and the request goes out. There's no separate preview step, no hidden confirmation screen in between. That button is the whole action.

Your result lands in the grid the moment it's done, and it stays there. Every image you generate gets saved to your history, so nothing you make vanishes the second you close the tab.

Honest note: generation is gated behind that free account on purpose. It's what keeps the credit system meaningful and keeps the tool from being wide open to abuse. You can look around the Studio signed out, but the Generate button won't actually produce anything until you've logged in.

Now that you have one image — what's next

One good generation proves the tool works. Making that repeatable is where AIGE gets genuinely useful: building a character from a few reference photos keeps the same face showing up in every future generation, so you're not re-describing someone from scratch each time. If a still image isn't enough, turning a portrait into a short cinematic video takes the same idea one step further: same starting point, just moving instead of still.

Wondering exactly where your 25 credits go, or what happens when you run low? The credits guide breaks the whole system down in plain language.

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Open the AIGE Studio and create your free account. You'll have your first image before your coffee's done. Once you like what comes out, that's the moment to build a character so the same face keeps showing up in every generation after this one.