I debated, but was nervous crawling around on the ground right under where the tree fell and causing any vibrations trying to heft the desktop PC tower, monitor, accessories out of there… when the FD said it was the most vulnerable room to more damage I stayed out. And, placed a Buddha just outside the door in the hall to keep the room safe.
An arborist came midday the day after the storm/tree fall. They got it off the house and chopped most of it down. They left the big stump & root system and the boulders embedded in it.
I was thinking I should use Ps & PAI to create a line drawing I can ‘tattoo’ onto the top of the sliced off stump.
Roofers were here yesterday. Now waiting for quotes for repairs. Lots of expenses (in addition to the trauma) when we’re not working.
Better, but still not there. I performed additional attempts in both PAI and Photoshop but both got worse from there ;-). This is the best of the alternates in PS:
This was the keeper (PS):
After further trips through Photoshop (generative fill), Photo RAW, Radiant Photo and back into PAI for final cleanup, I finished with this!
I see Leonardo AI is web-based. I enjoy the local processing of my renders (M2 Mac Mini with various downloaded models, takes less than a minute per). I have also tried some online options; there are so many choices now to get this stuff done!
Of course you need PAI or GAI to upsize and smooth these renders as 1024 seems to be a limit (at least in DB).
I do use Topaz PAI to upscale. One issue I found is that if an image contains people then sometimes the AI will put too many fingers on hands and distort feet and hands. Not every time but this can ruin an otherwise great picture. Some can be corrected or covered but not always.
Here is one example with people but where that hands and feet are ok.
Another beautiful work! And yes, follow-up touchup is usually needed… Which is good, it adds some human element to the piece.
Besides the eyes, my blues girl had weird fingers and the guitar strings were like wet spaghetti! Plus the bottom of the image was truncated in the original render and needed expansion. The original mood lighting was fine but I chose to glam it up for the clubgoers
