As an artist, I have sometimes used a stock photo as the starting point in creating a new image. In the past, I used a CD-ROM that had thousands of low-quality images as my source.
Now I'm looking at AI as a new source of stock images to start my artworks. There's an advantage to using AI over stock photos as you can give prompts to direct it, rather than searching through stock photo catalogs for something interesting.
With AI-Plus, I'm using an AI-created image as my starting point. It's where I take it from there that adds the Plus.
This page is a "Best of" collection of my AI-Plus work. They all started as images from an online text-to-image AI. Click on each image to see the original AI image I started with. With some, the difference is minor -- just finishing an image. With others, the change is major.
In working with these images, I thought as a photographer, rather than as a cinematographer. Even within the basic editing software, photographers have many more choices in creating an interesting image than cinematographers. Not sure why this is so.
After working with AI images for a while, I can see the possibilities, but also the drawbacks. Creating AI images is, in some ways, too easy. And, for me, it won't replace photography. I see AI as another tool, adding to the things I can do.
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