I just loved the messages while it is processing!
Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator
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#72The results are pretty cool, though it's a shame it cropped the edges.
https://brushify.art/result/aa4e68ae-d9de-4673-830e-f88032ec...
Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The photography industry would like to have a word with you.
Or all the (now dead) people who were saying the same things about photography.
Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator
#74Our watercolor filter produces pretty good results (the Flower Market filter which also happens to be the example shown): https://www.instapainting.com/assets
You can implement with something like this and simply train it against a watercolor image: https://github.com/yusuketomoto/chainer-fast-neuralstyle
Haven’t tried it with stable diffusion but you’d probably have more control and better results with a CNN like the one I linked.
Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator
#75I understand it's a side project but you do have a paid offering. So I am curious what are you doing with the images after they are processed?
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#76Super cool! Cnc painter next and make a business making custom cards for people!
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#77It 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..
It actually kind of excites me to see what kind of human creativity will blossom in the wake of AI. What art will humans eventually create that is so unique that it's obviously not AI? That's the exciting part, but it could be a difficult/long journey.
Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator
#78Would you be willing to share some details on the GIMP implementation? Are you actually generating brush strokes and "paint" the image or is it more filter based? The background effect looks like brush strokes to me, but are the details done in the same way?
Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator
#79Creating a watercolor filter which can be applied to an image dragged into a website element is on my list of Fun Things To Do Over The Holidays - but having previously looked at the the mechanics that need to feed into the filter ... well it looks like I'd be jumping down a rabbit hole of complex maths and generative art approaches[1][2]. It's a complex problem space and I'm not sure I have the brain power and tenac…
I guess you are right, the rabbit hole is quite deep. I spent a long time in it to make my own side-project: https://rembrob.com/
It is loosely based on the process described here: https://yunfei.work/watercolor/watercolor_pp.pdf and I though this can't be too hard...
I found it challenging to combine high resolution results with reasonable processing times.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The photography industry would like to have a word with you. Or all the (now dead) people who were saying the same things about photography.
Yeah and photographing art and claiming it is yours, is surely copyright infringement.
These disingenuous arguments are not taking the conversation forward.