Author: Grimoire Keeper
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Mount Fuji, Japan, Journal Sticker — Eki Stamp, But Not
I was not really thinking about eki stamps while in Japan. (Rubber stamps you can collect in stamp books while traveling around Japan.) Instead, I was making stamps for my journal to represent each of the places I went, sights I saw, towns I visited, etc.
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Pigeon Guillemot Drifting At Sea
There are times when it is tempting to say “AI saw the same thing I did in the original photo, and expressed it in the resulting painting/sticker.” But that doesn’t take into account the detail of the prompt or the thought that went into it. In this case, I told Gemini AI what I saw…
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Common Merganser — A Duck in Sitka
I have been attempting to learn more about recognizing birds when I see them. Part of how I have been doing that is photographing them, identifying them when I get back, then labeling them in my journals… but my photos aren’t always the best. Birds tend to be on the move — a fun photography…
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Totem Trail All To Ourselves in Sitka Alaska
In the Sitka National Historical Park is Totem Trail. A peaceful path along which stand totem poles that tower over the humans that take this walk. I wanted a sticker (or several really) to go with my journal entries about walking Totem Trail.
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A Bald Eagle at the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka Alaska
This beautiful Bald Eagle spends his days patiently posing for photos and helping humans learn about eagles. He was seriously injured, and thanks to medical care he received at the Alaska Raptor Center he has healed, but he will never fly again. When I think Sitka Alaska the first thing that comes to mind is…
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Sitka, Alaska — More Than Just A Cruise Port
Sitka has a fascinating Russian history, and some really interesting Russian shops in town. Combine that with the Bald Eagles, the Alaska Raptor Center (ARC), and Totem Poles and Sitka has a wide array of options for how to enjoy your time visiting.
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Having A Clue What You Want To End Up With Really Helps!
I started with a mandala I drew, colored and liked. I did not start with any idea what kind of sticker I wanted it to end up being in my journal other than “splash of color”. As a result, I went through a few different prompts, experimenting with how it could look, and trying to…
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Miami — For Some A Destination, For Others A Departure Point
I have seen the Monday through Friday side of the Miami / Fort Lauderdale metroplex, and I have seen each as a departure point for cruises. Depending on why you visit a given place, it seems like you pick up on a certain aspect of the character and vibe.
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Kodiak, Alaska — Deadliest Catch?
I was charmed by a fishing boat the appeared to bear the elegantly simple name “Alaskan” when I saw it in Kodiak. I thought it would make a great splash of color for my Kodiak journal page, but the challenge was two fold. How “tight” on the boat do I get, so I don’t lose…
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Chicago! A Wonderful City!
And of course AI made sure the bean is front and center. And how could I think of Chicago without thinking of O’Hare International Airport? Even when I didn’t get to stop for a visit in Chicago I get to change planes there.
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A Bird In Flight
There’s a lot to love in this photo, which led me to hope it had the right stuff to make a sticker for my journal from. Instead of turning to AI with a prompt, I used the BeCasso App, and clicked through the various art filters until I found the one that resonated with me.…
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Los Angeles Inevitably Got Me Thinking Anaheim
I am one of four kids, it is fair to say my parents spent more time at Disneyland than they anticipated when they first offered we could either have a birthday party, receive birthday presents, or go to an amusement park as a family for our birthday. We tried most of the likely suspects in…
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Los Angeles Journal Sticker
This sticker captures a lot of Los Angeles and its Hollywood magic. There’s even the state bear and a California Poppy. For those wondering where the Mickey Mouse and Disneyland imagery is, that’s down in Anaheim, technically a separate city from Los Angeles, so Gemini AI didn’t miss the mark., it followed the prompt.
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The First Journal Stickers I Made Were For Places — Like New York City!
