This time, Lensy’s getting the Hot Mods treatment.
FROM REAL PHOTOS TO COLLABORATIVE AI ARTWORK: MY EXPERIMENT WITH AI ART
I used this shot of the Clackmannan Bridge as my baseline shot for my first re-imagining.
Lensball shot of Clackmannan Bridge
My idea for this shot was to have a dragon guarding the bridge.
Dragon guarding bridge
I wasn’t specific enough in the prompt about Lensy, so the AI removed him from the image; back to the prompt
Dragon in a lensball
My next shots are variations of modifications to Lensy sat on a mossy branch.
Lensball on a mossy branch
I was going for an enchanted forest setting with runic symbols/glyphs. I was happy withy the outcome for these.
Next up, Alloa Tower House gets the Hot Mod treatment.
Lensball shot of Alloa Tower House.
Again, staying with the mystical/enchanted theme.
Clackmannan Tower gets a similar treatment.
Lensball shot of Clackmannan Tower
For these, I was trying for a fusion of old & futuristic. I designed the prompt so that the image inside Lensy was an old-style, mystical tower, whilst outside was a futuristic world.
The first re-imagining combined old/futuristic within the lensball, so back to the prompt. The others came out pretty well.
THE EVOLVING ART OF PROMPT ENGINEERING IN AI-GENERATED ARTWORK
Prompt engineering is an evolving function; for the same prompt, you will get different outputs from different photos. The prompt needs to be tweaked constantly to fit the original photo & the desired outcome. So, join me over the next few weeks as I delve further into the world of prompt engineering & artwork manipulation.
Come back next week to see how a simple shot of some snowdrops…
Snowdrops
…led to a tottie wee bit of an obsession & the following end result.
Snowdrop sculpture
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This time, Lensy’s getting the Hot Mods treatment.
Enchanted Lensball
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Probably, most of you are wondering why AI; it all comes down to the time of year. Here in Scotland, daylight hours in winter are pretty much between 0900 & 1500 & unless you get one of those bright, clear days. The weather can best be described as dreich (those grey, miserable, wet days) where the light is not so great. Don’t get me wrong, If there’s something worth photographing, I’ll happily be out in the worst of weather?
I also work in retail; this sees an increase in work hours & very little chance to get out with Snappy. The end result is that I can feel my creativity start to wane; not being able to get out with my camera certainly puts a dampener on the creative spirit — & so over to AI & Hot Mods.
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This form of AI artwork allows me to use my own photography as a basis for AI prompt engineering. In all my Fan Of… posts about AI creativity, I’ll show the original image & then the various outputs from Hot Mods as I work with the AI to create new artwork.
As you’ll see from these posts, the expected output is not always what I wanted (I’ll share these as well), so I’m back to rewriting the prompt.
This is the original image I shot & used as the basis of my prompt engineering.
From Real Photos to COllaborative AI Artwork: My Experiment with AI Art
The first re-imagining is Lensy in an enchanted forest with a dragon that can only be seen through him.
