Tag: AI Art
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The Invisible Library…
I have recently dived into the Invisible Library series by Genevieve Cogman. With alternate worlds, Magic, fae and dragons in the mix, the series is full of page-turning adventure and whodunnits.
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Wanting to include graphics with reading entries…
I have been putting an increasing amount of thought into images to go with my notes about books I read. I like the idea of something for WHERE the book took me, a way to represent the places I explored within its pages. There is also a lot to be said for a sticker that…
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An Incredible Poppy Makes A Brilliant Sticker
I am never satisfied with the detail I get on deep red flowers. I feel my camera struggles to capture everything my eye sees. I was delighted when AI’s painting brought out the texture and detail of the petals on these flowers, it was a confirmation this poppy was a good choice to convert into…
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From Simple Garden Flowers To Dynamic Painting
As much as I loved this photo out of the camera, AI turned it into an even better sticker with only a few minor tweaks. Converted into a painting, and a few dead blooms pruned, and voila!
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Alaska’s Inside Passage
A place where countless visitors to the state make memories. I tried both ChatGPT and Gemini AI for this prompt, and was intrigued by the “expedition” word choice ChatGPT initially came back with. Adventure was a closer fit for the attitude of my journal entry.
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Shinto Shrine Sticker Fun
This view of the gate for the Shinto Shrine, with a wood plaque with Kanji on it in the foreground felt like it captured the feel of the sight — both the architecture and “not in America” when I took the photo. For my journal sticker I wanted to feed into that traditional feel, have…
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Shinto Shrine Roofline Detail
There is amazing artistry and detail in the roofs of the shrines, temples and cathedrals around the world! Time and again, they are a great place to see art and craftsmanship. I experimented with asking for a watercolor painting since that is a medium I often think of for Japanese art. The AI color balanced…
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A Harbor View With The Cruise Ship At Anchor
Sometimes I get a photo that is really close to what I want to put in my journal, but not quite. More and more, those get turned into stickers. Here I was able to pull out what called to my heart as I took the photo, reminding why I had stood there and pulled out…
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Shinto Shrine — A Little Painting Magic
My original photo had a lot of random people in it. That was authentic, but not the vibe I wanted for my journal entry and accompanying sticker. I started by using the magic eraser to remove people. An oil painting style sticker was a short hop skip and a jump away.
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The Rare Beauty Of A Bald Eagle In Unobstructed Flight
Nothing blocking my sight of the eagle, nothing behind him obscuring my view of the eagle or his wings. This felt like a rare, truly beautiful photo. And what a gorgeous sticker AI painted from it!
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Mount Fuji — From Photo to Painted Sticker
Getting any picture of the often shy Mount Fuji is hard enough. Getting exactly the photo one wants felt like asking for too much. I was thrilled just to have seen it! Then to turn my photo into a vibrant sticker to celebrate the day with felt perfect, for me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Whimsical and fun abstract swirl of color…
I asked AI for something whimsical and fun, an abstract swirl of color… I wanted something more defined than a doodle to add color to a page in my journal, but I didn’t want something I would look at and identify as a specific something — Microsoft Copilot delivered.
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Two different designs from the same inspiration — AI offered two styles
The first has more of a stained glass feel, where this one is more reminiscent of a rubber stamp, with an intricate inking job.
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AI enhanced my doodle and made it an eye catching wonder
Frequently, when I ask AI to help me design something inspired by one of my mandalas, I use words like flower or floral in my prompt… I like how the ovals take on petal and leaf like shapes.
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Out of the pages of a book comes a fantastical fairytale world…
Sometimes I give AI a prompt that simply describes the feeling I get reading a book, in this case I wanted to capture the feeling of a world coming from the very pages of a book I am reading…
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Windmills – inspired by Kinderdijk Holland
There is a lot to be said for scenery as well as color to brighten up my journal entries… and I have long been fascinated by the windmills in Holland. With the help of Gemini AI I came up with a few stickers using Kinderdijk as the inspiration.