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Raven Mage
AI-Enhanced 3D Render by DustRiderThis is an image I've been working with off and on for about three months. It was just a crazy idea I had to see if I could use a combination of image to image, AI in fill painting, and manual editing to turn a render from DS into an image with elements not available for DS.
First I had to get a base image that I hoped would guide the AI generation the direction I wanted to go. Unfortunately I didn't have any face/body paints with the exact options I wanted, so I composited 3 images together to get the starting image I wanted (the last/bottom 3 images are what I use to make the starting image).
The I used Krita with the Diffusion AI plugin to begin the attempt at creating the image I wanted. It took multiple attempts/iterations' with a lot of prompt tweaking and moving between Flux and SDXL Juggernaut during the refining process to get the style and mood I wanted to arrive at the new base image I wanted. This process included taking generated images That were closer to what I wanted and using them as the new base image for image to image generation. I also did some inpainting for the necklace (I was hoping that the necklace I used in the original image would get re-imagined into something I wanted, but no such luck) and a combination of in-painting and manual editing of the image throughout the generation process to help guide the AI generation to where I wanted to go.
I also wasn't thinking far enough ahead with the framing of the original image. There wasn't enough space for the full feather head dress. So after I finally got the image to what I wanted, I used the expand function with Krita AI to expand the top portion of the image to show the feathers without cropping them.
The final steps in Krita included in painting and manual painting to fix many feathers that weren't quite right, and editing some of the metal elements that I didn't like. The last step was to take the image into Gimp to add some vignette, the signature, and do some final edits that are easier for my in Gimp (like fix some oddness with the for head jewel).
I'm sorry there isn't more detail (like prompt info) in my description, but it was quite a while ago, and a lot of changes to the prompt along the way.
Thanks for stopping by!
First I had to get a base image that I hoped would guide the AI generation the direction I wanted to go. Unfortunately I didn't have any face/body paints with the exact options I wanted, so I composited 3 images together to get the starting image I wanted (the last/bottom 3 images are what I use to make the starting image).
The I used Krita with the Diffusion AI plugin to begin the attempt at creating the image I wanted. It took multiple attempts/iterations' with a lot of prompt tweaking and moving between Flux and SDXL Juggernaut during the refining process to get the style and mood I wanted to arrive at the new base image I wanted. This process included taking generated images That were closer to what I wanted and using them as the new base image for image to image generation. I also did some inpainting for the necklace (I was hoping that the necklace I used in the original image would get re-imagined into something I wanted, but no such luck) and a combination of in-painting and manual editing of the image throughout the generation process to help guide the AI generation to where I wanted to go.
I also wasn't thinking far enough ahead with the framing of the original image. There wasn't enough space for the full feather head dress. So after I finally got the image to what I wanted, I used the expand function with Krita AI to expand the top portion of the image to show the feathers without cropping them.
The final steps in Krita included in painting and manual painting to fix many feathers that weren't quite right, and editing some of the metal elements that I didn't like. The last step was to take the image into Gimp to add some vignette, the signature, and do some final edits that are easier for my in Gimp (like fix some oddness with the for head jewel).
I'm sorry there isn't more detail (like prompt info) in my description, but it was quite a while ago, and a lot of changes to the prompt along the way.
Thanks for stopping by!
I always like those who experiment, as I have said many times, I have nothing against artificial intelligence, if then those who use it are honest like you, and admit to having used it, they have all my respect.
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DustRider
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AI was a godsend for me. I had eye surgery last Jan. and it left me virtually blind in my right eye, and as my eye recovered from the surgery the cataracts got much much worse. With just my left eye, which had mild cataracts, it was extremely hard to read the text in DS, so being creative was really difficult with DAZ. I was able to stay engaged and creative with AI, while learning how to get what I wanted to get from it. Using the Krita AI Diffusion plugin on my own machine was also huge because it allowed me to experiment without it costing a small fortune.
Thankfully, after two more surgeries over the last two weeks for cataracts I can see the text in the DAZ interface again (woohoo), so I'm back to using DS more. I'll probably still play around with AI some because I can do things with it that I can't with DS. But I'm enjoying DS again, and trying to improve my skills.
I really don't understand why people would claim to not use AI when they are using it.
AI was a godsend for me. I had eye surgery last Jan. and it left me virtually blind in my right eye, and as my eye recovered from the surgery the cataracts got much much worse. With just my left eye, which had mild cataracts, it was extremely hard to read the text in DS, so being creative was really difficult with DAZ. I was able to stay engaged and creative with AI, while learning how to get what I wanted to get from it. Using the Krita AI Diffusion plugin on my own machine was also huge because it allowed me to experiment without it costing a small fortune.
Thankfully, after two more surgeries over the last two weeks for cataracts I can see the text in the DAZ interface again (woohoo), so I'm back to using DS more. I'll probably still play around with AI some because I can do things with it that I can't with DS. But I'm enjoying DS again, and trying to improve my skills.
I really don't understand why people would claim to not use AI when they are using it.
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