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Woman in decorative plate w/ thick wavy black hair And properly cropped: EDIT: Decided to make a slightly smaller-hair version since I wasn't overly fond of big 80's hair in my crpg And like I said, plenty of faces to choose from. For this one and only this one, I chose a face from a real existing portrait (well, someone else's edit of an existing portrait. Same difference). For the rest, I'm using AI results only, just to test DALL-E mini. Some of the AI results can be perturbing.

Decided to try a few more portraits since this is fun Black-haired girl in leather armor And the properly cropped versions

DALL-E mini is only just how I got the custom portraits idea, but honestly, using it really wasn't as frustrating as you think. The first grid I posted was from literally my first attempt after I got the idea. Mini's faces could use some work, but just editing a new face on top like I did speeds it up; there's a lot of faces to choose from. Pretty fast and headache free(if you're not picky), which I like. And I'm also surprised! The quality, just how far has this tech come in the past year... I've been watching neural networks rapidly progress since Google DeepDream made the waves 7 years ago. You wanna see something ridiculous? Instead of DALL-E like you said, check out DALL-E 2, the new closed-beta. Just look at some of the AI-generated prompts on the r/dalle2 subreddit (link. also their top posts of all time). The output quality is insane. 'Midjourney' AI is also good (and quicker to get into the closed-beta, I hear). Also could try 'DiscoDiffusion', not closed but requires a gmail plus some set-up work; check the wiki on the same-name subreddit for guides. https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini (Here, if anyone wants to try DALL-E mini for portraits or otherwise. Just enter a prompt. Supposedly they're moving to craiyon.com, so the first url might not work for future people)

One more thing: Note that this AI is mostly good for humanoids or elves. I tried some Aumaua, but it just gave me more humanish people. A different more specific prompt COULD work for Aumaua maybe, but I only tried "blue-skinned shark man portrait" and got THIS lmao. Jesus.

Maybe this is a bit of an off-kilter topic, but I hope people see it, haha. AI-generated custom RPG portraits in one minute. How ridiculous is that for real Could also use it for tabletop characters too Here's what I did in DALL-E mini. btw this isn't the only website or software out there. 1. I entered my own prompt "Black woman with white hair, Pillars of Eternity portrait" (don't need an account, eyy). Waited ~1 minute, and this was the very first result. 2. NOTE: You can probably come up with something decent-looking after doing enough runs, but I used GIMP to speed things along and for my personal adjustments. Chose the top-right creature for its outfit and the top-left square bc I preferred the head(look at the other choices) 3. The actual work. I went into GIMP and quickly just slapped on the left's face to the right one. Warped the stank mouth, bit of nose, slight brightness adjustments, and that's it, image done in like 10 minutes total. Probably could've been even faster. Can someone make something better than my rushed test job? Maybe. Probably. Better yet, make a quick AI portrait and commission an artist to use that as a base/reference to make something better and less crusty-looking. Artists could use the money anyway. Either way, it's easier than making something on your own from scratch, esp. for multiple characters.

Context: I've been using DALL-E mini since it's been popular this past week, and I noticed that the image resolutions(256x256) are surprisingly close to portrait resolution(210x330). I slopped together a quick test. AI Example (generated by DALL-E mini): Disregard the PoE1. That's just what I had installed at the moment. I didn't bother refining the portrait much. Only spent like 10 min on all this to prove how quick it can be. In the forums, custom portraits are something I see come up fairly often, so I'm wondering why no one here ever considered neural networks to do it for them. I haven't seen anyone ever suggest it, and I just searched for anyone too. Hell I made an account just to post this. I guess it is pretty recent tech though. I've been watching different AI/neural network stuff for the past couple years. There's been some pretty impressive leaps in general from the last year alone (And just wait until next year and the year after!). (To the mods--Wasn't sure if this'd get buried under the main portraits thread or whether the AI stuff is directly relevant to it, so new topic it is. I hope that's okay)