Imagine turning the photo above into something brand new. A photo, unlike anything you've ever seen before. Today we're using a starting image to create your own work of art. And building off of your image.
Everything about this is pretty simple from the number of steps to how easy building a prompt would be. It's one way I like to try to push my creative boundaries.
Step 1: Determine what you want to do with your starter image Right now it's nothing more than a brainstorming technique. There are no right or wrong answers. It doesn't even have to be remotely close. I want to go the route of a gloomy rainstorm. Something that has nothing to do with flowers and hearts and love. Almost all AI art generators have the option to add a starter image. If they don't have the option. Most of the time you can put an image URL before your prompt, PrompoMania has the option to do that when you're creating your prompts as well, if you dont' know where to stick your photo. Let's throw the basics of what you want into whatever generator you're using so that we have our first image. Once you get that image save it, you can use the new image as your starter image for the next step, so that you can just build off of that.
Step 2: Giving it the important details of style
Now that I know what I want, it's time to give some details that will make my piece of art pop. Most of the time I use one of the aesthetics under the aesthetic button on Stable Deffusion Modifiers, a few genres from Midjourney Style Library, and pick a few artists I want to use with either Mid journey Style Library (illustrators, painters, photographers ) or Chat GPT
Let's throw the photo we used in the previous step in as the new starter image.
Prompt example:
A gloomy rainstorm, witchcore, Gothic art, by Edvard Munch, Salem Krieger and Grant wood
Step 3: Adding your modifiers
Feel like your photo's missing something? Perhaps it's something lighting related, or whatever it maybe. Here's the time Promptomania, The AI Art or whatever site you're using to help you with prompts can help. I even use Noon Shoot as well to formulate what I want to do with my photos. The only thing I suggest when it comes to Noon Shoot, as it is for something like Mid Journey is to only use the modifiers, and not the weight.
Today I kept it simple adding a backlight, high contrast, and a volumetric light effect.
Prompt example:
A gloomy rainstorm, witchcore, Gothic art, by Edvard Munch, Salem Krieger and Grant wood, High Contrast, Backlight, Volumetric light effect
There you have it. A photo with a completely different starter and building off of that. Of course, you can add more and do whatever you want with your own photo.
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