Artificial intelligence used to create photographic and artistic images knows no bounds. You can create any type of image imaginable, from sweet, innocent children to futuristic robots, and from historical figures, extinct animals to beautiful fashion models. Jim is offering this course that will get you started in creating visually arresting images. This is not photography, although you can import your photos and work on them within the AI software. Having a photographic background helps you visualize both realistic as well as surrealistic pictures, plus you can specify shutter speed, f/stop, and any type of lighting.
Jim will show you how to get started and how to navigate the software that produces the best and most detailed images. You will learn how to choose word commands to make amazing art, and how to increase the resolution and sharpness in post-processing.
Finally, Jim will demonstrate how to use the AI images in combination with your own photographs to end up with an amalgam of photography and AI imagery that results in absolutely amazing composites.
In addition, a new 'blend' feature allows you to merge up to 5 of your own photographs to produce truly brilliant imagery.
What you will learn in this course:
-- Step by step instruction on how to use Midjourney software
-- A new vocabulary to create 'prompts' for creating stunning images
-- How to combine AI images with photographic images
-- Learn to incorporate photographic terms into AI instructions
-- How to use your own photographs as a basis for AI creativity
-- How to increase AI resolution in post-processing
-- How to blend several of your photographs together
When you sign up, you'll receive a link to GoToMeeting for online screen sharing and a time to sign in. The once-per-week session on Saturday mornings at noon Eastern Daylight Time in the U.S. (New York time) will span three weeks (plus a bonus 4th week solely for critiques). Each session will be about 2 hours. Jim will answer questions any time during the presentation. There will be homework assignments and critiques on submitted work. Take this opportunity to learn from a master of creative photography who has fully embraced the new AI revolution.
After each week's recorded workshop session, you will receive a link to the video file so you can download it and replay it at your leisure. In this way, if you forget something Jim covered, you can review the material and become proficient with all the techniques Jim demonstrates with his beautiful pictures.
Life gets in the way sometimes, and if you can't make one or more of the online sessions, you won't miss anything because you'll have the fully recorded video to review as often as you want.
With AI, any type of image you can possibly imagine is just a few seconds away. From a woman's torso in aluminum to a fanciful octopus in a style perfect for children to enjoy to a still life showing vintage cameras -- you won't believe the creative possibilities until you delve into this new, amazing tool for expressing your visions.
To participate in the course, there is nothing to download. Jim demonstrates how to use Midjourney software, which is entirely online, and this is the gateway to being creative beyond your wildest dreams. A subscription to use the software is required, but the cost starts at only $8 per month.
See more of Jim's AI images by clicking the button below. This will show you the remarkable diversity of subject matter that can be created. Only your imagination limits what you can produce.
This collection demonstrates the three techniques for using AI: 1) Images based on word 'prompts', 2) photographs transformed by the AI software into unique works of art, and 3) a blend of original photographs that resulted in wild composites.