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Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by jen729w »

Something1234 wrote: post #41
ipaddr wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In fairness no artists are advertising a personal coloring book. The time, effort and cost would put this out of reach for 99.99 of people. No artists are losing income because of this and no industry is being upended. This is a new product that's available because of a technology advanced. Why the focus the artist? Everytime you order in food online you take away a tip from a host, server, bartender and take away a…

And yet there’s plenty of adult coloring books made by a human out there if you’re willing to go to a brick and mortar shop. Got a super cool one from dick blicks, with a lot of underwater scenes. Also paper quality is important. I can’t imagine getting as far as I did in mine if it was newspaper

My partner makes one! Go grab a copy if you're in Australia, the wonderful POP local -- started as POP Canberra -- sells them.

https://www.poplocal.com.au/product/bum-man-colouring-book/

He's 'Bum Man'. A man (actually it's asexual) who is a bum. I mean c'mon.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by darajava »

ks2048 wrote: post #74

Suggestions: * one full PDF (including cover) of an example book. * don't use AI images as examples - it's not obvious if the outline version will look as good on real images.

Thank you, I agree and I'll update the example photos.

I didn't add a PDF but I added some photos of the real end product to the bottom of the landing page now.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by darajava »

ks2048 wrote: post #71

Can you preview the images? I uploaded one image and don't see the outline-version.

No, it's not a real-time process. We have an admin panel to generate the images, cover and PDF. There is a good bit of human input involved.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by darajava »

vunderba wrote: post #8

You'll want to really drive home the niche (through your feature set) that it's for family photos, because the generic photo to AI vectorized coloring book service has been done to death.

Can you show me an example? I think before 2-3 days ago this wasn't really possible without the output images looking really bad.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by darajava »

ks2048 wrote: post #55

This is a great idea and looks well done. I wonder if printing services (Lulu?) have a automatic API or if it requires some manual intervention? (And the shipping part?)

Thanks! There is a good bit of manual effort involved on our side - we generate the images, regen any that don't look great, choose the best cover, and then send the PDF to Lulu. It's dropshipped, we never see the physical book.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by darajava »

sabslikesobs wrote: post #53

Do you ever handle the physical book, or is this a fully automated drop-shipping operation?

There is a good bit of manual effort involved on our side before we send the book to print - we generate the images, regen any that don't look great, choose the best cover, and then send the PDF to Lulu. Yes it's dropshipped, we never see the physical book.

Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service

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Post by darajava »

transformi wrote: post #42

Why don't you use canny/HED filter :O? (seems pretty overkill for this job..)

Canny filter: https://i.imgur.com/Ju7Ggac.png

Sora: https://clevercoloringbook.com/samples/3_cartoon.png

I've had this idea years ago and searched extensively for a way to turn images into nice line art, but it turns out there needs to be a good bit of creativity (AI) to do so. Old school computer science techniques don't cut it.

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