#Theme: A photograph displaying contrast that mirrors an aspect of reality that is splintered in a subtle way into an alternate reality.
#My Prompt in Dalle3: Create a photograph of a blossoming tree in a meadow surrounded by a forest that looks dark and gloomy. Make the photograph 16:9. The blossoming tree is secretly composed of pixels that are barely holding onto reality, splinter, broken, tortured, altered colors, surreal.
#Rules:
Follow the community’s rules above all else
One comment and image per user
Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
Posts that are tied will both get the points
The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:
#Prize | Points
• Most upvoted | +3 points
• Second most upvoted | +2 point
• Third most upvoted | +1 point
• OP’s favorite | +1 point
• Most original | +1 point
• Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point
• Prompt and workflow included | +1 point
The winner gets to pick next theme! Best inspirations for everyone and have fun!
Considering the syncing problems with lemmy.world, I've recalculated the scores. Taking @[email protected]'s scores for workflow, most original and favorite into account.
I guess that makes me the winner. Feels so weird to end the challenge this way, but I guess that's how it'll have to be.
Thank you for the wonderful challenge! The next challenge is already up.
I remembered an article about False Vacuum (Wikipedia) when i thought about this challenge. We see the remains of an alternate reality, condensed to this little "Stone" by the pressure of our reality.
Made with comfyui, using outpainting. The workflow should be embedded in this picture (Catbox).
Details
Prompt:
Base Image:
closeup of a flat polished transparent stone on a forest floor. Inside of the stone is a snowy eldritch landscape with a tiny eldritch hut, purple glowing windows
No negative Prompt
Outpainting:
A forest
No negative Prompt.
Model
Base Image:
dreamshaperXL_v21TurboDPMSDE
Outpainting:
juggerxllnpaint_juggerInpaintV8
The generation Process of the Base Image needs only 6 Steps at a CFG of 3 Thanks to the turbo Model.
Unfortunately, I think lemmy strips the metadata as a safety precaution so people don't accidentally share their GPS coordinates when posting photos from their phones. A third party file sharing host is often used for sharing images with workflows intact, such as Google Drive, Catbox, etc.
Short Answer: It depends on the model, the sampler you choose and the scheduler.
In my experience: the more steps you use , the more detail you get but with diminishing returns the higher you go with your step count. Also the more steps, the more generation time (and room heating) you have.
We also have now the "Turbo" Models which generate good images at a relatively low step count. For the turbo Models, you are a bit restricted regarding scheduler and sampler., but you get a detailed description for the model on the civitai Page. For example the civitai Page (CIVIT AI) of the model used for this Picture.
For the "normal" (SDXL in this case) Models: Tiral and error. I normally use a xy Plot to check things like CFG Scale or Steps out.
Here an example XY Plot for the Model SDXLFaetastic_v24. Testing different CFG Values and Steps with a constant sampler and scheduler. I´ve used the same Prompt as for the base image for the contest picture (Screenshot of the Plot, the original Image has 120MB:
Hi there, i do not want to steal the win from the mighty cheesehand! If i go directly to the post on https://sh.itjust.works, cheese hand has 10 upvotes.
I think something is still wrong with lemmyworld. The cheese hand is the most upvoted with 10. Check out the host instance page https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai
Wow, this was tricky to find since it’s not stickied!
Here is the outcome of a lot of tweaks that started with the prompt in Dalle: “create an ultra detailed image of New York City with a glitch in the matrix”.
I'm guessing there is a problem with federation to lemmy.world. Another user from that instance is having the same problem. Check the home instance of this community at https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai. It also shows as pinned on the sopuli.xyz instance.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Prompt: a distortion in the fabric of space and time, photo of a hand which devolves and transitions into twisted fractal dimensions at the edges --ar 4:3
I tried to do subtle, but I guess I'm just not the subtle type :)
At first I wanted Bing to make some subtle graphical artefact but Bing doesn't understand subtlety. Then I thought of "spirit photography" which should fit the theme. The result wasn't exactly what I expected it to be, but looked quite interesting.
I had a feeling that Stable Diffusion wouldn't be able to generate what I was looking for, and I was right. So I turned to Dalle, which gave me some okay, but bland images. Then I took ideas from those and went to MidJourney where I got some beautiful images, but just not quite right. But I got some more stylizing ideas from those. Back to Dalle and got a good, but still bland image. Now it's SD to the rescue!
I started with inpainting the the surrounding cityscape bit by bit using one of my favorite realistic models Photon. Then with the Unstable Diffusers Nihilmania SDXL model, I proceeded to fix up the crack in the street. First the outline of the cracks, and then the inside with the Pixel Art XL lora.
Original Dalle prompt: realistic digital art, a deserted city street at dusk, shimmering with the soft glow of street lamps, parts of the asphalt crack wide open, subtly revealing bright, pulsating binary code beneath, widescreen aspect ratio
A photorealistic portrait of a woman and a man standing front to front at the edge of a forest, looking at each other, their skin is partly composed of subtle tiny molecules. It is visible that through the molecules they are interwoven with nature and the forest and everything. The image is displaying the connection between the human reality and the world of chemistry.
just a cute little entry. Let's see what happens! :)
spoiler
prompt: mythic superwitch that eternally curses the entire area if downvoted for the third week in a row, (fracturing reality), (((absolutely beautiful))), ((ripping apart reality to get her way)), (crushing insignificant humans), (((haunting))), (((chilling))), (((foreboding))), Illustration, ((escalating vengeance)), (spreading decay)
Prompt in the bingilator (first try but did 9 overall):
A half harvest moon sailor moon. one half is a old black and white picture, the other a cartoon.
Even Naruto was a mystery for me till 2 years ago when i sat down and read the manga (upto a point!) in order just to understand the kids, why they run with their arms backwards 🤷 + all the other references on popular media