Fort Collins Digital Camera Club

You are invited to join us on ZOOM for the "Synthetic Photography SIG". I expect that this will be a controversial SIG as the topic of AI generated art seems to polarize people into 2 camps, they either love the concept that now they can make beautiful art or they hate the idea that "unskilled" people can make better art than they can. I am sure that we will have different views, but I hope that we can get along and respect everyone's views.

"I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall (not Voltaire)

ATTENDEES
Mike Barry
Jim Fellion
Jim Limburg
Jack Lipscomb
Greg Nott
Ken Sandberg
Albert Wang

1. We discussed Stable Diffusion using Leonardo
We showed images and discussed several Leonardo tools: Image Creation, Realtime Canvas, and Motion. Image Creation worked well although some results were not as good as DALL-E 3. Realtime Canvas turned sketches into great images but we did not have as much control over the final image as we wanted. I started creating a video with Motion, but it finished after the meeting was over at 9pm and the results were disturbing.

2. We experimented with FLUX Pro using FluxPro.art free web interface.
FLUX Pro image generation created some of the best images that I have seen from Leonardo or DALL-E 3, even without a thorough understanding of the tool or a very detailed prompt. The FluxPro.art website is free to use and all images generated are made public because Black Forest Labs wants to get public feedback on their new tool. We browsed the public images which are on the Home page of the website. Clicking on an image will bring up a larger version of the image and the prompt and parameters used to create it. Some of the prompts were very simple, and some were very detailed, and some contained information that didn't appear to be used in the generation. Looking at the images and prompts is a good way to get started.

URL: https://FluxPro.art
You get 20 credits (~20 images) that gets reset every 6 hours.
You login with a GMail account, so you will need to create one (which is free) if you don't already have one.
Click on the "Safety" menu to set your level of censorship before browsing the images.
Click on "Create" button to start an image generation, specify the prompt, aspect ratio, safety, steps, guidance, seed, number of images and then click on the "Generate" button to create a new set of images.

3. I am asking everyone to experiment with the FLUX online AI tool, before the next meeting. It is free to use up to 20 credits per 6 hour period. After you use up your credits you have to wait 6 hours to have your credits reset. Look at some of the images on the home page, and create some to show us at the next meeting.

RESOURCES (Where you can find sources of inspiration)

Sample prompt styles
https://supagruen.github.io/StableDiffusion-CheatSheet

FLUX online free version
https://FluxPro.art

AGENDA FOR OUR NEXT SYNTHETIC PHOTOGRAPHY SIG MEETING - Tue 9/3/2024 @6:00pm
1. Discuss what we created with FLUX
2. Continue the discussion of how to use FLUX
3. Discuss how to create a "good" prompt, styles, parameters, random prompts...
4. Discuss questions, ethics, techniques, what is happening with AI in general

Please email Mike, info@fcdcc.com, when you find mistakes, missing information or if you have suggestions for the Synthetic Photography SIG and I will try to address the issues.