{"id":20193,"date":"2022-10-31T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=20193"},"modified":"2022-11-21T15:31:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T23:31:28","slug":"a-fistful-of-generative-imaging-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/31\/a-fistful-of-generative-imaging-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A fistful of generative imaging news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Man, I can&#8217;t keep up with this stuff\u2014and that&#8217;s a great problem to have. Here are some interesting finds from just the last few days:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantrell\/status\/1586082633590919169?s=20&amp;t=wajJPHvbLDr0umR8uM54vA\" target=\"_blank\">Custom SD models are coming to Photoshop<\/a>&nbsp;via Christian Cantrell\u2019s plugin panel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christian has&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantrell\/status\/1586849279875973121?s=20&amp;t=-9-WADA-iHnOD-JDYqQbSA\" target=\"_blank\">trained a model on Rivians<\/a>&nbsp;&amp; says (ambitiously, but not without some justification) that \u201cThis is how all advertising and marketing collateral will be made sooner than most of the world realizes.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On a related note,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StrangeNative\/status\/1579848920796377088?s=20&amp;t=-9-WADA-iHnOD-JDYqQbSA\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s a thread<\/a>&nbsp;(from an engineer at Shopify) on fine-tuning models to generate images of specific products (showing strengths\/limitations).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I see&nbsp;numerous custom models&nbsp;emerging that enable creation of art in the style of <a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/nitrosocke\/spider-verse-diffusion\">Spider-Man<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/diffusionpics\/status\/1586670940615745536?s=43&amp;t=YZKhMgjMn7Gy3VMOsVw9Pg\">Pixar<\/a>, and more.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stability has rolled out&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StabilityAI\/status\/1586183361361428480?s=20&amp;t=HchqnzSJ4nX1U_Ut37TF0g\" target=\"_blank\">new fine-tuned decoders<\/a>. (See thread for what that means.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/radamar\/status\/1585775004196556800?s=43&amp;t=tDA5X-ez-tMhXZpi5vKL3g\" target=\"_blank\">another multiplayer SD-powered creation experience<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\">VR:&nbsp;<\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThoseSixFaces\/status\/1585833808988803072?s=20&amp;t=Xjr48rkEKbFGhlhW5o_prg\" target=\"_blank\">Sketch Diffusion<\/a><span style=\"color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;runs live in Gravity Sketch on Quest Pro headsets.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enabling&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigblueboo\/status\/1585762410157195271?s=20&amp;t=IauwXsqh33dn1AAp9eizbA\" target=\"_blank\">text-based image editing<\/a>&nbsp;via SD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.astria.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astria<\/a>&nbsp;is another site promising&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/PC7S8WbHjfU\" target=\"_blank\">custom image generation<\/a>&nbsp;via uploaded pics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I know you&#39;ve been waiting patiently for custom <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StableDiffusion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StableDiffusion<\/a> models in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Photoshop?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Photoshop<\/a>. They are coming! I did an end-to-end training with my fork of DreamBooth, and everything&#39;s working great. I should be releasing next week.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eOmBJIqosf\">https:\/\/t.co\/eOmBJIqosf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9yiRijUcRv\">pic.twitter.com\/9yiRijUcRv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Christian Cantrell (@cantrell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantrell\/status\/1586082633590919169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I can&#8217;t keep up with this stuff\u2014and that&#8217;s a great problem to have. Here are some interesting finds from just the last few days:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,2,69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20312,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20193\/revisions\/20312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}