How To Use AI In Your Photobashing Process

AI (Artificial Intelligence) artwork has been a huge subject of experimentation and debate these last few months. Whether this is a fad or the future, who knows. But if we are going to use AI, my goal is have the AI assist me rather than replace me, I want to find that balance between my own artistic ideas / style and that of the algorithm. And while AI continues to evolve, and so workflows will as well, I wanted to share with you my current attempts at finding that balance. So this tutorial will discuss the methods I've been using to incorporate AI artwork into some of my paintings.

[mylazyeyedesignandillustra]

Try out “knolling”. As a prompt. It many times can give you an entire sheet of little parts of whatever you are “knolling”

[KevinMerinoCreations]

Great philosophy and approach to the tech! Human creativity remains a wonderful thing and can be elevated by a computer assist! Striking the balance is the art learned over time!

[XXXXXX-tnpl]

And this is exacly how the AI should be used! Great video

[JasonKeyD]

Great video! Long time fan BTW. This is exactly how I see this tech being used by professionals as a 'force multiplier' vs. a 'job killer'

[ricardomendanha]

I came from a google search after finding your webpage, and now here, great video.

[rasmuskochhansen]

Thanks for sharing your approach - it makes perfect sense. Using AI to kitbash or experiment very quickly is great - I have also often seen combinations which I would not have tried, or seen anywhere else before. This is very refreshing compared to finding refs on Google or elsewhere.

[retroafro]

I personally (as a concept artist) feel very intrigued - this would be great for Initial sketches, it would offer more detail and refinement in the same or quicker time... It could then be used to build it out of 3d if needed... Or a base to paint up a concept in photoshop. Very Intrigued by how it would handle environments

[FireBert]

So great. I've had fun using midjourney images as bases for extrapolating into larger stories / compositions. Really powerful tool that helps me quickly shake up my patterns and default imagination.

[SteveTalkowski]

Well said Neil! Short and succinct. I’m just diving in myself and learning how to craft useful prompts while also curating the results with a critical eye.

[JaneDoe-noed]

thank you for explaining your process and how you utilize AI in your workflow! It was very insightful and I think it's really eye-opening the way you summed up your philosophy on such matters. Can't wait to check out more of your work!

[theagileaardvark]

Thank you very much, Neil! I was one of the people who asked.

[KaranParikh]

Thanks for sharing such deep insights into your creative and technical processes

[scoutbane]

Great video, found you through twitter and this is very well made.

[robertbuchanan]

Super! Thank you for uploading this as I just started the AI tool integration journey myself. Cheers.

[santoshoommen]

Super fascinating! Thanks for sharing!!

[GoblinsLuvWubWub]

Thanks for sharing some insights into your process and your perspective on the technology. I've been really excited about how iterative/collaborative the technology can be so far. I'm having a lot of fun just playing and creating. I definitely have some new ideas to try after watching this. Cheers! Keep creating awesome and inspiring work :)

[blehblehblehhaha]

I needed this video, since my new boss wants us to photobash ai art based oj original artwork

[edwardmurray]

Some good info in here, but missing the meat of what I was looking for. I wanted to hear a specific play by play of how to upload the image to be found by the AI, and how to add it to a text prompt. That seems unlcear.

[vinniakp]

Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts! As I also mainly use photobashing, like you said AI helps a lot in generating our own photobash elments and skips tedious process like cropping photo, editing, photo painting etc. But what I find the most annoying thing about social media art community in general, they find photobash is cheating and AI art is fake without even wanting to learn more about the benefits. It's kinda sickening really. Sorry for the rants btw 😅

[Farhan-]

Thank you so much, you really inspired me for using this technique for my next project

Much respect for you sir