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DALLE Design Lab: Transforming Ideas into Digital Art

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      DALL E Unleash Your Imagination

      1:31

    • 2.

      Dalle Basic Use

      5:19

    • 3.

      Image Editing

      4:48

    • 4.

      Use Images As Reference

      7:39

    • 5.

      Outpainting & Upscaling

      2:12

    • 6.

      Face Restoration

      0:50

    • 7.

      1000 IQ Prompting

      2:49

    • 8.

      Design Lab Special

      5:40

    • 9.

      Course End

      1:21

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Class Overview:
In this course you'll embark on an exciting journey into the world of artificial intelligence-driven creativity. This course is your gateway to harnessing the power of DALL-E, OpenAI 's remarkable image generation software. From the basics to advanced techniques, we'll equip you with the skills needed to create stunning visuals that will leave a lasting impression.

What You Will Learn:
- Navigate and utilize the DALL-E user interface with ease.
- Craft compelling visual narratives using the art of prompt techniques.
- Master the techniques of inpainting and outpainting for dynamic image manipulation.
- Employ advanced prompting strategies to unlock the full potential of DALL-E.
- Create a real-world project—a captivating logo for a business—using DALL-E's AI capabilities.

Why You Should Take This Class:
In today's visually-driven world, the ability to generate captivating images with AI is a game-changer. Whether you're a designer looking to expand your skill set or an entrepreneur seeking innovative branding solutions, this course is your ticket to success. 

Who This Class is For:
This course is designed for a diverse audience, catering to both beginners and those with some prior experience in design or AI. Whether you're an aspiring designer, content creator, marketer, or simply curious about the limitless possibilities of AI, you'll find value in this course. No advanced technical background is required—just a passion for unleashing your creativity.

Materials/Resources:
To fully participate in this course, you'll need:
- Access to a computer with an internet connection
- A basic understanding of image editing concepts (helpful but not mandatory)
- Enthusiasm for learning and a creative mindset

Throughout the course, we'll provide you with additional resources, such as sample templates and DALL-E-related tools, to enhance your learning experience. Get ready to embark on this artistic adventure with us!

