I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve been experimenting with different settings for the sunflower, & decided this time to go with enchanted elements. For this prompt, I imagined a scene of a sunflower on a hillside surrounded by spring flowers & fairies. It overlooks a valley with a distant hilltop city next to a river. Dragons soar across the skies against a mountainous backdrop & large moon.
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve been experimenting with different settings for the sunflower, & decided this time to go with a fusion of enchanted elements & futuristic cityscape. My main points were to have a sunflower growing out of an old helmet in the foreground, alongside a mystical tower on a hillside overlooking a valley in which sits a futuristic city alongside a river. The image was also to feature fairies & dragons. This was the first image generated.
I love the effect of the plume on the helmet being made of sunflower petals & grass, but I wanted the tower to be more of a feature & so I re-engineered the prompt.
Sunflower & futuristic cityscape
This time the AI made the old helmet the remnants of a futuristic statue; a good look but still not what I intended, so back to the prompt.
Again, the AI melded the tower & helmet prompt, so I needed to separate them.Sunflower & futuristic cityscape
I finally got the tower & helmet separated, but now they have also been separated spatially, whereas I had envisioned them on the same hillside. Back to the prompt!!!
Sunflower & futuristic cityscape
Okay, I’ve got to admit, I like this image; it’s not what I intended, but all the aspects are there. I like the half sunflower, half helmet effect & that on one side is a pristine natural landscape, & on the other, a futuristic world, echo’d by the sunflower/helmet. This is an image that requires more work & will feature again in a future post.
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve been experimenting with different settings for the sunflower, & decided this time to go with a moonscape. For once, my prompt engineering gave the result I was aiming for first timeEnjoy
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve a trio of re-imagined shots today. I decided to have the sunflower in a post-apocalyptic setting for today. The first image has the sunflower lit by a sunbeam, growing out of a crack in a highway running through a post-apocalyptic cityscape. I added in cars littering the highway as if a mass-exodus had taken place.
Sunflower in post-apocalyptic cityscape
I wanted the cityscape to be more futuristic, & the sunflower more of a feature in the picture. When I re-engineered the prompt, I told it to make the sunflower larger; this was the result: Mutant Sunflower
Mutant Sunflower
Although not what I intended, I do like the idea of a giant mutant sunflower; who knows what calamity befell the city & led to this giant flower. I also like the futuristic cityscape in this one.
To get the desired effect, I re-engineered the prompt again to make the sunflower more of a feature (not larger — it’s all about learning the AI’s language), and this was the result. I’m happy with how it came out; the sunflower stands tall & proud & the skies are clearing & becoming more blue again, perhaps a symbol of hope & recovery
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve a couple of re-imagined shots today. The first was a very basic prompt using the sunflower picture; the sunflower is growing out of a camel skull in a barren desert with sand dunes & distant mountains.
Sunflower in a barren desert
For the second image, I’ve added a mystical ruin by an oasis, & a couple of scorpions for interest.
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve re-imagined the original shot to put the sunflower in a wintry wooded glade tended by fairies. I like the contrast between the warmth of the sunflower & the cold of snow covered trees.
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above; below are two different outcomes.
The first is a very basic enhancement by the AI with minimal input from me.
Hot Mod enhancement of my sunflower picture
For the next, I manipulated the AI to draw up a background scene of grassland with distant mountains, put the sunflower over to one side, & the addition of magical fairies.
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My wife, Susan, recently used a function within the paid version of ChatGPT called Hot Mods (to help mock up cover designs for the book she’s currently working on) to enhance one of her pictures of the Kelpies.
To learn more about ChatGPT & the use of AI as a writing assistant, have a read of this awesome post by Susan: Revolutionising Writing with AI: My Journey Begins. In her post she describes how AI has allowed her to work whilst suffering from CRPS, & how she has engineered ChatGPT to work as her assistant.
Below is her original shot & the subsequent re-imagining based on her prompts.
