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.

Using old Dia Slides

The origin of this image is an old color slide that was taken sometime in the 1970s, when slide photography was at the height of its popularity. Over the years, I accumulated a large collection of these slides and eventually selected a number of them to be digitized. Once the scanning was done, I stored the digital files on my hard drive, where they remained untouched for quite some time.This morning, I decided to experiment with them using AI image generators. I first uploaded the digitized slide to ImagePrompt.org, which generated a descriptive prompt based on the original photograph. I then copied that prompt and used it in NightCafe Studio and Deep Dream Generator to create new interpretations of the image.

Naturally, the AI-generated artwork is not an exact copy of the original slide—but that was never my intention. Instead, I wanted to see how AI would reinterpret an old photograph, and I really like the result. It has inspired me to revisit more of my vintage slides and explore how they can be transformed into entirely new works of art.

 

Somewhere in the Alps

After having a longer break with the digitalizsation of my diaslides I decided to start anew. This photo was taken a long time ago - probably in the 60s of the last century, when we Germans used to go to the northern part of Italy (South Tyrol). 

 

On the Swabian Alb

Diaslide from the 60s

Long time ago taking photos as diaslides was the state of the art. I remember days when friends came to my parents' home and my father proudly presented the diaslides he had taken through our summer vacation. This one above was not taken during our summer vacations which usually were spent either in Austria or in Italy. It was taken on one of our precious weekend trips to the Swabian Alb. More than once the trip also meant lighting up a campfire and roasting those delicious German sausages.

I inherited a big container with those diaslides when my parents had died, and going through them and deciding which ones to digitalize still is one of my projects. Some I keep because they are excellent photos - some I keep because of the memory they bring to me.