AI art

Midjourney usage (2023):

Warning: The interface to use Midjourney v5—currently the best possible text-to-image model as of mid-2023—is… clunky.

1. You’ll need a Discord account.
2. Create a new Midjourney.com account.
3. In Discord, go to any numbered #newbies channel or Direct Message your own Midjourney Bot if you have a paid plan (US$10/m).
4. Type /imagine prompt: or select the /imagine command from the slash commands pop-up. Type a description of the image you want to create. To use the latest version (v5), add --v 5 with spacing exactly as shown. e.g. /imagine prompt: sydney palette knife oil painting --v 5
5. Click return to send your message.
6. Four images will be returned.
7. If there’s an image you’d like at a higher resolution, select one of the four images (U1-U4 top-left, then top-right and so on) to upscale to the highest resolution.
8. Click the image > Open in browser > Right-click > Save image to your computer.
9. Read more in the Midjourney documentation.

Download source (PDF).

Download source (PDF).

The longest prompt (Jan/2023)

Cosmic nebula glowing leaf of life, magical, arcane, galaxy, High-speed photography, Color Grading, Ultra-Wide Angle, Depth of Field, hyper-detailed, insane details, intricate details, Unreal Engine, Cinematic , Color Grading, Editorial Photography , Photography, Photoshoot, Shot on 70mm lens, Depth of Field, DOF, Tilt Blur, Shutter Speed 1/5000, F/6.3, White Balance, 32k, Super-Resolution, Megapixel, Pro Photo RGB , VR , Lonely, Good, Massive, Half rear Lighting, Backlight, Natural Lighting, Incandescent, Optical Fiber, Moody Lighting, Cinematic Lighting, Studio Lighting, Soft Lighting, Conte-Jour, Beautiful Lighting, Accent Lighting, Screen Space Global Illumination, Ray Tracing Global Illumination, Optics, Scattering, Glowing, Shadows, Rough, Shimmering, Ray Tracing Reflections, Lumen Reflections, Screen Space Reflections, Diffraction Grading, Chromatic Aberration, GB Displacement, Scan Lines, Ray Traced, Ambient Occlusion, Anti-Aliasing, FKAA, TXAA, RTX, SSAO, hdr, --ar 2:3 --v 4 --q 2

— via Reddit (Jan/2023)

Becky Robbins and DALL-E 2 (Dec/2022)

https://beckyrobbins.com/art/

Dr Alan D. Thompson is an AI expert and consultant, advising Fortune 500s and governments on post-2020 large language models. His work on artificial intelligence has been featured at NYU, with Microsoft AI and Google AI teams, at the University of Oxford’s 2021 debate on AI Ethics, and in the Leta AI (GPT-3) experiments viewed more than 4.5 million times. A contributor to the fields of human intelligence and peak performance, he has held positions as chairman for Mensa International, consultant to GE and Warner Bros, and memberships with the IEEE and IET. Technical highlights.