#image prompting

[deepdreamnights]

Midjourney Image Prompting vs Style Prompting

Top Left - image prompt + text prompt Top Right - Style prompt + text prompt Bottom Right - image prompt + style prompt + text prompt Bottom Left - Just text prompt.

Prompt used for the above images: space and planets in astronomy, in the style of detailed fantasy art, multilayered realism, dark violet and gold, xbox 360 graphics, clockpunk, transportcore, detailed penciling:: an image of a man riding a wave, in the style of dark white and teal, flickr, close up, naturalistic ocean waves, andreas achenbach, 3840x2160, helios 44-2 58mm f/2

(still) Playing around with Midjourney's new style prompting system, to demonstrate what exactly it does and how.

Style prompting isn't the same as style transfer, which was an early deep-art process that used a single image as a style reference. It's a glorified filter by current standards, but it produced neat effects, and you can still get the done at places like deepdreamgenerator if you're so inclined, though you have to dig for it.

I did, however, use an old style transfer piece as my image input for the style and image prompting experiment here. Both style and image prompting work in essentially the same way, by using the AI's image-recognition/checker function to examine a submitted image, which gets broken down into the token-language the AI uses the same way a text prompt does. Those tokens are then used as part of the prompt.

Image prompting uses all the tokens, while style prompting filters out all the ones not associated with 'style', though the AI is pretty wacky with that.

Left, image, right its style prompt. As you can see, it's more 'vibe-y' than accurate, especially when preturbed by the text prompt. Because no pixel data gets utilized, the robot essentially has to describe the picture to itself and reproduce it from memory.

In essence, it's just like /describe or clip interrogator, only it doesn't translate the tokens back into text.

For concepts that don't have a lot of lingual distinction but do have aesthetic distinction, it really helps the process. Very useful for vintage aesthetics that MJ normally bucks against.

But the real fun has been using it to recreate the kind of generative madness earlier models that weren't as coherent could produce, only now with some additional coherency (with a lot of coaxing).

The real fun comes with mixing very, very different styles (you can use up to 3 per prompt)

That's a future post.

[sakuravalenp]

He's supposed to be invincible - DC X DP

Just something random that came to my mind.

So, Danny ends up being adopted/fostered by Bruce just months before Damian arrives at the manor, the how and why is your choice, but the GIW is still a threat. 

Now, Danny catches Damian attacking Tim the first time and instead of telling the rest of the family or scolding Damian, he went lik:

“You haven't even defeated me, and you think you have a right to attack Tim? Get in line, kid.”

And so Damian understands that to get the right to fight against Tim, he needs to get rid of Danny first. Climb the power pyramid, if you will. And so, Damian starts his assassination attempts against Danny. 

But here's the thing: Danny is making absolutely no effort to stop him, he just takes the attempts. The first time, Damian successfully stabs Danny, and goes to announce his victory over Danny to his father. Bruce rushes to Danny, worried for his safety, and finds him just chilling there, not a single drop of blood or injury. Damian is gapping.

“Oh yeah, the kid beat me in a round of hide and seek. He’s pretty good.”

Bruce is relieved and pats Damian’s head, not noticing his utter confusion. And so a cartoon-like montage starts: Damian attacks Danny and claims victory, but Danny is completely fine, and says Damian won at some random game. Everyone thinks the two are super close, and that Damian’s excitement about winning is super cute. 

Eventually, positive enforcement wears Damian down, because everyone congratulates him and gives him affection for winning the “stupid things” Danny comes up with. He gradually calms down and integrates pretty well. Danny does end up being his closest sibling because he’s the only one that actually knows all of Damian. The only one Damian could attack with zero restraint and still be treated the same. 

But the important thing here is: Danny becomes an invincible figure in Damians mind. He could be stabbed, decapitated, poisoned, and still come back like nothing happened.

So surely, when Phantom is shot out of the sky by a Blood Blossom, surely he’ll just stand back up in a minute like always. Surely, he’s just waiting to get back to the cave to pretend like he always did for Damian. Surely, he’s just putting on a show on the medbay. 

But hours go by, and he’s still pretending. Still looking pale. Still keeping his eyes closed.

Damian doesn’t understand why he hasn’t bounced back yet. He should be okay by now. Alfred is moving around, changing the IV,dabbing Danny’s head with a damp cloth. There’s commotion outside as everyone is trying to get an antidote.

But this shouldn’t be happening. 

Danny is invincible.

Danny should be back to normal already.

So Damian starts shaking Danny. Screaming to stop pretending and tell them he was beaten in some stupid game again. To open his eyes already. 