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1. DALL E Unleash Your Imagination: Welcome to the world of creative Possibilities with Daly, open eyes, groundbreaking image generation software. In this exciting course, we're going to dive deep into the art of image creation using AI. Whether you're a seasoned designer or a complete big, you're in for an exhilarating ride. Let's start with the basics. We'll take you through every nook and cranny of the Daly user interface. Don't worry if you're not tech savvy, it got you covered. Next up, we'll explore the magic of prompt techniques. With just a few words, you can unleash the power of Daly to create stunning visuals that will leave your audience in awe. But that's not all ever wondered how to seamlessly remove parts of an image and re imagine them. Using Daly will teach you the art of in painting, where you'll learn to give your images a fresh AI powered makeover and then there's out painting. Imagine expanding your canvas effortlessly in any direction with Daly. The sky is the limit will show you how to do it like a pro. For those of you who create more advanced tricks, we've got advanced prompting techniques that will blow your mind, elevate your creative game to a whole new level. But wait, there's more. Our course wouldn't be complete without a hands on project. You'll get to apply everything you've learned to create a jaw dropping logo for business using Daly's cutting edge capability. So are you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us? Whether you're here to master the basics, unlock hidden potential, or create something truly unique, Dali is your creative companion. Welcome to the Dali Revolution. Let's make art together. 2. Dalle Basic Use: Okay, so let's jump right into day. If you're clueless, just click Surprise Me and then Daly. We'll put a prompt here and then you can click Generate. And while the image is being generated, you will get to see a couple of tips by opening eye, which you can use to structure or freeze your prompt better. Now, the more detail we put in the prompt, the better the result is going to turn out. As you can see at the top, when I hover on that line, your image is going to be better when longer specific descriptions are provided, as shown right here. This is what a bowl of soup that looks like a monster knitted out of wall looks like. Let's check out this Ali icon right here. Which will take me to the home page. And you can browse some examples here if you want. You can just click one of the examples. And then that will give you the prompt for that image. When you get access to Ali for the first time, you get around 15 credit, which means 15 image generations or 15 individual prompts that you can generate images with. After which you have to purchase credits from Dolly. And the prices keep changing, so the cost of one credit might be different depending on when you are viewing this video. Another thing you need to know about is the rigid filtering process that Dolly has. Any generated images that violate open eyes, policies will not be displayed. Prompts containing vio***t words might not be allowed to run. For example, if there's a word like fight or a gun. These kind of prompts would flag your account. If you try a lot of prompts, a query or the prompt is being flagged by opening eye, and there is a chance that your account might get banned temporarily. You need to make sure that you stay away from those explicit or vio***t prompts. Let's start with a very simple example description. If you don't know what a prompt is, let me just clear that out for you. It's just a text description that you give to the AI model to describe your image. Let's start with a three D render of Microsoft Clippy on a computer desk running Windows 95. Let's see what's going to happen. What are the things that I'm trying to do? I'm trying to tell Dolly that I wanted three D render, so the graphics should look like they're three dimensional. I want this to be clip, this clippy character on a computer desk, and I'm assuming that Dolly would understand that the computer there is running Windows 95. This is the result that I've gotten. I would say this is not a bad result given that it's our first try. Let's move on from this and then try out something completely different. Let's say a high resolution Nasa picture of our galaxy captured by an in red telescope. Now notice the keywords such as high resolution an infrared telescope mentioning high resolution won't change the resolution of the image itself. It'll give us a more detailed and sharp image. Mentioning Nasa here might give the image a more realistic feel. Anyways, we want a picture of our galaxy and we want it to be captured by an infrared telescope. And honestly, these are really good pictures. These pictures look very similar to the ones that are released by Nasa. Every once in a while, you can see the galaxies are shown in red due to the telescope being infrared. So I'm going to try out one final prompt. We get a more holistic idea how to go about structuring and phrasing our prompts When using this on line tool. Let's say a minion sitting on a fast moving yellow cab. Yellow cab in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. Let's just add the phrase DSLR photo before minion sitting on a moving yellow cab in front of a Golden Gate bridge. All right, the DSLR photo specifies the quality of the image. The rest of the prompt describes the photo itself. I want to minion, but I want the minion sitting on a fast moving cap. So when I say fast moving, the reason I want that is because there's a specific effect that comes with DSLRs capturing fast moving objects. And we want the background to be of Golden Gate Bridge. These are not the best of images, but you can see it's tried to show that the Gars are moving at high speed. It's got the background to be mostly accurate and playing with the prompt a little might help us zero in on the image we want. That's it. These are the basics you need to know to get started with dolly from open AI. See you in the next one. 3. Image Editing: Now I want to show you the edit feature in dolly. In order to access the editor function, you click on any image. Click on these three dots and click Edit Image. This square is called a frame. One of the first things we can do is if we click on Select and then drag, and then we can select and drag this gray frame. If you look here, this is pan, pan, short cut. You can basically just click and drag around. And you'll be able to move your work plan to wherever you see