I do most of my journaling while traveling, or right after I have read a good book—another form of Travel. I don’t always have a train ticket, museum ticket, or something tangible I want to paste into my journal, so I started making stickers. I wanted wants that could be dual purpose— something that represented…
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Liquid Sunshine Gauge in Ketchikan, Alaska…
Just steps from the cruise ship pier in Ketchikan is one of the most photographed places in town. The liquid sunshine gauge! What a great sense of humor they have about the rain that keeps their countryside so green. I wanted my sticker to capture the irony of visiting on a sunny day, and to…
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From Simple Mandala to Otherworldly Painting with Gemini AI
This drawing turned into an out of this world sticker with the help of a very basic prompt: Using my drawing as the basis, craft a dynamic painting with an otherworldly vibe
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Adding Depth And A Touch Of Zen To A Simple Mandala
This Mandala was already a nice sticker for the most part. I wished the background was a crisper white, but I could work on that. I decided to run it through Gemini AI not for a major transformation as I sometimes seek, but simply to add a little depth and focus on the Zen feel…
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AI Magic Transforms A Mandala Into Art
It was important to me that the rainbow color scheme I originally colored this mandala with carry through to the final sticker, so I mentioned that in my prompt.
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A Castle In Barcelona Becomes A Picture Perfect Painting
Recently, I have noticed I like to take photos that remind me of postcards or paintings. That observation led me to consider prompts not just related to postcards and paintings, but keyed to the place I took the picture. For instance, I took this photo near Barcelona on a past trip, so I requested a…
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Cherry Blossoms in Japan
A lot of my AI Art and stickers come from a moment of simple frustration. When I wish I had the artistic talent to capture what I am seeing as a painting, or transform what I am working into something a few levels up from what it currently is. To me, AI can be a…
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Otherworldly bioluminescent flower from a mandala I drew and colored
I absolutely love with decorative splash of color for my journal! Something to break up text, lighten the mood, and level up from a basic margin doodle.
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From simple gull in flight photo to stained glass with a little Gemini AI magic
I am finding “dynamic” is a surprisingly useful word in my AI image prompts. It is more descriptive than I think I originally gave it credit for being, and brings out greater contrast in colors, as well as vibrance.
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From simple human made and colored mandala to Gemini AI stained glass
I designed a simple mandala to use as a sticker in my journal, then colored it in on my tablet. Next I tried a few prompts with AI to make it look like a bit more than a basic doodle.
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A Mandala I colored…
A lot of my early stickers came from mandalas I colored, many I both designed and colored. When I asked Gemini AI to show me this one as stained glass it basically smoothed out the colors, but left the bold black lines as they were without adding any obvious ones. Perhaps it already looking a…
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Gemini AI dynamic watercolor painting of Osprey photograph I took
I really love the sticker from AI for this photo. It took the bird stretching its wings and moved them into a graceful pose that would have made for an amazing photo, but as it stands captures the wonder I felt spying on these Osprey in their nest.
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Gemini AI Atlantic Puffin… with a little manual editing, from one of my photos…
I probably spent more time on this one than I should have, but I really had high hopes for it. From original photo to final sticker I went through a lot of iterations. I didn’t want a photorealistic background, but I found I wanted some sense of the environment. I wanted a glow that immediately…
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Gemini AI painting from a sunset photo in Nova Scotia, Canada
Sunset as we sailed in Nova Scotia was an amazing mix of colors, made more magnificent by the darkness, but that was part of why I particularly wanted an image from this series as a painting for my journal. Something to lose the pixelation in the brushstrokes, and draw out the colors that were so…
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Gemini AI painting of Osprey I photographed in Maine
I really struggled with this one. Not only was it more photorealistic than I wanted, but the bird blends with the water more than I hoped it would in the painting. This is closer to I wanted, though the glow is brighter than I would like. I wanted something that highlighted the bird, without overpowering…
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Gemini AI watercolor of a helicopter from a photograph I took
There is something incredibly amazing about seeing a helicopter flying nearby. Seeing a Coast Guard helicopter performing a rescue at sea is amazing, and interesting to photograph, so I wanted a fun sticker to put in my journal about it. I really like the color of the sky, and the interesting texture and clouds. A…
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Gemini AI dynamic painting of Portland Headlight from my photograph
As you can see in this image, I went through with the clean up this photo tool and removed buildings. I wasn’t looking for realism out of the painting I wanted, I was looking to capture the feeling of excitement from sailing by the Portland Headlight.
