This is the face of a butterfly reflecting in water. But . . . it’s not what you think. I have been experimenting in the last couple of days with AI – Artificial Intelligence. There are AI programs that generate images based upon ‘prompts’, or word commands. This is not photography. No cameras are involved in the process and no subjects were photographed. The images are created based upon the words you choose. The prompts for this image were: butterfly face, photorealistic, extremely sharp, perfect lighting, and extreme detail. Unfortunately, I’ve only found programs so far that produce square images. Since I don’t like a square format, I brought the image into Photoshop, expanded the canvas downward (Image > canvas size), and added the reflection using the plug-in Flood to give me the rectangular proportion. The AI images I've created are quite low in resolution. The butterfly face was downloaded to my computer as a 3 megabyte file. So, I ran it through Topaz Gigapixel AI (at 6x it became 108 megs) and then Topaz Sharpen AI. That really brought it to life as a sharp, hi res image. Over the next few days, I’ll share some other images I’ve created that are pretty amazing. This image was made using the online program Dall-E.
2 Comments
Jan 25, 2023, 11:09:13 AM
Jim - Thank you, James. Good to hear from you.
Jan 25, 2023, 10:43:07 AM
James R Steadman - Very cool image. Keep them coming.!