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DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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I’ve spent just over 1 week with DALL•E 2. Over the past 7 days I’ve generated ~1000 images, 150 of which were good enough to save. I only saved images which made me audibly gasp. Witnessing your own novel idea spring to life is a magical experience. DALL•E provides an artistic tool on a comparable level to digital photography, and by extension Photoshop. At this stage it’s 100% clear to me that DALL•E has heralded i…

How long did it take for you to generate your images? I've been using https://www.craiyon.com/ for fun but the wait times always results in me getting distracted elsewhere.

My average generation time for 4 images is around 4 - 8 seconds. It has been much faster than craiyon.

Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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I’ve spent just over 1 week with DALL•E 2. Over the past 7 days I’ve generated ~1000 images, 150 of which were good enough to save. I only saved images which made me audibly gasp. Witnessing your own novel idea spring to life is a magical experience. DALL•E provides an artistic tool on a comparable level to digital photography, and by extension Photoshop. At this stage it’s 100% clear to me that DALL•E has heralded i…

How long did it take for you to generate your images? I've been using https://www.craiyon.com/ for fun but the wait times always results in me getting distracted elsewhere.

OpenAI's DALLE UI takes on average <10 seconds to come back with four generations once you submit your prompt.

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I’ve spent just over 1 week with DALL•E 2. Over the past 7 days I’ve generated ~1000 images, 150 of which were good enough to save. I only saved images which made me audibly gasp. Witnessing your own novel idea spring to life is a magical experience. DALL•E provides an artistic tool on a comparable level to digital photography, and by extension Photoshop. At this stage it’s 100% clear to me that DALL•E has heralded i…

Honestly, I have a great use case for it currently, but then I realized it can only do square pictures, when I really want something that is much wider than it is tall.

Try MidJourney; 25 free images i think, any aspect ratio

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I haven't filled out much content yet but seeing this post originally inspired me to create Prompt Wiki[0] to try and better organize terms and concepts for good prompts. DALL-E and Midjourney explorers needed! Seems useful to have, especially when the act of exploration costs a few cents.

This twitter thread[1] also has some good suggestions and an interesting approach.

[0] https://promptwiki.com

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/155422934750...

Re: DALL·E 2 prompt book [pdf]

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I can’t help but feel that I’m missing out on doing all kinds of get-there-first projects made DALL-E. I know it’s not productive to focus on that but it’s a big barrier to getting excited about it.

How so? It’s a cool thing that creates cool things. How does “maybe something else was their first” effect that at all? DALL-E had a million things that had to be there first before it could do its magic. How does that fact take away from the excitement of the new realm of capability we have access to today?

Because only a certain few folks have access to DALL-E 2. I haven't got the invite and every day the ideas I was going to run with are already being done by others. Sure you can still do it, but it's not the same as a frontier where you can get the high, success, cash and fame out of a lot of easy ideas by being the first to do them. Eventually it's just a tool and you find a harder and more obscure niche to fill with it, despite how magical it is or how it makes your life/work potentially easier.

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I can’t help but feel that I’m missing out on doing all kinds of get-there-first projects made DALL-E. I know it’s not productive to focus on that but it’s a big barrier to getting excited about it.

There's no API and using their internal API gets you banned, so you're not missing out on any get-rich-from-VCs-quick-by-wrapping-OpenAI-in-a-different-shell opportunities like there were with GPT3 yet.

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I haven't got access to DALL-E 2, but I did give Midjourney (https://www.midjourney.com/) a go. I found it really cool it created images that somewhat resembled my prompt, but I still felt it was way off what I really wanted. Maybe I didn't word the prompt correctly, maybe I didn't give it enough tries. Either way, I feel like we'll eventually move away from generic prompts to something that'll look a lot like...programming, funnily enough.
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