fit, this minus and plus, it's to zoom in and out. Now that we've got a hang of that, let's take a look at what a generation frame does. If I go ahead and click Add Generation Frame and then I release it, I can actually type in something new. Let's say adult officers at an EDM concert. If I click Generate, you will see that not only did it generate the image, but we have a chance to scroll through. And if you scroll all four of these, you can see that there's different, various types of this image. What's truly amazing is they're fused together by dolly. They're similar at the connection point. Well, let's say we want to keep this one and we accept. Now let's say we want to add another frame right here, and this one is going to be a turtle flirting with a mermaid. We'll click Generate. This is a little bit troublesome because it looks, it's borrowing from some copyrighted art in order to create this, since we can see this name here. But if we scroll to the left, we can go ahead and choose something that's close. This is actually a turtle. If we click the pan and we move around, we can see that these fusions are coming out quite nicely. Now aside from that, I want to point out this eraser tool. With this tool, what you can do is you can erase part of an image and it will fill it in. You can think of it for Photoshop, for new, the content of Tool, let's say over here I raise the arm and the face and let's see what happens. And you can see it manipulated this and now it's done a great job. Although this is an okay, I really like this one though. Let's accept this one and add another frame. Let's say right here. And I'm going to click Upload Image. And you can see that I can resize the image and toggle it back and forth is a real live image. So let's go ahead with this real life image in addition to the other three ones. Okay, we've added it, and let's go ahead and add another frame right here In between all of these, I'm going to type in a caterpillar dancing in the sky and click Generate. I'm actually pretty impressed with how flawlessly it's fusing these together. Now, I'm not giving it any complicated or very descriptive commands, but it's still doing a good job of fusing them together. Remember, every single time you have a generation, you can choose between a number of variations. So it doesn't just generate one image, it generates four images. In this instance, I think this one looks the nicest and it has a nice color scheme. And also remember that I'm not putting in a lot of direction, I'm only just using a couple words. With dolly, you can go with any direction you want. With your prompts, you talk about colors, sizes, and all that. The last thing that I want to point out is the feature where you can upload an image and edit certain features of it. For example, I'm going to use this cat that I have on my PC. As you can see currently it seems like Dolly only prefers square images, one to one ratio. And what I want to show is that you can go ahead and read sparse of your image and have a prompt here. For instance, I can say a cat with purple eyes and click Generate. As you can see in some of these images, it actually did a great job of turning the eyes purple. In other images, it just looks like the cat has pink eye and needs to be taken to the wet. That's how you can play around with images and dolly see you in the next one. 4. Use Images As Reference: Okay, so in this video, I'm going to be taking a deep dive into some of Dolly's features. And let's take a look at how we can use some reference images so we can import them and use in dolly. Let's look at our collection section first. So here I'm going to go into my collections and this is where all of my images being generated will appear. I haven't any generations available right now because I haven't generated any images with this account. But for example, let's say that I asked the computer to me, a photograph, an astronaut riding a killer whale. And this photo, this is like something really basic. But what we can do, of course, is to use this image as a reference to actually create something new. If I edit this image, select that edit image option. I want to edit this leg because it's on the other side of the body and it looks weird. What I can do here, I want to make my brush a little smaller. I want to delete all this stuff that I don't want to see in my image. I want to replace that like this. And there we go. Now what I want to do is do exactly the same thing. I want to type a photograph of an astronaut riding a killer rail. I want to hit Generate. This feature is called in painting where we are erasing part of an image and regenerating it. It's going to take the same pattern, the same colors, and the same image that we just used as a reference to fill all of what we want to image. Now I'm going to open the original version, and you can see here is the r leg. If we open the other new one, there we go. I think that's a lot better, right? It's something that's going to be really useful. We do have more variations. This is another. I do have this one as well. This one. I think we'll move ahead with this one because I like the pose. We can do a lot more of this when using it as a reference. I can go into the edit section in here, I can choose the option that says Add generation frame. If I choose a generation frame, extend the image in any direction I want. If I place it here, I can extend the image to the right. Let's say for example, here's a photograph of an astronaut riding a killer whale. What do you want to see in here? Let's say maybe sea creatures diving through the galaxy. What is Dolly going to do here? It's going to generate an extension image based on this original image. The more you overlap the frame, the heavier the influence of the original image. Also, the overlap part does not change, only the gray part does. Let's hit Generate. This is another way that we can try to use reference images in order to add to the original image. Now here for example, we have like an extended view of the universe. As you can see, this is something, I don't know what that is. It's weird. We have this astronaut. I'm going to stick with this version for some reason. Maybe for some reason I like this image. Just click, except I'm going to go back to the history section now. Actually, let's go to the main section. Click here, I want to upload my own images, my own image. This will open your files section on your PC and you can upload your own image. Let's say we upload this image a bit similar to the one we generated earlier, more detailed, and