Category cover theme – OIL PAINTINGS! – A grade work by MidJourney (and me) – Week of July 12, 2024
The main cover this week references a tool called ‘Live Portrait’ out of China, that allows retargeting of facial movement from any video onto any still image. It’s not the first to do this, but it sparked my interest to go back over the past year and organize similar tools that I’ve bookmarked. I’m excited about this weekend project. The cover shows an influencer on her phone, controlling an oil painting of herself in the background. I got to this final composite image by testing quite a few prompts.
The final prompt was ‘an oil painting of a social media influencer, baroque gold leaf frame –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1.’ Midjourney’s natural tendency to render subjects twice worked in my favor. The font is Proxima Nova, a popular tech font and the official font TikTok uses (branded ‘Classic’ in the app). A TikTok-branded frame surrounds the text, applied in Photoshop.”
The theme for this week’s category images sticks with the ‘Live Portrait’ concept. To test MidJourney, I always try to find a minimalist template where I can simply switch out one or two words for each category. This week worked really well.
The order of the prompt elements makes a big difference:
a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting OBJECT, with a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the frame engraved with the title: ‘CATEGORY’ –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1.
For the first time since I’ve started making category covers, I’m giving both myself and MidJourney an A! Not quite A-plus, but close.
a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a butler, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Agents” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a skull, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “AGI” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting storefront, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Business” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a thief, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Ethics” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a Google office, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Google” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting self-awareness, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Meta” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting an iPhone, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Mobile” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting the Amazon logo, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Amazon” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting the humanity, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Anthropic” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting the humanity, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Anthropic” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting an apple orchard, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Apple” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting an apple orchard, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Apple” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a dream, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “VR” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting musicians, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Audio” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a Tesla, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Autonomous” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting storefront, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Business” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting storefront, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Business” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a computer graphics card, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Chips” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting classroom, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Education” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a painter, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Images” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting the planet earth, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “International” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting the planet earth, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “International” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a home, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Local” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a Microsoft office, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Microsoft” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting puzzle pieces, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Open Source” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a woman giving a speech, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Op-Eds” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a newspaper, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Publishing” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a library, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “RAG” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a robot, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Robots” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a science laboratory, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Science” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a large quilt, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Technology” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a dead bluebird, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Twitter” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a movie theater, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “video” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting a deconstructed scene with a variety of image and audio tools, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “Multimodal” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1
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