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Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

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Post by synapticpaint »

wongarsu wrote: post #33
synapticpaint wrote: post #32

It sounds like your app turns photos into a watercolor style image? You can definitely do this faster with Stable Diffusion (~6s per image before optimization). Here's how I would approach it: train a dreambooth model on watercolor style images, then run image-to-image using that model. For examples of what dreambooth models can do see: https://synapticpaint.com/dreambooth/info/ (sample images here generated using a…

Stable Diffusion on beefy hardware is faster than OPs process in OPs docker container, but I don't think we can judge from this that OP uses a slower process. For all we know this is running on the equivalent of a $10 Digital Ocean droplet.

That's true. I just wanted to provide some context for OP and others reading since they mentioned an interest in AI generation, and I think not everyone knows that dreambooth + stable diffusion has this kind of capability.

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

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Post by synapticpaint »

rlv-dan wrote: post #37
synapticpaint wrote: post #32

It sounds like your app turns photos into a watercolor style image? You can definitely do this faster with Stable Diffusion (~6s per image before optimization). Here's how I would approach it: train a dreambooth model on watercolor style images, then run image-to-image using that model. For examples of what dreambooth models can do see: https://synapticpaint.com/dreambooth/info/ (sample images here generated using a…

This comment make me sad. Replacing human creativity with "ai" is like we've reached the peak so no need to put any effort into life anymore..

I don't think that AI image generation in its current form replaces human creativity. You still need a human to guide the process, compose the image, judge the output, etc. What's being automated is the manual, traditional process of painting and drawing.

I see this technology as more analogous to hand writing books -> printing. I predict that more people, not less, will be involved in creative industries related to visual arts (design, film, illustration, animation, etc.) as a result of this technology becoming more accessible.

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

synapticpaint wrote: post #63
rlv-dan wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment make me sad. Replacing human creativity with "ai" is like we've reached the peak so no need to put any effort into life anymore..

I don't think that AI image generation in its current form replaces human creativity. You still need a human to guide the process, compose the image, judge the output, etc. What's being automated is the manual, traditional process of painting and drawing. I see this technology as more analogous to hand writing books -> printing. I predict that more people, not less, will be involved in creative industries related to…

That's skipping over all the skill and training needed to draw, well, what most of us are unable to draw.

We can all write words with a pencil. That's not the same as drawing an original character or scene with skill.

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

rlv-dan wrote: post #37
synapticpaint wrote: post #32

It sounds like your app turns photos into a watercolor style image? You can definitely do this faster with Stable Diffusion (~6s per image before optimization). Here's how I would approach it: train a dreambooth model on watercolor style images, then run image-to-image using that model. For examples of what dreambooth models can do see: https://synapticpaint.com/dreambooth/info/ (sample images here generated using a…

This comment make me sad. Replacing human creativity with "ai" is like we've reached the peak so no need to put any effort into life anymore..

Yes, this is different from much of art history. Instead of coming up with original characters or styles or backgrounds and palettes, we just ask a computer to do it all and usually by copying somebody that can do those things.

Art will take a hit to be sure, and the brunt of it will be taken by artists with actual skills.

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

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Post by nfriend »

nfriend wrote: post #59
nfriend wrote: post #16

Sorry all for the long wait times! Was not expecting much interest. At the very least, I need to look into removing photos from the queue when people exit the page.

Moving it to a larger AWS instance - will be down for a few minutes!

Done - upgraded to a t3.xlarge. Now it can process 4 images in parallel. Still not enough to keep up with HN demand, but it should chew through the queue a _bit_ faster.
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