[-] DBaluchi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Would be great to have an infobox in the sidebar that showed these generator details all the time. Current platform, version, and information about key settings that are both hard set and/or adjustable via prompt. Click through it to get a one-page rundown of current engine and known tendencies and prompt methods. Maybe just a pinned "The Engine" thread with admin/dev updates locked to the top?

[-] DBaluchi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you so much for taking the time! That is great progress, I will try to play with this one. Hopefully I can get the same foreground with fewer fences in the background, and/or more space between the camera and the horses (I've NEVER had any luck pulling the camera back.) I'll see what I can do with this, thank you!

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No images on this, just another "How can it not fucking understand this??" rant.

I wanted to make a specific image evoking a western movie set. I could not make it work. In the end the core issue came down to one idea: "Rear view photo of four horses lined up and looking over a fence." (Originally this was meant to be a hitching post, but FFS that confuses the shit out of this thing.)

Simple enough... imagine horses, fenced, pondering freedom, looking over a fence toward distant mountains. A photo taken by a trainer, coming up behind them and sees them standing there.

All I can get out of this AI is some number of horses, normally not four, either facing the camera over a fence, or standing with their asses pushed up against a fence behind them, between them and the camera. Usually with some combination of tails, legs, or entire bodies passing through the fence or vice versa. Ran a ton of images... many with much more complex prompts... no luck. 100 attempts of this simple prompt, never a fence IN FRONT of the horses, with the camera BEHIND the horses. Anyone got the magic words??

[-] DBaluchi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Front view of Woman with her hair slicked back. You see a ponytail raised up from behind her head.

Thank you for trying to help! I should have specified within the "Professional Photo" style, I need to retain a stylistic consistency across various images. When I do that with your prompt, none of them result in a tight style. Of 16, 6 of the images were from the back. Two more were from the front, but with the ponytail hanging in front of the face. All but one had quite loose hair and a fuck ton of flyaways Several had hair buns instead of ponytails, all also loose. Also, I need the woman to be looking into the camera, not downward, which most of the "Casual Photo" attempts yielded. I do appreciate your input though!

Also, this will be incorporated as a detail in a larger description... adding basically any detail to this is likely to wipe it out (color, length, facial features and expressions.) What I am looking for is specific word choices/descriptors that will consistently generate this style. I have used "slicked back" on its own (and repetitively within the prompt) over and over again to no avail.

I am not one to use a very short prompt and accept what is given... that is letting the AI imagine a thing. I want to imagine a thing myself, and have the AI depict it as close to I describe as possible. My prompts tend to be much longer, so complex specificity must be combined with brevity.

Thank you again though!

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submitted 2 months ago by DBaluchi@lemmy.world to c/perchance@lemmy.world

For the life of me, I cannot get this AI to understand. I tried with the simplest prompts, the most complex prompts, I just cant get it to do this. I am trying to achieve a slicked back, extremely tightly-pulled severe ponytail.

That scraped back look, like Ariana used to do, or that you see in fashion shoots now and then. If you just google "extremely tight ponytail," the world is full of examples, but apparently this AI has simply never heard of such a thing.

Not only can I not get it to do this, half the shots are from the back. Even if I specify a front view, it wants to show me a rear view of a ponytail. When it does show from the front (or even side, fine, I'll take it...) it always responds with some weird-ass poof at the scalp, and fucking flyaway hairs that frame the face. Every time with those flyaways, grrrr. I used to get this by adding a bunch of negatives, but now I just cant make it happen.

Trying for extremely tight, scraped back, gelled down, so-tight-it-hurts ponytail.

Help me Obi Wan...

[-] DBaluchi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

It's like at 11:30AM, someone just flipped a switch... deny all other users. Was working fine, then BAM, "anti-bot blah blah blah" and nothing loads. Is it unregulated testing being done in the live environment, or is it intentional ?!?

[-] DBaluchi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Img Gen is down again.... looks like someone is using the production environment as their own personal sandbox again...

[-] DBaluchi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

"relatively new under the hood it is a highly technical model at that, and so lota solutions experimenting, and developmental research is needed."

In other words, they are using the production environment as a test platform. Brilliant.

[-] DBaluchi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Devs switched to a new model. To save $$$ it does things differently to use less resources. Images now completely hit or miss, so you have to generate 10x more images to get usable results. Resource use ACTUALLY being reduced??? Hard to say when I have to generate SOOOO many more images because this one ignores MUCH prompt data. Seems like "Cut off nose to spite face."

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by DBaluchi@lemmy.world to c/perchance@lemmy.world

OK, so I've been having a great time playing with the image generator, and am struggling with a process to permanently add variables.

I can build a bunch of variables in Scratchpad using lists and curly brackets, and then use them in my prompts to create some variation. A simple example is to use a list of shirt colors, call a variable like [HUE1] and change my subject's outfit. That works great. I've gotten dynamic odds to work, and been able to make some dependent sub-choices (i.e., if HUE1 is white, then HUE2 must not be white). This is all great, but it is all in scratchpad.

I'm hung up on how to move those same lists and variables into my generator itself (out of the scratchpad), then call them with a variable in the prompt. In the example above, in Scratchpad I might have

HUE1 = {CHARCOAL GREY|WHITE|CRIMSON|EMERALD}

and then use [HUE1] in the prompt to get a bunch of similar images with different color shirts.

I'm struggling to understand where (and with what syntax) I can move all of that into the code of the generator itself, and still either call [HUE1] when writing my prompt or use a dropdown list or something to select a value and assign it to the variable.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[-] DBaluchi@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I appreciate your answer, it appears I had some other background syntax error. Decided to rearrange my inputs just a moment ago and somehow fixxored it accimagically.

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submitted 8 months ago by DBaluchi@lemmy.world to c/perchance@lemmy.world

tl;dr - I want scratchpad variables input by users to work across multiple input boxes, can I do that?

Hey all, I was hoping someone might have already solved the puzzle I am working on. I am working on my T2I generator, and would like to split the positive prompt into multiple inputs. I can do this and make it work, but variables used in the Sratchpad will only work in the primary "description" input field. I assume this is hard-coded into the t2i plugin, but cant find a reference somewhere to how the scratchpad is coded. Any help is appreciated!

[-] DBaluchi@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Youre not crazy, I had this exact issue. I dont have a solution, I mostly stopped using galleries. If I could move images between them I might use them, but I always end up with the wrong file in the wrong gallery and get annoyed anyway so rarely use them. I tried to sort it, had no luck... I tried the same things as you, multiple browsers... never solved it. I found that while the gallery would be empty according to perchance, if I bookmarked the actual image file before they disappeared, I could still access the image - sometimes. Feels like a browser config issue, but I never went back to trying to figure it out.

DBaluchi

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