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Saving Text Prompts with image (and Redefine settings)

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thinkingpixelsAndré M. HünselerTopaz Gigapixel Owner

Oct 2024

As I said earlier, I think the new Redefine model is partcularly useful for AI generated content. Since it has an option to input a prompt to guide the image generation, I was wondering if you could add the feature that Gigapixel AI automatically imports the prompts from the metadata of opened images if they have any…? Most generative text to image AI tools will save the original prompt used for image generation in the metadata of the exported file, e.g. pretty much all UIs for Stable Diffusion, Flux and also MidJourney will do that. Might be pretty handy to automatically import the original prompt from the metadata when opening an image. Might also be great to have a checkbox to enable or disable this behavior. :slight_smile:

unrelentTopaz Video AI Owner

plugsnpixels

Dec 2024

I have good experience with text prompts here. For example, with my heron: it was still not worth anything, but when I (in desperation, as a last attempt just before destroying my computer) wrote “bird heron with detailed feather and eye and bill”, it suddenly gave a pretty nice result (in relation to the miserable original, of course). But I don’t know how well it works in general.

I would also really like it if Gigapixel remembered the prompt. I always have to copy and save the text – sometimes it comes out to more words. If it could remember, say, the last 10 prompts when I experiment with them, that would be a joy…
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My questions and reasons for doing this today are:

Dakota answered: “Great idea! We’re looking at something similar for a future update, to help you generate a prompt.”

But I cannot find anything specific since ?
Even settings do NOT seem to be saved in v8.3.4 - or am, I doing something wrong ?
My Windows 10 PC appears to open Redefine with the last settings used and not ones related to the currently opening image ?

Q1. Maybe it could be an optional EXIF metadata addition or .xmp or .gig (txt) file ?
It absolutely MUST be optional

Point.1 Useful for easily archiving actual text Prompt used with each individual image

Point.2 When reopening a rendered image to try different settings its a pain to have an empty text box and to have to go out of Gigapixel to find, copy and then back to Gigapixel to paste the previously used text. This is also related to currently non-inability of normal copy & paste & cut mouse button clicks which a lot of people have asked for but we wait and wait and wait for that to be fixed (if ever ???)

Point.3 André M. Hünseler’s suggestion that Gigapixel might as an option generate a starting text prompt from image metadata might work nicely. BUT there are so many free and paid apps to generate text descriptions form an image - and probably so many preferred choices as to which app to use that a NEW Gigalpixel app could be redundant. ChatGPT for example has some very strong advocates

Point.4 My current fiddly system uses a C4321 code for saving model settings in the file name:
Creativity 4
Texture 3
Extra sharpen 2
Extra denoise 1

BUT the latest beta has moved on and uses Creativity None & Subtle in Redefine-Realistic
and Low - Medium - High - Max in Redefine-Art (Artistic)

Point.5 My present very unwieldly system for saving text prompts uses Notepad++ and chronological versions of text for a batch or a repeatedly used single test image.
Having to flick back and forth is a pain

For attn … dakota.wixom

Andre’s post was a comment in the v8.0.0.0b forum and not a voting Idea.
Depending on whether any development effort has been or will be spent on this is it worth making this a VOTING IDEA ?

I vote “for”. My opinion has not changed. It would be great to have the text prompt (to a reasonable extent) as part of the resulting photo (e.g. when someone returns to it after something has been improved or added as part of a Gigapixel upgrade and the photo can be improved a bit again – or at least tried to). Who is supposed to remember what prompt they wrote back then after half a year… (well, maybe someone did, but not me).

I think it is not necessary to have a prompt generating function built into Gigapixel – it would probably be enough to use EXIF ​​or IPTC to place the prompt(?), I don’t know.

And as you write, I also use Notepad++ (which is not a database system) for those prompts to save them, but over time I still get confused about what belongs to what, and where is what was there before it mysteriously disappeared.

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