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Tag: Digital Art

  • Faking It — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Faking It — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Crafting a False Identity.

    I used the same baseline picture I’ve previously used for the cryptography prompt.

    The first image from my prompt looked a bit too old world.

    Hard at work
    Hard at work
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  • Lensball Shots Re-Imagined As AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series #3

    Lensball Shots Re-Imagined As AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series #3

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).

    ? Join the fun
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    This time, we’re back with Lensy getting the Hot Mods treatment.

    Again, I’ve been really busy with work & had minimal downtime, so I thought I’d have a quick play around with some new pre-set styles in DALL-E.

    Enjoy these re-imaginings; let me know your favourite in the comments

    FROM REAL PHOTOS TO COLLABORATIVE AI ARTWORK: MY EXPERIMENT WITH AI ART

    This is my baseline photo for the week; a shot of Fannyside Lochs as seen through Lensy.

    Fannyside Lochs Lensball landscape
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  • Disguised Rendezvous — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Disguised Rendezvous — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Disguised Rendezvous In A Foreign City.

    I don’t have many foreign city pictures, so I went with a shot of Santa Monica Pier as my baseline.

    Santa Monica Pier
    Santa Monica Pier

    I was running a wee bit short on time for this, so I went straight for uncomplicated fun (when Susan was working on this earlier, I thought she was about to throw her MacBook at something).

    Disguised rendezvous
    Disguised rendezvous

    There weren’t enough elements of the Santa Monica Pier in this, so I added some other pictures to the prompt & re-ran it.

    This is the re-run using a combination of 4 original pictures.

    Disguised rendezvous at the Pier
    Disguised rendezvous at the Pier

    I like the fun of this & this is my main picture for this week’s challenge, but I also decided to have it viewed by a real wizard using a crystal ball.

    That was not quite what I wanted, so I rewrote the prompt with the real wizard viewing the rendezvous using a giant crystal ball in a steampunk room.

  • Craziness At The Border — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Craziness At The Border — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge.

    There are two images that I’m going with for this week’s challenge. Both came from the same baseline picture.

    Snowy Field
    Snowy Field

    The first is an action-packed, chaotic scene at a snowy border crossing.

    Attack on the border
    Attack on the border

    For the second, I re-imagined the scene as a standoff between Roman Soldiers & Pictish Warriors at a Gate on Hadrian’s Wall. Which do you prefer?

    Attack on the gate
    Attack on the gate
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  • Hacks The Way To Do It– Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Hacks The Way To Do It– Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Hacking.

    I used a couple of baseline photos for this challenge.

    So over to Hot Mods & away we go. The very first prompt came out pretty well.

    Hacking the server
    Hacking the server

    I wanted the guy to be more sneaky-looking, so I told the AI to put his hood up to hide his face; this came out really well.

    Shadowy figure hacking the servers
    Shadowy figure hacking the servers

    So basically, job doneBut why stop there; let’s steampunk it!

    Steampunk hacker
    Steampunk hacker

    Now, that’s cool, but whilst we’re at it, let’s try cyber-punk.

    Cyber-punk hack
    Cyber-punk hack

    Again, love the outcome, particularly the control orb he’s using to do the hack. Now, let’s blend steampunk & cyber-punk.

    Steampunk/Cyber-Punk hack
    Steampunk/Cyber-Punk hack

    Awesome, but where nextI know, how about mythical, with a wizard doing the hack

    Wizard hacker
    Wizard hacker

    It’s a bit nicey-nicey, so let’s darken it a wee bit.

    Dark wizard hacker
    Dark wizard hacker

    This was the look I was going for.

  • Chaotic Escape — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Chaotic Escape — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Escape from a high-security facility.

    This is the picture I’m going with for the challenge, but there were a few others on the way to this one. To me, it perfectly encapsulates a daring escape from a high-security facility.

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  • Snowdrops -A Bit of an Obsession with AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series

    Snowdrops -A Bit of an Obsession with AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).

    This week, some snowdrops get the Hot Mods treatment.

    FROM REAL PHOTOS TO COLLABORATIVE AI ARTWORK: MY EXPERIMENT WITH AI ART

    I started off with a very basic picture of some snowdrops & let my inner chimp’s (Godfrey) imagination run crazy; this is the baseline picture.

    Snowdrops
    Snowdrops

    My first idea was to have the snowdrops in an ornate frame but seeming to grow out of it.

    Framed snowdrops
    Framed snowdrops
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  • Lensball Shots Re-Imagined As AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series #2

    Lensball Shots Re-Imagined As AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series #2

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).

    This is also my post for Terri’s Sunday Stills: Editing.

    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
    Lensball shot of Clackmannan Bridge

    My idea for this shot was to have a dragon guarding the bridge.

    Dragon guarding 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
    Dragon in a lensball

    My next shots are variations of modifications to Lensy sat on a mossy branch.

    Lensball 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.
    Lensball shot of Alloa Tower House.

    Again, staying with the mystical/enchanted theme.

    Clackmannan Tower gets a similar treatment.

    Lensball shot of Clackmannan Tower
    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
    Snowdrops

    …led to a tottie wee bit of an obsession & the following end result.

    Snowdrop sculpture
    Snowdrop sculpture

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    Hae a guid week 😁

  • Decryption — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Decryption — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

    Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Deciphering a Cryptic Message.

    I used two baseline images for this week’s challenge…

    …and then wrote a prompt to include the deciphering of a message. I was very happy with the first image created.

    Deciphering a cryptic message
    Deciphering a cryptic message

    Never one to leave well enough alone, I had to re-imagine this in a steampunk world.

    Steampunk decryption
    Steampunk decryption

    This was a cool outcome, but I wanted to go one step further. I’ve been playing around with a fusion of steampunk & futuristic settings, so that’s what I’ve gone with for this final image.

    Steampunk/futuristic decryption
    Steampunk/futuristic decryption