For people still wanting to try generating images, and wanting to have a different experience from the usual prompt and setup ; there is a feature within Artbreeder called 'Director' which is very friendly, the way it works is very intuitive and user will get immediate feedback along the way.

https://www.artbreeder.com/create/director

Here is an example of an image generated with the Director

https://www.artbreeder.com/image/682613a8460a69bf1bbe36f9a7cc

Using this prompt:

a muscular female warrior with platinum blonde hair in a mohawk style, captivating big anime eyes, beautiful face, scars on face, serious expression, futuristic sci-fi armor showing shoulder and cleavage, adorned with a huge red star, apocalyptic settings with red rock planet background, spaceship hovering behind, in artgerm drawing style, very detailed face, digital illustration, character design, artstation

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There are tools available that will make it possible to use a simple picture as an avatar

And put that person into a situation (following a specific pose) like these:

How?

Simply by using Artbreeder poser feature

https://www.artbreeder.com/create/poser?fromCreate=1

and https://openposes.com/

A pretty impressive little application, to render a photo into a Manga, I discovered it from this blog

https://blogclif.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/manga-maker/

Please pay a visit to the blog, and try the app.

https://www.seaart.ai/workFlowAppDetail/cntunqle878c738ibae0

Happy Accidents is shutting down on May 9th 2024

Happy Accidents offered unique features such as image generation and support for various checkpoints and Loras. While I can't speak to the specific reasons behind the shutdown without more information, fierce competition and a lack of traction are common challenges faced by startups and niche platforms in the tech industry.

In a rapidly evolving landscape, particularly in the field of image generation and AI-driven creativity, staying ahead of the competition and gaining sufficient traction can be difficult.

While it is still on, please pay a visit to https://happyaccidents.ai/

LimeWire has acquired BlueWillow (leading image generation model and the world's 2nd largest Discord community with over 2 million users).

https://www.bluewillow.ai/ is redirecting to https://limewire.com/studio/image/create-image

prompt:

Cover, painting of a girl with long blue hair in a white t-shirt on one side of a tattooed cyberpunk space with details, luminism, strip lighting, complex, head and shoulders portrait, 4k concept art portrait by Greg Rutkowski, artgram, WLOP, Alphonse Mucha

prompt:

Chaotic Mixed media Rebecca Romijn portrait art, Scratch art, Masterpiece

cute baby panda, detailed matte painting, deep color, fantastical, intricate detail, complementary colors, fantasy concept art, 8k resolution, trending on Artstation

prompt:beautiful ethereal landscape mountains, flower field illustration , by Ed Mell atmospheric and aesthetical , steps:46, style:Sticker , width:1216 , height:832 , seed:1689221413

prompt: standing female fighter wearing blue jacket, military camouflage pant, black combat boots, medium shot, art by stanley artgerm, style:comic book

Prompt example:

Prompt: Cover, painting of a girl with long blue hair in a white t-shirt on one side of a tattooed cyberpunk space with details, luminism, strip lighting, complex, head and shoulders portrait, 4k concept art portrait by Greg Rutkowski, artgram, WLOP, Alphonse Mucha

Playing with Stable diffusion discord and the new SDXL checkpoint model

Head over to discord.gg/stablediffusion

From there it is quite Easy to generate artwork using prompt /dream on one of the bots (there are 10 bots available)

Following an AI prompt such as 'Graphic Illustration, Creative Design, white hair style undercut female, techwear, Cyberpunk, Full Body Portrait, Character Design, graffiti, style:comic book'

SDXL is pretty powerful

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- promptmuse.com

A very good website with lots of useful information for beginners

- civitai.com

repository of models

- Lexica.art

Browsing various artwork and seeing their prompts, very fun to navigate this website and learn the best prompts to generate attractive AI images.

- promptomania.com

Once you have a prompt, this website will assist the prompt with various tweaks, like style, lighting, etc ...

- artbreeder.com

I would recommend this website for a quick introduction to generate AI artwork

using collage and a picture source or just a simple prompt

- midjourney.com with showcase/recent/

This website is a good suggestion, but not for starters ; as the way to generate artwork is via discord, and seems like a lot of extra steps compared to artbreeder or stable diffusion.

The midjourney generated artworks are gorgeous though

Since AI (Artificial Intelligence) is all over the place right now, I started to look into that topic and found a few interesting websites.

First, AI is really a revolutionary step forward, why am I saying this?

Well, just look at the music, images that are now generated by a simple text prompt, this is insane, this technology is close to magic, really - it is advanced mathematics, but it feels like magic.

You say the word, and the picture appears in seconds, with visual that can be compared to the most talented artist creation. That is magic.

How does it work, in the background, I have tried to get into the basic of 'Stable Diffusion' (SD for short) and basically it comes to Machine learning, there is a very extensive data set of images, or collection of similar photos, that will be the starting point, then a model is made that is the part which is traditionally called the software, the algorithm, thanks to that part SD will be able to produce an artwork that looks like a painting, or in the style of a particular artist, or a visual style.

To summarize:

- Dataset, that will train the machine learning

- model, that will be interfaced with the program to produce a particular 'style'

and then running the whole thing into a browser

The picture above is 'Black widow' using a style byMarvel Studio, quite decent result

Artbreeder is a website where people can visually discover the true potential of Artificial Intelligence