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Re: Show HN: Creating custom coloring pages from photos. Great for parents/teachers

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Post by mkummer »

vidarh wrote: post #26

My immediate issue, as the father of a mixed son who has just witnessed him spend hours trying to represent his own appearance accurately for an art task at school: This turns black and mixed people into white-presenting caricatures of themselves. E.g. compare [1] and [2] where the hairstyles of the black people are turned into distinctly "white" hairstyles. My son's hair is closer in texture to that of the man on th…

With less "artistic license" [1]

We use a model but not a diffusion model + controlnet which is what I'm assuming this website does.

Would love any feedback on the results + site [2] – before it's asked: we do not use any user uploaded images for model training, they're only stored to show you the color version of your originally uploaded image

[1] https://static.dreamandcolor.com/aa828ad1-5696-4d4e-95eb-bcd...

[2] https://dreamandcolor.com/

Re: Show HN: Creating custom coloring pages from photos. Great for parents/teachers

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Post by mkummer »

withinboredom wrote: post #49

Does anyone know of a site that works without the gimmicky AI? Like it always seems to switch the sides of people, changing major details, etc. I just want a coloring page of the actual image I upload, not some AI's interpretation of it with creative licensing.

You could try out our site [1] – we use an AI model but not a diffusion model (like OP is) to convert photos to line art, the resulting lines are less "smooth" but it better represents the original image

[1] https://dreamandcolor.com/

Re: Show HN: Creating custom coloring pages from photos. Great for parents/teachers

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preinheimer wrote: post #41

The coloring page that should have shown my son and daughter sitting on a bench that looked like a bear waving magic wands… turned my son into a girl with Princess Leia hair, and my daughter into a anthropomorphized bear, no wands. Fun, but it’s no longer a special memory. There’s so little tying the source and result.

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Re: Show HN: Creating custom coloring pages from photos. Great for parents/teachers

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Post by codingdave »

mkummer wrote: post #51
vidarh wrote: post #26

My immediate issue, as the father of a mixed son who has just witnessed him spend hours trying to represent his own appearance accurately for an art task at school: This turns black and mixed people into white-presenting caricatures of themselves. E.g. compare [1] and [2] where the hairstyles of the black people are turned into distinctly "white" hairstyles. My son's hair is closer in texture to that of the man on th…

With less "artistic license" [1] We use a model but not a diffusion model + controlnet which is what I'm assuming this website does. Would love any feedback on the results + site [2] – before it's asked: we do not use any user uploaded images for model training, they're only stored to show you the color version of your originally uploaded image [1] https://static.dreamandcolor.com/aa828ad1-5696-4d4e-95eb-bcd... [2] h…

It still has the vibe of janky edge-detection that can be done without AI. Admittedly, less janky than pure edge detection but still not quite smooth enough that I'd pay for the results.

Also, just FYI, asking three different time across these comments for people to check out your site feels a bit spammy to me. I'd suggest you do your own 'Show HN' if you are trying to engage with the community here for feedback.

Re: Show HN: Creating custom coloring pages from photos. Great for parents/teachers

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Post by stephenhuey »

DannyPage wrote: post #48

I really think this should have GenAI in the title on the webpage or on here, because it's taking the source photo and making best guesses while creating details out of whole cloth. This isn't just "another photo filter", it's instead taking the picture and running with it with sometimes pretty poor results. For example, I used a random selfie of me on the beach and big rocks in the water, wearing dark sunglasses and…

When I saw this posted late last night, I was pretty excited since I have kids, but then realized it's just determining the basic idea of what it sees in the photo, and then drawing a new image from scratch that has those elements. What I wanted is something that takes the original photo and removes things from the image until we're left with some basic line drawings, so that the people in the coloring book actually look like the people in the photo! Their examples very obviously show how different the resulting image is from the original. If Google allowed you to search by saying "Find me a coloring book image where a dad is sitting behind 2 kids with his arms around them, and the daughter is on the left and the son is on the right" then we'd end up with results almost as good.

I'm no Photoshop expert, but someone else in this discussion pointed out that Photoshop has some filters or other tools that do edge detection and can yield much more accurate results. If the techniques could be replicated in a SaaS then you'd have a much better product. Of course, if it could be done in a desktop Mac app or an iOS app, I might choose that for privacy reasons.

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