Have you ever had one ...
Have you ever had one of those moments – you have a very specific picture in your mind that you're desperate to bring to life, but the moment you open your editing software, layers, masks, parameters – a whole mess of things hit you at once, you don't even know where to start, and in the end, you quietly close the window?
I have. And so often that I once suspected I was born to be enemies with the phrase "visual creation."
Last month, my best friend's favourite boy band was celebrating their anniversary. She wanted to make a set of fan support merchandise – photocards, clear cards, badges, and a banner poster. She looked at me expectantly and said, "You work in new media, right? Help me design something." I panicked immediately.
I do have Photoshop installed, but every time I open it, it feels like facing a dense textbook. I forced myself to work on it all night, but what I came up with was so awful I couldn't even bear to look at it – the layout was crooked, the colours looked tacky, and the text was all blurred together. I sent it to my best friend, and she replied with an ellipsis. At that moment, I genuinely wanted to uninstall every design software and say goodbye to the word "creation" forever.
Later, while scrolling...
Later, while scrolling through Xiaohongshu, I saw someone recommending an app called WHEE, an AI visual creation tool from Meitu. I thought to myself: Meitu? The company that makes beauty camera apps? Can their AI painting actually be any good? With a "let me see what you've got" attitude, I downloaded it.
And then, I was proven wrong. Completely and unexpectedly.
My best friend wanted a banner featuring a chibi‑style version of a boy band member. I tried typing a description into WHEE – "cute chibi boy, stage lighting, fan light sticks, colourful gradient background." A few seconds later, an image appeared.
I stared at the screen for at least five seconds.
The cuteness of the ch...
The cuteness of the chibi character, the atmosphere of the stage lighting, even the faint glow on the light sticks – it was about 80–90% of what I had pictured in my mind. A person who can't even draw a straight stick figure, with just a few words and a few seconds, had produced an image that could be used on a banner. It felt like shouting casually into a valley and getting back a full song with harmonies.
Of course, failures happened too. Once I tried to generate a "Chinese‑style idol in ink‑wash style," and the AI gave me a colourful neon ancient‑costume figure – the vibe was like suddenly breaking into a dance party in a tea house. Later I figured out that WHEE has various built‑in style models – choosing the right style is far more important than blindly typing keywords. And recently, it even integrated with DeepSeek R1 – you type in simple words, and the AI automatically generates more precise prompts for you. It's like having a knowledgeable friend help you refine your requirements.
But what truly made me go "wow" was its "AI Chinese Poster" feature.
You know the biggest pain point when generating Chinese text with AI? Text distortion and garbled characters. Nine out of ten AI painting tools mess up Chinese fonts, turning the text on generated images into alien symbols. WHEE's feature is currently the only AI product on the market that supports customisable Chinese text on posters – you input your copy, and it accurately generates beautiful Chinese typography, with adjustable position, font, and size. From having an idea to exporting a usable commercial poster – done in under ten minutes. The banner poster I made took no more than fifteen minutes from opening the app to exporting the final product.
And that "Merch E...
And that "Merch Editor" – it's practically a godsend for fangirls. Photocards, clear cards, badges, banners – all kinds of fan support merchandise are generated with one click. When my best friend saw the final result, she literally screamed – I'm not exaggerating, she actually screamed.
The editing features are also worth mentioning. Upload an image, and you can edit whatever you want – remove passers‑by, replace backgrounds, restore old photos, or even turn static images into dynamic Live Photos. The way you do it is simply by "saying a sentence" – you say "change the background to a beach sunset," and it does it for you. It feels like hiring a designer who's on call 24/7, and you don't even have to pay them.
As for pricing – new users get free credits, and daily check‑ins also give you more. I'm a light user, and I haven't spent a single cent so far. If you use it heavily, you can subscribe to VIP, which works out to about the price of a cup or two of milk tea.
Finally, let me give you some honest advice, purely as a friend –
If you're like me &nda...
If you're like me – full of ideas in your head but lacking the skills to execute them – don't hesitate, just go download it. Don't automatically disqualify yourself because you "can't design." This tool is precisely made for people who can't design. Start with text‑to‑image to get a feel for it, then try out the merch editor – you'll find that what seems professional is often just about choosing the right tool.
The only thing I need to warn you about – don't open it late at night planning to "try a couple" and then look up to find it's already dawn. I did that last week, and the next day I went to work with dark circles under my eyes. When my colleague asked if I'd been up all night following a fan event, I was too embarrassed to admit I'd been up all night making fan merch for my idols.
Imagination shouldn't be imprisoned by skills – if you can't create, it's not your fault – it's only because you hadn't met this tool sooner.
Go download it and give it a try. And then you'll discover that the "miracle image maker" is now in everyone's hands.