I rediscovered PicFinder AI

PicFinder AI was among the first AI Art generators I have been using. But with Nightcafe Studio, Ideogram AI and Mage Space I neglected it because most of the results I got weren't very satisfying. However now, almost one year later, I rediscovered PicFinder again. I found out something very important: PicFinder works best with longer prompts. What I am doing now is to go to Ideogram or Nightcafe Studio and look for one of my images there and then copy the magic prompt:

Here is the prompt:

A photo of an indoor jungle with a variety of tropical plants. There are large plants with big leaves, like palms and ferns. There are also smaller plants with colorful flowers. The plants are placed in pots of different sizes and shapes. The pots are arranged on wooden shelves, crates, and the ground. The background is a white wall with a few holes.

And here are two of the results. PicFinder offers you quite a lot of images, in square format, or landscape or portrait format.

The only disadvantage I see is that the free version of PicFinder only allows personal use. I do journaling, and I love to use stickers in my journal. PicFinder will work absolutely great here!

The last days of October

 October is the month where days get shorter and colder; actually we here in Germany had some very warm and nice days - almost summer like. We also had some very wet and stormy days. Most of the leaves had been green for quite a long time, and then they turned brown and the wind swept them off the trees. 

However with AI Art Generators you can have your special collection of autumn images.

This image was created with Limewire AI and it reminds me of the region I come from, the South of Germany.  We have a lot of beech trees there on the Swabian Alb. 

You do not always see leaves as colorful as those on the image on the right are; as I mentioned in the beginning of this post this year the leaves stayed green for a long time and then turned yellow-brownish. 

However October is not over yet, maybe I will be able to see those colors in real nature and not only on an image! By the way, this image was created with picFinder AI.

How to deal with the big number of images in PicFinder

 Most of the AI Art Generators I use create four images with one prompt, and most of the time I can use one or two images out of the four. Most of the AI Art Generators also save your images with your profile - so you can come back and look at them and decide which one you want to download. 

PicFinder is different: It generators far more images than any other art generator, but it does not save them with your profile. So you have to download them in order to save them for later usage. You have two options: you can either download them as 512x512 px files, or you can enhance them and download the enhanced version (which takes more time of course). 

It took me a bit of time till I found a satisfying solution for me. I quickly go through the images and download all those I find interesting. 

For example, take these three Indian elephant images:On first glance I like all three of them. However when it comes to make prints out of them I'd rather prefer not the front view (the tusks are much too yellow), but the other two. But I am not sure yet. 

So I keep them in the original size. I can always go on:

https://www.pixelcut.ai/image-upscaler

and upscale / enhance them.

By the way: From the beginning of my AI Art activities on (which means from November 2022) I use the name of the art generator or an abbreviation in the title of the image file. You will ask "why?"

Well, some art generators allow commercial use and some do not. In order to be on the safe side I now can see where the image file comes from and can use it commercially or not. 

So in case I plan to use an image file as design on my Zazzle shop (for example to create a puzzle with it) I know exactly which images I can do this with. 

One prompt, two very different images

 I have been using quite a number of Artificial Art Generators. In the last weeks I've added Stablecoq AI and PicFinder AI to my toolbox. Both are free to use. Stablecoq AI works with tokens. I found out however, that every time I use it tokens are added... This is a bit strange, but I take it as it is. 

Now with PicFinder you get numbers and numbers of variations of an image. These images are not saved to your profile - so you have to look through them and decide which ones you want to keep. You can then download them in the original size or download them in an enhanced size. Once you leave the page the images are gone. 

I now tried the following prompt with both Stablecoq and Picfinder:

beautiful anatomically correct fairy princess, anatomically correct no hands, Dappled Fashionable Fairy tale, Idyllic by artist "Carlo Crivelli", 3D shading, elegant, ethereal, fantasy

Now you might ask "why 'no hands'?" Well, AI Generators still have problems with the rendering of hands; so I decided to ask the AI to go without.

Here's the image created with Stablecoq.

As you can see, no hands, but otherwise quite the result you would expect with the prompt.

Carlo Rivelli by the way was an Italien Renaissance painter who lived from 1430 to 1495.

And here is the image created by PicFinder (well, one of the many images; I must admit I had difficulties to select one image.

I was very much surprised that the fairy on the image had anatomically correct hands with the correct number of fingers. 

Up to now I have not looked up paintings by Crivelli in order to find out which image is more similar to his style; it is up to you to do this. But in anycase I am very pleased with the outcome.

I think these two images are a perfect example of the various ways the different AI Generators interpret prompts. I can only encourage anyone who is interested in creating AI Art to try out the same prompt a few times with other Generators!

Picfinder AI

 The number of AI Art Generators is constantly rising. In one of my facebook groups the moderator mentioned Picfinder AI and recommended it. I was curious, went there and opened an account. With an account you get 1000 images daily. 

I inserted "tiger in the jungle" as a prompt and got a huge number of results. I selected two of them:

You can choose whether you want a square format, or portrait or landscape. The original square is 512 x 512 pixel; it says that you an download an enhanced image - but this didn't work when I tried it. So I downloaded the original size - which is okay for demonstration purposes in this blogpost. In case you need a bigger image size there are many AI image enhancers on the internet - one of my preferred ones is pixelcut/image-enhancer which is free.

As you can see, the anatomy of the tiger is correct - no additional limbs, ears or other anomalies.

I certainly will play around with the new AI Art tool!