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

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Post by newman8r »

stevels wrote: post #14
newman8r wrote: post #10

used a fake email, but when the processing was done, it didn't work and asked me to pay for something.

The tool is not perfect. Sometimes it does not fully understand the image content. Also, right now, the image is slightly watermarked, but perfectly fine for using as coloring page. And it seems personalized coloring page is very popular, we actually just decided to make the coloring pages free of watermarks, as our minor contribution to education. Will change the code to make that happen soon (in a few days).

Sure - I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining - I think the tool could be very neat. Would be great to be able to use it easily without any email, at least for the initial trial.

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

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Post by jotaen »

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…

Another – presumably coincidental – issue with images [1] and [2] is that there is a person missing. I assume that’s not related to skin colour, but to me it adds to the slightly irritating effect of how the resulting images may be disconnected from human reality in ways that would commonly be understood as disrespectful. (Not to speak of the “usual” AI problems, such as additional fingers, stray body parts, etc.)

[1]: https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/group1_original_1024....

[2]: https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/group1_coloring_page_...

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

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Post by hacb »

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…

Thanks for pointing this out, seriously. As a white european guy, I'd probably never have thought of this issue, that's an important reminder about our biases

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

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Post by mhuffman »

hyperific wrote: post #58

For significantly less compute you could make pretty good coloring book pages just using different edge detection methods or simply using the stamp filter in Photoshop.

I actually used this exact method in the early 2000s to make "coloring books" for local businesses using their own photographs. They would give them out and use them for marketing.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

stephenhuey wrote: post #59
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…

> 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've been using Stable Diffusion, and more recently Bing (app) and now GPT-4/Dall-E 3 (ChatGPT app) for that very purpose, with quite good success rate. It's perfect for when my daughter randomly asks me for a coloring page with a dancing vacuum cleaner or such. Dall-E is quite good at this, all you need to do is tack "in the style of a children coloring book" or such to the end of your prompt.

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

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Post by derwiki »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #3
derwiki wrote: post #2

Could be neat, but I’m really dissuaded by requiring an email signup to try it out

Use a personal domain with a default address that filters to a mailbox then use a different email address for every site you use. This plus random passwords from a password manager contains the privacy leakage, blast radius of credential loss, and keeps your mail spam free.

I have that and do that, but it still dissuaded me from using this service. I may have a large tinfoil bat but I still have some standards.

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

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Post by derwiki »

stevels wrote: post #6
derwiki wrote: post #2

Could be neat, but I’m really dissuaded by requiring an email signup to try it out

Have to send user notification in email, because the processing queue could be long.

I’m happy refreshing for results. I really don’t want to “sign up” until I know I’m happy with the results.

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

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Post by colanderman »

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…

No to mention the hand on the shoulder of the dude on the right in [2] has six fingers...

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

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Post by brobertson »

xnx wrote: post #44
latexr wrote: post #31

> #1 Photo to Art App According to whom? There’s just that sentence, surrounded by laurel leaves, above five stars. Zero indication of where that award/rating came from. Did you make it up?

This one calls itself "#1 AI coloring page generator" https://colorbliss.art/

oh dang, i forgot to put in my source. Thanks for calling that out - I fixed it for you!

https://colorbliss.art

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