{"id":9256,"date":"2022-07-23T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=9256"},"modified":"2022-07-23T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T00:23:29","slug":"ai-image-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/ai-image-making\/","title":{"rendered":"AI image making"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I come upon an article on Medium<\/a> about creating images from text descriptions, and it occurs to me this might be a cool way to make book covers. The technologies the article suggested required complex signups, so I searched and found NightCafe<\/a> instead and tried it.<\/p>\n

I chose “oil painting” and the “coherent” filter, typed in Victorian street Grimshaw<\/strong> and got this:<\/p>\n

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Apart from the weird sky, I cannot tell what the hell that figure is supposed to be. I can only tell it’s a person because it has feet.<\/p>\n

Next effort:empty victorian street streetlamp cobbles cabriolet cloudy day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Huh. Skies full of cobbles. OK, how about Victorian London<\/strong>, the artistic filter, and the “steampunk” setting:<\/p>\n

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\nThe architecture is better, but what is that thing? I write historical mysteries. OK, so no steampunk setting, just Victorian London street<\/strong> and “oil painting”, back to the coherent filter:<\/p>\n

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Another creepy non-person. And that vehicle? Yeah, right.<\/p>\n

OK, so historical isn’t happening. I’ll try what it’s supposed to do, fantasy. Moonlit Thames river boat,<\/strong> with the “heavenly” style and the artistic filter.<\/p>\n

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So, love the idea. Not thrilled with the execution. But I’m interested in looking more into this for sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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