How to build an NFT series using AI (Part 7)
ICYMI: Chevy is feeding his unique images to an AI to create an NFT collection (and documenting all of it right here). Observe on IG and Twitter for first seems to be.
Collect spherical fellow degenerates, for I’ve a narrative to inform you…
Again within the day, I purchased a second hand Nintendo 64 from a buddy of mine, for $10 (main rating!).
I figured as a result of I obtained such a discount on the console – I might go a bit of loopy shopping for second-hand video games.
I discovered a bundle on eBay that included Golden Eye, Mario Kart, Tremendous Smash Bros. and Conker’s Dangerous Fur Day – what a line up!
Sadly, once they arrived, not a single one in every of them labored.
However right here’s the factor: I wasn’t being scammed – I used to be being dumb.
In my haste to lock in one other deal, I failed to acknowledge that Nintendo made totally different cartridges for various areas, and people new sport cartridges didn’t match the area setting on my Nintendo 64.
I might see the video games. I might maintain them. I might blow the mud out of them. However I couldn’t get them to work.
I inform you this story to spotlight an analogous frustration I’ve with myself as we speak.
See, my haste to start out creating images with Midjourney led me to make a false assumption.
I’d been producing photographs at 1024 x 1024 pixels – considering there was a button I might click on to get Midjourney to magically upscale every picture to 4k.
(As a result of why wouldn’t it be capable to do this? It’s creating a picture from scratch – upscaling ought to be a sinch…proper?).
Nope.
Seems 1024 x 1024 is the max decision Midjourney will push to.
And whereas that’s greater than okay to be used on the internet – I needed to be sure that anybody that owned one in every of these NFTs had a picture that they might blow up and print.
…and for that, 1024 x 1024 simply ain’t going to chop it.
So I had two choices:
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Suck it up and launch the collection in low decision.
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Cross my fingers, toes, legs, and arms – and hope that there was some magic upscaling software program on the market.
I rolled the cube on choice two.
Seems: tangling your extremities into knots really bares outcomes! I discovered a bit of software program that did precisely what I needed it to.
It’s referred to as Gigapixel AI, and it permits you to drag/drop/upscale any picture at will. I needed to shell out $99 for it, however that was a one-time charge (which, on the planet of recurring subscriptions, is a breath of contemporary air).
Right here’re the settings I used, together with the outcomes…
Picture and settings:
