William Overington

@PaulEC Another poster drew attention to an advertising video about PhotoShop and Generative AI. I found it on YouTube and included a link. Just that. William

That is not how it looks to me. The outline of the selected area that is drawn cuts across books. William PS But I may have got where the grass goes wrong. I am not sure now,

Something that I found some years ago is the following. Museum Of Bad Art – art too bad to be ignored Art deemed bad, yet it was produced by real people, for whatever purpose. It is easy enough for someone who was not there to deem it bad. Some of the pictures have a title that may not have been what the artist intended. For one of them, I thought of a different title that changes the meaning of the picture - but that may well not be the correct meaning either. Yet why were they produced. One is thought to be from a facility of "send us a photograph and some money and we will paint a picture based on the photograph". Yet people involved. Yet please have a look and then later I will put in a spoiler-protected note my opinions. William

In the video, please note how the grass covers part of the lowest row of books. William

And not necessarily only writing opportunities. William

I found it on YouTube.

If and when it is published, will you post a link here please? I would like to read it. By the way, my experience is that the best way to get my views published by the editor of a serial publication is to send it as a Letter to the Editor, together with a covering letter. In my experience a Letter to the Editor has a good chance of being published, they are not paying and a Letter to the Editor is an established format. Sending an editorial has more hurdles to getting published. May I suggest doing a word count on some Letters to the Editor that they have published and make your Letter to the Editor a bit shorter. A Letter to the Editor can sometimes lead to other opportunities, not necessarily only opportunities with that publication. William

The picture has now been added to an existing thread in the Share your work forum. William

For the backstory of that picture, and the following posts. William

Five layers, of which four are shown in this illustration.

The next stage. There are three layers in the Affinity Designer file now. Two layers are shown in this illustration. The unshown layer is the original illustration output by Bing Chat AI.

I have got started. Canvas size 1024 pixels square, pixel persona, smooth chalk brush at 15 px, which I think means 15 pixels.

https://www.colorxs.com/color/sanguine has 188, 63, 74 as the rgb values for sanguine. William

I think that it would look better without the scroll. Apart from which the scroll appears as the wrong way round to me, as if it is mirrored horizontally, and it reminds me of the cartoon chef about the special diets in the leaflets about the club events, so maybe that would occur to some of the people reading the card - it looks too clip arty. William

In the menu that drops down when one clicks on Brushes. William

I had not actually thought of copying over it, but that is a good idea. I had not thought of that. So, I looked in the brushes available in Affinity Designer and chalk is not in the menu. However, chalk is available within the Dry Media collection. So now I need to find rgb values for the reddish-brown colour, start a 1024 pixel square canvas in Affinity Designer, choose an AI generated image and load it into a separate layer, make that layer the background, and have a go. When I get as far as I can, untick display of the AI generated image and then export the image that I have produced as a png file. And as a jpg file if I want a print as if a greetings card. Not started yet, so if readers want to try doing that too, then we are all starting at a level start. Please post your results if you so choose please. William

I notice that the lady's surname is shown on the rear of the card, in her email address. So would it be better to also have her surname and middle initial on the front too? I have thought of an idea, which may or may not be of interest to you and the lady. Could you have a version where instead of the artist palette illustration on the front of the card you have a blank area with a thin line border, in, say, blue, or whatever colour you choose, but not black, and then Vicki individually paints something in that area? A number of cards could all be painted at the same time. Then the metal card is not only an a business card, it is also an individual work of art given as a gift. People might well be more likely to keep it, and keep it in a way that it won't get damaged, if it is a work of art rather than just a business card and it would also be an example of the quality of her work. And if the card is carefully held by the edge when given then that might give a good impression too. William

When I saw the word sanguine I had one of those deep memories that it is a rare colour in heraldry, and I was correct, though it is called a stain. I did not know that the word sanguine is a sort of synonym for the word optimistic. William

I had to look up the meaning of sanguine. William

it is not a matter of @firstdefencebeing fair to me. I have been told not to do so and not to post a link to any AI generated items on another website. If @firstdefence is allowed to do it, then @firstdefence is not being unfair to me. Good luck to @firstdefence William

Are you sure about that? I am thinking that the rule is that if AI has been involved then it is not acceptable. It is not my rule, but as I understand the situation, if someone starts with a photograph that someone else has taken, that is fine, but if one starts with an AI generated image, that is not allowed. Affinity's forum, Affinity's rules. William

Oh! I saw your picture of the Guggenheim Museum recently. I was watching a YouTube video and a piece about a Guggenheim Art Gallery came up. Ah, I thought, I could link to that in the thread in the Share your work forum. Yet when I looked in this thread just now, it is a different building in a different country! Oh! But, well, in case it is nevertheless of interest, here it is, part way through of a video, the first part is interesting too.

It is that the AI system can produce an electronic image that is very good and looks to me like a work of art. It is not as if it is a photograph of a real painting that had been produced with wet paint. So as the AI system can produce that using 1048576 (= 2^20 = 1024 times 1024) pixels, can I do the same? At present the answer is "no", maybe it will always be "no", but it is interesting to consider the possibility and how I could achieve such a result. I mentioned somewhere my idea of thinking in terms of time and microtime. If a computer is working at a million times as fast as a human, how long in human terms is the few minutes at the most that the computer takes to produce the picture? William