I will check it out again one day, but in the meantime there's the new Photoshop beta tool, where you just draw a mask on your image, type a text prompt of what you want, and in 15 seconds it comes back with 3 versions to choose from.
This particular AI tool has caught Youtube by surprise, everyone is in awe of it, and I can really see why. It does require a Photoshop subscription, which I have anyway, and at the moment there are unlimited prompts during the beta, once it is out of beta it will start to cost, but Adobe have said that there'll be a number of free prompts included in the subscription. So probably cheaper than Midjourney.
Here's some experiments so far.
First, I've started with a photo I took travelling between Timaru/Dunedin when I updated Taieri. I think this was the town of Herbert, I always wanted to stop there to look around because of their cute shop, which I have a nice photo of now, I just won't show it here. When I looked around the town I noticed a lot of what looked like junk yards, and I really wanted to explore them, but there were people at these properties, and I didn't want to appear nosy... I've always like the idea of a town devoted to junk, so with this new tool I've been experimenting with a couple.
First, I had a photo of the cab of an old truck -- one one of the right of this image -- so I wanted to add some extra junk, in particular some old rusty fair rides. So I drew a mask beside the truck, and typed 'rusty carousel' as the prompt. I repeated the mask/prompt and ended up with this:
It appears to be a bug with the tool that sometimes it will ignore the prompt and give a result based on what it considers the subject, in this case the old truck. Weird.
After a few more tries, I settled on 'rusty round-a-bout' or similar, and a few different goes gave me this:
So it got it right this time around.
Here's another photo I took. Notice this is portrait format....
One thing which the tool does particularly well is extended an image, so the background to the right of the image is all AI generated based on the original image. This time the prompt was 'rusty machinery' and I have this shot now, no real point although I do like the theme!
Another shot taken when my nephews stayed with us at Diamond Harbour almost a decade ago. It originally showed the boys mock-fighting, but I had the AI tool remove them for privacy.
This is a bunker at the old barracks on the Lyttelton side of the harbour, probably used for ammo storage. I told them a story about a cult which lived there when I was a kid, and their unexplained demise, just to creep them out. Now I wanted to give an idea of what it looked like before this ficticious cult were all dismembered by persons/demon unknown...
What really astounds me is the lighting on the statues, it perfectly matches the light from the window.
I do like this better than Midjourney, because you start with your own photo. If you have a photoshop sub, grab the beta and give it a go.
