everybody, and welcome to this hive mind webinar with myself and sunray grace and but stop and read. We're just waiting for a few more people to come in. So we'll just give kerajaan. I will just give everybody one more minute and then we'll get on the road. And yeah, I'll just do a sort of quick introduction. So hope everyone's fine. And this is sort of 10am New Zealand time. So there were a few people registered from different time zones, but whether they're brave enough to come in afterwards, who knows? We will we are recording it. So it'll be available on my website. Alrighty, and there's a few more to come in
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you're everybody. Marina. Marina. Hey, Adam, how are you? I'm good. Thanks. Very Good to see ya. We're here. So I'm just keeping an eye on who is arriving. So look, we're just using a normal zoom call here, not the sort of webinar. A full functionality, and we're sort of operating it as we go. So alright, well, we'll get started. And then I will admit people as they if there's any late comers, so yeah, cure everybody. And as I say, Welcome to this hive mind session on Friday, the 14th of June, in the morning, good to have everyone here. I will just share up my screen. So look at myself and Sam Rogerson. I think everyone probably knows me. And, and hopefully a lot of you know, Sam. So Sam, is longtime colleague of mine. And we recently collaborated on on my book Fast forward algebra. And Sam has just developed some really amazing skills, and just, you know, really exploring some of the latest AI, image generation creative tools. So we thought we'd just have a session where we'd go through all of the, you know, the tools and the workflows that we're using, keep it pretty loose. So we're going to talk for just around 30 minutes, and then just keep it interactive with a bit of an AMA, do feel free to ask a question in the chat while we're presenting. And then, you know, if you if it's something that you think is going to really add them, feel free to put your audio on, otherwise, feel free to put your screens off and audio of alright. Okay, so you, Sam, you can see that everyone should check it, Sam, just do a quick sound check.
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Okay, this is a professional professional production. Okay. All right. So what we're going to do is just the background on this is that a few weeks ago, a few customers and a few people I've been working with were saying, you know, do you have a list, I can find somewhere have all the tools that you should be using and, and so basically came up, I spent a Sunday just basically just brain dumping all the stuff that that I'm using that I have, you know, tried maybe just a little trial with. And then Sam turned it into this, you know, really handy sort of bubble chart, and used AI for this say, Sam. So actually, yeah, just to put it together. So, you know, this, this is a sort of work in progress. But sort of like all of them are generative tools, pretty much general purpose language models. It's more we're all familiar with. And then sort of video image, internet search, and then audio, various audio tools as well. And so what we'll do is we'll just pick from from these today, and, and just work our way through it. And look, so here's just some examples, that Sam is going to take us through some workflows, but these are some that I find pretty inspiring. As you'll see from the book, we've spent a lot of time imagining the future. And actually behind me is one we did earlier this week just in prep. ovation for, for this meeting. So that is a university library in the year 2500s, with sort of very organic features, and I think I've shared the prompt in this week's newsletter. And it was hilarious putting that out on LinkedIn. And the very first response we got back was I just don't get it, and people aren't gonna be using libraries and 2500. And where's the safety barrier? Yeah, I don't know, if horses for courses, but we quite enjoy doing the imagination. This, this one here is amazing as well, just sort of the reality of the, you know, the photo realistic aspects. And then, you know, the ability to leverage cultural icons into so that's McDonald's on the desktop Cretaceous. Yeah. All right. So what we're going to do so that's the background, so I'm using this is our own research. I've mine, which we covered in the last webinar we did ages ago, over a year ago, I think it was. So look, I'm going to hand hand over Sam now. And Sam, you know, I think you're just going to talk through your workflow, just here's just a few of the images from the book, this is, this is the cover of the book, which we obviously only took the middle bit, and then you know, there's what you can do with these tools is just basically expand out from and zoom out. This is quite quite, you know, illustrative of some of the concepts. And so different forms of agriculture with a bunch of, you know, renewable energy, wind farms, and so on. There and, and this, this, this is where I would like to live in and, you know, one of my little projects potentially, in future is to go, let's go and construct a city in the mountains that has no, no real roads, and, you know, you get everywhere and on some kind of cable car looks beautiful. And then I think this is, this is the one I'd really, really like to understand how you got to this one, Sam, because I've never seen an image like this come up anywhere else in the world, which is just this real mix of technology, and nature. So alright, how Sam, I'm going to hand over you now. And you just basically just take us through your magic.
