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Draw Things is a free app on the Mac App Store. It turns your own selfie into a studio-style headshot, puts you in a new place, or turns a product snapshot into an ad photo. It runs on your Mac, with no monthly plan.

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Draw Things

Draw Things is a free AI image app for Mac, iPhone and iPad, made by Draw Things Inc. Give it your own selfie and a prompt, and it makes a studio-style headshot that keeps your face. It can also put you in a new place, or turn a plain product photo into an ad-style shot. On our fast Mac Studio each picture took about 20 seconds. A normal laptop is slower. It runs on your Mac, so your photos stay with you, and there is no monthly plan like Midjourney.

What you need. A Mac with an Apple chip (16 GB of memory recommended) and about 15 GB of free space for models. Also on iPhone and iPad. Not on Windows.

Get Draw Things (Mac App Store)official link See it on GitHub

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Help me get Draw Things, the free AI image app, ready on this Mac.

1. Check this Mac: it needs an Apple chip. Tell me how much memory it has (16 GB or more is recommended) and how much free disk space (the models need about 15 GB).
2. Open the official Mac App Store page for me: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/draw-things-offline-ai-art/id6444050820 . Do not download Draw Things from any other site.
3. Tell me to click Get, then open the app.
4. Tell me to download the FLUX.2 [klein] 4B model from the model list first.
5. Give me a starter prompt to turn my own selfie into a studio headshot that keeps my face exactly the same.

Do not sign me up for anything and do not buy anything.

What Draw Things does, and what it does not

It does not

Run on Windows or Android
Put words or logos in pictures reliably. Text comes out misspelled
Make videos. I am not promising that
Run well on Macs with 8 GB of memory
Keep every detail of a product exactly the same. Check shapes and labels

It does

Turn your selfie into a studio-style headshot that keeps your face
Put you in a new place, in new clothes
Turn a plain product snapshot into an ad-style photo
Make pictures on your Mac once the model has downloaded
Work with no monthly plan

✦ Set it up

Set it up in 5 steps

Studio-style photos of you, made on your own Mac.

Who it's for

Anyone with a newer Mac who needs better photos of themselves or their products for posts, ads and their website.

What you need

A Mac with an Apple chip (M1 or newer). It also runs on iPhone and iPad.
16 GB of memory recommended. Macs with 8 GB will be slow or may not work.
About 15 GB of free disk space for the models.
A free Apple ID for the App Store.
A clear selfie or product photo of your own.

The steps by hand

Check your Mac. You need an Apple chip (M1 or newer). 16 GB of memory is recommended, plus about 15 GB of free space for the models.
Get Draw Things free from the Mac App Store (the button above) and open it.
Download one model first: FLUX.2 [klein] 4B, the one I tested. Find it in the model list and download it. It is several GB, so give it time.
Add your own selfie as the starting image, paste the headshot prompt below, and generate.
Not quite right? Change one thing in the prompt and generate again. Save the one you like.

A starter prompt for your headshot

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Keep my face exactly the same. Professional studio headshot of this person, soft studio lighting, plain light grey background, simple dark blazer, friendly natural smile, sharp focus, photo realistic.

How I'd use it

Start with a clear, well-lit selfie looking at the camera. A better starting photo gives a better headshot.
Change one thing at a time in the prompt: the background, the clothes or the light.
Use only your own face and your own products. Not celebrities, and not other people without their OK.

Honest limits, costs and licence

The settings screen is busy. Stick to my steps: one model, your photo, one prompt.
The first model download is several GB and takes time. After that, pictures are made on your Mac.
Speed depends on your Mac. On our fast Mac Studio each picture took about 20 seconds. A normal laptop is slower.
Words and logos come out wrong, so add those yourself in another app.
Use only your own face, your own products, or people who said yes.
The app is free but not open source. Its engine is open source on GitHub under GPL-3.0. The FLUX.2 [klein] 4B model is Apache-2.0, which allows business use.
Midjourney for comparison: it charges a monthly plan. Draw Things has no monthly plan.

Why I share it

I don't make Draw Things and nobody pays me to share it. It's a free tool I think is worth ten minutes of your time. Try it this week and tell me what you used it for first.

✦ Get unstuck

Stuck? Find your line.

I cannot find the model

Open the model list in Draw Things and search for FLUX.2, then pick FLUX.2 [klein] 4B. Apps change their lists, so if it is not there, pick another FLUX.2 model.

The model download is very slow or stops

Models are several GB. Use good wifi, keep your Mac awake, and check you have about 15 GB of free space.

It does not look like me

Start with a clearer, well-lit selfie looking straight at the camera, and keep "Keep my face exactly the same" at the start of the prompt. Then generate again.

It is very slow or stops working

That usually means not enough memory. 16 GB is recommended. Close other apps and try again.

The words in my picture are wrong

It does not spell well. Make the picture without words, then add your text in another app.

Is there a catch?

The app is free on the Mac App Store, made by Draw Things Inc. The app itself is not open source, but its engine is (draw-things-community on GitHub, GPL-3.0). Models download from the internet once, then pictures are made on your Mac. The FLUX.2 [klein] 4B model I used has an Apache-2.0 licence, which allows business use. It does not do text or logos well, and I am not promising video.

My screen looks different from the steps

Apps change their screens. Use the official links above, which the people who make Draw Things keep up to date.

None of these fixed it

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