General: Resources
From Art Mechanicum
Tool Resources[edit | edit source]
These resources all deal with tooling type concerns - how ML art works, etc.
AI Artwork Primers[edit | edit source]
| Link Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning Artwork (for non-Experts) | Learn a bit about machine learning for art generation to help understand why we need prompt crafting and the answer to things like "why can't it just make hands right" |
General Help Guides[edit | edit source]
| Link Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Scaling Images Up | How to scale up images past a tool's max upscale for situations that need it (for example large, high quality canvas prints) | |
| Improving Faces with GFPGAN | Improve faces generated with one ML tool using another ML tool. | |
| Reusable Characters | Exploration for making reusable characters. |
Prompting[edit | edit source]
This section deals with creating and understanding prompts.
General Prompt Guides[edit | edit source]
These guides help you understand some general prompt craft subject (punctuation, image prompts, etc).
| Link Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lynn Cherny's Guide to Text Prompts | https://github.com/arnicas/MJ-Docs/wiki/A-Guide-to-Text-Prompts | |
| A Guide to Writing Prompts for Text to Image AI | https://docs.google.com/document/d/17VPu3U2qXthOpt2zWczFvf-AH6z37hxUbvEe1rJTsEc/edit |
Styles[edit | edit source]
This section deals with helping you understand and/or generate things in a particular style.
Style Guides - General[edit | edit source]
The below have a large selection of samples to help you with ML artwork. These guides listed here have content on for more than one ML image generation system.
| Name | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Rex Wang’s Resource Guide, Prompt /Style Examples, and Prompt Generator | https://rexwang8.github.io/resource/ai/generator | |
| AI Art Creation Wiki & Resource Guide | https://aiartcreation.fandom.com/wiki/AI_Art_Creation_Wiki | Style Examples of Volcanos |
| Museum of Modern Art's Glossary | https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/glossary/ | Example terms from Museum of Modern Art that can be useful for AI artwork generation |
| Glossary of Watercolor terms | https://www.solvingwatercolour.com/a-z-glossary-of-watercolor-terms-with-pics/ | Glossary of Watercolor terms with pictures |
Style Guides - Comic Books[edit | edit source]
This section covers making comics with ML artwork
| Name | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Aicomics Hub |
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsQGSnlMDvKq_8333ViwaRQ/featured |
A gathering place for folks making comic books with AI artwork |
| Creating CBR/CBZ for Comics | https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-cbrcbz-files-distribute-comic-strip-graphic/ | Guide for making digital distributable comic files |
Style Guides - Jewelry[edit | edit source]
This section covers content that might help with creating Jewelry - either examples, or jewelry terms.
| Name | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sapphire Engagement Ring Settings | https://www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.com/engagement-ring-settings/ | Gemstone ring terms, specific for Sapphire rings |
| Diamond Grading Terms | https://4cs.gia.edu/en-us/blog/gia-diamond-grading-scales/ | Diamond grading terms for jewelry |
Artist Styles[edit | edit source]
The below explore various artists applied as part of your prompt.
| Name | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fire Emblem Heroes Wiki list of Artists | https://feheroes.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_artists | List of Fire Emblem Heroes artists |
Tools[edit | edit source]
Other AI / ML Tools[edit | edit source]
| Link Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fabled AI Story Generator | https://fabled.ai/welcome | Tool which generates stories with artwork from your prompts |
| Cre AI tives AI Database | https://www.creaitives.com/tools | A database of other tools using AI |
| Futurepedia.io | https://www.futurepedia.io/ | A database of other tools using AI |
Image Interrogation Tools[edit | edit source]
| Link Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| @pharmapsychotic's CLIP Interrogator | https://colab.research.google.com/github/pharmapsychotic/clip-interrogator/blob/main/clip_interrogator.ipynb | Checks what different OpenAI CLIP models see in an image |
| methexis inc's img2prompt tool | https://replicate.com/methexis-inc/img2prompt | Checks to see what kind of prompt could have been used to generate an image (using CLIP ViT-L/14) |
AI Face / Feature Cleanup Tools[edit | edit source]
These tools all can do post processing to clean up faces / features of images. Also see our guide at Improving Faces with GFPGAN.
| Link Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| GFPGAN | https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1sVsoBd9AjckIXThgtZhGrHRfFI6UUYOo | Google Notebook for running GFPGAN. Arguably the best result in our Improving Faces with GFPGAN, though more work than other options. |
| Tencent's Face Restoration Demo | https://arc.tencent.com/en/ai-demos/faceRestoration | Tencent's own face restoration demo |
| tencentarc/gfpgan | https://replicate.com/tencentarc/gfpgan | Tencent's Face Restoration tool on Replicate |
| Baseten | https://app.baseten.co/apps/QPp4nPE/operator_views/RqgOnqV | Another GFP-GAN based tool for Photo Restoration |
| nightmareai/real-esrgan | https://replicate.com/nightmareai/real-esrgan | A Real-ESRGAN based tool for Photo Restoration |
| AI Lab Face Anime Converter | https://www.ailabtools.com/face-anime-converter | A face to anime face converter - may be useful to fix generated anime faces. |
Prompt builder[edit | edit source]
These tools can help you create good prompts.
| Link Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| promptoMANIA | https://promptomania.com/prompt-builder/ | Gives different prompts for the different AIs. |
Image Scaling Tools[edit | edit source]
These tools can all help you up-scale images (better than just basic upscaling). Also see our guide at Scaling Images Up for comparisons.
| Link Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Upscale Wiki's Upscaler Database | https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database | Giant list of upscalers with a ton of additional detail. |
| Gigapixel | https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai | Paid upscaler tool (also arguably the best from the comparison at Scaling Images Up).
Offers a free trial. |
| Deep AI's Super Resolution | https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/torch-srgan | Free web-based upscaler |
| Photoshop | https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html | Does a lot more than upscale, but does have a preserve detail upscale that's better than a basic upscale (again see comparison at Scaling Images Up) |
| RealESRGAN | https://replicate.com/xinntao/realesrgan | Image restoration / upscale for General/Anime images |
Other Tools[edit | edit source]
| Link Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Copychar | https://copychar.cc/ | Tool to help copy special characters to your clipboard! |
| Adam's Asset Database | https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FKkSztpEbECSBmJbBgkKaplSYV8zosOu | Database of various AI generated assets. Note you can submit to the database at
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nGWkrHG49hWZpkPOIMs4RLTR6prkTrPj |
| ThisPersonDoesNotExist | https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ | Tool that generates a picture of a person that doesn't exist |
| Palette.fm | https://palette.fm/ | Tool to recolorize images |
| Cleanup.Pictures | https://cleanup.pictures/ | Tool to remove items from your images |
| Have I Been Trained | https://haveibeentrained.com/ | Tool to search the Laion image by text or image to determine if content is in it. |
| Random Generators | https://springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/index.html | Set of generators for when you don't know what to generate! |
| Magic Eraser | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duygiangdg.magiceraser&pli=1 | A tool which can remove items from your images |
