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AI Imagery: Week Ending 01/12/2024

January 12, 2024

Images

MidJourney Continues to Lead

Incredible MidJourney Example

Rain-drenched and nocturnal, a young boy stands to the right with a solemn gaze. Soaked hair clings to his face, raindrops glisten on his skin and red tank top. Behind him the bright headlights of an approaching vehicle illuminate the rain, reflecting off the wet pavement. A dramatic cinematic filled with tension and anticipation in the heart of a stormy night. –ar 16:9 –style raw –v 6.0

Prompting is more interesting when you approach it as crafting poetry for intelligent machines rather than just listing instructions for a robot.

💬 Rain-drenched and nocturnal, a young boy stands to the right with a solemn gaze. Soaked hair clings to his face, raindrops glisten… pic.twitter.com/RAZduwldya
— Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats) January 8, 2024

Upscaling Gets Insane

Upscaling “Flag Raising at Iwo Jima” from 1.2 MP to 77MP using Magnific.AI.

🚀Transforming History with AI 🤯🤯

I've taken this legendary snapshot from Joe Rosenthal – "Flag Raising at Iwo Jima" and brought it into the future with @Magnific_AI achieving an unprecedented upgrade in resolution!

Every pixel tells a story, and now you can see this… pic.twitter.com/fgklNmyunM
— Peter Hollens (@PeterHollens) January 10, 2024

Magnific.AI

The Best AI Image Upscaler Just Leveled Up 16x!

We cracked super reimagined hi-res upscaling!

– Output size up to 10,000 x 10,000 pixels. Any Midjourney image to 8x! 🤯

– New slider: “Fractality”

– Zoom in/out results using “Z + wheel”

⚡ This was sci-fi until today!

We cracked super reimagined hi-res upscaling!

Only for beta testers for now, in 24 hours for everyone!

– Output size up to 10,000 x 10,000 pixels. Any Midjourney image to 8x! 🤯
– New slider: "Fractality"
– Zoom in/out results using "Z + wheel" pic.twitter.com/H0wDvNAACv
— Javi Lopez ⛩️ (@javilopen) January 8, 2024

Stock Photos

Getty Images launches generative AI-powered image creation tool

https://siliconangle.com/2024/01/08/getty-images-launches-generative-ai-powered-image-creation-tool/

Getty and Nvidia bring generative AI to stock photos

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24027259/getty-images-nvidia-generative-ai-stock-photos

Don’t Expect Magic

What gets generated versus what gets posted. Expecting perfect results every time you run a prompt is a fantasy

This is why I only reply to tweets by selling poems in person. Each poem has my X login and password in it. As well as one letter and a number. The buyer logs into my X account and enters the letter which matches my original work. In order to avoid being derivitive, my poems…
— ethan (@ethan) January 21, 2024

Image Editing

Introducing Stylar Your Ultimate Controllable AI Image Editor

https://twitter.com/stylar_ai/status/1744270759135199331 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/stylar

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