Yeah, hi, all. So I'm doing I'm gonna just share my screen and take it from there. And the operating two computers a little bit confused.
All right. So obviously, we have a cat picture to begin with, because that's always, always. Right, floating around. All right. Now, let me just start first. Because my wife see often looks at me when I'm doing the AI generated image and saying, What are you? Are you a designer? Now? Are you an artist, I thought you were a consultant. And so I started looking back at my career. And I've I have always since I was a young man always tried to make my presentation with art. And I used to be, you know, in art school a little bit when I was young, and all of that. So there is a in me has always been this, this dream of being able to generate what I'm doing now. It's always been in me. And these tools are just so wonderful. And I'm just glad to be able to share with you some of the tips and tricks of what what you know how, how you get to what you want, because everybody can move baby will make any kind of pictures in these things. But to actually get to what you want to get an outcome you're after, is quite a challenge at times. But first, I want to ask you, you know, is there any, any suggestion of an image that you people want to want to generate, put it in the chat. And in the meantime, I'm just going to tell you a little bit about the three tools that I'm going to be using today. So if think about a scene or think about like we've had a library, and maybe I'll pick one of the chat wants to generate on the fly. And then you just jump in, if there's anything I've missed, or if I'm going off the rails here, because we are so professional now
we'll do I was gonna say just that we're going to stick to 30 minutes of demos and 30 minutes of ama if we can Yeah, yeah, no, no, my timing will be like 55 But
no worries. So the first one I'm using is mid journey. Mid journey is is sort of the top tool to create beautiful images. I'm using it in an interface called discord, but it's also available on the website. And basically in here you would put in the prompt of what you are trying to create. I'm also going to be using an edit tool which also has photo generations and all of these sorts of things, but I like to use this tool here for touching our photos and Changing them and whatever. And then finally, the best tool of all is would be the magnificent one, which makes just images, you know, golf from from, as you can see here, beautiful photos, and then it just enhances them in such an amazing way. Similarly here, for example, we have have an office worker from something I sent on LinkedIn just couple of days ago. And already, this image here of an office worker, is pretty good. And then you put in in the magnific. And it just sort of takes it to the next level of details. And
I just wonder whether that's actually coming through on the Zoom resolution. Just just put it in put in the middle for a second, just right on his nose. Yeah, I think you can see it, but it might be much higher resolution, just on your screen as you're looking at it. Yeah. So just just to be aware that when I've seen this live, it is quite, quite incredible the difference of sort of blurred versus sharpness.
All right. Have you gotten anything in the chat?
Yeah, we have. So there are five suggestions. Thank you, Kyla for a rugby team on the moon. A hero image of a man or woman both using a wheelchair. Thanks, Andrew. An image of practical augmented reality, whatever that might be seen through from John Edward is an image of God designing a boulder so heavy that he himself can't lift it. And they Yeah, so for that, to choose choose one of those rugby team on the Moon says quite, there's maybe quite a lot of stuff in there, they got designing a boulder, and your choice.
These are all quite specific ones that might be hard to demonstrate. This is why I never asked people let me just see a little graphic designing a boulder. That's an interesting one.
So let's do a play on the rugby team shall we? And and not put it on the moon. But let's see if we can stick with the future sort of theme. And try to create basically a stadium of the future with rugby and other things in MCs. And obviously, when we do something on the fly, it's probably going to go all terribly wrong, especially because the library that we bent it as a test works so well. But it will not still show you the process. So what you start doing is you start with a prompt. And in the court, you have to basically give a command you don't have to do that on the website. So basically, you know telling it that you want to do a prompt, when you're writing prompts, you will usually start on saying what is the most important for the image you start basically on the framework of the image because you want the the AI to pick up you know, this is really what the image is about. Right? So. So you would basically say create an image of New Zealand Rugby much in the future. So Ben, feel free to jump in with with good ideas. So now I've set the basic so I basically just this is the basic what I want and now I need to tell it a little bit more as to how to I want to have it I might say it should be wide, wide angle. shot showing the whole stadium stadium on a bright, sunny day in New Zealand. What else Ben?
