-: All right, I'm gonna talk about how
to get realistic models that are vaguely familiar
and also attractive with Midjourney.
So, this is a little trick I found.
Someone, this isn't mine.
Someone taught me this, but I can't remember who.
If you are that person, you should remind me
and I'll give you attribution.
But one of the problems
that you have in general is you say a photo of a person
actually does generate pretty good stuff.
I think Midjourney in particular is really good at
generating a diverse set of images.
But I have a little trick, which is you want the models
to be, I think, attractive,
but also you don't wanna say a photo
of Emma Watson or whatever.
Because, say if you want to use that in a,
in context, you say a photo of Emma Watson as a pirate.
If you want a picture of a pirate like Emma Watson is a good
way to make that person like Hollywood attractive.
But that can be a real problem
because that is potentially violating her image rights
and you can't really use her likeness.
But there is a trick to doing this,
and so we're just gonna wait
for these generations to happen.
The model, by the way, is very good at
generating pictures of Emma Watson.
This is why a lot of AI generation tutorials use her
as an example because it has a lot of training data on her.
And that's her as a pirate.
And it looks, I think, a little bit too close to her.
Although Midjourney does do some stuff,
I think in the backend to change your prompt,
so you're not getting an exact replica, which is,
I think smart on their behalf.
But here's my trick and
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use prompt waiting
and I'm gonna mix a couple of celebrities.
This is an example here.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna say a, a photo of, yeah,
as a pirate and add this in here.
And then, so what I'm mixing,
and I, I think this actually works pretty well if you mix
two different genders as well, a photo of Matthew Perry
with 20%
and a photo of Jennifer Lawrence with 80% as a pirate.
So lemme just see what that comes back with.
So I'm using a real mix of two different celebrities
and what you get tend, what we tend
to get at least, is when you mix two celebrities,
they look vaguely familiar
because you recognize some of the features,
but it's not attributable to either celebrity.
So, while that's running, I'm gonna do the opposite as well,
just so you can compare.
And now we're gonna dial it to 80%, Matthew Perry
and 20%, Jennifer Lawrence as a pirate, and see what we get.
Okay, there we go. So that is like,
that picture in particular I think is pretty interesting
because it looks a bit like Jennifer Lawrence,
but is not really attributable to her,
and then equally here, this is interesting.
This is, you know, gonna be more male
because we have more Matthew Perry in there,
but it's very different.
We could, we could try this as well with Emma Watson just
to compare their results.
And you can say a video of Matthew Perry, 20%
and a photo of a Watson as a pirate.
So you can mix those two things together
and look at, this is pretty cool.
I say that these images in particular, I think are like,
they look like they should be a Hollywood
actor, but they're not.
They're fake. And you can get some really cool results.
The other thing you can do is not just mixed genders,
but just have two different people of the same gender,
but like Amber heard in here, give a dash of Amber Heard
to Emma Watson and see what it looks like.
This one interestingly looks a little bit like the
girl from Game of Thrones.
So yeah. Anyway, this is, this is a technique
that I use all the time.
I very rarely prompt for a specific celebrity.
I mix 'em together and you get a much better result,
I think, and it's more unique, more non-attributable.
So, really helpful technique.
And once you see it,
you'll be using it everywhere hopefully.
And here we go. There's a photo
of Amber Heard mixed with Emma Watson.
I think it's still looks Hollywood,
but it's, you can't tell which celebrity it is.
All right. Hopefully that's useful.