Using AI to meet a Deadline

“You need four covers for travel documents to Paris, all with a similar theme, but definitely each unique? When?” Oh, then…

I’ve been using an A.I. (artificial intelligence) image generator to create variations. For this deadline I used the application ‘DiffusionBee’ running locally on my Macintosh laptop.

I started with four images that I created for my business cards. They are colorful and were built using a common set of symbols. The four images selected use different triadic color schemes.

DiffusionBee offers an ‘Image to Image’ option. This takes a file and a text prompt and generates images based on the combination. Meeting the deadline I used the same prompt - Paris symbols, colorful, art deco playful geometric - for all four images. I ask that it generate four images so I could select one that would have an option that caught my eye. In a few cases the first four images did not please me, so I simply reran the generation.

Paris in Aqua

Paris in Blue

Paris in Pink

Paris in Purple

The images I selected all had an iconic symbol of Paris, whether the Eiffel Tower, or the Arc de Triomphe. The generated images were slightly too narrow, so a vertical rule was added to the left of the images. Starting with similar compositions, the AI was able to generate a set of unified variations on the theme.