Just s shame its not used for the original reasons to spread the word, not for self gain or popularity

Hell even on mj...i don't follow anyone, know one follows me, and i've never published a single image that has been created.....

Not anything major, but making images square can (and was today) useful.  

I was going to do it myself in PS unitl I realised that the arm on the left was clipped, so I tried the make square thing and it put the missing bit of arm in there.  

I just widened it further as I wanted a wider ratio.  

Little lost time there len...I personally don't do tiktok or facebook or instagram,...lemmings come to mind, that looks like a good idea...i will do that, shallow as you like an empty as a shell...not wishing to offend anyone if that's your thing, go ahead...not for me....

Nothing wrong with being old...it happens to us all...and i'm going that way...as for Dope Smoker, i would if i could...would probably help the nerve and tendon damage in my left hand pretty much unless since 2002

Yeah its one of them days ( well for me ) ...needs to be said...and get it out....even now..to much minor trivial S&!t....

if not for people like Len and me.. and many others.... you all could possible be speaking anything from Roman, or Germanic by the Vikings, or Normans, or French, and Dutch. Vietnamese, or even Germany that was the most possible outcome... considering that they occupied the island of Guernsey from 30 June 1940 to 9 May 1945....they only needed to get a foot hold...but it never did happen....what you need to remember is that there are men and women from around the world, that step up on a daily basis to protect what the gen pop take for granted.....

Like tiktok or facebook or instagram,.. really......there is more to life...than a phone zombie...

Like tiktok or facebook or instagram,.. really......there is more to life...than a phone zombie...

Some Fantasyscapes in v 5.2

Darkglass posted at 6:39 PM Fri, 23 June 2023 - #4468528

Like tiktok or facebook or instagram,.. really......there is more to life...than a phone zombie...

Phone Zombies...I like it. I went all my life just having a Land Line until a couple years ago when my Daughter go me a Smart phone for my birthday. My first reaction was what am I supposed to do with this and she said Talk, Text and watch Videos...on this little thing does it come with a magic spell to make it a 43 inch screen or what...I use it as a Phone for talking and as a Music Player no Internet the damn screen is too small for that, that's what I have a Desktop with a 43 inch 4k Monitor for.

Last for tonight time for Real Life again Yayeee.

Triffids gone Wild

See Ya'll tomorrow after chores

A small set.... sleep or slumber not an easy one to do....

Not so sure she wants to sleep.....

Those FantasyScapes are awesome. So I got an email today that Vana was allowing users to update the photos in their AI model themselves, so I logged into my 3 accounts and edited the photos in each to represent me in 3 different periods of my life. They also allow you to share models, so now I have some nice duos of my and myself at different ages.

So... Barney the beagle has been peeking in here and looking at the cats and said, "Silly felines, THIS is how you sit on a toilet."   ;0)

glad I came here

such beautiful art

my Windows 10 PC has died and I really want dentures more than to toss coin at it

so Ai art it is, love the car fungi

(will get the computer looked at but not willing to spend much, have my Win7 just no Nvidia)

glad I came here

such beautiful art

my Windows 10 PC has died and I really want dentures more than to toss coin at it

so Ai art it is, love the car fungi

(will get the computer looked at but not willing to spend much, have my Win7 just no Nvidia)

oh I used to have my 980Ti in there but wrecked 2 PCIE lanes doing stuff

cannot mount it now

I am not good with DIY hardware repairs

I'm a Hardware guy did it for a living for over 35 years, yeah I got an old Dell around (its a doorstop somewhere) I screwed up the Pcie Buss too. that and the fact it was an Intel Dual Core, I only do AMD computers now...

I am loving Midge 5.2 features....

enough of the misery  here's some art

@Lunaseas I know right v5.2 seems to be a major step forwaed

@WendyLuvsCats love those Flower Girls

Some sci-fi today. Trying to recreate or at least upgrade a character I first did in Poser with good ol' Mike 4 then later in Daz with G7/8. This looks a bit close, but doesn't have the face implant and has put him in armour instead of his usual sexy attire. 

