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PaperclipPerfector  7mo ago (text post)   2430 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 29, 2023

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Decided to redo the cover art for my novel:

Any strong opinions on which one looks best?

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The first two are nearly on par, but unfortunately the second one is slightly spoiled by the child’s hand obscuring the superhero’s hand in the picture rather than interacting with it in some interesting way. One of those ways AI can still mess up in a way no decent artist would.

Nice proompt-fu tho!

Thanks! It's going to be a relatively small thumbnail/cover, so it's unlikely that anyone is going to spot the small details.

Bing Image Creator with DALLE 3 is a godsend, it's so much better than MJ or SD at understanding semantics and interactions between objects. In the older models, having a woman holding a child while looking at a painting of a superhero would result in woman painting a child superhero half the time, leaving aside the woman is also supposed to have cyborg legs.

We're so close to the point where we don't even need prompt-fu anymore that I can't take too much credit, but I know that making something like would be a PITA even using advanced tools like Controlnet for SD.

At any rate, I'm no longer sorely tempted to get an MJ subscription. This is at least on par aesthetically, and maybe better.

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