This 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.

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