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Show HN: Create a portrait painting from one photo
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Re: Show HN: Create a portrait painting from one photo
#32Examples look like pretty basic Photoshop filters circa 20 years ago.
Genuine question then, how do you do something like this with PS or Gimp?
Lots of layers and lots of mattes. You take any picture of a person, and matte them out of the background. You then find a background you like, and arrange as you see fit. You then find whatever hair style you like, and matte it in as well. Plenty of other filters involved as well. Hell, you can even play with this stuff in Illustrator to get the "painted" look by converting to vectors.
How many magazine covers do you see and actually believe that was anything close to what the original image looked like? I have no idea how long this thing takes, but I'm guessing it's helluva lot faster than a person in PS, and it will be doable with anybody with zero amount of talent required.
To think it couldn't be done in PS is just lack of knowing good PS artists.
Re: Show HN: Create a portrait painting from one photo
#33I’ve deployed something similar for Instapainting using convolutional texture nets: https://www.instapainting.com/assets . This is some 5+ year old stuff but with hand-picked models still stands up against newer stuff albeit limited to select styles. I assume this is using newer generative techniques like stable diffusion.
Interesting to know how things were done before the generative AI wave, and yes this is based on stable diffusion
Re: Show HN: Create a portrait painting from one photo
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You're conflating "art commonly created by these AI-powered image generators" with "art that AI is capable of". Just because most people create things that you categorise as kitsch should not fool you into thinking that's an inherent limitation. There's almost no limit to the kind of images that can be created given the right input. Unless you want to define kitsch as "anything that an AI image generator is capable o…
You are absolutely right regarding the capabilities. Although many image generators now seem to be fine-tuned to output impressive but formulaic art by default, to ensure a good first-impression for a broad audience. Midjourney for example has always been great at generating very "cool" art easily, but seems to be less versatile and always tends towards that same people-pleasing style.
Yes - I've noticed these trends as well. I still have a fondness for the quirks and limitations of the earlier generation models Disco Diffusion and it's kin.
Sadly it's become quite hard to run some of these due to bit rot and the fact that "pinning your Python dependencies" doesn't appear to have ever been a thing for large sections of the ML dev community.
Re: Show HN: Create a portrait painting from one photo
#35Could really use a $3 or $5 credit pack. $10 is a bit big to jump into without trying it out.
there are some free credits to try things out if you sign in
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#36It's nicely presented, good job! Unfortunately with my free credit it came up half baked, as grayscale with some color splotches and without the background I described. The caricature rendition of my supplied photo is very good.
Re: Show HN: Create a portrait painting from one photo
#37One interesting development from generative AI is that it has opened a lot more people's eyes to seeing kitsch. Professional artists generally don't see great value in the style of art exemplified by these AI-powered image generators. It tends to be formulaic, derivative, and melodramatic with all the high-contrast portraits and sunsets and oversaturated pastoral landscapes. But popular taste has been in many ways st…
I think I generally agree with this take, with the caveat that I still hugely value AI generated art, even the kitsch stuff. Why? Because it's me. I wouldn't have been able to have a portrait of my wife and I together without finding an artist and commissioning a painting. Now, I can have something that is personalized, pleasant to look at, and meaningful. Even if it isn't an original style or anything noteworthy artistically, I hugely value the AI art because it can give me something that I want, that is meaningful to me.
Re: Show HN: Create a portrait painting from one photo
#38Okay this is sweet. My wife is gonna love this lol.
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Re: Show HN: Create a portrait painting from one photo
#40One interesting development from generative AI is that it has opened a lot more people's eyes to seeing kitsch. Professional artists generally don't see great value in the style of art exemplified by these AI-powered image generators. It tends to be formulaic, derivative, and melodramatic with all the high-contrast portraits and sunsets and oversaturated pastoral landscapes. But popular taste has been in many ways st…
I think I generally agree with this take, with the caveat that I still hugely value AI generated art, even the kitsch stuff. Why? Because it's me. I wouldn't have been able to have a portrait of my wife and I together without finding an artist and commissioning a painting. Now, I can have something that is personalized, pleasant to look at, and meaningful. Even if it isn't an original style or anything noteworthy art…
> pleasant to look at
That is very subjective. Mass market art loses appeal fast, popular turns common, what is unique steals the spotlight and tastes change.
I can see best quality AI generated custom portraits being as pleasant to look at as selfies.