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05-23-2023 02:38 PM
As of today Adobe has released a beta version of Photoshop that has Firefly AI integrated into it. Access this on your Cloud app by going to Beta apps and installing it. It's still in beta so still no commercial use.
The new thing it now has (as of today) is inpainting and outpainting. That puts it in competition to DALL-E2. The edge it has over DALL-E2 is it's integrated into Photoshop. No downloading here and uploading there and bopping between apps. It's a seamless workflow.
It's still meh at generation but it's in beta. Adobe will work that out. I asked it to generate a table set for a celebration. I got this:
The forks are awful so I used inpainting hoping for better forks. Not any better.
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05-23-2023 08:25 PM
I don't think DALL-E2 is any better.
I'm actually confused about whether I made these with DALL-E or DALL-E2 - It's whatever you get when you go to: https://labs.openai.com/
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05-23-2023 02:42 PM
I tried outpainting. Bad. I also tried removing the plate so that this would work as a mockup for a favor box. No dice. It kept adding new and different plates with different napkins. Is DALL-E2 any better? No. It did the exact same thing. "Empty plain tablecloth" was not an option.
It's not ready to use commercially here (want to use it for mockups) but that it isn't yet allowed. Because it's beta they ask for feedback so I requested the ability to have negative prompts such as "no plates".
By 2024, Firefly will be breathtaking, I have no doubt. The forks suck today. In several months they will be fine.
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05-23-2023 03:46 PM
I have no interest in using AI for now. I am going to wait to see what the legal ramifications are and what my reporting responsibilities would be. Do I have to tag them on zazzle. Do I have to use a validation stamp other places. For now I am focusing on my core businesses. Until and if it becomes mission critical I am just ignoring it.
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05-23-2023 08:25 PM
I don't think DALL-E2 is any better.
I'm actually confused about whether I made these with DALL-E or DALL-E2 - It's whatever you get when you go to: https://labs.openai.com/
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05-24-2023 02:35 AM - edited 05-24-2023 02:40 AM
That fork that morphs into a champagne flute cracks me up.
That's DALL-E2. The first iteration was DALL-E1 but they don't put either number as the website title. Supposedly DALL-E3 is coming soon. Maybe it will get better at flatware. Firefly has a way to go too. But it's early days.
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05-24-2023 12:11 PM
Yeah, honestly I haven't had much luck getting anything photo-realistic out of it - maybe some landscapes and stuff like that, though it has trouble with things like leaves and branches. For abstract stuff, or something that's supposed to look like a painting it does better - which I think is partially because if it looks like a painting the viewer has different expectations about how much realism to expect.
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05-24-2023 02:15 PM
I use NightCafe and was working last night on trying to get something I could use for door mat mock ups. I got a lot like this one for example
that I thought were really pretty and surprisingly photo-realistic (enough for a cover that's not going to be analyzed in excruciating detail) but I can't get the angle / composition right to be closer in and have more porch floor and less door/wall.
I think there is so much potential in this AI generation but it's not the easy magic some think it is. You (and I mean that in a general sense not you specifically 😉 ) can't just enter a few words and presto have exactly what you want. There's a learning curve for the promptist, it takes time and practice and trial & error, with the randomness of AI thrown in. I liken it to tie-dying. You can follow best practices according to what you have both read and learned first-hand, but you still never know just what the outcome will be until you unwrap and rinse it .
Adobe's Firefly sounds interesting and convenient but I already have issues with Photoshop (I do pay the monthly subscription for the legit licensed version) so for now my AI experimenting will have to remain web-based.
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05-24-2023 02:35 PM - edited 05-24-2023 02:37 PM
Angles are so difficult. I have tried so hard to recreate the slight angles that the mockups have. A table tilted slightly downward. A doormat seen from above but also from the left and not too far above. And so on. Once I went down the rabbit hole of trying to describe the exact slant that surfaces are angled at in Zazzle's mockups so I could recreate it in AI, I just about lost my mind. There is photorealism (that fails sometimes, those forks!!) but there is not control.
It can also be quite difficult to remove things entirely and leave a blank space. If you could get the entrance at the right angle to showcase your doormat, you'd have to also remove the existing doormat. AI right now seems to have a tendency to want to put objects in spaces and not leave them blank. Part of being trained on stock photography I suppose. Firefly was trained on Adobe stock so it skews very heavily to wanting to put objects in places. Leaving blank floor or table or wall to showcase your product is just not on its' agenda right now. Welp, it's still in beta so commercial use isn't allowed anyhow.
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05-24-2023 04:25 PM
That's true. I started off with prompts that specifically included a door mat in the scene so there'd be the space there to overlay my own. Then I evolved a couple of them, using inpainting to get rid of the door mat and got things like this:
Not bad but still not good for a cover as the mat would only be like 1/3rd of the image instead of the focus. (The one on the left I re-did countless times with inpainting and it kept insisting on making the wall red and the larger pot all warped.)
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05-24-2023 03:44 PM
That's actually not bad, but I totally get what you're saying in terms of the angles and perspective. AI doesn't seem to understand prepositions! At one point I had a bright idea that I'd use the outpainting feature to create some mockups - uploading the cutout mockup from Zazzle. I could only laugh at the results!
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05-24-2023 03:47 PM
😃Oh my! And down at the bottom is the AI signature horrible fork.
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05-24-2023 03:56 PM
Bwahahaha! The fork of horror - mark of the AI! 😂
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