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Creating a beautiful sky background

Added 2024-03-11 08:10:29 +0000 UTC

I took this picture on March 5th at 6:09 pm local time. It's a beautiful day and I was looking up at the sky and got inspired. But there are always problems with photography. There are all these things that get in the way - trees, wires, buildings, even houses!

So first I throw the picture into Photoshop and cover up all those things. In theory, color doesn't matter at all. What matters is figuring out where to make changes.

So I use the inpainting model to redraw those areas. The AI, by reading the whole image, knows that the same things need to be in those places. Now, the image doesn't have any objects that would ruin immersion or cause artifacts when stylized. But it does have lines that show the original and the new drawing, which is clearly visible on the right. And the image is way too realistic for the style of the game. We need to change that too.

Now that we know what needs to be fixed, let's use img2img to do it. We'll write a prompt to describe what we want the result to be, and we'll set the denoise strength to 0.5, so that the image will change but not too much. How fast you get a great result that's perfect for you depends on you and the model you choose.

Yay! We got the result we wanted from the fifth iteration. The only thing left is to boost the resolution. There are tons of ways to do that. For an image with simple details, like this one, I use SD upscale, because it draws tiny details well without creating artifacts.

Final result: