Had to pick between DALL-E and Midjourney for product mockups

I spent a week testing both on hardware store shelf displays. Midjourney won because it actually drew a hammer that looks like a hammer, not a melted spatula. Has anyone else found one tool just gets the basics right while the other goes wild?

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baker.phoenix2d ago

Three days into testing Midjourney I noticed it kept making the shelf brackets look like they were cast from translucent plastic instead of metal. Did DALL-E give you solid reflections on the real shiny surfaces, or did it turn your products into weird translucent blobs too? Be curious if the material rendering gap between them is a dealbreaker for your mockups.

wyattbennett2d ago

DALL-E actually handled my stainless steel refrigerator handles perfectly on the first try, with sharp reflections and none of that melted plastic look. Midjourney kept giving me chrome finishes that looked like brushed nickel from a bad 90s catalog. For hardware store stuff where customers need to see the actual material feel, DALL-E's photorealism wins every time for me.