SUPERMACHINE Reviews

First or all I want to mention that I greatly appreciate the oppurtunity to get offered a lifetime deal. That was a big plus for me, since I hate subscriptions with ongoing costs.

There's a huge number of different models to choose from and all of them are "theoretically" capable of creating awesome images.

In comparison to other image creation softwares (like Midjourney), the prompts are a bit harder to create. The output of my like ~ 30 first images I created was pretty bad. I then went ahead and took a look into the example pictures each category offers and was actually able to 1:1 recreate the shown images by exactly copying all the filters. Little sidenote - I LOVE the logging of the pictures created, it gives me the option to later go back to previously created images and change them. Honest heads up for that!

So having a bit more input now, I was also able to create better images which are about equalish to those that I know from Midjourney. But all in all I think that a lot negative reviews just come from the lack of knowledge on how to create better images. This would also be my main concern of critique.

I obviously do not know "how", but there should be some way of helping beginners to create better images. Yes I do know that there are some samples, but all in all, it's still complicated and probably overwhelming for newbies, which gives them negative first experiences and therefore not try further.

Probably (just a thought) create another category for "beginner friendly" models, that are not so harsh on the input / filters used. Bcs I realized some deliver consistent awesome images while others delivered horrible images before I was using very certain inputs, which I wouldn't have known about if I didn't check the samples.

Considering all of that, I wasn't sure if I wanted to go for 4 or 5 taccos, but I'll round up here. Just wanted to mention my honest concerns in a fair way.

After all, thanks for this awesome Software.

UPDATE: Stuart, the creator, did respond again to me this morning, which I appreciate. I'm now trying his suggestion of "less is more" in the prompt and then working from there. I am simply trying to get one handsome-looking 30-something billionaire romance model. First try generated an older gentleman with one eye and horned hands. I'm not kidding. Second try generated a bearded "Michael" from The Office. Third try (after starting to put more suggestions back into the prompt) yielded the first sleeveless billionaire perhaps, also turned too "artsy-cartoony." Fourth try generated the closest to a romance novel hero, but despite using "Flux Reality," he looks like a painting, and not like a photo. I'm upping to three stars because I know others are doing better than I am. Whatever settings I need to use are not apparent.

I wanted to love this. After all, there are no refunds. The tutorial video looked amazing. But I cannot get a realistic looking male model for a book cover. I can type a prompt into Le Chat Mistral AI or Grok or ChatGPT and get it instantly. Same prompt gives me unusable crap with Supermachine. I figure it's user error, but the knowledge base just has little summaries of what the Supermachine can do without any step-by-step instructions. I had 1000 credits for the month and used over 2/3rds in a week trying to get one decent-looking romance her. And no offense, but it's like there's an effeminate filter on because the majority of the images I'm getting are not masculine. Then it starts generating unusable overly muscular dudes. I can't get a regular man. I have been in contact with the creator, Stuart. His email response was short and not too helpful. And now he's not responding, but it's the weekend, so maybe he will tomorrow on Monday. I asked if he could tell me some precise settings to use to generate x,y, & z or direct me to a part of a video tutorial that shows me the steps. Him sending me images of what he can do doesn't help me at all, nor the email that says use Flux or Stable. Tried those, but it's all the rest of the dashboard that must be messing up my images. It shouldn't be this hard. LeonardoAI is not this hard. Everyone is going with Midjourney, but I wanted to own the software, not pay every month, so I went with Supermachine. Yet still, I had to restart my LeonardoAI monthly subscription to get this book cover made. Giving it two tacos because it does generate images, but that's all I can say so far.

My Journey with Supermachine has been a bumpy one.
However I must say that
1. the support they are willing to provide is legendary.
2. It was fast like minutes to reply an email. I guess he is also human and needs to rest

Shoutout to Stuart Lansdale who worked tirelessly with me to ensure that
1. i got to finally login
2. kept at it so it finally generates images!

Even when asked for realistic output, the output is worse than children can produce. Tested Supermachine with more than a hundred prompts and images produced. We won't be using it anymore, despite the fact we bought a LTD. Very bad buy.
It's a pity. AppSumo has some good products, but this is not one of them.

I really appreciate the wide variety of models and the many tools and features available for generating images. The platform has a learning curve, but the support staff is responsive and provides great YouTube tutorials for help. Although some models have been slower recently, I'm confident that upgrades and improvements are on the way. Overall, I'm quite satisfied with the experience.