Tag: travel
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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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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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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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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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Iconic sailboat with red sails in Bar Harbor Maine as AI Art
Over a decade ago I went on a trip to Bar Harbor, Maine. To this day I remember seeing a sailboat in the harbor, with brilliant red sails. I tried to generate some stickers with that in mind.
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A world map representing a dream cruise…
This isn’t what I had in mind when I asked AI to create an image (paraphrasing here) representing a cruise to amazing locations I can only dream of going to… it seemed like one of several prompts worth trying for an image to go in my journal with an entry about bucket list dreams and…
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A seat with a view — Air travel
This is a fun sticker I came up with, using Google Gemini to go with entries at the beginning or end of a trip… a nice sketch to capture the sense of going on an airplane.
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Vacation sticker — Cruise
At the top of my post is my favorite of the images I got when I tried to prompt a sticker to put in my journal at the beginning of a cruise. I wanted to capture both the cruise aspect and the relaxed, not in my normal “work uniform” vibe which is why I put…
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A graphic to go with a travel entry…
I wanted something interesting to put in my journal with a travel entry, and I really love this one, it feels familiar and otherworldly to me all at once, like it’s almost a place I could go, yet seems just out of reach, but bucket list worthy. The kind of place a travelers dreams are…
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Microsoft Designer has learned I like magical, ethereal and otherworldly…
Even when I don’t put the words magical, ethereal or otherworldly in my prompts, find Microsoft Designer tends to lean towards those elements automatically in the results it generates for me, because I have used those descriptors in so many requests. In this case I was actually asking for a sticker to go with a…