Extend the design

[hybrid oxide]

I keep struggling with generating a design that doesn't get cut off, or extending it in outpainting, like this cool painting. Any suggestions on how I can make the painting look complete?

[outer oxide]

Whats your challenge with outpainting?

[hybrid oxide]

I wanted a complete painting of the cat face. When I tried to filled in the top and bottom in unified canvas, it just got messy like this. This is just one example of what I run into all the time.

[outer oxide]

what were you hoping would be there vs what was?

i.e., "what's messy mean to you?"

[crude crow]

Well, I can see what he means. E.g., at the top, there's a visible seam where it was outpainted. And above the seam, it looks like it was completed by a hack, compared to the painter who did the original painting.

On the other hand, getting this one to look right with outpainting seems like an uphill battle to me. There's a lot of texture in there that would have to be extended just right and the original has brushstrokes that are reminiscent of ears, but this is not really preserved in the extension. But how would the AI know to do that?

You could produce 100 variations, maybe, and hope that one comes out good?

[pine sonnet]

Was it be possible to give it a shape to paint on before that has enough space between the subject and the edges? Does maybe not help now but for the next image.

[outer oxide]

I think what I’d recommend here is inpainting over an area after adding some manual color to the base layer

[hybrid oxide]

Thanks for the feedback. I was wondering if there's a prompt that could give better results of a complete design (faces, objects, etc.) on a plain/clean background.

[outer oxide]

Prompting can be hard because its battling with the color matching logic that exists to extend the image coherently

But, to give an example of how I'd handle

Outpainted 128px

Used the color picker to cover the wild area at the top that is "messy" - masked this area

got these two as options - both have a different 'vibe', but do the job

[hybrid oxide]

Oh wow! The final image you did is very usable. I have to try out your method. Thanks! What prompts did you use to fix the top?

[crude crow]

Very cool! Thanks for the thorough demonstration and explanation!

[outer oxide]

I just gave it something I figured wouldn't battle the existing image too much - something like psychedelic brushstrokes cat art

[hybrid oxide]

Your advice to paint the background color on the area that needs modification works great. I was able to make it into a complete design. Thanks again!