Design has always been a blend of creativity and technical skill, but artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how designers approach their work. Traditional methods still hold sway in design processes, but professional designers are integrating AI more and more to enhance creativity, elevate professionalism, and get a lot more done in less time.

AI tools automate repetitive tasks, streamline processes, and offer personalized design recommendations, ultimately transforming the creative landscape. Here’s a rundown of 6 AI design workflows. We’ll have a look at how things used to be done (pre-AI) and how Recraft AI helps you design in a new way.

1. Boost brainstorming and ideation with AI

Design brainstorming used to involve hours of research, collecting references and sketching out ideas. Sifting through endless sources to find ideas and inspiration and conceptualizing initial designs is very time-consuming.

Recraft AI streamlines brainstorming and ideation. It’s built on a 20-billion parameter AI model with a lot of creative horsepower. The Recraft AI image generator lets you generate up to 4 AI generated images in one go. You can select from tons of style presets or create your own style and generate images in that style. Recraft’s easy ideation process saves time and introduces fresh concepts never seen by the human eye.

2. Edit images with precision and ease

Image editing has always been meticulous. Tedious manual adjustments for everything from color correction to background removal make the traditional image editing process clunky and slow. Automating repetitive tasks in the graphic design workflow can streamline these processes.

Recraft has a loaded AI design toolbox that eliminates a lot of repetitive manual tasks and speeds the AI image editing process:

• Creative upscale. Enhance image resolution and detail in one click, with no loss of quality. Perfect for repurposing low-res assets.
• Color palette tool. You can select a palette from presets, create one from hex colors or pull a palette from an image. 
• Background remover. Recraft understands context, so clean background removal is not only fast and easy, it’s also very precise. 
• Erase or modify area: Remove unwanted elements or adjust details without affecting the overall composition.
• Style selector: Recraft’s loaded style panel lets you choose a style for your image before generating it – from classic to plastic to psychedelic.
• Aspect ratio resizer: Modify your images to fit any format or platform, with no loss of quality or composition. 
• Vectorizer: Convert raster images to vector (SVG) format. Vectors are clean, scalable and ideal for print and digital projects.

Recraft’s AI features improve your design workflows and make image editing much faster, more precise and creative.

3. Create multiple designs in a cohesive brand style

Maintaining brand consistency across a set of images typically involves painstakingly matching colors, fonts, and layouts. It’s a manual process that is error-prone and tends to take hours.

The Recraft AI design workflow integrates advanced AI design tools so you can create whole sets of images that seamlessly adhere to a specific brand style. Brand an entire website or generate a cohesive set of images for a blog post.

4. Generate branded images for social media

The traditional way of creating branded images for social media involves producing multiple versions of the same image. Each one needs to be adapted to meet size requirements and aesthetic nuances. It can be repetitive, boring and minimally creative.

Recraft AI lets you quickly and easily perform tasks to produce high-quality branded visuals for social media. You can create a brand style as a preset and generate as many images as you want in that style. It’s a big speed boost for all kinds of design workflows.

5. Automate repetitive tasks and make mockups faster‍

Traditional mockup creation often requires using separate software to design and visualize products like t-shirts, hoodies, album covers and other merchandise. It can be a disjointed process of different steps spanning multiple platforms or apps. Recraft AI integrates mockup creation directly into the AI design workflow. Use the mockup generator to create any kind of mockup base (with any kind of model or background you want to generate). Import an image or use the Recraft AI image generator to create one. Recraft automatically stretches your designs to fit the mockup base for perfectly professional mockups.

6. Easily design sets of icons for apps or websites‍

The traditional way of designing icons usually involves creating each icon individually and then carefully ensuring all icons are consistent in style and size. There’s a lot of time and attention to detail involved. 

Recraft AI produces full icon sets in a specific look and feel in a fraction of the time. You can create a set of 6 icons in one click. Style, line weight, color and size are consistent across the whole set. You can regenerate a single icon or the whole set until it’s perfect.

Over to you to power up your design workflows with AI

AI creates designs in styles and compositions the world has never seen. Recraft helps you do it in a fast, effortless and enjoyable way.

If you are a designer or marketer who wants to push your creative boundaries while working with speed and ease, adding AI to your design workflows is essential. Check out all of Recraft’s design use cases.

Get started with Recraft for AI design workflows that make professional designers more productive, more creative and more innovative than ever before.