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The emergence of usable A.I. generators of art work and photos such as Dall-e 2 and a number of others, while still in their infancy are now a viable way to create custom images free of copyright concerns (for now at least).
My country of residence is not included in access for Dall-e 2 but nightcafe provides a route to access the engine and opportunities to train and compete
__www__ creator.nightcafe.studio
So if you want a detailed painting in the style of the time of your ancestors arriving on a ship before photography... or anything else you can imagine short of specific living people you can probably get it from an A.I. like Dall-e 2.
Example: the prompt="beach with tall ship offshore;distant hills with Eucalyptus dumosa and Eucalyptus globulus trees" produces.
Some tips:
- Many people use ai create pleasing pieces of art
- A illustrator of a book may have a specific message or object to convey, and may want a consistent look feel and mood across a whole publication we are outliers in this space, so we may not get help from traditional forums.
You can describe items in intricate detail in common language, but if you try to do it it to two or more objects a common term like say "red" will bleed from one idea into another.
I find that specific descriptions like Latin binomials for species, meteorlgical term for clouds etc work very well so "Cirrus radiatus" will only be applied to clouds but "high streaky while clouds will leak elsewhere in the composition"
Clouds
I like to add depth an interest to a scene without "darkening" it, I like:
- Cirrus radiatus - High White wisps in parallel lines (not neccesarily darkening the scene)
- Cirrocumulus stratiformis
- Cirrocumulus stratiformis and Cirrus radiatus
Trees & bushes
- white mangrove (Avicennia marina)
- Mallee tree -- Eucalyptus globulus
- Blue gum -- Eucalyptus dumosa
- Black boy/grass tree -- Xanthorrhoeoideae australis
- Quondong, wild peach -- Santalum acuminatum
- Loquat tree -- Eriobotrya japonica FAILS
- Mulberry tree OK -- Morus nigra FAILS
- Pear tree
- Fig trees
Crops
- narrow-leafed lupin -- Lupinus angustifolius
Boats
- Whaleboat
Aircraft
- Airtractor AT-802A aircraft FAIL
Race
- Anglo-saxon ( welsh, iris, scottish, etc may give granular control)
Animals
- Shiba Inu
- Australian Kelpie sheep dog (Kelpie alone useually OK)
- eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis)
- red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus)
- copperhead snake (Austrelaps superbus)
- western brown snake (Pseudonaja nuchalis)
- tiger snake (Notechis scutatus).
Specific structures
- Ting Ma bridge
- Amber
Birds
- Galah -- Eolophus roseicapilla NO FAILS
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo -- Cacatua galerita OK craiyon, Missing in NC
- magpie --Cracticus tibicen
- wedge-tailed eagle -- Aquila audax
Animals
- Tammar Wallaby -- Notamacropus eugenii
- Albino Osphranter rufus -- red kangaroo
- Tammar Wallaby -- Notamacropus eugenii
- Eubalaena australis -- southern right whale
- fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective,
- refers to the technique of creating an illusion of depth by depicting distant objects as paler, less detailed, and usually bluer than near objects.
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Domain influence
- If you use for example "Eucalyptus globulus" you dont need to say it is a tree, and since that species is quite specific to Australia, which genus "Eucalyptus" is not, it is likely to populate the rest of the image with other Australian fauna and flora. Smae for littoral, tropical etc.
Placement
- for example don't list a bird and sky descriptions , will get one. specifically PLACE "bird flying in sky"
Observations
- DALL-E doesn't seem to hold a sharp delineation between style and content; in other words, adding stylistic prompts actively changes the some of what I would consider to be content.
- There are many apps to stylize, modify, sharpen, bokeh distort etc images, use you prompt to compose the image story and use secondary processing to give it historic, art etc flavour... probably more consistently.
- The shorter and more precise the prompt the better "as simple as possible for the desired outcome"
- can do charcoal or pencil in the style of various famous artists
- "medieval illuminated manuscripts".
- "impressionist watercolor painting" or "pencil sketch", are more forgiving of imperfections in detail.
- "in the style of surrealism" good
WEAKNESS
- DALL-E does fine at giving one character a list of specific traits. It can sometimes handle multiple generic people in a crowd scene, though it quickly forgets how faces work. However, it finds it very challenging to keep track of which traits ought to belong to a specific Character A versus a different specific Character B, beyond a very basic minimum like "a man and a woman".
Long Shot: Contains the person’s entire body in the frame.
Medium Shot: Framed from the knees or waist up from the subject.
Close Up: The subject’s face occupies most of the frame.
Extreme Close Up: Used to pick up a subtle detail in one’s facial expression.
High Angle: The camera is raised above the subject and is tilted down at the subject.
Low Angle: The camera closer to the ground and points up towards the subject.
Over the Shoulder: The camera is behind the subject as he/she is facing another person.
Point of View: The perspective of the person in the scene.
Pan: The camera is locked on a fixed point but follows the subject horizontally.
Tilt: The camera follows the subject while being locked onto a fixed point.
Aerial Shot: The camera is high above the subject.
Tracking Shot: The camera is able to move to follow the subject.
