Thanks, gill, I'll keep that in mind for future use. Cannot even install CS3 from the old files I have and of course they no longer support anything but the "latest & greatest", so even if I could find a legit copy of CS6 for sale there's no use buying it. Just installed Gimp and trying to figure it out, again was maybe 20 years since I tried that but it was all over the place at the time so I gave up on it and went with Corel Graphics Suite. Now that has gone the Adobe route too, you can still buy a copy but no updates even though it's around $700 and I'd have to pay full price as they also took away upgrade pricing from just about every other version. Worse, their subscription pricing is higher than for Photoshop with all the bells & whistles. If I were still working in the industry, yeah, I'd have to hold my nose and subscribe. Can't justify it right now though, especially with the state of the economy these days. Maybe when it goes on sale I'll get Photoshop Elements, I had a trial that recently finished and I must say it had much going for it that suited my needs. PaintShop Pro, on the other hand, seems to have gotten out on the wrong side of the bed this latest version. I'm doing a trial of that and so far am not impressed so I'll be sticking with PSP 2020, not upgrading. I'd probably be tempted if it could do the closed eye fix that even Photoshop Elements can do --- Mom, God bless her! always used to complain about how all her pictures got snapped right when she had to blink. Great that there's a way to fix it, not so great that it doesn't come cheap for those of us on tight budgets or who don't do all our work on smart phones. 

And ... I've rambled on too long. Here's a Snape. Not sure what spell he's using, but I bet it packs quite a punch.

I love Snape's clothing in this!

this is what wombo gave me when the only prompt used was Hagrid's name. I did a little bit of post work. 

Byrdie I have PSP - the newest version is X14 but I rarely use it.  Also have Gimp but can't get my head around it so will carry on with PSCS3 for as long as I can.

Affinity Photo

Just got the demo. I see no way to remove objects at one go unless using stacking, which is no good unless you've a bunch of pix with slightly different variations of the same scene. Would be neat if that was what I had, but in most cases I only have a single image with some artifacts or objects I need gone and can't always crop the crap out. Using the clone/healing brush is trickier than it used to be for me to use as my hand-eye coordination is very much hit or miss these days, between my failing sight and bad arthritis it's more of a miss. :sigh: I have the know-how to fix things manually but not so much the do-how any more. 

what exactly do you mean by 'remove objects at one go'?

please try to be as specific as you can via sitemail so this won't be disruptive to the thread, maybe? i'll try to help you if i can...

Finally got something that looks Fighter Jets

This scene looks like something I saw in Kathmandu, you need to know Nepal is just about 50/50 Hindi and Muslim. So one day we took a trip over to what was called, by Ex-Pats anyway, the Monkey Palace, It's got those temples with Eyes Painted on them all the pennant flags, full of those magical Holy monkeys, Prayer wheels everywhere. It's on top of a hill, you can see it from just about anywhere in Kathmandu Hindi religion central, but you get around the back side and across the valley are all these Mosques and Minarets amid the other buildings and houses there, Muslim central who says people just can't get along. This was 1987/1988 working as Systems' Engineer on a International Seismic exploration crew, been a lot of changes in Nepal since then don't think such an inviting place anymore India has too much an influence on the Nepalese Hindu's now.

@Giana, sitemail sent. Thanks. 

@Lenord, some very interesting places you've been. Yeah, those craft look much more like fighter jets than faking it with odd birds; I think the problem is MidJourney's in-built nanny functions. It probably goes: "city with birds flying over ok, city with airplanes flying over okay, city with jet fighters flying over NOT okay but the rest of the prompt isn't over the line enough to trigger the forbidden warning so better  mess it up a bit just in case". 

A couple of pics of Swayambhunath-monkey-temple in kathmandu

Playing with new toyz :)   Thought you'd like to see my first little test - https://youtu.be/BDSXqJ6ncBg

Lenord: those look like fighter jets to me!

the photos are fascinating, thanks for sharing them. 

Gill: the videos are beautiful!

Cool photos Len!

Sky Temple

Or maybe some people would just prefer a room with a view...

