No relations to Gumby here.
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Iāve had to specify race/ethnicity a few times.
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Iām sorry but your female character always kind of looks like Ariana Grande in the ai generator
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If she was Grande, she wouldnāt be a medium.
Iāll walk myself out.
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I attempted to create images with two different characters (Freyja and Krista) in MidJourney. About 95% of the experiments failed. But other users in MJās Discord feeds have been more successful with two+ character images. Maybe my character prompts should have greater differences. Iāve also noticed my successful two character creations lack the accuracy and detail of single character experiments.
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Starschmucks believes otherwiseā¦
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I still have nightmares of the time I asked for āmedium regularā because I was used to ordering it like that at DD and that 
doesnāt fly in starshmucks. Got the barista death stare in exchange.
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Alright. I didnāt count how many hours it took me to create the image for this cover.
The steps to finally get there were:
- Generate realistic images of the two characters (separately).
- Put them together in a sort of a crude collage.
- Generate a series of images out of that.
- Switch over to Krita. Using two of my favorite images, blend them together, picking the elements I liked from each.
- Edits. Lots of edits. One of the super detailed things I did was to increase the resolution by smoothing out the pixels. I kid you not. I think I touched every single pixel on this image at least three times each (in some areas, hundreds of times each - being a perfectionist isnāt a good thing with art).
Was the result worth it? Yes. Many times yes. I love it.
I still see a few imperfections but I need to let them go. This took forever!!!
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Found this YouTube channel for AI art generation. Might be of use here.
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I meant to post it here. Oops.
Sam's transformation
Today, I sat down to create a realistic image of Sam. I used one of the old generations as my start image. I had a couple more āofficialā Sam images and I tried using each today, but this one produced the best results so letās stick to this one.
This is an old NightCafe image of Sam which I heavily edited way back.
Iāve always liked it and it works great as a sort of combination of realistic and oil painting, but since Iāve created the other characters in a realistic style, I hoped I could do the same with Sam.
Using Dream, I evolved the image over and over, saved results and then would evolve those results. Lots of tries but finally I landed on these two.
This one is my fave because I like her face. Itās a shame that hair looks so fake.
This one is too doll-like for the realistic style I wanted, but the hair looks better.
So I thought, can I use the face of one and the hair of the other? The answer is Yes!
Using Krita, I blended the two images together, gave her realistic eyes and fixed things up with lots of edits and voila, hereās the new and improved Sam.
Her shirt is kind of weird but letās not dwell on the shirt.
I like it. It feels like Sam. She looks real. This is now the official Sam.
Hmmmm. Now Iām looking at it and the eye bag under her left eye stands out to me. Should I fix it. Should I drop it. Fix it or drop it? It looks like sheās got a healing black eye. Ugh. Fine. Iāll fix it.
Iāve decided to start using the title AI image editor to describe what I do. Lots of people get very touchy if you put āAIā and āartā in the same sentence. Iām not going to lie when asked how I create my artwork so Iād rather have an accurate term to describe it. Because my images didnāt just come out of the AI. Lots of work went into them.
I agree that the models were trained unethically, and I donāt like it that corporations are now making big money off of this without making an effort to pay back to the artists whose work went into training the models.
But I donāt think that boycotting AI is the answer. Ethically sourced models are the answer. You canāt stop this technology. It will only get better as time goes by. We should be fighting to regulate this new industry, thatās where our efforts should be.
Iāve been working on my website and in the process, I wanted to do something about my profile pic. The problem is, I donāt like any of the recent photos of myself. No one takes my photos and when they do, I look awful. I donāt know, maybe I have serious image issues but essentially what I think I look like and what I actually look like in photos doesnāt match up so when I see them, I feel like thatās not me. I canāt even look at them.
That put me on a mission to have an AI generated image that looks like me. I used a few of my photos to experiment with, plopped them in and added a prompt. It wasnāt an easy task. I must say, details really matter. Just a little difference in the face and itās a completely different person. Even if AI generated, I wanted it to look at least close to me.
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Example, this woman has all of my features, she has my exact face structure and yet she looks nothing like me.