Well, look I've just asked chatty BT for this is my pitch. I'll just bump you off for a second. So is check up for five image prompts. And so you know, pick one of these future New Zealand rugby match stadium view futuristic rugby players in action. There'll be robots mixed reality experience with fans AI powered game analysis sustainable, futuristic stadium. I'll paste those into the chat, paste them
into the chat. And this is a great way so people might think that this is almost like cheating, but the single is it gives you that blank canvas almost it gives you that beginning. And so it's a very good idea to do this vectorized output formats. I'm not sure to be honest, there are some of them that you can like that folder where you can actually output it in, in different formats. But remember that the most of these are not. There are specialized AI tools that will do that designer tools where you like Adobe Photoshop now is with an AI capabilities, and they would be able to do what you're talking about the vectorized output. So the question is here if it can be, you know, created with vector and editable, but it's probably not the strongest on that. Where did you put in a chat on the
SRS, I'm trying to is user error here features degree they were the only less we've got them in the
last one to the fifth. Okay.
The skate sustainable futuristic state. Yeah.
It's like likes things like that. So
ah, no, you're not sharing your screen anymore. So
you can't take the screen like this piccolo cushions.
Back on, thank you. Controls. Got a chat on the soon.
Yes, Richard. Absolutely. We're going to record this and it'll be up on the menu. So scrambling to media website. Yeah. And we might even speed up some of the posts
Hey, gang, you trying to get that into the prompt, sir. Yeah, I'm
not getting it. It's just hard to copy and paste out of this thing.
We're really good at AI. But copying and pasting
is really challenging. It's just not something I do all the time right. Now. No, Doc. Just bear with me guys. It's all going to be wonderful. So where so we're gonna say basically, it's sustainable. Future Ristic. Stadium and eco friendly. Show solar powered rugby. Stadium. We already said all of that. Cutting edge. Sustainable. archy. Now I want to say full of people. Diverse, diverse. People. Route family, and so on. Right.
My parents stadium if you're interested. Sorry. There's a typo in stadium just right above your cursor. Yeah. Yeah.
All right, now we start doing stuff. Now. This is basically your created a prompt and what I usually do I just go for it, I don't do anything, allow the system to just provide me with whatever basic things the specific tool is, before I start messing with it if I'm trying to create a very specific images, and that just allows you to understand, you know, what's the prompt good enough? Are you missing something? Are there things that you need to tell it and you know, to make sure that that you're actually generating it is actually doing what you wanted to do, rather than just doing something cool? And
interior you can see like the diffusion models basically just like layering on the detail as it's imagining it. Oh, I spray I think we just got to spend $800 million on that
and I'd say basically, now I can start messing around Now that you now start saying basically different settings. So what I would do now is, I would put in what I think are the good settings for my images. And I would, for example, go up and set styling, I would want to say what is the ratio. And I might even say something called style Ra, which tells it to listen to my prompts even more, just as an example, right. And while it's doing that, because we are a little bit on time, I'm gonna just do few others, I'm also going to go and say, do variations. So that is called change. So I wanted to do not just like, the first one you saw, that is for images quite close to, you know, they're all quite similar. If I put in this see thing there, it basically gives me more variation. And let's actually go higher, and get a lot of different ones. And then I'm going to do one more thing here and say, Let's basically go and do a weird one. Where basically, I allowed the model to go notch and create something that maybe it's not real, and it's not, you know, what one would have?
And w is is literally for weird, right? Yeah. Absolutely. I love it. I love my journey.
