My first experiences with AI

[Santi Pérez]

After conducting initial tests with CapCut, the editor I use to create my YouTube videos, using its free AI feature to change backgrounds, I achieved this result, which I already posted in my thread about the Royal Guard band:





As I find the result quite acceptable, I have tried repeating the process by applying it to pictures of some of my dioramas. This is what I have achieved:

Carabinieri patrol:





Gordon meets the Mahdi:





La Guardia Svizzera nella Piazza di San Pietro:









I don't know what you think, but I'm sure that from now on I'll be using this application to improve the presentation of the dioramas and vignettes I finish in the future.

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[Santi Pérez]

Here is a picture of another of my works, enhanced with the addition of a background created using AI.

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza look much better with the windmills and fields of grain behind them, don't they?





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[MABO]

Hello Santi! Your first experiences with AI prove once again what possibilities are now available to us model builders for presentation. At least in pictures.

[sberry]

Wonderful! These results just look great, I love them!

La Guardia Svizzera nella Piazza di San Pietro:









I don't know what you think, but I'm sure that from now on I'll be using this application to improve the presentation of the dioramas and vignettes I finish in the future.

In fact your project with the Pope and cardinals was the first thing that came to my mind, when you presented this method in the thread on the Royal Guard Music Unit. You can place them right in the Vatican now, even in the middle of St. Peters, if you want…

[Santi Pérez]

Hello Santi! Your first experiences with AI prove once again what possibilities are now available to us model builders for presentation. At least in pictures.

Thank you, Jan. That's certainly my intention: to improve the photographic presentation of my projects by making them more realistic and more pleasing to the eye.

Wonderful! These results just look great, I love them!...
In fact your project with the Pope and cardinals was the first thing that came to my mind, when you presented this method in the thread on the Royal Guard Music Unit. You can place them right in the Vatican now, even in the middle of St. Peters, if you want…

Thanks, Stephan. Indeed, it's an ideal method for placing any of your projects in the most appropriate and realistic setting possible, without having to represent it to scale in the work itself.

One thing I noticed during my tests was that to get the best possible result, it's important that the original image is completely horizontal, because if the photo was taken with a certain ‘aerial’ perspective, once the background is applied, the whole thing does not look very realistic.

In the case of the Swiss Guard montages, the result obtained was realistic with the first two images (the ones I have posted here), although with the third the perspective was strange:





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[Santi Pérez]

Here is the latest picture to which I have applied AI to enhance its background. It's a 54 mm figure of a halberdier from the Vatican Swiss Guard.

I particularly like how the AI has adjusted the surface of the terrain to resemble the figure's original cobblestone base.




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[Peter]

AI looks to be good for backgrounds! Really good in fact as I can see on your pictures!

Other are playing with moving figures, but that isn't always good. Sometimes you get horses with three legs in place of four.

[Santi Pérez]

AI looks to be good for backgrounds! Really good in fact as I can see on your pictures! ...

Perhaps it was beginner's luck, Peter, but if so, I'm very happy about it.

Santi.