Change the style of an image in Gemini

This is a diaslide I took a long time ago during a vacation in the North of Italy. When I shot the photo I felt attracted by the Renaissance architecture. I kept the slide, had it digitalized and then it sat in the depths of my hard drive.

Knowing that you can have changed the style of an image in Gemini I uploaded the image to Gemini and asked it to transform the photo into a watercolor and ink image.

Here is the result. Gemini actually changed the style. I personally would prefer it to the original.

What a difference one word makes

I wanted to create an image of the interior of the great mosque in Cordoba, so I wrote the following prompt:

Interior of the mosque in Cordoba, in the style of Ivan Bilibin, Ernst Haeckel, Daniel Merriam, watercolor and ink

The image on the left is the result of this prompt (I used Nightcafe Studio). It is quite nice, but a bit too muted. So I changed my prompt to:

Colorful interior of the mosque in Cordoba, in the style of Ivan Bilibin, Ernst Haeckel, Daniel Merriam, watercolor and ink

And, as you can see on the right, the AI Generator added blue. It is more or less the same image, but it looks a lot better with the additional colour.

Both images have "in the style of..."as part of the prompt. That style does not work with all AI Generators, but I noticed that Nightcafe Studio, PicFinder and Leonardo produce very nice results with those artists.

Church in Italy

This is another diaslide from my father's dia collection. It was taken in the 60s, during a vacation in the northern part of Italy. At that time Italy was the place to go to for Germans - the sea, the special food, the atmosphere. You had to cross the Alps, driving along the twisting roads up and down.

 

House with a stepped gable

These kind of stepped gable houses can be found throughout Northern Europe. They were built at hanseatic times.

This photo belongs to my collection of diaslides which consists on one hand of diaslides which were taken by my father in the 60s and 70s of the last century, mostly as we were on vacation, On the other hand my deceased husband used to use diaslides in the 70s and 80s of the last century; these were the days of the diaslide before digital cameras appeared.

 

Street scene in a German town

Here you can see a mixture of architectureal styles which is typical for German towns. 

 

Bronze reliefs on wooden door

I have taken up digitalizing my diaslides. There are quite a few of them which were taken by my father in the 60s of the last century, This one has been shot in the northern part of Italy (Italy in the 60s was a favorite country to spend holidays in at that time). 

 

Doors

That kind of doors can be found in the Northern part of Germany. As far as I can remember I took this photo in the Hanseatic city of Rostock, a town located at the Baltic Sea. 

 

Village in the Haute Provence

In the 1980s we spent a three weeks holiday in the Provence in the South of France. At that time diapositives were the state of art - and so this photo was taken as a dia. Now that I am retired I have the time to go through the stacks of diapositives and to select the ones which I want to have digitalized. I chose this one because I like the contrast between the light and the shadows and I like the architecture of the village houses.

Cute Houses

Here I used an old line drawing which I had done with Inkscape a really long time ago. I coloured that drawing many times - with acrylic inks, with markers - and now with gouache paints. I painted on mixed media paper which tends a bit to buckle when you add too much water. So I taped it down with a normal painter's tape, and when the paper was dry I didn't peel the tape off but simply cut the tape off together with the paper. 

I used the following brands: Lucas Studio Tempera/Gouache, Reeves Gouache and Schmincke Akademie Gouache. The interesting thing is that I am quite surprised how manageable the Lucas Studio Gouache is, whereas I had two disappointing experiences with the Ultramarine paint from Reeves and the Schmincke Akademie Indigo paint. When I opened them a big blub of water came out, with some coloured binder. Obviously the binder had separated in the tube. I kind of expected something like that from Reeves, but not from Schmincke. However the second Gouache paint from Schmincke Akademie, the Violet blue, worked fine.

Half-timbered houses in the South of Germany

As the car on the photo will show you - this photo is quite old. However the beauty of the half-timbered houses still shines on. These half-timbered houses can be found in the South of Germany - Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.