of a higher quality. I'm going to click Crop, and then I can choose Edit Image. What I want to do here is I want to edit the image and ask it to remove this whale. And here I can type sea creatures and click Generate. This is the same thing we did earlier where Ali will paint inside the image and it's going to use the same color palettes. It's going to be like the most accurate filling tool. I just need to wait a couple seconds to see what it generates for me. And this is the original right here and this is the new one. I think it's all right. We don't want text in the image really. This one is more cartoonish and this one is useless. Basically, the phrase C creatures is maybe two way to get a good output. So we'll have to be more specific with what we want anyways, if I choose to upload an image once again and upload something like this, so I do have this image here and I want to choose to generate variations of this, right? Let's click on Generate Variations. Let's say I want something related to the original image but not too similar to it. Here we go. Pretty good. I would say for a first variation attempt. Here we have the original and then we have four different versions. As you can see, it's looking a little different, too different and also of a low quality. The second option is of course, to edit the original and painted. Let's click on Edit the Image. And now what we can do is remove the nose and mouth. Let's say I want to add a young man with no beard, so clean shaven. Let's keep it simple. It's now generating or recreating perhaps the person's mouth and face. Notice in the prompt, we never mentioned a nose and mouth specifically, but Dolly has figured that out itself. As usual, this is the original one. This is generated by Dolly. Arguably, this is the best of them all. But anyways, this is how we can use reference images to either produce variations or extend them using frames or just recreate parts of them. I hope this was helpful. I'll see you in the next one. Take care. 5. Outpainting & Upscaling: Okay, so Daly is currently restricted to using dimensions of 1024 by 1024 pixels. And it uses a text prompt to generate an image. Well, now you can use out painting to extend the image, so maybe you want to get a high resolution portrait image of a cyber punk model. Start with a small section of that image and use out painting to grow the rest. In this case, we start with the close up of an I. This way the E itself will be a resolution of 1024 by 1024. And everything beyond that will be added to the image to make the final image around three to four K resolution. Our initial prompt is a luxury cyberpunk supermodel, a high definition cinematic portrait photo. And then we add to the end a close up on the eyes or even a close up on the left eye or the right eye. Go through a number of generations until you get something you like. Then you can come into the edit section and you can click at Generation Frame. If you put it in a totally clear area, it will generate as usual based on the text prompt to create a brand new image. But if you overlap it with the current image as we've discussed, it will look at that and fill in the clear space with the text prompt. During the process, you can still use the eraser to remove areas that aren't working and then regenerate in the blank space. You can just continue doing that process to fill out or out paint your current image. You can do it vertically or horizontally, and there's a lot of space you can use. Then when you get a result that's to your liking, you can now start with in painting it as this final generation looks a cyborg. And if you want the face to be more natural, you can erase the parts that look a bit disjointed and you can ask Dolly to regenerate them so you get a more seamless and smooth final result. 6. Face Restoration: Occasionally, when using dolly to generate images of people's faces, it produces distorted results with odd facial features and misaligned eyes. To address this problem, we can upload the image to the face restoration page of art tencent.com where a simple process can swiftly rectify these issues as demonstrated here. As you can see, the face has been transformed into that of the average Joe instead of Mr. Frankenstein. As you may have guessed by now, the audio for this tutorial was generated using AI. What is not in the comments on how you feel about AI getting disturbingly accurate at mimicking humans. 7. 1000 IQ Prompting: When certain words are used, images will share common attributes. One of the most useful relationships that the AI has learned is the link between colors and subjects. For example, if you type in a digital painting of an adorable fire dragon with no default color, our description, the machine will automatically make the default color orange. And if you change it to a water dragon, then the machine will default to coloring it blue instead. Notice how we never describe the color of the dragon at all, yet we get completely different colors by simply changing the subject. Which means if we type in a coffee dragon, even if we haven't described the color at all, it's fair to assume that the, to color it brown because that's the color of most coffee. And as we've expected, the color is exactly as anticipated. But here's the cool part. If I add the words blue in front of coffee, dragon, watch what happens. So we still have a dragon and it still has coffee and yes, it's blue. But did you catch anything else? Look at the face. Do you see that the emotion and the expression of the dragon has changed? It went from content and warm to somber, chill, sad, or even depressed. And that's because most artists in the world know that the color blue is closely linked with these emotions. The same way that red is associated with fire, blue is associated with sadness and being tired. Because for the vast majority of, for all people on the planet, the sun is yellow, fire is orange, and red. Plants are green, the sky and oceans are blue, day is light, and the night is black. And that has been true for most of our since the very beginning. Now, Dolly, which has been trained on this data, has learned these connections and can replicate them for you. Which means you can use this to your advantage to get what you want, even if you don't describe it directly. Here's an example. Let's say you want to make some posters and tattoo of a Japanese samurai. For some reason you type in this prompt of a samurai in a movie, but you want the poster to be pink. Now most people would just add the word pink in. And honestly