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Funny eyes variations!

Yes the Eyes were fun to do for sure I learned a lot doing those.

Took me a long time to find my way to this but it was fun getting there. Stil a lot of AI mistakes. Just pretend the guy on the left got hit by a turkey while he was eating Jello

" I want to know whose bright idea it was to have Thanksgiving outside???"

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[Taron]

I wonder what they will be thanking for!?
Quite horrifying and hilarious. A total success!

Heh, It was too fun for me to ignore, mistakes and all Thx Taron.

I decided to revisit the Magical Beer Tap image, as I have written a vignette (finished but not yet done, almost a paradox, but it needs smoothing, and the impact is not there yet. So percolating) But there is definitely a story now tied to it. I wanted to see two things. How close could I come to the original image, maintaining it’s Magic and Spirit? and How the change of AI will affect things? The original which I posted earlier in this thread was done in Artbreeder Collage. The AI I am using here is Mage AI and you can do a lot with the free version. https://www.mage.space

Take any image, personal work after you have familiarized yourself with the controls. Click on the picture icon at the end of your description and import the image you want to adjust. Once its in the import box you have the option of adjusting how much the image x description ratio should be. I went with 50/50. Higher values for either / or could be 75% image and 25% description etc. Finish importing and look at your controls and start playing with them and rendering variations homing into what you want. Expect to make lots of adjustments as you try and adjust the description. Use remix as the images are done. It will maintain the same seed you are working with. Rerun works to provide different looks.

I tried a lot of Negative Prompts (down at bottom of the control field) such as Mangled fingers, Overlapped fingers, Fused fingers, Crooked Thumbs, and still couldn’t quite get what I wanted. In my favorite the fingers were still having probelms. But I managed to keep his spirit and general look. AI is definitely improving overall. By the way, the finger problem is easy to correct in Photoshop but I left as is to show AI progress.

I included a couple of variations along the way.

Next Post (next time I get bored lol) I will go into how you can create a Stable Diffusion model on your own computer and train it with your style by feeding it your images or at least I can point the way. By doing this you can maintain copyright as long as you use royalty free images and place emphasis on your personal style(s). Now to bring that Thanksgiving image into Mage for a challenge

First image the is the closest I could get to what I wanted but I liked the variations.

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[Taron]

SOmehow it looks to me like a magical espresso machine, especially the last one, which I wouldn't mind dreaming about, hehe. The first one, too, looks utterly magical and quite delicious! While I couldn't properly guess what drink comes out, I want to have it!
The concept of training your own diffusion model seems really fun, by the way. Probably also rather frustrating, considering the amount of training it probably needs in order to positively surprise you, hehehe, but then... I honestly wouldn't know?!

I'm glad you did get bored, though!

Cool results!
And cool to see someone using AI!