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Okay, let's do this...

The OG Photomanippers Challenge

1. To enter just reply in this thread, then...

2. Post a base pic in the HFC Cookie Jar, then

3. Choose a base pic from the Cookie jar that someone else has posted and make your manip.

4. On January 15th (2025) post your manip!

The winner is... all of us who managed to overcome our aches and pains and finish a photomanip, like we did when we were young and the internet didn't suck so much.

I'll start, I'm in. I put an image in the cookie jar.

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That sounds good!, let me know if this happens

That sounds good!, let me know if this happens

We should have an OG manipper challenge.
(the O stands for 'old')

I'm working on another. BUT, I have developed debilitating vertigo and my hands start shaking about three days before an episode and three days after. This new one is going to take forever. UGH.
But of course... I can always use some schooling

Maybe I should work on it with shakey hands with no big UNDOs and see what happens. It might look like my early manips. HAHAHA

Nice to see you're still around... (I need to start painting again)

Just to see how the old club house is doing this days,and it's great to see HM is still alive, this place bring back good memories, I hope I can make another manip in the future... and to show JrMcdeath how is supposed to be done!

We really need a "like" button" ! LOL
The hands crack me up.

No, I don't consider whoever use AI do make images to be an artist...
HOWEVER, I've seen some great images created with IA, although after you've seen a few, I gotta say they all seem to have the same bland style of art...

I've also seen faces with 3 eyes or 4 ears, hands with 6 to 10 fingers, and other weird stuff AI usually dump into the image... but IA it's also and evolving tool so probably those initial weirdness will be fixed sometime in the future.

That said, I've seen also some images made on some IA tool that you can feed it with your images and tell the IA to make an image based on that original image according to whatever you tell it to put in the new IA image.

Bottom line, IMHO, IA is merely another tool we have at our disposal. It will not replace a true talented artist, no matter how the money bags want it too do that.

Me? Most probably will use it to create anything at some point, but most definitly also use some Photoshop to clean it and give it my own style...

I do admit I'd like to figure out how to create some ladies. Or backgrounds.
I don't typically do backgrounds. If I created a lady figure I would then have to go in and to a manip on top of her. LOL

Its good for getting inspiration for if you have something in mind but don't know how to put it together. I've never used it for posting on an artistic webpage but I've used it to make wallpapers for a pc or phone. I've used it to make crazy stuff like a white tiger with wings in the clouds.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SO5LDkS1tizIr5zagPeL5BNR1txyU_Jg/view?usp=drive_link

General Question:
Do y'all think that "AI ART" is art?
Just curious.
I've visited a few sites and it seems like it is about 50-50.
1. "Oh that's cool"
or
2. "Get this soulless cheating crap out of here."

For me, I think it is pretty neat. The first on I saw, at a glance, I thought it was real.
When people started using 3D i thought that was cheating, however, it is still evolving. Some of the stuff coming out of Daz and Poser is looking more realistic with each release. SO, there is that.
HOWEVER, unlike manipers and 3D-ers, I do not consider AI artist to be artists. They are no more than programmers. I just saw a woman sitting down and she had 4 legs. If these folks were artist they would fix it or not post it.
And what the hell is up with their hands.

Ok, I'm off my soap box.

I don't mess with DA since they started pirating images for their AI. They got sued and got a cease & desist notice. Forced artists to opt out instead of in and I followed some of my biggest influences in kissing those sellouts goodbye. I know there are folks who will come on here and post their AI art and that's fine but until the AIs are trained ethically (giving due credit or compensation et al) then I'm gonna keep calling it the theft that it is. Sorry you got banned JR but trust me when I say Fuck'em you didn't lose anything of importance.

Sounds like it's time to start a new account. I'd keep doing it over and over. Or make two or three of them.
Fuck them.

I've never heard of it, either

jeez never heard of anyone getting banned on deviant especially indefinite

I got this notice from Deviantart
as from a mistaken posting after
many years and thousands of posts there?


from devart
to Dragondack

Dragondack,

A member of DeviantArt staff has indefinitely banned your account.
As this is an indefinite ban, it will not expire.


This indefinite ban seems a bit harsh considering the name of the site is Deviantart?
I wonder if anyone there knows what Deviant means?

Get busy!!!

I too am still around. I finally decided to get off my ass and start maniping again. Let's see what happens!! _

Looking forward to some of your new artwork! Still tough to think that DW left us.

I've been retraining in DAZ and rebuilding my library content. Stopped doing DAZ around the time Dark Wanderer passed. I hope to be back soon.