If you open the application backend window, you will see how the Easy Diffusion system works:
Easy Diffusion may need to download additional files to create our image. After which, after a few minutes, she will begin to create a new image based on our request.
Switch to the Easy Diffusion graphical interface window.
Hooray!
You have created your first unique image using an Artificial Intelligence system. It’s located to the right of the Toolbar in the workspace of the user interface:
If you don’t get the same picture as me, don’t be alarmed and try to create it again (I didn’t succeed the first time either). Very often in Easy Diffusion you can get the desired image the second, third or fifth time. This is a feature of the program. This often happens with simple queries, as in our example. We’ll look at complex queries in the next chapter.
Our next step will be to explore the enhancement and manipulation options that most often need to be done after we create any image. To do this, hover your mouse over the new image and you will see the following commands:
– «Upscale». If you like the new image and feel there is no need to improve it further, run the Upscale command. After which the image will be enlarged to a maximum resolution of 2040 x 2048 and you can save it on your computer.
– «Fix faces». The team corrects faces in images. Most often, fingers and facial details are affected in images.
– «Draw another 25 steps.» If you think the image needs to be improved, run the «Draw another 25 steps» command. It often happens that there will be more details in the picture and its quality will become better. It also happens that no significant changes are noticeable. This requires patience and perseverance.
– «Make Similar Images.» With this command we tell the system to make five more similar versions of the images and the first received version.
– «Download Image». The command saves your image in the location you want.
– «JSON». The command saves the description and all parameters of the image you created in a marked file. You can load it the next time you want to create a similar image by clicking the «Load from a file» button.
– «Use as Input». This is a very useful command that allows you to improve the image from time to time. When using it, the Artificial Intelligence system takes as a basis not only our request, but also your image, on the basis of which a new image is created. We will look at the work of this command in more detail in the next chapter.
Now let’s take another 25 steps to improve our image by running the command «Draw another 25 steps»:
As a result, we will get a similar image, but with some changes:
Now let’s go back to our first image of «Artificial Intelligence» below.
Hover your mouse over the image and select the «Make Similar Image» command. This command will allow us to create five more new image variations from the original one.
Five new options will be placed in one program window (for clarity, I left four):
You can use this function an unlimited number of times until you get the perfect image. This is exactly what I did when choosing pictures for the book cover.
Once you select the perfect one, you can delete all other images. Hover your mouse over the image you want to delete and click the cross in the back right corner:
As a result, only those images that you need for further processing will remain in the window.
As I noted earlier, all the models that we additionally installed in Easy Diffusion, without exception, have one significant drawback – they do not draw eyes or fingers well, and very often various strange artifacts appear in the pictures. To correct the eyes, in the image we like, we need to move the mouse over the picture again and execute the «Fix Faces» command:
As an example, I’ll leave one AI face and run the Fix Faces command on that image.
It is necessary to make a small remark and clarify that the «Fix Faces» command quite often does not improve the image, and sometimes spoils it. However, it’s always worth trying out what might come out of your experiments. Be bolder and experiment more often.
In my case, the faces turned out a little blurry or blurry:
The final result (which we like best) needs to be converted to a higher resolution and saved on our hard drive in order to later use it for further work. To do this, execute the «Upscale» command by hovering the mouse cursor over the picture.
After this, execute the «Download Image» command. The downloaded image will have a resolution of 2040 x 2048 pixels per inch. This is quite enough to design a book cover or make a beautiful postcard.
Congratulations!
You’ve just created your first unique image using the Easy Diffusion Artificial Intelligence system, which can easily be called a small piece of digital art.
In subsequent chapters of the book, we will learn a lot about Artificial Intelligence and increase our level of knowledge when working with the Easy Diffusion program.
Step 6. Create a beautiful image
In this chapter, we will look at the most interesting option for working with the Easy Diffusion system – creating a new image from a combination of text and another image. We will also pay special attention to writing a more complex query.
Please note that in the «Enter Prompt» window we are not writing a literary description of the picture we want to receive, but we are writing a short request:
The Artificial Intelligence we work with, unfortunately, does not yet read our thoughts, and it is important for it that we speak to it in a language it understands. The only thing that can be considered a great achievement for developers is that the query is written as a set of key phrases (consisting of words that are easy for both humans and machines to understand), separated by a comma.
So, let’s begin.
Let’s look at a specific example.
We will create with you in a few steps an image of a beautiful cyborg based on the description from the previous chapter.
To do this, perform the following steps:
• In the «Enter Prompt» window, write