This picture is nearly identical to the one I fed to AI and yet this is not me!
I tried to do a realistic style but the eyes are never right so I gave up on that. Glasses definitely make it harder. This is the closest I got in the realistic style. It wouldnāt pass, looks too AI-like. But itās closer to looking like me at least. (or maybe what Iād look like if I lost 50lbs. The photo I fed it was a bit old so thatās fair)
This one is my favorite in terms of quality but it looks way too young.
Finally, I settled on an unrealistic style. I put it together in Canva because apparently I was in the mood to waste a few hours doing that. (what is wrong with me?)
So the end result is:
Yay, I have a face now.
To answer the question, why canāt I just use the photo I fed AI? Iāve considered it, itās not a bad one (though itās a bit old), but itās grainy and the face I make in it makes me look super depressed though itās my neutral expression.
Eventually, Iām going to have to get a glam shot or something to have a professional photo. This will do for now.
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yeah, I'm not going to go with AI Me off a bad pic
For reference, I just woke up, my eyes are swollen, I noticed my hair is standing up because my son touched my hair with something sticky last night (and didnāt notice it then), Iāve yet to shave this PCOS crap off my face, just all around a mess.
But what I have is the face of an overweight middle-aged woman who has a sharp jawline and no major wrinkles in spite of looking well hammered. AI doesnāt seem to handle that very well.
Some dumb anime things:
Ugh, I look like Elvis Presley.
Dream:
No.
No.
It doesnāt sort-of look like me. The only thing that matches is the eyebrows. I mean, I donāt look like a man, but s lot of the features they put in are for women with far less testosterone in their life. Just not strong enough features.
So Anime male.
Oh, hell no. Too big a forehead, but the widows peak is accurate. No dimple, but the general strong chin with separately curved jawline is there.
Tf with this?
Iāll stick with taking better pics and retouching them myself. This is disturbing. Lmao
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You know whatās really disturbing? That the grumpy woman pic doesnāt look far from those bad real photos of me (though I hope I donāt look that grumpy or tired). I feel called out.
What prompt do you run with it? It can make a huge difference.
For example, when I didnāt add brunette to my prompt, the AI kept giving me darker complexion and ethnicity that clearly didnāt fit (like the first one I posted).
I found the process interesting. It also showed me what Iād look like with nice makeup. Not that I wear it often, mostly I go without.
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I put grumpy lady for older women and grumpy woman for the younger one. Honestly, I was hoping for rediculous. I didnāt use any prompts for the anime one because that was a test run for the engine, and I didnāt like it enough to keep?
Sometimes I believe in the āUniversal Granny Faceā , the older I get.
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I hope you donāt mind that I gave your photo a try. It actually came out better than my attempts yesterday.
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Prompt. Using Dream.
Photograph of a woman, brown eyes, serious expression, short gray-brown hair, fine-art photography By Brian Ingram, striking features, masterpiece
Now Iām inspired to try myself once again with a fresh selfie.
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She could pass for a cousin of mineā¦ Which means that though I donāt see me in it, thatās the right ballpark. Lol
Technically my hair is back and white. It just bleaches in the sun.
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Ok. Iām really glad that I tried again with a fresh selfie because Iāve got a new favorite. Itās not 100% me, quite prettier and friendlier looking if anything, but itās close enough to not feel like a bait and switch.
Fun fact that felt like a compliment. When I put āforty year oldā in the prompt, it kept making me look a lot older. Only when I put in āthirty-five year old,ā did it start looking like my age at last. hehe. Thanks for that, AI bias. 
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Starting pic (office selfie).
Without specifying age, it instantly makes me 20.
Forty is the new fifty?
This one made me laugh out loud.
The new favorite (using 35 year old in the prompt)
Actually, the more I look at this, the more she looks like my mom. Just take glasses away (and 20-30 years). Holy shit. That is disturbing but also cool.
Hmm. Now I want to create one of my mom. Wouldnāt it be funny if her photo produced one that looks like me?
Update. Omg. I created my mom so easily. This is crazy.
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Then you look a lot like your mom.