A new Apple application called Image Playground was introduced in macOS Sequoia 15.2. According to its App Store description, “Image Playground, powered by Apple Intelligence, lets you turn descriptions, concepts or people from your photo library into original, fun images in unique styles.” It is one of many new features introduced to macOS that is powered by Apple Intelligence.
I’ve found 2 potential use cases for Image Playground. First, you can simply describe an image and have Image Playground draw that image for you. From my limited experience, DALL·E from OpenAI does a better job of adding the context from a written description into an image. DALL·E is built into ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, and I will probably continue to use those application to generate complex images. That being said, I will consider using Image Playground if I want to generate images that are simple or cartoonish.
The other use case for Image Playground is to generate caricatures of real people. Simply drag and drop a photo onto Image Playground and it will generate several cartoonish variations of your photo. Further customize the image by typing other descriptive text. For example, here is an original photo of me, along with Image Playground’s original interpretation of the photo, and a refined version of me playing ping pong.
What other use cases have you discovered for Image Playground, and how do you think it performs relative to other similar image-based generative artificial intelligence applications?
