Byrdie posted at 10:23 AM Wed, 19 October 2022 - #4447004

Since I use Poser, Daz, Photoshop and now Stable Diffusion AI to get the results I want, mixed medium is probably the best place. Mixed is a good fit, imho. 

i was wondering.. personally, i consider an image (or a vid i guess too) mixed media when there is a clear mixing of different techniques, and you can see it in the end result... but not for example when i do a tiny little bit of postwork in gimp on a render to repair some pixels gone weird, add a vignette or adjust the lighting/the contrast a little. because in the end, i'm just compensating for tech issues or my lack of talent, lol - but nobody sees a difference, really, it's just me being perfectionistic (or ashamed at my lack of skills lol), and i'm not entering a contest or winning a prize or sth, where my real skills matter or "cheating" would be unfair/unacceptable.
i do declare the postwork when it really adds something to the render, like SFX, a frame, important stuff that makes a difference...

i wouldn't consider it mixed media either if i used an AI image (or as i did once, a selfmade terragen render, or any input from another app like fractals) in a scene where it doesn't really matter and is small-ish, like a poster, a framed painting in a DS scene/render, because it doesn't really change the weight of the DS 3d scene per se.
but i guess i would consider it mixed media if it was a full blown background (from another app or especially here AI) that really influences the scene tho, since this would weight a lot on the result. after all, a DS 3D render is a DS 3D render, where i get my textures from is irrelevant - otherwise every single texture from a photo would be mixing media, in a way.

so, what do you folks think about "correcting" AI works? i mean like, repairing hands disasters and the likes? because since AI art is mostly made by well, the AI, so the skills are in the prompting, directing the AI, and choosing the renders.. is it "cheating" to correct unsightly bits (and then collect the viewers applause for a "perfect" render)? is it expected that you declare the postwork even for smaller corrections? should it be considered mixed media because gimp etc were used? even if in the end effect, what you have/exhibit is.. an AI generated work, in the 1st place.

gawd, this was a slab of a comment. sorry, being succinct is NOT one my talents, lol...

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