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I have never been very good at photographing my pens—until using ChatGPT. This is a cigar pen I crafted from teak wood removed from the battleship USS California (BB-44) after she was decommissioned. The photo on the right is my first attempt at photographing the pen; the photo on the right is after running the image through ChatGPT and adding a photo of the ship's deck as the background. The entire process took about five minutes.
 

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I like the idea.

But... is it just me or did ChatGPT decide to alter the proportions of the pen. In the pic with BB-44 in the background, the upper half of the pen (with the clip) is noticeably shorter. It also completely changed the detail on the metal portions of the pen. It also altered the look of the wood if you look closely. I would argue that they are not the same pen. That would bother me both as a maker, seller and customer.
 
In my Astrophotography world, people are using chatgpt and finding that chatgpt is just replacing semicrappy images with hubble or JWST quality images and letting the person believe that the image was just an enhancement of their photo. I suspect something similar is happening here.
 
Yep, I have used Gemini AI for pen backgrounds also. There was another post on this a while back. AI does a good job with backgrounds but I did notice changes in the pen. Some were hard to see and others were pretty subtle.
 
I have never been very good at photographing my pens—until using ChatGPT. This is a cigar pen I crafted from teak wood removed from the battleship USS California (BB-44) after she was decommissioned. The photo on the right is my first attempt at photographing the pen; the photo on the right is after running the image through ChatGPT and adding a photo of the ship's deck as the background. The entire process took about five minutes.
I have to say I'm kind of against this in many contexts. What you did is give an AI image generator your pen as an idea for how to produce an entirely new image. It didn't modify your image, it made something up. The clip on your pen doesn't look anything like the clip on the AI image. The proportions of the AI pen are different than the real one. The finish and tone of the wood looks different. If I was, for example, a customer, and I expected a pen that looked like the one in the AI image, I would be frustrated to receive one that looks entirely different.

If your only goal was to make an interesting image that somewhat resembled your pen, then I guess you accomplished it. If your goal is to use the AI image as any sort of representation of what you actually made, then I think you've gone astray.
 
I played around with ChatGPT & came up with this image. I told chat to not modify your original photo & only add the backdrop. I think that kept the clip closer to your original. So you have the backdrop added but your original photo is not embellished so that is defeating your original goal of having photo embellished & backdrop added at same time.

I have had fun with ChatGPT for personal pics…
 

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I played around with ChatGPT & came up with this image. I told chat to not modify your original photo & only add the backdrop. I think that kept the clip closer to your original. So you have the backdrop added but your original photo is not embellished so that is defeating your original goal of having photo embellished & backdrop added at same time.

I have had fun with ChatGPT for personal pics…
Good job.
 
I have never been very good at photographing my pens—until using ChatGPT. This is a cigar pen I crafted from teak wood removed from the battleship USS California (BB-44) after she was decommissioned. The photo on the right is my first attempt at photographing the pen; the photo on the right is after running the image through ChatGPT and adding a photo of the ship's deck as the background. The entire process took about five minutes.
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I recently saw a master generate cool covers for his YouTube video tutorials using neural networks, and it saves a lot of hours on Photoshop. By the way, if you ever need to extract high-quality music or sounds for a presentation of your work from a video, I advise you to check out the useful article https://setapp.com/how-to/convert-youtube-to-mp3 where proven conversion tools are analyzed in detail. Five minutes to process such beauty is generally a ridiculous amount of time.
Now I can't imagine my life without chat gpt. My girlfriend is a photographer and all the flaws in the photo are solved by AI.
 
I used it a few times but you have to tell it specifically not to change the image, just the background. I'm lazy and found an app that will remove the background and replace it with a single color. I think it's called Arvin.
 
Wonder how it was done before Photoshop and Lightroom, to mention a couple things.
Good lighting, careful set up of the background. If you're willing to take 15 minutes to set up lights to illuminate what you want illuminated and fall off where you don't want light, it's very doable to get a pure black or pure white background, and an evenly lit subject in front of it. Even if you're shooting film and printing with an enlarger.
 
Fifteen minutes in the overall scheme of life is a drop in the bucket. My approach to photography is to experiment with indoor and outdoor shots. Note what is good and what isn't. Did some photos of a creek along our Greenway. First photo was like a polar bear in a blizzard.
 
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