I’ve been experimenting with AI, and having considerable success. In previous blogs I wrote about my tremendous success with ChatGPT, with which I was able to convert printed text into editable text for a book I was trying to re-publish to get it back “in print.” Every other technique I used failed, and I had more or less given up until the AI engine helped me to succeed on that project.
I found myself recently needing an image of a giraffe. I turned to Adobe’s Generative tools to get an image for this project. I needed a tall rectangular image of an entire giraffe standing. I did not want any background. I started with the following prompt:
Please render a full body image of a giraffe, standing facing the viewer, no background. The giraffe is standing in a field.
As with many of my previous experiences with AI engines (all of them), the engine mostly ignored the key points of my prompt, and rendered a shoulders-up image of a giraffe. It’s a nice image; I was partially successful.
The second image is about the same: shoulders-up, giraffe facing the viewer. But on this giraffe there is a men’s jacket! I thought this was pretty funny. Abercrombie and Giraffe?
Adobe suggests that we make successive generations of images in their workspace. I tried several times without changing the prompt.
After five tries, Adobe gave me about half a giraffe, stopping mid-body.
After six tries, the Adobe engine gave me a full-body image of a giraffe, standing in a field. This set had no jackets. On the sixth iteration I got what I wanted.
Where did it come up with the “idea” of a giraffe wearing a jacket? Does AI have a sense of humor? Was it being cheeky on purpose? Did some part of the AI system “think” that I wanted a giraffe wearing a nice leather jacket? A cotton jacket? A safari jacket (how ironic!)?
I played along, generating over and over, eventually getting a perfect image in the right arrangement for my project. I’m impressed.
And, I am also amused by the absurdity of my rather large collection of giraffes in safari jackets. Perhaps I should start a mail-order business to provide these nice coats to the giraffes of the world.
I have also been experimenting with AI in Adobe’s AI and trying to determine if applying a larger color profile when opening the image in Camera Raw might increase the color volume of the images created by AI. I’ll write that blog next. Be sure to check in later for that.