Also trying out a few crop circle ideas, this one isn't the most detail circle, but a good start...  ;)

field of tall grass swaying in the wind, crop circle, x-files, photorealistic --ar 16:9 beta upscale redo

And the same prompt in Wombo for fun

Ah crop circles.  Tried that in Vue years ago.  Yours are great

Both those crop circles remind me of The Eye of Ra, wait it's facing the wrong way that'd it make the Eye of Horus

[Geometric Crop circles in a wheat field concentric circles seen from a hillside]::6, + [ X-Files TV series Eery Light ominous]::4, hyper detail, volumetric light from above, photorealistic, stylized, cinematic, 4k octane render, unreal engine, --ar 47:20 --q 2 --s 2000

I thought I'd give the crop circles a try in Night Cafe....

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/jvYtOrSXsGSxUAAiT3PB

Good ones Gil, mine was killing time between the wash and dryer...laundry day...hate it she does hers and I do mine Hey if it heads off any arguments I'm all for it hell I'd loose anyway.

crop circles by wombo. sometimes wombo gets really confused. lol

crop circles by wombo. sometimes wombo gets really confused. lol

Good ones Gil, mine was killing time between the wash and dryer...laundry day...hate it she does hers and I do mine Hey if it heads off any arguments I'm all for it hell I'd loose anyway.

Gill, those crop circles are great, even the fields look real. 

Gill - thanks for the link, hope you post some more... ;)

Len - I should have thought of geometric shapes, a much better discription.  I'm also starting to play with the wiights a bit, something else to study up on.  Back to the drawing board...  ;)

a couple more

Now I'm done

MidJ.....

"Alien Crop circles in a wheat field"::1.5, x-files style, eery Light ominous::1 hyper detail, volumetric light, photorealistic, stylized, --v 4

I even got the UFO even though I didn't ask for it :)

Errmmmmm....

Gill - that's what happens when you open an x-file, lol...  ;)

Lol! You said "alien". That was enough. 

I give this one the 'best of' award for now, that's really cool Len, the camera view is spot on!  The alien's are working on more complex patterns however...  ;)

All are good.  Fun stuff.

Best I could do in Wombo.....not enough time, gotta go watch my KU Jayhawks play basketball.  

That's my team too, where you watchin KU play their not on the tube around here, drag Bill Self is suspended for the first four games.

We subscribe to ESPN+ for 6 months out of a year so we don't miss basketball games.  LOL   Big fans of all Big Twelve, but especially the Hawks.   Think ESPN+ is $10 a month this year.  

Am uploading to the gallery, can someone tell me how add a working You-Tube link to my post? I need to share a video that tells part of the story in my render. I tried putting it in the description field since I couldn't find anywhere else to put it, but it just comes out as plain text. 

I put music vids with most of my gallery posts. Go to the YouTube vid you want do a right click and copy embed code and just post it in the description of the post it will play in the post. I think that's the only place embed still works here, otherwise copy and paste the url of the vid in the description it becomes an active link to it.

trying an Embed in the Forum never tried it before don't usually go to the forums.

<iframe width="1280" height="747" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BYkk17dDt90" title="Can't Find Paradise" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Nope embed in forums don't work try a regular link although you can just click the link button in here, they should have that everywhere, dumbasses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFvHVD_bQk

it's not an active link, oh well

Standing in a Doorway

put the embed code in the url space

Good to know copying the embeded code will work.  I usually just copy the url of the youtube vid and paste it in a space after my comment, then hit enter again and the link should turn blue, thats when you know it worked.

You just know if a crop circle shows up, there is usually some kind of old stone circle nearby...  ;)

Wombo 

Mike Oldfield - Women Of Ireland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsmWJLjkYv8

VOC Deforum Stable Diffusion with postwork

sparrow by Ken Gilliland

Animating some of my ai visions might give some people bad dreams, lol.  It's so cool what you can do if one takes the time and effort to learn a few new tricks...  

prehistoric stone circle monument

midjourney

the images all look awesome 

I just have always done animation 

with Carrara, DAZ, Poser, started with iClone 3 so something I just do

Love your Wombo crop circle Ladylake - looks like an alien dragonfly :)

On tthe subject of stone circles - this is one of THE first images that I ever did in MidJ

I did a bigger video.  Not sure how many of these I'll do as they take an awful lot of time for 2 minutes viewing.  But.....

https://youtu.be/vlRS__QkRN4

Thank you, Lenord, it's working! https://www.renderosity.com/gallery/items/3086536/one-last-command! 

Love the crop circles and ancient stones! Gill, your Stonehenge is awesome! I can almost see the Druids performing their rituals. Powerful magic in a place like that.