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Who's on MidJourney or NightCafe? Great 'word to image" websites allowing to create original art
Posted by on 2022-11-26 at 4:13 AM
Hey, I have a new hobby. I saw some posts from MidJourney with mind-blowing artwork, created by AI (artificial intelligence) on Facebook and jumped into that, but I found MidJourney too complicated to use – and switched to Night Cafe Studio, which allows having your personal page with all your creations, you can use a photograph or a verbal prompt to start, and add ‘modifiers” – your favorite artists, or art-styles, and what you want to do with this image. You get lots of interesting pictures. They are not fully ‘yours” as they are AI-generated, there is no copyright for them, anybody can use them, but you can also use them on your website, in memes, as a book cover, etc as they do not belong to an original artist. I actually use several artists as modifiers to mix and match art styles. It also helps to develop visual zones of the brain, and I recommend it to my ‘left brain” clients to learn to visualize, study art, find their favorite artists, and use different color palettes. It allows people who can not paint to create artwork. To get really good at it you will also need Photoshop – but on an amateur level, you can just make a lot of pictures and choose the best ones. I’d love to follow other practitioners who try to create spiritual art, symbolizing the Journey of Souls, reincarnation, dimensions of reality, and other metaphysical concepts. Here is one of my recent creations, they offer 4 per one take, it is the prompt ‘Ascension of a Soul” modifier (artist) – Android Jones (he did the ‘Wanderer’s Awakening” meme for David Wilcock, the well-known visionary artist). But since I am just using his style – it is a ‘free source” AI creation, neither his nor mine…When you start playing with creating pictures – you will be guided to search a lot of contemporary or classical artists…helps with ‘art appriciation”…
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In the beginning – they give you some free credits to use it for free, you also get 5 credits every day, but you must redeem them daily (email goes into your promotions folder), plus you get 2 credits for rating daily contests. You get free credits for sharing your pictures, getting new followers etc. if you do not use it a lot – you can just do it for free all the time. If you get addicted (and you might) – you can buy credits in packages or subscribe. I am waiting for Cyber Monday to buy cheaper credits, so far I paid 20$ and it lasted me for 2 months with daily freebies. They have competitions and you can follow other members and they can follow you. It is a lot of fun.
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I am on midjourney and I love it!
I’m a digital artist and graphic designer. I insist on creating my own art for every session and other info that I post online and my problem is that I always need several weeks to create an art piece, so I delay posting. I wished for something that would help me create art a lot faster and boom! Midjourney came around. I love it! ❤️?✨
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By the way, if you are on the Night Cafe – you need to click on daily emails from them for 5 daily credits, plus you get 2 credits daily for voting in ‘challenges” (today’s challenge was ‘Aliens”, LOL) and you get a lot of credits if you win a challenge or end up in top 5%. You also get credits for following other artists (you can follow 10 people a day) and when somebody followers you. So I only paid 20$ once, and since then just survive on free credits. Awesome to create your own art for a blog or social media.
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I have been wondering about the various apps that provide AI art. My intuition makes me uncomfortable with these programs and I get the strong feeling they are “infectious”. Does anyone else sense this? I have been trying to understand these feelings for about six months or so…since programs like these began to cross my path.
Here’s what has come to me in the past:
1. Art, music, writing…It’s divine energy we channel when we create.2. Why are these AI programs free? What’s in it for the provider?If you extrapolate those two points above, you may understand my discomfort. I am also an artist and recognize this could be my ego speaking to me. Would be interested to hear if anyone else feels the same.
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All digital art is AI anyway. The minute you apply a Photoshop filter to a photograph – you are using a computer program. This just takes it a step further, as you can imitate the styles of different artists – but this is only an imitation, not signed by this artist like a painting or a giclee print, so it does not have any commercial value, it does not even belong to me – I publish some of my artwork on the website and other people evolve it…I do not think it is dangerous for artists, a lot of folks using these sites are digital artists themselves because a lot of it needs retouching – people can come out with 3 legs or distorted faces, and it takes a lot of tries to get what you want. And instead of using the copyrighted work of other artists without permission on my blogs or websites – I’d rather make something myself, which is copyright free. Plus I actually learned more about art, different modern artists, and styles, plus it keeps the visual cortex running in my brain since I do not do much face painting anymore. The websites are charging for membership, but there are ways around paying as you can get free credits for all kinds of things like sharing your creations, following others, daily credits etc. It is a bit of a game, social media website as you start forming connections with people. I recommend these sites to my clients who are totally non-visual to develop their visual brain parts.,
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As an artist myself, I use midjourney as a “base”.
I want to create images for all the sessions and all other things that I post, images that are related to the session/text. I have always been unconfortabile with using someone else’s artwork for memes, for sessions, for my posts, so I always take weeks to create an image, and I have so many things to post.Midjorney saves me a lot of time. I tweak an image untill I’m happy with the “base” that midjourney offers related to my wording (needs) for a specific post and then I edit the image, change colors, add to it, like @Irina_Nola mentioned, draw faces, add body parts, remove certain details, add light language, sacred geometry, even print it and splash some physical acrylic/nailpolish/ objects on it, etc. until I’m happy with it and then post it online.. Instead of working for weeks just to post something I’m happy with, it now takes a some days, which to me is extraordinary.
I find it wonderful that these programs are free, as they help people exercise their creativity visually. And I’ve also learned more about art since I’m using it.
Many of us offer a lot of things for free to the world.. I personally never understood money and why human beings have to pay to have access to basic living and development “tools”..
My personal perception is that whatever we believe to be in a certain way, is. If we believe something to be a blessing, then it is and it will express itself as that and it will radiate and ripple out into the universe as that. If we belive it to be something “bad”, then is. Everything is what we believe it to be. And none of it is wrong or right.
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Very good points. Thank you. I’ve tried to consider this perspective in the past…it just won’t resonate no matter how hard I try to make it do so. I wish I could have this perspective because I would love to use the tools myself.
What just came to me: “If there was an AI app to write a full book, using the same techniques, how would you feel about the contents of the book?” I’m sure that app is coming, as may be a food replicator for digital culinary expression, lol.I literally see myself dragging my feet, lol. Perhaps one day I will feel differently.
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I wish there was an app to write a book for me based on all my material!
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