2025-01-07 Synthetic Photography SIG meeting notes

We met online using ZOOM 6:00pm-9:00pm

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 want to expand the focus of the Synthetic Photography SIG to include other image editing tools and techniques while maintaining our main focus on AI tools and techniques.

"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
Mark Bolles
Ken Eis
Jim Fellion
Michael Hohol
Jim Limburg
Jack Lipscomb
Walter Lyons
Albert Wang

1. Mark Bolles demonstrated Stable Diffusion with the Invoke AI user interface running locally on his computer. He also talked about using AI in his business. Jim and Jack both have DiffusionBee, which is a user interface to Stable Diffusion, running on their local computers. We discussed using AI for posing inspiration and using IMG2IMG tools to more strongly influence the final image. We also talked about using other editing techniques to create "synthetic photography" including pixel sorting, water ripples, water dresses and saturation masking.

2. Jim Limburg will demo Stable Diffusion with the DiffusionBee user interface running locally at our next meeting.

3. I would like everyone to create something interesting or beautiful for the next Synthetic Photography SIG meeting

RESOURCES (Where you can find sources of inspiration)

Invoke AI general information

Invoke AI download for Win/PC/Linux

civitai.com for Stable Diffusion models, prompts, loras...

Saturation Mask? A Great Way to Enhance Colors!

Pixel Sorting Photoshop special effect

WATER RIPPLE EASY EFFECT TUTORIAL | ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

HOW TO CREATE WATER RIPPLES IN PHOTOSHOP

Create Ripples With Displacement Maps In Adobe Photoshop

AGENDA FOR OUR NEXT SYNTHETIC PHOTOGRAPHY SIG MEETING - Tue 2/4/2025 @6:00pm
1. Discuss images that we created with AI or editing tools.
2. Jim will demo DiffusionBee with stable diffusion running on his local computer.
3. Discuss questions, ethics, techniques, what is happening with AI in general
4. Decide what we want to do at the next meeting

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.