Promptly
Several years ago, I became interested in using AI (Artificial Intelligence) to produce artwork, largely with the idea that it would help illustrate a children's book. Clearly, the emphasis for me was the story. While many children's books are all about the pictures - a delightful art style, or carefully crafted character - I had the story, and needed the art. I figured I could write my way to some good accompanying illustrations. I found a couple of systems that would use your "prompts" to create art. A prompt is simply a sentence that tells the AI bot what is wanted from it. In the case of art, the instructions include such things as subject, action, style, colors, setting, descriptions and other elements. The AI, once instructed, will then render art selections, delivered electronically as an image on your screen. Among the art-rendering AI systems I tried were: Midjourney: "Midjourney is a generative artificial intelligence program and service cre...
