“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
― Salvador Dali
SURREALISM ON STEROIDS
The seed image was initially created on DALL-E2 in Nightcafe. I cooked it using the same prompt on Deep Dream Text 2 Dream in Artistic mode, at 50%, and evolved HD 10% plus additional Photoshop work.
Another one from my Deep Dream files
MONSTER MASH - CTHULHU'S LAIR initially created on Nightcafe and evolved on Deep Dream Text 2 Dream
NIGHTCAFE CREATIONS
I got an insane amount of free credits on Nightcafe, so I use them:
MONSTER MASH
I have been quite involved lately creating AI images on Nightcafe. Recently I joined a chat group of creators that belive in sharing prompts. Already prior to this I had cooperated with a creator/artist who had also not hidden his prompts.
The amazing thing is that with the same prompt you could get many different results as well as styles.
The 'MONSTER LANDSCAPE' Prompt:
Text Prompt "The surrealistic monster landscape of H.R. Giger - assisted by Arcimboldo and Bosch, highly detailed extremely detailed fantasy oil on canvas imperial colors fantastic view hyperrealistic cinematic postprocessing Hieronymus Bosch Giuseppe Arcimboldo H.R. Giger Surrealism Giger Alien, fantasy illustration, detailed painting, deep color" Negative Prompt (set to automatic) "ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft"
I had used this prompt across platforms, sometimes tweeking it, and with additional moderations. Occasionally I mix it up between Deep Dream Text 2 Dream, DreamWombo and Nightcafe using respective results on those other platforms and sometimes switching back and forth using results as seed images. AI can create thousands of different iterations, so 'evolving' one result can give quite a few interesting additional results. For the most time I opt to create four images at medium resolution on Nightcafe, the odd time nine. The best ones I 'upscale' and also publish separately.
Here the most recent examples on Nightcafe created with the brand new (Stable Diffusion) SDXL mode:
MONSTERS EVERYWHERE
SURREALISM ON STEROIDS - EVOLVING
This information below is copied over from my previous post - in the meantime, a Stable Diffusion XL mode has been added, which is also accessible via the drop-down menu
Here a brief explanation how things work on Nightcafe
You have a choice of 5 Algorithm: Stable Diffusion - DALL-E2 - COHERENT CLIP guided Diffusion - Artistic VOGAN+CLIP - Style Transfer
The first two are on the new advanced creation page, the others on the old style page. But with the VOGAN+CLIP on the old style page you can also create videos, but it costs quite a few point to do so.
It is a bit tricky to get to all the choices, but briefly you need to look for links to open those, like in Stable Diffusion for prompts you can open the Advanced Prompt Editor the simplest one are the Presets, then you have the Moderators and the one I go to all the time My Favorites (you can save any prompts from your, as well as any other creations that didn't hide them, in that file and reuse them.
On Settings look for All Settings to open more choices. This is important for a number of reasons: for one thing, you can now choose your output image size, the run time, the Aspect Ratio and many more, but one very important setting for Stable Diffusion would be the Model where you can choose between eight different models (I use mostly v1.5, but v2.1 gives you quite different looking images).
Most times under Prompts I leave the default Negative Prompt setting to On, but I had saved some negative prompts that had worked good for others in my Favorites.
You can also add second, third, and more different prompts and assign different weights to them.
Something else to tweak would be Clip Guidance and Sampling Method. Most times I leave them at default.
Final Words
I see great results from Midjourney, but also heard complaints of excessive censorship, plus, I am no fan of PAYING for anything, while on Nightcafe I create for free (yes, there is a Pro Plan), but I amass so many points (5 points to claim each day) plus 3 points up to 10 times a day for sharing creations plus achievement points (for following and being followed, as well as participating in chat groups), I have so many points on my account to burn, I never run out. Conversely, I am also on Deep Dream, a senior user with daily renewing 70 points to use, while DreamWombo is free for all (there is a pro feature as well, for a few extra perks).
Since I mentioned DreamWombo here are a couple of cards I created most recently
ARE WE SURE?
MACHINA
I could be milking these images individually for separate blogs but that is not me. I post maybe once or twice in a 2 week period and just hope you like my work, upvote and follow me.