that would probably work. But another way we could do this would be to put something in the subject that is associated with the color pink. For example, a princess. Since almost all princesses and princess drawings contain the color pink, Hence, Ali is associated princesses with the color pink because its intelligence is only based on content produced by humans without adding the word pink at all. If we just change this from Samurai to Samurai Princess, we should get more pink in our image just as expected. This is exactly what we get. So when using dolly, just remember that colors are related to subjects and emotions and you can use them to control the outcome of your art. 8. Design Lab Special: Logo design with Dolly. Let's get right into it. Let's start with something like a logo of an Alpaca for a company that sells cookies. So a logo of an Alpaca for a company that sells cookies. There we go. Okay, that's not so bad. It creates gibberish text, but it's not bad. You know, it's good for our first dry. I was expecting less quality in depth, like this one is reasonable, the text is messed up, but you know it's usable. So let's generate variations from it. I'm going to do that with this one just to see if it comes up with something better when I click on variations and it will generate slightly different versions of the same image. Okay, this is actually really good. This one is also pretty nice. Perhaps not like a super original logo, but it's a cute illustration. Nevertheless, let's try some different prompts now, For example, a logo for a cookie company depicting Alpaca. Okay, this one isn't that good as the other one. Like this one's pretty weird, the face is messed up. I'm going to try to not use the word cookie just to see what comes up, just a logo of an Alpaca. And I'm going to try being more specific using some other keywords. For example, a logo of an Alpaca. Let's add a minimalist logo of an Alpaca. Let's add the phrase minimalist to the beginning. As you can see this. Good to be honest Now, this one, this one is super nice. I tried a new prompt. This one is really nice. I wasn't expecting something this good to come out of it, but just testing and trying out different ones, it throws a hipster way with this one, almost like it's an Alpaca with glasses. I don't know where the glasses came from on an Alpaca, but I'm going to run some variations on this just to give the AI some direction. And as we can see, these are looking really good. You look at this one, this is the most cool Alpaca that I've seen, I've ever seen. So this one is also good, more of a hybrid between an alpaca and a sheep, but kind of have a nice feel to it. I'm going to get variations for this one because as I like this one as well, so it's not that good in the sense of a logo, but as an illustration, I think it has nice colors. Maybe not yet u refined enough for a logo. Okay, now we're back on track. So this one looks spot on, I must say, with its dimensions, the text font, and the pose of the Alpaca itself. For some reason, the cookie looks more like a block of cheese. But overall, we're probably inching closer to. All right, this one is even better. This is even better. Notice the dimensions, the pose, the aesthetics, the colors, everything it's honing in to the image we want. As long as we keep describing and keep on trying, it's the best contender so far, and running variations on that. We're improving here. We're improving, definitely. This one's nice. I could see this going as a logo, so let's try another one, Let's all right. Okay. So look at these variations are good. They all have that feel a logo needs overall. This one is looking pretty refined if these words made any sense, but we can always change that with minimal editing. It's got nice colors, nice text fonts, and this one is also adequate, but perhaps not good enough for a logo. We're going to put that in the back seat for now, but it's a good image nevertheless, with its use of colors, the shading, and you know, but it can definitely be simplified or refined for a logo, so we're definitely on the right track here. The variations are improving. Like this one looks like an Alpaca had a baby with a wolf, so quite funny. And this one is also looking really good, like a dog and an Alpaca mixed together. So it's making an effort now to write the baker's name as well. Anyways, so this is how you go about brainstorming ideas for a logo on Dolly. For now, the text is almost always going to be nonsensical, but you can get the illustration by Dolly to be exactly the way you want it to be. And then you can just fix the text using a basic editor like Canva or you can put into the prompt like a logo design of an Alpaca no text. So trying to tell Dally that you don't have to include text in the photo. You know, that might not always work, but it kind of helps. So it removes the text and you only get the illustration and then you can kind of layer the text on top of the image to get what you want. So a very nice tool for brainstorming and getting near perfect illustrations that can be edited slightly to get a refined logo. So I'm excited to see what you go ahead and do with this. 9. Course End: Congratulations, you've reached the end of our Dali journey, and what an incredible adventure it's been from mastering the basics of the user interface, to crafting intricate images using advanced prompting techniques. You've honed your skills and become a true Dali artist. Remember those days when removing parts of an image seemed impossible. Now, you're a pro in painting, seamlessly, b***ding AI creativity with your own, and let's not forget our project. You've taken a business concept and transformed it into a stunning logo, proving that with Dali, your imagination knows no bounds. But this isn't just the end, it's a new beginning. Armed with the knowledge and skills you've gained, you're now ready to explore uncharted creative, or Dali is a tool, but you are the artist. Your unique vision, combined with the AI, is a force to be reckoned with as you go forth, continue experimenting, innovating and pushing the boundaries of what's possible, keep creating, keep learning, and most importantly, keep dreaming. The Dali community is here to support you, and we can't wait to see the incredible art you'll bring to life. If you're interested for more though, we have a lot of other courses lined up for mid journey stable diffusion and lots of other exciting AI tools. So make sure you keep following this channel for more updates and more courses and more excitement. Goodbye.