Some of the images I offer as wall art at Fine Art America as well as my series of Digital Gryphon Kaleidoscope Oracle decks are digital art. These are created without using an AI agent to take from other artists’ works. Most are based on my original photographs, others are created as digital art right here in my desktop.
The Kaleidoscope function (as well as other editing I may do to my source images) is a tool within Corel PaintShop Pro– a programme that’s similar to Adobe Photoshop.
At one point I was asked if these images aren’t really just “very simple to push out in minutes.”
As with many things, versions can be mass-generated with software. Some might be interesting- most will not. I do use a graphics program with a multitude of options to generate previews. Only a small percentage are worth developing any further; many concepts just don’t bear fruit.
Then the original image may be adjusted in various ways- cropped, colours adjusted in hue, brightness, saturation, etc. Once changes are made another batch (or batches) of previews and adjustments are tried before a high-resolution file is created for upload.
Here’s just one example, the picture below right (click it for a larger version) shows just 9 variations from one source file, shown left. Only one of these included changes to the colours of the original photograph, although some of the others are based on different crops (the source image is not square, so I do select an area to start the process).
The source image for the above does have a wide range of colours and subjects (a downtown street at 5am) so the variations really stand out. I’ve done another set of images showing the range available from even a less varied source file.