Community Challenge #14 (July 15th)

[kind meadow]

Hey Invokers! 👋

🔥 Last week's challenge was lit 😉

📌 Check out the top submissions here: ⁠✍🏼#1259999577499766824 message

🚀 This Week’s Challenge 🚀

This week, we're practicing inpainting and focusing on epic landscapes. Start with an image of a landscape, whether it’s a drawing you’ve done or a real-life photo you’ve taken. Then, inpaint something into that landscape: a fortress, a city, other structures, people, natural elements, or whatever inspires you! Here’s an example using a photo I took last weekend, where I added a fortress.

Guidelines:
1️⃣ Begin with an image of a landscape / environment.
2️⃣ Use inpainting techniques on the unified canvas to add new elements into your landscape.
3️⃣ Feel free to use any additional inputs (eg. IP Adapters) or refine your images using other tools.

📬 Share your submissions in this thread, and remember to upvote your favorite submissions with emoji reactions. We want to see your best attempt for each creative idea you have. Submit the one iteration of each creative idea that you are most proud of. Can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Happy Invoking!

[dry temple]

Here is a photo I took a couple of weeks ago. see if you can find what I added.

[rapid carbon]

Can't tell!

[nimble geode]

Good challenge to learn this. I would normally use photoshop to do this type of thing. Hope I improve by the end of the week

[rapid carbon]

photo from Giverny

[rapid carbon]

Going to throw out there that inpainting with scaling is broken for 1.5 models so that makes this challenge more... challenging.

[nimble geode]

This doesn’t look like inpainting. The pictures are not the same with an added horse. Even the trees are different.

[mellow kraken]

Strange. It was inpainted.

I did once the inpainted horse was on the scene,run it a second time to tidy up

To blend it all in

So inpaint.Then second run to tidy up.

So I refined the image.

We are allowed to refine according to the instructions.

@nimble geode

?

Using any method. So a second run would fall within the rules.

The horse was inpainted

I had a landscape minus horse. Inpainted horse. Then run it again to blend all the elements.

Minor changes around horse are refining.

[nimble geode]

In my opinion the end result is a totally different image. Might just be me.

[mellow kraken]

Understood. I just tried to be logical in understanding the instructions. IP adapters could alter the image also.

I thought the important thing was the instruction to inpaint

[rapid carbon]

The concept behind inpainting is that you're only altering a small area. I don't think there are rules, per se, but doing a coherence pass over the whole image isn't in the spirit of the challenge, IMO.

[mellow kraken]

Ah ok.

So how would IP adapters and any other method strictly adhere to that precise small area concept. Bound to alter image ?

The overall image is pretty close to the original.

[nimble geode]

You would mask the area that you want to alter so the rest of the image remains the same.

[mellow kraken]

Ah Ty.

[nimble geode]

It is much harder to just change one area.

[mellow kraken]

Got it. I will bow out of this challenge.I may have inadvertently done a wrong thing.

Plus typing on my phone sucks 😄

[mellow kraken]

One question. How do you refine the image if nothing changes?

If I only refine the inpainted area it will lack cohesion.

The inpainted area could look overworked.

The rest of the image remains stoutly unchanged. One refined inpainted area

[nimble geode]

image I took a couple of years ago. After putting the fisherman in I took it into photoshop to match colours better. all around the inpainting the image lost a lot of detail so I added some texture to the the overall image and then removed it from the water.

[dry temple]

another picture I took a few weeks back

[quiet topaz]

not really a landscape, but funny

[dry temple]

ooops didn't realise lanscape only 😄

[dry temple]

has 4 increasingly more subtle changes that make you question when it was painted

[ornate sierra]

didn't see this before I uploaded my submission. you beat me to it. 😂

[uncut valve]

a bit of both inpaintin and outpainting

I used Juggernaut-XL-v9; would it work better with a model for inpainting?

[kind meadow]

I haven't found inpainting models to yield better results, but that's just me. Here's a good older studio session on inpainting that might help! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32hyxQQfkW0

[uncut valve]

That confirms what I thought, but I have very little experience because this was the last feature that would work for me because my MAC Studio would not load Patchmatch and then there is a second problem with torch that has to be fixed manually. I thought that maybe for SD 1.5 models you needed to use an inpainting model...

[blazing mauve]

I really wish I had been there in that car 🙃

[rapid carbon]

Canvas and 1.5 models are experiencing some issues at the moment, like hard edges.

[dry temple]

Derwentwater near Keswick image taken while on holiday. Added a nice castle

[nimble geode]

Come on in little boy, the water is fine

[rapid carbon]

octopus->vegetable soup

[dry temple]

you have fallen into the same trap I did with my Biden image. definitely not a landscape 🙂

[rapid carbon]

Doesn't have to be one!

1️⃣ Begin with an image of a landscape / environment.

And if it does, I don't care!

Not everyone wants boiling octopus.

But who can say no to a delicious pot of vegetable soup?

[dry temple]

personally give me the octopus with a good hit of chilli.

[rapid carbon]

Sounds like the rules are conflicting!

Almost like the numbered ones were generated by AI...

[dry temple]

or copied from a previous week...

[rapid carbon]

I will let the community judge whether my soup inpainting is valid.

[nimble geode]

I am not sure I understand your statement. What are numbered ones?

My thought when a challenge has guidelines, following the guidelines is part of the challenge. If you do whatever you want then there is no need for a challenge to begin with. It’s fine to do stuff outside a challenge and the outlet for that is the Outdir.

Challenges are good for learning a new technique. Then the artistic component follows outside of the challenge.

I stopped doing competition photography because i found the rules around competition homogenized all photos and stunted artistic growth

[mellow bloom]

Bridge troll

[dry temple]

Initial generation by @rapid carbon . Modified with permission to be the far superior Marvin the paranoid android from HHGTTG.
The TV version not the one from the film obviously.

[nimble geode]

Largest brain in the univers and they've got me parking cars

[dry temple]

"Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it." 🙂