Well, I didn't really go anywhere. I've been lurking and enjoying everyone else's creations.

I keep telling people I'm going to post more of my images, but then I get distracted by sorting through the thousands of images instead, so... I'm gonna fight my OCD and just grab ones I like from random folders.

I tend to use the same prompt at least a dozen or so times once I get it to work the way I want it to, with slight variations (color, background, hair/clothing styles, etc), so if there's any of these you'd like to see more of, just say so. That'd help me focus my sorting efforts so I can post those.

Some of these are enhanced/upscaled, others are "raw." The double images are before (left/top) and after (right/bottom) to show the differences and why I often like the un-enhanced versions more, even if they're more plastic-y. Krea and other upscalers tend to dull the emotions on faces and remove makeup (I really like the dark, smokey eyeshadow look, but that's almost always removed when the image is enhanced), as well as add strange textures to skin or create limbs or heads were there weren't any before. The Nightcafe "Creatively Enhance" feature is particularly annoying with its habit of removing the WAM aspects of the images. And gloves... I hate what the upscalers do with wet gloves. They often end up looking like wrinkled body paint.

I know I'm biased here, but the three images of the blonde in blue and the brunette in black and red are some of my favorite AI images I've ever seen, and I've got about 50 more like them Also, a pair of my childhood heroines stopped by for a chance to recreate those images.

These were all made on Nightcafe, which surprised me by adding both Flux and Google Imagen 3.0 alongside Dall-E 3, as well as significantly lowering the cost of Clarity Upscaler and opening up Clarity's content filters. I have to say, I'm way more impressed with Imagen's ability to stick to the prompt than Dall-E or Flux. That's what I used for the images of the blonde and brunette (and the other blonde and brunette). The majority of these are older Nightcafe creations that I ran through Clarity Upscaler and liked the results, which is why the poses and other elements of realism are a bit off.

I included the dinosaur image because I thought it was funny. I had copied the prompt from someone on Seaart, then added the mud and my fashion twist, but I couldn't figure out why a lot of the images using that prompt kept having a dinosaur in them. It turns out that Nightcafe has no idea what a V-Raptor cinema camera is (I was going for a cinematic vibe), so it was just creating dinos.

These are really wonderful! I don't have time to go through more closely right now but when I do, I'll say more. For now, just show us more pictures! Maybe I'll be inspired to show more of mine.

Seconded!

I'm going to stick with the theme already set, here, and that is ball gowns. These were all made with Bing, and I made them just for fun.

I know some people don't like Bing because of how restricted it is with its prompts, but the images it puts out are so damn good when you work within its boundaries.

Bing really is great. I've gotten some really great images from it, ones that were able to do things that other generators really struggle with. I do get frustrated sometimes with the repeated dogs when I'm not even asking for anything remotely sexual. For a free generator, it makes amazing images, and I've learned how to work around the restrictions too. I've only ever gotten the red X (hard prompt block) a few times the whole time I've been using it, and I've gotten pretty good at figuring out what words or phrases are triggering the dogs so I can adjust my prompt to get images again.