Needs much work but still passable, might try using a Poser/Daz render for reference and see if I can get any better. His "disco light" circuits should be blue or green, just under the surface of the skin so he can pass as human when necessary. Navel implant is wrong but at least here he has one. And, no, I do not like any of those backgrounds. 

Well mid-j has always had what's called the Mid-J Girl seen her change with the versions, have to admit I like what seems to be the 5.2 mid-j girl...just used generic term "Young Female" in the description

Yaknow what scares me, it's not Global Warming which is bad enough, nope it's some Wack-A-Mole Unstable Leader from some Country with a Nuclear Arsenal and an itchy triggie Fingie. I mean c'mon man no matter what some madman choses as a target suddenly there's 50 itchier Triggie Fingies out there and their going to hit the guy that threw the first punch and it's on brother.

Mid-j kept trying to censor these but I won every Appeal...don't think they liked the word Apocalypse...or something

Really I'm not a Debbie Downer I love to have fun I just don't have a lot of Faith in Humanity

Yep, all it takes is one loose nut in the wrong place, and heaven knows we've got more than enough of those around. I mean, honestly, never thought I'd live to see the day when legit politicians or anyone else with even half a grain of common sense and human decency would be sprouting the same kind of nasty evil crap as a certain Austrian paper-hanger with a funny moustache was using as an excuse to wipe out millions and take over the world only 20 years or so before I was born, but there you go. Even worse when so many people believe them and admire them and elect them into office under the pretext of "making whatever/wherever/whomever great". ::sigh:: Didn't learn their history, doomed to repeat it. And as always the innocent and the just-trying-to-survive-as-best-they-can folks and the youngsters with no better sense or no other choice but to follow all these warmongering idjits will be the ones to pay.

MidJourney doesn't like Apocalypse, eh? What, they never saw the movie? Read the Bible? Pretty sure it's got a book with that name in their somewhere.

Len, the women in copper and black are awesome.  I did one to follow suit and some gingers in black…

Zoom2 of #1.  Tried it with #4 but she ended up 10 feet tall and her legs were offset from the rest of her body.

On a more cheerful note, Kitty does indeed know how to sit on a toilet. Not his fault the AI doesn't know how to actually make a proper potty.

"What the H##$$$ kind of plumbing is this anyway? Stoopid hoomans can't even make litterbox right!"

oh I used to have my 980Ti in there but wrecked 2 PCIE lanes doing stuff

cannot mount it now

I am not good with DIY hardware repairs

Good work, everyone!

Wombo apocalypse 

Set 1...Multiple different images, just testing the lay of the land in V5.2...

Set 2 ..Multiple different images, just testing the lay of the land in V5.2...

Very nice. I see Wizard Lizard is properly holding a well made staff, sure wish Stable Diffusion would do that. Word is there's an update coming that will have greatly improved hands ... and it'll take around twice as much vram as my card has to be able to run it. Will also be on places like NightCafe & such, come July or August so I hear, which is better than nothing. 

@Steve that depends on if you physically damaged the Pcie Bus as I did (as good as bricked the PC no expansion no more) but you're right if you didn't physically damage the Bus a Re-Install of OS should should fix you up.

@Brent Yeah I like that color combo mine is actually Dark Amber and Black, super work man

@Bakapo making things go Boom...makes me feel somewhat better to know other people think about these things...all I can say is if it does happen I want to be close to Ground Zero, end it fast I sure as he!! don't want to live in the aftermath of it.

Awesome sets as always Darhglass...

using this prompt

cyberpunk sphinx designed by masamune shirow and syd mead guards the mountain pass painted by frank frazetta and marc simonetti, adventurers try their luck at the riddle --v 5.2 --ar 16:9 --s 899 --c 50 - 

I expected a mix of styles but didn't really expect what I got, not that I don't like the results just unexpected

The Moochers: Mix it up

Sometimes the best renders are the unexpected ones. Like those. But not always. Sometimes there's this:

Definitely one for the AI Disasters category. Was using img2prompt, thinking it might help me better describe a reference pic so I might achieve upside down (fuzzy belly up) kitty. Entered the results in SD and it gave me a couple that looked like partial successes -- kitty was at least lying down on one side -- a couple not so great, had missing limbs and wrongly placed tails, and finally whatever insane mutation this one is.

Img2prompt prompt used: an orange and white cat laying on a rug, a photocopy by Hanns Katz, polycount, superflat, dynamic pose, handsome, complementary colors

I left out that bit about Hanns Katz photocopy and polycount as it seemed to make no sense. Mistake maybe?

try the "shorten" option in v 5.2 it'll take out the unnecessary verbage...that's a cat tootsie warmer Haaaa 

Playing with custom zoom

"tootsie warmer" LOL! When I was a little kid there used to be pajama bags that were shaped sorta like that. Unzip the plush cat's tummy and tuck your pjs in. I remember seeing them in the old Eaton's Christmas catalog, always wanted one but never did get it due to adults insisting it wasn't a "proper" toy like a doll and besides I already had a teddy bear I was getting too "big" to sleep with. Eatons long gone and I'm still "too big" for plushies but who cares? Don't know if they still make things like kitty cat PJ bags nowadays, if so, probably cost a small fortune and nowhere near as nice as the ones from back then.

Using Stable Diffusion so have to edit excessive prompt verbiage on my own. Not much of an improvement, alas. One kitty on his back but very much wrong all the same. :sigh: back to the drawing -- er, prompting board.

Fantastic work everyone, l hope you’re all having as much fun as I am.  Last night I was trying out some 1 to 2 word music related prompts…

using this prompt

cyberpunk sphinx designed by masamune shirow and syd mead guards the mountain pass painted by frank frazetta and marc simonetti, adventurers try their luck at the riddle --v 5.2 --ar 16:9 --s 899 --c 50 - 

I expected a mix of styles but didn't really expect what I got, not that I don't like the results just unexpected

The Moochers: Mix it up

On a more cheerful note, Kitty does indeed know how to sit on a toilet. Not his fault the AI doesn't know how to actually make a proper potty.

"What the H##$$$ kind of plumbing is this anyway? Stoopid hoomans can't even make litterbox right!"

Sometimes the best renders are the unexpected ones. Like those. But not always. Sometimes there's this:

Definitely one for the AI Disasters category. Was using img2prompt, thinking it might help me better describe a reference pic so I might achieve upside down (fuzzy belly up) kitty. Entered the results in SD and it gave me a couple that looked like partial successes -- kitty was at least lying down on one side -- a couple not so great, had missing limbs and wrongly placed tails, and finally whatever insane mutation this one is.

Img2prompt prompt used: an orange and white cat laying on a rug, a photocopy by Hanns Katz, polycount, superflat, dynamic pose, handsome, complementary colors

I left out that bit about Hanns Katz photocopy and polycount as it seemed to make no sense. Mistake maybe?

Oh man. lol. Very funny mishap.   :o) 

BTW to everybody, your images as usual are superb. I did a themed series of images late last year and I'll be uploading those later. 

Just got back late, had a great time, some new treasured memories for sure!  Trying some V 5.2 before crash and burn time.  I've been peeking in now and then while on holiday, you are all some strange cats, ha ha ha.  Enjoying all your visions...  ;)

Sorry to keep you waiting, my bad...

Deep Purple - Highway Star 1972

The Darkglass summer camp for young sci fi artists.  Get them off to a good start...  

And other random stuff...

So, anyone else tried the /shorten command yet?

I tried it with the infamous muppet fractal prompt.  First set is using the original long prompt, second is with the shortened version.  Same seed used on both for better comparison

Long prompt

Shortened prompt

This one is using the last one inthe list that has only 4 words.  Same seed again

Slightly different results to using the first from the list, but still of interest.  Plus inthis I have no female faces, which probably evolved from one of the artists listed.

Worth remembering

hippie dragon, filigree, outfit --seed 49384756 

Going for the middle one #3 but removing reference to any artist.  These are actually my favourite set

 portrait of a hippie dragon, 8k, filigree fractal, outfit, matte --seed 49384756 --mywide

Using 2x zoom out on that last set