Just straightforward. Yes, weird. Now, and there is there is other things that one can do. And I know I'm rushing through this, because we had such an issue in the beginning there is you can also use a style guide, which which I find very, you know, interesting to do. So you find numbers, and I'm not going to go into that. But you basically can, if you have created images shouldn't weigh it generate numbers, and then you can reuse those numbers to get a similar theme to picture again and again. And it sort of takes into account what color scheme you had and what you know, what kind of image was the futuristic or was it not? Was it really detailed or not. And the brand new thing that they have released as well is that you can tell them to use your style. So now we have all of these pictures here, right? And we can start looking at and picking one. These all look very non futuristic. If you asked me this because we're doing something on the fly. Right. But yeah.
It's really interesting, because it's like, the library one just came out completely.
I mean, there's just no sustainable architect. No, no sustainable architecture. Yeah, I wonder if you could put that one top left is interesting.
Here, yeah. What are here? Yeah. Okay, so we just have to take one of these anyway, because we're trying to demonstrate the difference on how things are created. So if we take, let's say, this bottom one here, right, now I can have a look at it. Close up and see if I want to do anything with it more. And there's quite a lot you can do in mid June, uh, you can you can add stuff, you can you can basically say I want something extra. You can vary regions, for example, and say that, you know, you don't like the sky or something. And then you might just go and say, you know, what, a bright blue sky, you know, you can just sort of remove features off there and see if it works sometimes it becomes quite upset with you and doesn't want to do it and you probably want now because I'm doing a demo and I have a few images that I did earlier, you know if we if we run out of stuff. And then you can also zoom out to make the image bigger
still generating these. Now we can see that it has even changed the roof a little, it has changed the weather here, we've gone into a blue sky a little bit. And so I'm going to use that image here, this last one. And but I'm just going to show you quickly here, the zoom out thing. So basically what it does with this particular one, it zooms out and makes, you know, so makes the image basically centered, the one you had, and that allows you to sort of very often to change the, how you're actually framing the picture, or it allows you to have, it just makes extra stuff to it, which is often really cool. This one, as you can see, hopefully, you know, has made like somebody watching from an almost like a field close by at the stadium. But now, let's, let's move on. So I now go and start looking at the photo I've downloaded in folder, right? If I did download it with it in the web
so your question come through David, we'll, we'll come to that in the AMA afterwards, this is really interesting. I'm
just gonna open this up. And we're here we have the picture. And because I've done this few times, I know for example, that when I start working with this picture, these people here in the foreground are not going to come out very nice. So you start learning when you do this again, and again, that there are certain things that certain tools fail on or too badly. And therefore, you know, I might remove things beforehand. Another thing I sometimes do in here, for example, besides cropping and all of this regular things, it's like in this one, I find it quite dark. So I might just brighten it up before I do anything, you know, these are very simple, you know, things, but I need to do it before I upscale it in order for it to stick. So now I've done just few things. I'm gonna download it. And now I'm going to go into the magnific one. I'm going to upload that one that I just had. And now I can basically decide what kind of image I want to do. Let's just go with film fotografie. And I can ask the system to be creative HDR, how close to the output. So this is sort of how much you will not trust magnific to change your photo. factuality is a dangerous thing and I'm not going to try to explain it too I have that on minors. So there is quite a lot of options in there actually of what you can do. And sometimes I include the descriptions and sometimes I don't sometimes the description make magnific loads of things there and it's just not very good. So let's just see now though, what it does and just wait for a second it's actually quite quick when you are you can actually go really really detailed to see I'm on on to x and with the right equipment, I could go all the way up to 60 Next was just like I could plaster a wall.
I mean, it really is it's sort of Blade Runner, enhance but just you know in reality so whatever you imagine, you know just zoom in to the face of the person sitting in the top stand at the stadium
still seeing it we're still seeing a cat at the moment. Yeah.
So and here we are. So as you can see, you know, hopefully we had sort of murky lights here and out of focus thing and it has now taken all the details and enhanced all of them
and so if you zoomed into that that crowd now the bag Yeah. So I
need to add the just started this by the way Now Ben just yesterday. Nice. And it's interesting. You can now pick the quality. You weren't able to get on version quality before now you can I talked to the creators actually. And I told them, I want this to be in the settings, not that you have to do it every time because it's two clicks. And they came back to me and said, Yep, no, that will change that. So you will see that in the next few days is kind of cool with latest thing that you can just talk to the makers, and
