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Tag: Hot Mods

  • 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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  • In the Capital — Weekend Sky #121

    In the Capital — Weekend Sky #121

    Hi All 👋 My latest entry for Hammad’s Weekend Sky Challenge.

    This early morning shot was during an unplanned overnight stay in Edinburgh??????

    Looking towards Princes Street, Edinburgh
    Looking towards Princes Street, Edinburgh

    I also transformed the image into a watercolour? In the prompt, I specified the location as being Edinburgh. Giving the AI a location does change the outcome of the transformation.

    Watercolour transformation of Edinburgh cityscape
    Watercolour transformation of Edinburgh cityscape

    The following picture uses the same baseline shot as above but without specifying the location. The transformation into a cityscape just after dawn is good, but the architecture is generic; the AI has picked up the older style architecture well from the initial image.

    Watercolour transformation without a specified location
    Watercolour transformation without a specified location
  • Daffs & Raindrops — FOTD, Macro Monday Mar 18 & Cellpic Sunday

    Daffs & Raindrops — FOTD, Macro Monday Mar 18 & Cellpic Sunday

    Hi All 👋 My latest post for Macro Monday

    This is also my post for John’s Cellpic Sunday & Cee’s FOTD.

    Daffodils & raindrops
    Daffodils & raindrops

    I’ve added a bit of sparkle to these daffs with AI & transformed the image into a watercolour.

  • 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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  • Last on the Card February 2024

    Last on the Card February 2024

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Brian’s monthly challenge.

    From my iPhone

    I’ve no DSLR pics for Feb, but here’s my last AI pic.

  • Wordless Wednesday Feb 28

    Wordless Wednesday Feb 28

    Fishing boat heading out for a days work
    Fishing boat heading out for a day of work at sunrise

    I did a couple of watercolour edits in Hot Mods. The first didn’t really add the fishing boat in, so I amended the prompt to make it more of a feature in the second.