Some elegant dunk tanks, before and after

It's been a while...

This is mostly Imagen 3 with some Nano Banana mixed in

what the heck, its been dead here. Some of my recents. all formal, all gloves cuz thats what I like.

It's really been dead around here, there's not much interested in wet and synthatic pictures unfortunately.

I've also done some more formal ones lately.

I haven't uploaded in some time, but I've been playing around with some magazine covers. Started out as re-imagining the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue as something a bit more formal, and it went on from there with a number of publications. Hope someone enjoys them.

Although Google Flow is a real pain to use on my phone due to Google deciding not to format the site for mobile browsers, I've really been enjoying Nano Banana 2. For someone who gets REALLY specific with my prompts, it does an amazing job of including almost all the details I ask for, and understands location, perspective, and fore/background a lot better than any of the other generators I've used. Best of all, it can actually do action poses without having the subject floating in the air with limbs splayed all over the place. Plus, it does a great job of keeping the descriptions of different subjects separate, meaning I can control poses, actions, and outfits for multiple people in the "photo" instead of using generic descriptions or limiting the number of people included.

I'm not a fan of its default "happy" facial expressions being over-the-top, comical laughing faces though. Having to constantly prompt away those faces is kinda annoying. Overall, though, I love Nano Banana 2!

Whisk, which I've been using to generate almost all of my AI videos until now, is sadly being withdrawn by Google after April 30th, so I'm now familiarising myself with Flow to establish to what extent I'll be able to continue creating videos. I'm still testing, but thought I'd share this 15 second extended video for a bit of fun!

Here's the video: https://umd.net/profile/i/wetmaxiskirts/section/videos/video/going-with-the-flow-1-nbpflowveo-ai

a few days ago google said it had added the choice of format (length v width) so it is still making changes and improvements. I'm having mostly good luck with Flow although I find I have to specify "pretty" or "beautiful" or I get someone who isn't or just average.

I liked all your pictures.

Flow works great on my computer, aside from the occasional time-out failure. On my phone, I have to refresh the page every few generations because they just start timing out (sitting at 99% until the generation fails). It seems like every time I download an image from Flow, the next generation fails and I have to refresh the page. Also the top of the text box gets hidden behind other elements on the page, and if the generation fails and I want to retry the prompt, I have to copy it a few lines at a time. If I try to Select All in the the text box, the popup menu is either hidden behind the stuff at the top of the page or doesn't popup at all. It's just really annoying to use on my phone, so lately I've just been generating the first iteration of the prompt on my phone so I don't forget the idea, then continuing it the next time I'm on my computer.

As for having to specify the subject being pretty/beautiful... I haven't had that issue. Even when I do simple, generic prompts involving casualwear or physically-active situations where the default is natural/no makeup, the subject is almost always on the high end of the scale of attractiveness, just without the obvious makeup. I have to get really detailed with prompts to get unattractive women (I regularly use AI for NPC images for D&D if I can't find one I want to use online). Maybe some part of your prompts are unintentionally telling it to make the women ugly?

Edit: I've tried using Flow in desktop mode on my phone, but that's really annoying to use for other reasons. If I don't zoom way in, the buttons are so tiny that I was hitting the wrong ones on accident. If I do zoom way in, then I'm constantly either scrolling way left/right/up/down or zooming out just to zoom in on another area of the page. And now that Flow made the picture menu a hover-to-trigger effect, that's just another annoyance on desktop mode.

Just one idea to share here...

Honestly, I just had a picture of that black and red dress in my head and couldn't get it out until I made a picture of it. And then of course I had to get it wet... kinda. The other woman's soaked, but the one in the pretty dress stayed mostly dry because I got distracted and never finished the series of her getting into the bubblebath.

Its been awhile since I've posted anything. I've been playing around with before/ after images in the same image. Here's a few.

Some of my better recent efforts.

Just a quick posting of some of my newest ones with Nano Banana 2

Yet another drive-by posting!

...which gives me another idea for another time, inspired by Mrs. Doubtfire:

I love that you're following your heart with these, there's so much warmth and joy in them, which is so unusual. (And the wet textures are great too!) Thank you for sharing, as always!

Trying my hand at some peaceful happy bubble baths. Not sure I got the same special panache on these (or resolution) but they're fun to make ...

Posted a short clip, video versions of the same ...

https://umd.net/videos/wammy-pinup-art-pure-relaxation

Today's themes: an outdoor awards ceremony and an outdoor goth metal concert, both held rain or shine (or shiny from rain? )

The awards show apparently decided to embrace the heavy downpours that happened every year and slowly moved the ceremony closer and closer to the river each year until the audience eventually ended up sitting on the riverbank watching the recipients wade out to the small stone slab stage to claim their awards.

Edited to add: If you like the images I post here in this group, they're always only my second favorites. My favorites all go in my profile gallery.

Back to spam some more!

Mostly just teases again

I might be spamming again...