Got intrigued by your post, because that image is mean. How did you manage to preserve the shape and features of his face so well? I tried a couple of photos with different stock style images (single and collage) with different weights and they all washed out the shapes of people in the photos massively. Backgrounds tended to look pretty good, but faces etc were hardly recognizable. Is that more on the type of photo (eg close-up on the one you used) or the style image and settings? Or just a combination of all of them?
To be honest sometimes I’ve found little rhyme or rhythm to it. I used to experiment with the settings a lot but I couldn’t find a “secret sauce” that way, I tend to always stick these days to 100% scale and 50-60% weight. I’ve never once used “enhance.”
Like I said, Google sucks and part of the problem is you need to make a certain number of Dreams before you have access to higher iterations and higher resolutions–THOSE two are definitely the most important.
I tend to have the most problem with people/faces as well, while the “popular” page is chock full of nothing BUT faces. Believe me, I have tried doing faces dozens of times before that turned out really bad looking, either way too abstract or barely different from the original image.
I will say that sometimes a style image/dream image will just, for whatever reason, NOT want to do anything fun, no matter how you try it.
Got intrigued by your post, because that image is mean. How did you manage to preserve the shape and features of his face so well? I tried a couple of photos with different stock style images (single and collage) with different weights and they all washed out the shapes of people in the photos massively. Backgrounds tended to look pretty good, but faces etc were hardly recognizable. Is that more on the type of photo (eg close-up on the one you used) or the style image and settings? Or just a combination of all of them?
To be honest sometimes I’ve found little rhyme or rhythm to it. I used to experiment with the settings a lot but I couldn’t find a “secret sauce” that way, I tend to always stick these days to 100% scale and 50-60% weight. I’ve never once used “enhance.”
Like I said, Google sucks and part of the problem is you need to make a certain number of Dreams before you have access to higher iterations and higher resolutions–THOSE two are definitely the most important.
I tend to have the most problem with people/faces as well, while the “popular” page is chock full of nothing BUT faces. Believe me, I have tried doing faces dozens of times before that turned out really bad looking, either way too abstract or barely different from the original image.
I will say that sometimes a style image/dream image will just, for whatever reason, NOT want to do anything fun, no matter how you try it.
Good luck comrade!