Steampunk Skull

ref: https://deepdreamgenerator.com/ddream/7jgh0rpcjt6

Talk about fun. lol

No enhancements at all, this time; straight image generated.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/163034485 ... 21/sizes/o

Thats pretty awesome lyle
We have some kind of steampunk festival down here but nobody can define what steampunk is

Stringy Haired Lady

ddg: https://deepdreamgenerator.com/ddream/b8mfvdil9u4

Wanted the hair even more stringy than DDG generated. lol

Nice one Lyle. You got yourself a like from me (I'm Silent Star and I am following you)

Lancia Aurelia from 1955, Palms barnfield collection.

My original https://deepdreamgenerator.com/ddream/sd4uqw548o8




and Gimped

Left you a message in kind, Erisian; won't out your alter ego (moniker that is). lolololol

Hard to beat an AI, but not hard to take it to another level afterwards.

Beautiful outcomes. Thanks for sharing.

Didn't see your post, Tas. My def for Steampunk is re-imaging today's technology using what technology was available in the past.

Valkyrie on horseback

Finally, copying someone elses settings (but using my own text), I got a result I was looking for. lol

And thought I would add some brushstroke work to the result.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/163034485 ... 79/sizes/o

How did you add that brushstroke effect? It looks really good like real one

Appreciate the words, Patrice; saw your comment at work earlier (but only got home a hour or so ago; lol). Anyway, the strokes started with the image being fed into FotoSketcher (free program) using Painting 11 (new preset; even better than Painting 10) and then enhanced the strokes further using G'MIC (Anisotrophic Smoothing followed by lylejk stencil (thanks again to David for keeping this preset for me; different then the current stencil) which I created a convolution layer by dup and running Bilateral Smoothing (note, all the things mentioned besides FotoSketcher are G'MIC presents) and merging down. The convolution layer I set to Grain Merge and dup/adjust opacity to taste to get the desired result. I then use ImpressionFX (no longer free, but the version I use is over a decade old and free; lol) paper preset to add the glints to the strokes. Way too tired and lazer to do image tutorial. lol

Still, following just the FotoSketcher and G'MIC steps hopefully aren't too difficult. If you do download and install the program. just don't install any of the additional software that the installer may ask you too (not sure if he still adds options like that; he did in the past but gives you an out. I suppose the guy has a right to make money by adding additional things). Don't believe I can link FotoSketcher site here, but not too hard to do an online search.

Thanks a lot Lyle for your well detailed explanation
I'll try to find a way to bypass FotoSketcher as there is no Linux version (I'm on Linux).
The picture I saw on the FotoSketcher's gallery are quite impressive and give a good idea about what this piece of software can do
Again thank you very much, much appreciated

https://deepdreamgenerator.com/ddream/uq8qoj9r0sj

Then I used a Free Libre Open source AI upscaler

Patrice, just a simple hint:
if you do not have the possibility to install/use FotoSketcher, you may try with nice results the artistic filters of G'MIC.
Look in the following post a sample of the possibilities, starting from this original:

Just a simple trilogy:




And, as you very well know, G'MIC fiters have flexible parameters...
Give them a try.

I know Irfanview works via WINE; wonder if FotoSketcher can as well.

The upscaled result's awesome. Need to check into this Open Source AI upscaler. Hopefully there's an online version since I'm sure it's likely Linux only. lol



edit:

Clicked your link and low and behold, there's a Windows version. lol

Toyed with an ugly low rez image of me and, though even uglier, not that bad considering. lol

Thanks again for the link, Patrice.

Julius Caesar Mosaic

ddg: https://deepdreamgenerator.com/ddream/4p7oe3vkcqx

Used Upscayl (thanks again to Patrice) and box descaling (G'MIC) since the rez was way too big. lol

Used a few additional G'MIC enhancements and added some texture to the result.