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Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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I tried copying the one of the photos into ChatGPT and asked it to make me a coloring book style image out of it. It is definitely not as good as this site (i.e. I don't think kids would recognize themselves). Good prompting!

Ask GPT to give you a prompt that would create a color book :-)

I always use LLMs for meta-prompting. They know themselves better than others :>

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Congrats! I would like to know the cost of the tokens you are paying for an image. How many pages coloring book will be created against $24 book?

Thank you!

OpenAI costs are surprisingly expensive. It's about $7 to generate a whole book (24 pages). There are 8-24 images allowed in a book, with a cover too. So there'll be 48 max pages in a book (incl blank pages).

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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For those interested in building something similar, I prompted a story book generator using v0 and Gemini’s image generation a few weeks ago: Demo: https://v0-story-maker.vercel.app/ The chat: https://v0.dev/chat/ai-story-book-creator-zw7TrmkN2Eb

wow!!!!

Any idea how much it costs to create a book?

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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I'm from India. I was looking for a service like this but without sending me a physical book part.

I'd use this at @ $10 price point if I'm able get downloadable a4 coloring pages from a picture. It would be great. Also this way your customer base becomes international.

$10 for 20 pictures is a good price point for me. Pretty expensive but I'd still go for it.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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I'm from India. I was looking for a service like this but without sending me a physical book part. I'd use this at @ $10 price point if I'm able get downloadable a4 coloring pages from a picture. It would be great. Also this way your customer base becomes international. $10 for 20 pictures is a good price point for me. Pretty expensive but I'd still go for it.

I'll implement this today.

Edit: I've implemented this! It's a lot of code changes so I hope I didn't break anything.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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For anyone looking for a prompt to do this manually, it seems to be as simple as this: > Generate a version of this photo that can be used as a coloring sheet

Anyone else feeling this weird vibe in the age of AI? You get a cool new idea, but then you think about how easy it is for someone else to replicate it, and you end up not doing it.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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post #119

Congrats! I would like to know the cost of the tokens you are paying for an image. How many pages coloring book will be created against $24 book?

Thank you! OpenAI costs are surprisingly expensive. It's about $7 to generate a whole book (24 pages). There are 8-24 images allowed in a book, with a cover too. So there'll be 48 max pages in a book (incl blank pages).

Thanks for your prompt and kind response. Yeah, it is expensive because it is new at the moment. They already mentioned the high token cost.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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For anyone looking for a prompt to do this manually, it seems to be as simple as this: > Generate a version of this photo that can be used as a coloring sheet

Close enough! The prompt I use is: > Make this a page in a colouring book. The drawing is in a simple Studio Ghibli portrait style. Bleed all the way to the edges. Background colour is #ffffff and lines are bold and #000000. There is no shading or crossthatching.

I think one thing that slightly drags this down is the Ghibli style produces images that don’t really look that much like the original people. If you can find a prompt that is still stylized while preserving more of the characteristics of faces would go a long way on the personalization front. Maybe easier said than done.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Not sure if you're aware, but if you're interested in SEO/AEO marketing, there's very healthy monthly traffic for long-tail searches in this area. Some searches getting towards 100K per month. Love the idea! Good luck.

Where do you get that from?

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't look particularly Miyazaki style to me; it's just a generic cartoon style. I think the Ghiblipocalypse has gotten people on edge.

OP confirmed that their prompt includes a directive for Ghiblification. Given that Miyazaki is known to hate GenAI I really can't condone... I mean there's nothing anyone can do about it but it's just kind of sad.

Yeah can we stop spreading this misinformation. His quote was in reference to grotesque nature of something he saw.

> Miyazaki was shown an AI-generated character. The character was a scary monster that used its head as a leg because it couldn’t feel pain. The person presenting it said its movements could be used in making a zombie video game.

To which he stated:

> Every morning, not in recent days, I see my friend who has a disability. It’s so hard for him just to do a high five; his arm with stiff muscle can’t reach out to my hand. Now, thinking of him, I can’t watch this stuff and find it interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is. I’m utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

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