Father is pulling him away, trying to calm him down, but he keeps struggling in his arms, because he’s getting Danny to wake up. 

And he doesn’t notice the tears falling down his face until he runs out of energy, and all that’s left is hiccuping in his father’s arms.

...

So… yeah, that’s what my mind supplied today while on the bus :)

Maybe one day I'll write it, but I don't have time, so I would love to see someone else's take on it.

[lemonebar]

hermit-a-day! friends of hermitcraft!!!!!!!!

[clori-eden]

~ Contrasting Reflections ~

Another weekly prompt that I did for the Linked Universe Discord. The theme was opposites/contrast, and I couldn't help but think of Legend and Ravio and how Hyrule and Lorule contrast eachother.

[but-sometimes-im-not]

phoenix, 2024 post-s2. the Bentley has been left untouched for so long that a nightingale family has made a nest under her grille. nothing will ever be as it was, but something new will be reborn.

[spookberry]

"danny's ghost side struggles to leave amity park (his haunt) behind when the class goes on a field trip "

Happy Holiday Truce @sillysugargliders !!! I was your assigned gifter. I kept it kinda short, but I still hope you like it 😊

[nelkcats]

The Great One

Far Frozen is not the only place with carvings of a half-ghost hero, and Danny has been inadvertently traveling between dimensions during his adventures, causing impacts both good and bad.

For one thing, carvings of his battles with Vlad are in Themyscira itself, assessed by an excited young Diana who wonders if such a being really existed, someone who relentlessly pursued evil and fought for justice. The young Amazon spent days admiring the murals, much to the dismay of her mother who was unsure if this happening was a good thing or not. In a way it was part of the reason she decided to leave her island later in life so maybe a mix of both.

Elsewhere, in Nanda Parbat, Ra reflects on murals of a creature bathed in shadows and ice, toxic green eyes that betray his connections to the afterlife and razor sharp fangs. A story for children who fear monsters under their bed, except that his family has proof that it existed, the Lazarus pits only served to confirm their theories. Ra thinks this is what the powerful deserves, immortality.

Even Arthur has found his castle walls filled with carvings of two creatures chasing each other, like day and night. There are tales of how they set the city ablaze in a single day, causing irreparable damage but not taking a single life despite their battles. Beings driven by emotion, persecution and intrigue, but without being benevolent or malevolent. A sample that any creature is imperfect, in a way he thinks it is poetic.

Everyone interprets these beings in their own way, creating their own legends from the anecdotes that were recorded by their ancestors. They never have the same title, no one decides on a name and no one seems to agree on whether these beings are benevolent or malevolent. Whether they are enemies, friends, rivals, or something else.

For some they are a moral lesson, for others a guide, in some cases they are considered righteous heroes, while in others they are the worst enemies of the living, the only sure thing is that they are recognized, one way or another.

Of course, this leads to disaster when Danny decides to explore the dimensions connected to the Infinite Realms.

[nightingale-prompts]

After Image AU- DCxDP prompt

"Do you hate me?" He asked rolling to face Danny.

"No." Danny said simply "Go to sleep."

They had found shelter for the night, it was only temporary though. It was an old abandoned church next to a cemetery.

"But it's all my fault."

"Hush. Hating you would be the same as hating myself."

"They could have separated us."

"That would have killed us both. I may not like sharing a body but we are meant to stay together."

Danny knew they were wrong. That's what happens when your conciseness was split in two. One remained alive the other dead. They had the same memories and emotions but they were so different. The other's logic just diverged when it came to ghosts vs mortals. More then that neither knew who was the original. If there even was an original. Maybe the Danny from before no longer existed and the split made them imprints of what was no longer there.

Now they were Danny. They both had to believe they were the original. Because if they weren't...what were they.

But after everything that happened at least they weren't alone.

"We ruined everything"

"We survived."

"I miss them."

"I'll protect us."

That's all that matters anymore. Survive.

They weren't heros or villains. They were just victims of a situation they couldn't change. They had to figure something out soon though. Gotham was their best bet so far. If there was anywhere where they could live normally it was here. They disagreed about how to do it though.

"Being a goon for a bit might get us enough money."

"And what? We won't be able to get out and who's going to hire a 16 year old?"

"Plenty I bet. What is your plan then?"

"Maybe join the league. We have powers and-"

"And what? Study us? Separate us?!"

"You don't know."

"You don't either."

So who could they go to? They looked like they were nothing more than a homeless mentally ill teenager. Talking to himself wasn't helping his case. At this rate they'll end up at Arkham.

