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. 

Cute Elephant - colored version

I mentioned in one of my latest blogpost that there is a AI Art Generator which is specialised on creating coloring pages. Its name is Color Pop AI. I created three coloring pages: a cute little elephant, a koi fish and an image showing a shoal of fish.

Now it was time to do the coloring. I gripped my alcoholbased markers and the sheet with the cute elephant. I've mentioned before in one of my posts that for me there is quite a difference between doing digital art and painting / coloring with a marker or a paintbrush: Whereas both for me are enjoyable activities, doing art digitally is less relaxing than painting the traditional way.  And: traditional painting/ coloring definitely takes more time! 

So I decided to throw in now and then something which needs a marker or a paintbrush.

The medium I used here are alcohol based markers. However, I plan to also use my waterbased markers without adding water. Actually I got many, many waterbased markers, and I am looking forward to my next coloring project.

Nightcafestudio: Working with Dall-E2

 I've been experimenting on Nightcafe Studio for quite some time now (two months, I think), and I have been using Stable Diffusion, one of Nightcafe's algorithms, for most of the time. However lately I began to experiment with Dall-E2. It works a bit different, and it has less ways to manipulate the outcome. But it can understand things like "close up", "extreme close up and silmilar photography words.

Here are two results:

Elephant # 1 with the prompt: Close up elephant at the lake 4K hyperrealism HDR

and here's elephant #2:

I used the prompt: Medium Close up elephant at the lake 4K hyperrealism HDR

I must say, I am quite pleased with the outcome!