Midjourney - AI art

[Chuk_Chuk]

There are also a lot of questions about who owns the copyright to AI generated art,

I believe the US has had a ruling that states AI work cannot be copyrighted.

Does anyone here have a layman's guide to AI art? Someone up-thread said that you do have to pay to get the 2000x3000 results and I don't mind paying purely out of curiosity. There are plenty of results on deviantART at that resolution and some of it is in breathtaking detail. I want to get started but they never say how they did it or what program or site they're using. If it's relevant, I have used ChatGPT a few times, asking it questions and getting it to write poems or texts in the style of a famous person.

I briefly joined the Midjourney discord server. They have a discord chat where you write your prompt. After a certain amount of time it will spit out an image for you in another chat room. I think in the server is where they talk more about payment.

Also I'm pretty certain @Malevolence is posting AI art in the random images thread. So maybe he has more experience on generating it.

 

[Gray2233]

You can invite the Midjourney bot to a personal/private server, although I believe you need to subscribe to (pay for) it now unless they've reintroduced a trial. It makes it much easier to use, the official Discord server gets very spammy to the point it's a nightmare to deal with.

I've played around with it a little in the past, it can be fun.

Spoiler

Slapped a handful of the images I generated into the spoiler, mine definitely follow a bit of a theme but honestly you can do almost anything with it.

Stable Diffusion is worth a look too.

 

[krooton]

I've been having a great time messing about with Stable Diffusion XL

 

[PlacidCasual]

Hi Peeps

I've had a lot of fun playing with Midjourney but I've not managed to get a good imagined picture using reference photos of my daughters. The creations are great but don't look like them enough. I'm sure there are other pieces of software that can merge or map a photo to a Midjourney image but I don't know which they are. Can anyone suggest a relatively inexpensive PC software solution to do this?

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Hi Peeps

I've had a lot of fun playing with Midjourney but I've not managed to get a good imagined picture using reference photos of my daughters. The creations are great but don't look like them enough. I'm sure there are other pieces of software that can merge or map a photo to a Midjourney image but I don't know which they are. Can anyone suggest a relatively inexpensive PC software solution to do this?

I believe the top dogs are midjourney Dall-E and stable diffusion. If those don’t work then your next best option is to commission an artist to do it for you.

Btw I believe the reference photos will be retained for further training, are you comfortable with your daughters images and likeness being used in such a manner?

 

[PlacidCasual]

Btw I believe the reference photos will be retained for further training, are you comfortable with your daughters images and likeness being used in such a manner?

Didn't know that. I've been doing the creations on my Discord server with the Midjourney Bot. I'm probably not happy with that but one assumes the sheer torrent of creation and reference will obscure things.

Also rather than use a new AI to create images are I assumed there would "paint" packages that can cleverly transpose a face onto and image? It's not a field I'm at all familiar with.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

Didn't know that. I've been doing the creations on my Discord server with the Midjourney Bot. I'm probably not happy with that but one assumes the sheer torrent of creation and reference will obscure things.

Also rather than use a new AI to create images are I assumed there would "paint" packages that can cleverly transpose a face onto and image? It's not a field I'm at all familiar with.

I’m not sure about those ones unfortunately. Maybe there could be a phone apps that does such things (since that is what people usually use for creating fun/wacky images from selfies). But none spring to mind on the desktop, as having such capabilities without significant manual effort.

 

[PlacidCasual]

I’m not sure about those ones unfortunately. Maybe there could be a phone apps that does such things (since that is what people usually use for creating fun/wacky images from selfies). But none spring to mind on the desktop, as having such capabilities without significant manual effort.

Thank you for your replies.

 

[Smeghead]

Yes, because it still needs a creator with a vision and knowledge on how to put it together. If you just tell AI what you want it usually stuffs it up big time. In my eyes it's still an art to making these things

This stuff is an art in the same way that microwaving a burger and cooking oven chips makes you a chef.

Don't kid yourself that typing a bunch of prompts and pressing "Generate" takes an ounce of the skill, dedication, years of practice and knowledge of anatomy, perspective, lighting, textures and physics required of an actual artist.

