Renderotica

Thanks Darkseal, I won't divert your post anymore.

Finally got some time tonight to play and grab some checkpoints and models.

 

(Slightly confused why when I did a hirez fix on a generated image it instead created a new (better) image at higher rez (same seed). Still learning everything by tweaking 1 option at a time.)

 

Hmmm, my hirez-fix all seem to be changing the picture.

 

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because it's fun

 

I'm super interested in being able to generate an image in Daz, and then using SD just add realism and detail. I don't want to change the image substantially, just add realistic details and maybe small tweaks... Is that possible?

Oh wow! That's awesome! I had read about depth maps but nothing that indicated they would be useful for this kind of thing. I'm still really new at AI... still trying to get my head around the interface, LORAs, and really just the basics of putting prompts together.
I really appreciate your posting the depth maps and the renders as well as the final AI ouput... that's super helpful! I'll start figuring out depth maps and see where I can get with them!

Thanks again!

I came late into this conversation, and actually let AI pass me by until I had to start dealing with it in marking student exams, and now having to write "AI proof" exam questions ".....using the data you collected in practical 3 and on the fieldclass......."
So I started looking at images and certainly some are amazing, and there are great instructions on loading and using the main engines, but I didn't want to do anything that clogged my already clogged computer any more, and to be honest I glazed over at the instructions.
So I went the plebs route and look at what was available online and free. I tried several systems. Some I could not get a decent photoreal image (maybe they are largely for manga etc- this does nothing for me), others had a couple of free images and then no more, and a couple would only register through Google- I don't want this communicating with my main email system thank you.

These should all be free, easy and online.

So, I may have missed some good ones but for anyone wanting a quick try without commitment:
The best overall, but irritating to use, is https://www.unstability.ai. It has 52 free images/day but many will be off centre and no use so if you get 5 good ones out of 52 you are doing well. Great photoreal images and it will do some level of NSFW (nudity). It can be annoying to use because so many images are hardly in frame, or it ignores your prompts, but get it right and the results are excellent. Has a nasty habit of adding an extra leg or arm.

The best starting one I found was https://perchance.org/ai-character-generator
This is the only one I found that is utterly free with no limit to number of images, and is easy to use, and does NSFW images (including penetrations, but telling it to do that is not easy) but the images are small at 512 px in the smaller dimension (I upsized mine on a free online upsizer). Also the skin detail is pretty poor compared to others and it is terrible with hands (too many fingers in most images). If you put in prompts like "skin detail with pores, skin blemishes, fine wrinkles" you can get a better result. Has a nasty habit of adding an extra leg or arm, gives 6 or more fingers and (you may like this) often gives three or four boobs.
Give it a go.

The best images I got were Nightcafe https://creator.nightcafe.studio/ but they are all glamour type shots
The only consistently good photo images are using the SDXL 0.9 system, and that is 3 credits a go, and you only get 5 credits a day. In does not do NSFW commands but occasionally a nipple may turn up in the render.

I am not sure if Firefly https://firefly.adobe.com/inspire/images
is free or not as I have an Adobe account. The images are hard to tell from photos BUT it has a stupidly restrictive term use and even bans the use of types of lingerie as terms. Also, all the images I did of people other than portraits have a weirdly twisted neck. People are 'average looking' even if you request "supermodel" - great for realism; useless for glamour.


Have a play.

If you've tried to PM me for custom / commission work, please check to see that your mailbox isn't FULL to get my reply!

ikr Zaavaleta?! That looks pretty detailed. I had started working on my own models and mixes trying to get better hands, which worked suprisingly well, but I lost a bunch of detail on microfaces. It's really amazing what is possible when combining poser/daz with controlnet. I need to start thinking bigger and make some fleshed out scenes... my wrestling and fight scenes (without controlnet) look potato though... finger fuckery included. Oh well

 

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I dunno, you're going to loose a lot of depth switching from oil. Acrylic does dry super fast though, so it is great if you feel like you want to kick something out in one day. They beautiful thing is you can paint oil over the acrylic to get that depth back.... I'm not like some of these other people who think "Acrylic is not art", I think it still is, even if it does yeild much faster results and need less time and skill. You still need to lay the paint on the canvas, right? /s

For real though, I'm old too, and I don't want to stop getting older. I better learn something while i'm here! I'll install anything if it helps make cool art.