[yeehawgust]

Yeehawgust 2024: Greener Pastures

Saddle up, folks! We’ve got greener pastures on the horizon, because it’s time for Yeehawgust’s 6th year this August!

Yeehawgust features daily art prompts as well as alternative weekly prompts, for those of us who are a bit slower on the draw. Don’t draw at all? No problem! Submit any art at all, be it illustration, comics, writing, fanfiction, photography, embroidery, sculpture, music, or whatever other creative endeavors you might enjoy. All skill levels are welcome, and this can be a great opportunity to experiment with new styles and techniques. 

Maybe you love media like Red Dead Redemption and Fallout: New Vegas, or classic westerns like The Magnificent Seven. You might enjoy the genre, and you’re looking for a chance to make a cowboy AU and put your OCs in chaps and your blorbos in a Stetson. Heck, maybe you just really want to draw horses. Whatever your reason, you’re welcome to join in, pardner!

Tag your work with #Yeehawgust and follow along here on the Yeehawgust blog. If you include any external links or directly tag another Tumblr user in your post (which may impact search visibility), make sure to also tag this blog or contact the mod directly so your work will get reblogged! 

Check out the “Reblogging Policy and Q&A” linked on the blog for more info about Yeehawgust. The event is also Yeehawgust on Twitter, YeehawgustPrompts over on Instagram, and now yeehawgust.bsky.social over on Bluesky... but Tumblr is where we hang our hat at the end of the day. 

And remember, y’all: be rootin’, tootin’, shootin’, and most importantly, be kind.

[deepdreamnights]

For people accustomed to blue skies and green hills those places where it is the other other way around give no comfort.

Prompt, process, and more under the fold. This one's a doozy.

'Lets talk image prompting.

I've covered it in other posts, but Midjourney has had image prompting for some time. basically, it's a system by which an image is submitted, broken down into the token language the AI converts text prompts into and uses those tokens in the prompting process.

No actual pixel data is extracted, rather, it uses the image-recognition systems that all generative image systems have to engineer a machine-prompt that draws on information from the dataset. The new Style prompt uses the same system, it just filters out the subject matter and keeps the style.

Clip interrogator without the middleman, so to speak.

So for this job, I started with this image:

Which was actually originally a lava flow that I used deep dream and deep style on a few years back with a bunch of cell phone and other tech-junk pics, before changing the lava red-orange to poison green.

That was used as an image prompt with the text prompt:

a landscape of green slime and strange circuitry, deepdream vibes

Under version 4 of Midjourney. Which produced these:

Which were then image prompted together (you can't prompt with just an image, either 2 images or an image plus text prompt is required in MJ's system) under Midjourney V6.

With some iteration and outpainting, that made:

With a couple variants apiece.

Those were then composited and recolored in photoshop to produce "For People Accustomed". I went with a more varied color palette to give more of a feeling of a strange alien sunrise.

Having some fun in the impressionistic/expressionistic areas.

[dcxdpdabbles]

Are we allowed to do image prompts? If so, can you please do one of those chats with this image?

Bruce: Report Robin.

Danny pretending to be Robin as a favor for his twin Dick: There were four mugging by the east docks, two break in at Old Gotham and a suspected sighting of Joker at-

Bruce:

Danny: Oh! What the hell!

Bruce: You were being hysterical. Not once did you crack a joke or insult me. I think the Joker slipped you something.

Danny: What?

Bruce: Oh no. You didn't throw a flying kick at my crutch for that. It's worse than I thought. I'm going to have to sedate you.

Danny backing up: WHAT!?

Bruce: It's for your own good son. *Holds up needle* Don't make this harder than it has to be.

Danny hours later on the phone: Your adopted dad is crazy!

Dick eating Fenton fudge: And yours isn't? He made me fudge and told me he loves me seven times in an hour. He's obviously on drugs.

[mipmoth]

Elesa arrives to ingo sitting on the sofa in front of a pizza box with his head in his hands and emmet taped to the ceiling

[clori-eden]

Young Four with Ezlo~ a quick colored sketch a did for backstories prompt in LU Discord.

[forecast0ctopus]

danbert sketches

[gunstellations]

cute little requests!!

[dclovesdanny]

DcxDp prompt

4/5

Teen titans have been attempting to get Phantom to join their team for ages, but he’s always refused, citing other obligations. He has fought side-by-side with the team several times, and gets along with all of them pretty well. Phantom even has Robin’s number. (Everyone on the team knows about Robin’s crush on Phantom, and tease him endlessly about it.)

Robin wasn’t expecting Phantom to call over a burner phone in the middle of the night, after a worrying three monthes of silence, to accept the offer, as long as he can bring his two children to stay in the tower too.