 

[robgmun]

This stuff is an art in the same way that microwaving a burger and cooking oven chips makes you a chef.

Don't kid yourself that typing a bunch of prompts and pressing "Generate" takes an ounce of the skill, dedication, years of practice and knowledge of anatomy, perspective, lighting, textures and physics required of an actual artist.

AI Interpretation of prompts is getting easier, but you're WAAAAYYYYYY off if you think "typing a bunch of prompts and pressing "Generate" doesn't take an ounce of the skill

I'd like to see you try it.

 

[Haggisman]

This stuff is an art in the same way that microwaving a burger and cooking oven chips makes you a chef.

Don't kid yourself that typing a bunch of prompts and pressing "Generate" takes an ounce of the skill, dedication, years of practice and knowledge of anatomy, perspective, lighting, textures and physics required of an actual artist.

If you spend several hours/days writing a page of exactly the correct sequence of prompts, after years of experience learning how the AI handles those prompts, in order to generate the precise image you want, then I'd happily argue that is as much art as any painter, illustrator or photographer.

Of course someone typing "the queen riding a tiger on the surface of the sun" is not "art", in much the same way as someone taking 30 seconds to draw a stick figure with crayons is not "art".

You're making the same argument as many people make against electronic music, "ooh, but if you haven't learned how to play a real instrument then you're not a real musician".

Ultimately it's just another tool - the art is in a) having the vision of what you are trying to create, and b) having the skills and knowledge to be able to use the tools available to you to make that vision a reality.

 

[SPG]

If you spend several hours/days writing a page of exactly the correct sequence of prompts, after years of experience learning how the AI handles those prompts, in order to generate the precise image you want, then I'd happily argue that is as much art as any painter, illustrator or photographer.

Of course someone typing "the queen riding a tiger on the surface of the sun" is not "art", in much the same way as someone taking 30 seconds to draw a stick figure with crayons is not "art".

You're making the same argument as many people make against electronic music, "ooh, but if you haven't learned how to play a real instrument then you're not a real musician".

Ultimately it's just another tool - the art is in a) having the vision of what you are trying to create, and b) having the skills and knowledge to be able to use the tools available to you to make that vision a reality.

Quite possibly the deepest post on GD ever

 

[PlacidCasual]

So I found a way to superimpose my kids faces on midjourney AI images. There is another bot called Insights Face Swap. You can make a reference image and the AI will impose that on a suitable portrait. Doesn't seem to work for me unless it's a close up. So I've managed to create some great images in Midjourney then make the faces look very like my kids. I'm thinking of doing them some wall art with the images.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

I made an Etsy t-shirt shop using images created by Midjourney. Didn't take off at all sadly

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

I made an Etsy t-shirt shop using images created by Midjourney. Didn't take off at all sadly snip

FYI I don't think you're allowed to do that on the forums.

 

[Ayahuasca]

I made an Etsy t-shirt shop using images created by Midjourney. Didn't take off at all sadly (please buy my t-shirts - https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/PixelMindApparel)

No one wants to wear fruit of the loom t-shirts that either don't fit properly or lose their shape after a few visits to the washing machine.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

FYI I don't think you're allowed to do that on the forums.

Nothing I can see in the rules.

No one wants to wear fruit of the loom t-shirts that either don't fit properly or lose their shape after a few visits to the washing machine.

Hah I actually like some of them. The soft ones are lovely. The not soft ones, not so much. If there was more demand, I'd change the product range, but I think the lack of success was due more to lack of traffic.

 

[Kenai]

Nothing I can see in the rules.

The following topics, content or behaviour is prohibited from the OcUK forums and will result in moderation:-

• Promotion of business interests or self gain, or the use of unsolicited referral links

 

[dirtychinchilla]

The following topics, content or behaviour is prohibited from the OcUK forums and will result in moderation:-

• Promotion of business interests or self gain, or the use of unsolicited referral links

Ah, I searched for advertising. Thanks

 

[Mobius 1]

First time having a go with this

Pretty good fun

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