Using initial images means better quality artwork and easy customizability. Here's how it works.

Initial Images: Using initial images means better quality artwork and easy customizability. Here's how it works.
Initial Images: Using initial images means better quality artwork and easy customizability. Here's how it works.

I want to make a rainbow lion. This is the lion as made by the prompt alone, with no initial image. It has rainbow fur, but I want a different pose.

Initial Images: Using initial images means better quality artwork and easy customizability. Here's how it works.

Unsplash has many beautiful public domain photos which are perfect for initial images. I choose one with good colors, nice composition and no distracting elements:

Arleen Wiese
Unsplash

 

Adding that initial image gave me this image:

Initial Images: Using initial images means better quality artwork and easy customizability. Here's how it works.
Initial Images: Using initial images means better quality artwork and easy customizability. Here's how it works.

With the prompt strength at 0.80, the AI is using the colors from the initial image, but not the pose. So I reduce the Prompt Strength.

 

Initial Images: Using initial images means better quality artwork and easy customizability. Here's how it works.

When I dial it down to 0.70, the pose from the initial image is incorporated into the final artwork.

Initial Images: Using initial images means better quality artwork and easy customizability. Here's how it works.
Initial Images: Using initial images means better quality artwork and easy customizability. Here's how it works.

 

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