Alright, let me tell you about this little project I did recently. Got this image in my head, you know? Brad Pitt on a Harley. Just seemed like a cool picture to try and make. So, I fired up the tool I usually mess around with for generating images.
First attempt, I just typed in the basics: ‘Brad Pitt riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle’. Simple enough, right? Well, what I got back was kinda meh. Sometimes it looked vaguely like him, but other times it was just some random blond dude. And the bike? Often it wasn’t really screaming ‘Harley’, looked more like a generic cruiser, sometimes even a bit weirdly proportioned. Not quite the iconic vibe I was after. A bit disappointing, honestly.
Trying to make it better
Okay, clearly just typing the basic idea wasn’t cutting it. Needed to get more specific. So, I started adding more details. Thought about what makes that image iconic.
- I tried specifying the era, like ‘young Brad Pitt’ or ‘Brad Pitt early 90s’. That helped get the face closer sometimes.
- For the bike, I stopped being lazy and typed ‘classic Harley Davidson’, ‘Harley Davidson Softail model’. Getting more specific with the bike model seemed to nudge it in the right direction.
- Added details about the scene: ‘riding on a desert highway’, ‘sunny day’, ‘open road’. This helped a lot with the background and the overall mood, stopped it from just being him floating in nowhere.
- Then I thought about the look: ‘wearing a leather jacket’, ‘sunglasses’, ‘wind blowing through his hair’. Layering these descriptions definitely improved things.
It took a fair bit of fiddling, changing words here and there. Sometimes the hands looked weird, or parts of the bike seemed to blend into the road. You know how these AI things can be, they get confused sometimes. Had to generate quite a few variations, tweaking the prompt slightly each time.
Finally, after maybe half an hour or so of this back and forth, I got one that felt pretty good. Was it perfect? Nah, if you looked really close, maybe some small detail was off. But the general feeling, the look? Yeah, it captured that ‘Brad Pitt on a Harley’ idea I had in my head. Felt like a small victory, getting the machine to spit out something that matched my brain-picture. It’s funny, you think it’ll be easy, just type it in, but it often takes a bit of wrestling to get what you really want. Anyway, that was my little experiment for the day.
