{"id":2950,"date":"2021-07-09T21:19:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T04:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2021-07-09T21:19:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T04:19:44","slug":"fake-fake-fake-created-with-ai-enlarged-with-ai-enhanced-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/fake-fake-fake-created-with-ai-enlarged-with-ai-enhanced-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake fake fake! Created with AI, enlarged with AI, enhanced with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A couple of weeks ago I first heard about NVIDIA Canvas<\/a><\/strong> (beta, you must read this!) and thought I’d give it a try. Good news is, it’s free and fun to use, even for non-artists. Bad news is, you need to use a specific high-end NVIDIA RTX graphics card on a PC, of course, and I did not have this particular setup. But it turns out such a computer was available at work and I was able to access it remotely from 30 miles away and get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am about to show you my very first doodle with the app, but stick with me! It gets much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alright then! I think that’s the Matterhorn at Disneyland by some beach… Obviously it needs some refinement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Open any image in a new tab or window to view larger.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Redrawing and erasing the weird peak off of the mountain and stacking different textures resulted in something much more realistic, but not entirely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A little more detail work and an accident using the Erase tool (instead of the paint brush) brought me to this very believable-looking weathered arch formation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The output from Canvas is unfortunately only 512×512 pixels, and though I’ve read rumors of some larger output settings, I cannot find them. So the obvious workaround to this small file size (one that I immediately thought of, and so did many others online) is to use Topaz Gigapixel AI<\/a><\/strong>, which is perfect for this sort of use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BTW, never pay full price<\/em> for any Topaz app! Use the coupon code and link found on the Plugs ‘n Pixels Discounts page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s how the final saved Canvas render looks when being enlarged 6X in Gigapixel<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Besides enlarging and clarifying the original, Gigapixel<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> also reveals a slight artistic touch found in Canvas renders. A further enhancement I employed was to open the enlarged render in Topaz Studio 2<\/a><\/strong> and experiment with the various Filters and Looks. Shown below is “Ghostly Winter Forest” and the mood it is adding to the image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not bad for the first round! Once I got the hang of how Canvas worked and learned to control the brushes and textures better, I quickly generated a whole collection of fake-fake-fake landscapes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is the mountain and lake view (shown as a finished set of thumbnails at lower right, above) in progress, after which it received the Gigapixel<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> treatment (look at the generated detail in the distant trees in the crop below!):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canvas includes its own presets which enable you to change the mood of your scene on the fly. Here are a few examples of my later works as compared in Photoshop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I eventually learned that you can work on much more detailed (rather than distant) scenes by first filling the entire canvas with a single texture (such as “Stone”) and erasing and layering various textures from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That technique (along with the use of layers) brings us to my most recent and favorite work thus far. I purposely used that accidental eraser trick to create what was supposed to be the entrance as seen from the inside of a cave, but the scene ended up being more of a seaside cliff and arch (“lucky accident” they call it!):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For a variation of the final version I let the water flow throughout the foreground and through the arch toward the beach. Below is the result (reduced size) after being treated with Gigapixel<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> twice (6X + 6X!) and AI Clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This whole process is just amazing! You can sit at home and make totally imaginary scenes from “anywhere in the world”with AI and share them as desired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve added a number of my Canvas designs to my Fine Art America<\/a><\/strong> and Redbubble<\/a><\/strong> shops, where their use on all sorts of small and large products (up to bedspreads!) would not have been possible in the required quality without Gigapixel<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A couple of weeks ago I first heard about NVIDIA Canvas (beta, you must read this!) and thought I’d give it a try. Good news is, it’s free and fun to use, even for non-artists. Bad news is, you need to use a specific high-end NVIDIA RTX graphics card on a PC, of course, and Read more about Fake fake fake! Created with AI, enlarged with AI, enhanced with AI<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,31,4,7,1],"tags":[933,779,927,223,14,168,243,932,931,923,922,76,190,930,924,935,568,84,929,936,934,939,822,928],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discounts","category-general","category-post-processing","category-reviews","category-software","category-uncategorized","tag-back-country","tag-beach","tag-cave","tag-coupon","tag-digital-imaging","tag-discount","tag-discounts","tag-lake","tag-mountain","tag-nvidia","tag-nvidia-canvas","tag-ocean","tag-painting","tag-pillow","tag-rtx","tag-ruins","tag-save-15","tag-scenics","tag-sea","tag-seacoast","tag-stone-wall","tag-surf","tag-vacation","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plugsandpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}