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Gemini AI dynamic painting of Boston from a photo taken at sunset
I rarely think to keep the original photo with the AI art I generate from it, that’s something I am trying to get better about. This photo is from the series I took that led to this painting, which captures the silhouette of the skyline, and the dynamic colors of the setting sun. More and…
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Gemini AI dynamic painting of a bird photographed in Greenland
It took me several tried to get this one so I liked it. I found I wanted the bird in focus, sharp and identifiable, but I didn’t want the stone wall to have the same sharp photorealism. I found myself asking for adjustments to the foreground and background, wanting a dynamic painting that truly highlighted…
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AI Stained Glass Cruise Ship sailing by a Lighthouse stained glass
This is not from a photo! The majority of my prompts recently have been from my own photos, but sometimes I find myself prompting for an image based on the photo I wish I could have taken. As much fun as it is to photograph lighthouses as we sail past, sometimes I wonder what it…
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Gemini AI dynamic painting of a sunset at sea, from a photo I took
Love the colors in this one, and the way the sun reflected on the water
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Gemini AI dynamic watercolor of a lighthouse from one of my photos
I love the colors in this one, and how it took an interesting sky and amped it up to the max. The lighthouse was out on the tiny island of rocks, and as I photographed it I tried to imagine what the lighthouse keepers life must have been like a hundred years ago. This sticker…
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A dynamic watercolor from a photo of a bird using Gemini AI
I like the featured attempt a lot better than this splatter marked one from a second photo from the same series, but that could just be me.
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AI oil painting of a ship sailing out of Boston
I prompted for a cruise ship, and got something that is half sail boat, half cruise ship, so I can not say this is exactly what I was looking for, but it is striking to look at, so it gets points for making an interesting sticker, even if Copilot missed the intended mark.
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Designing A cruise ship at sea sticker for a travel journal
… with help from Gemini AI
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AI Generated Airplane Sticker for a travel journal entry
When I asked AI to generate a simple sketch of an airplane to use as a sticker in my journal I didn’t expect a “vintage” model plane as opposed to a modern jet… a reminder of the importance of word choice in prompts. That said, given I make stickers to add interest and character to…
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Oil Painting of a nebula with an abstract flair
Love the golden hues, with yellow and orange tones.
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Dynamic result from a prompt fail with Copilot AI
I tried a prompt requesting an oil painting inspired by the attached mandala with emphasis on color palette… the result is dynamic and fantastic – but missed the mark on the color palette given the below mandala is what I attached.
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stained glass window – surreal wildflower beneath an alien starscape inspired by a mandala
I attached a mandala, and sent a hope in to cyberspace that my poorly worded prompt would come up with something interesting, and WOW, what a result.
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One Mandala, three variations on seeing it as stained glass
Oil Painting, Water Color Painting, or simply as stained glass. The watercolor painting had me curious if Copilot AI could show it to me as a tattoo, in color, and simplified.
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A variety of results all from the same mandala and a few tweaks to a simple prompt
I didn’t ask for much… fireworks, stained glass, suncatcher… the only thing I really changed was the look or medium I asked for and that it be inspired by the mandala I originally included. The one exception was when I tried asking “as seen from a nearby hillside”.
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Cozy English Village and Abstract Painting Prompt to Copilot
I don’t know what I actually expected from a prompt that combined the concept of an abstract painting for a request for a cozy English village, but I really like the results Microsoft Copilot came back with. It is recognizable as the little village I wanted, yet not photorealistic or clearly defined… rather hinted at…