Unlock Limitless Creativity with DALL·E 2: Elevate Your PowerApps with Imaginative Images

This article helps how to use Dall-e 2 API to create images from textual description.

Start with Dall-e 2 account

DALL·E 2

Jumpstart Your Creativity with Dall-E 2: Get 50 Free Credits to Create, Tweak, and Generate Image Variants!

1. 
   Create a free account: Sign up for an account on the OpenAI website to access DALL-E 2. Upon signing up, you will receive 50 credits initially, with an additional set of 15 credits added every month. Note that free credits cannot be carried forward.
    
    
   
2. 
   Explore the web application: DALL-E 2 is available as a web application, which you can directly access from your internet browser. Once logged in, you can start using the AI image generation function through the web application's interface.
    
   

Create a PowerApp

• TextInput to type the prompt
  
• Button to trigger the Power automate
  Set OnSelect property:
  Set(imageurl, OpenAIDalle.Run(imagePromptTextInput.Text))
  where OpenAIDalle is the name of the PowerAutomate workflow
  
• Media Type Image to display the image returned from Dall-e Power automate
  

Create a PowerAutomate

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  Here are the steps to create a Power Flow:
   
  
  1. Go to flow.microsoft.com and click on "Flows".
     
  2. Visit Microsoft Power Automate
     
  3. Click "New Flow" and name it "OpenAIDalle".
     
  4. Start with PowerApps trigger to get the prompt.
     
     
      
      
     
  5. HTTP-Dall-e (as shown below)
     
      
     Get OpenAI api-key from OpenAI API
      
     replace openai_Api_key with above key
     Authorization: Bearer openai_Api_key
     
  6. parse the response json for generated image URL from a prompt
     
  7. Send the image URL back to powerappPowerApps
     Set the media image URL in PowerApps as returned response from PowerApps
      
     
     Output in PowerApps
     
      
      
      
      
     References:
      
     OpenAI API
     How to use AI image prompts to generate art using DALL‑E | Learn at Microsoft Create
      
     More advance capabilities of DALL-e 2 and PowerApps are coming soon!!
     

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