Text to Image
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Midjourney, March 2022: "Donald Trump and Barack Obama playing basketball" | Midjourney, March 2023 "Donald Trump and Barack Obama playing basketball" |
Image credit: Twitter/@ParkerMolloy |
Image In-painting
Before
"Mask" (aka Erase)
![cropped version of previous image with a gray blob digitally painted on center of image](/sites/default/files/inline-images/image_3.png)
Instructions: "photorealistic 1950s sci-fi rocket ship in front of a building"
![image of the library with a 1950s shiny rocket ship superimposed over the building](/sites/default/files/inline-images/DALL%C2%B7E%202023-03-27%2020.58.32%20-%20photorealistic%201950s%20sci-fi%20rocket%20ship%20in%20front%20of%20a%20building.png)
Providers
OpenAI's DALL-E 2
115 image generations of 4 images per round / $15
API: 1.6 - 2.0 cents / image
StabilityAI's Dreamstudio
Can also run the underlying StableDiffusion image model on your own environment, e.g., Google Colab.
Midjourney
Requires Discord interaction.
Miscellaneous AI Images, DALL-E ca. 2022
![exterior view of a librar, AI-generated](/sites/default/files/inline-images/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08-26%2019.46.55%20-%20high-quality%20photograph%20of%20the%20exterior%20of%20a%20public%20library%20building%20on%20a%20sunny%20day.png)
![AI-generated library, exterior view, steps and a tree](/sites/default/files/inline-images/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08-26%2019.47.18%20-%20high-quality%20photograph%20of%20the%20exterior%20of%20a%20public%20library%20building%20on%20a%20sunny%20day.png)
![AI-generated library, interior view, lots of tables and bookshelves](/sites/default/files/inline-images/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08-26%2019.50.24%20-%20high-quality%20photograph%20of%20an%20open%20concept%2C%20brightly-lit%20public%20library%20branch.png)
![AI generated image of library bookshelves and windows](/sites/default/files/inline-images/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08-26%2019.50.31%20-%20high-quality%20photograph%20of%20an%20open%20concept%2C%20brightly-lit%20public%20library%20branch.png)
![graphic novel depiction of a library](/sites/default/files/inline-images/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08-26%2019.55.56%20-%20realistic%20graphic%20novel%20panel%20depicting%20the%20interior%20of%20a%20public%20library.png)
![graphic novel depiction of a library](/sites/default/files/inline-images/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08-27%2023.34.30%20-%20realistic%20graphic%20novel%20panel%20depicting%20the%20interior%20of%20a%20public%20library%2C%20the%20walls%20lined%20with%20bookshelves%2C%20with%20sunlight%20filtering%20in%20through%20the%20win.png)
![graphic novel depiction of a library](/sites/default/files/inline-images/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08-27%2023.35.04%20-%20realistic%20graphic%20novel%20panel%20depicting%20the%20interior%20of%20a%20public%20library%2C%20the%20walls%20lined%20with%20bookshelves%2C%20with%20sunlight%20filtering%20in%20through%20the%20win.png)
![cartoon laptop holds a book in the library](/sites/default/files/inline-images/DALL%C2%B7E%202022-08-26%2020.14.56%20-%20cartoon%20of%20an%20anthropomorphic%20laptop%20walking%20in%20front%20of%20bookshelves%20in%20a%20public%20library%20reading%20room.png)