If you're selling photos on stock, if you are part of Shutterstock, Adobe
Stock or Dreamstime, you may have received
few interesting emails about AI art.
Either you got an email from Adobe or Dreamstime saying that you can
now sell AI art with certain limitations
or you got an email from Shutterstock saying that your existing photos
will be used in AI generative content and you will get some extra money from this.
Will AI replace photographers?
Some of you might already know what I'm talking about, but I bet you that
there are a lot of you which have no clue what I am actually talking about.
What is AI art?
I've got lots of very interesting things to show you in this video.
By the end of this video, you will literally know
how you can make passive income without a camera.
And for new faces, welcome.
My name is Zdenka Darula. If you are into photography and video,
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Where do I even begin? Letters AI
have been popping at us last few months,
literally everywhere in different types of forms.
AI tools in photo or video editing
software, making our workflow way faster.
It's no longer about tedious work, which used to take hours.
It is about learning
those AI tools exist so we can speed up our workflow,
so we can create more and earn more.
Then you have text generating tools.
For example, I use Vid IQ, so when I'm writing a description
for my videos, there is an option for Vid IQ description generator.
The computer will write the text for me using important keywords,
so my videos are found. Few weeks ago
many of my friends started experimenting with those AI generated avatars.
Of course, I wanted to try it myself and the results are quite good.
I downloaded the Remini app.
It asked me to take roughly ten photos of myself at a smartphone.
Once you upload the photos and add create, it takes a few minutes
to get notification that your AI art is ready.
You can then resubmit them the same photos and it will create even more for you.
Different ones.
You're looking at some of my results.
This is just the beginning of what I'm going to show.
This is just a little introduction.
It's actually nothing yet.
Shortly after having all this fun with the AI avatars,
I received an email from Adobe Stock saying
that we may now upload A.I.
Art with a certain conditions to generate passive income
so we can sell this AI art.
Well, obviously it wasn't done in Rimini app.
So where was it done?
How does it work?
How the computer creates such an art?
Who holds the copyright?
Right?
No, for sure
it wasn't done in Rimini app and I'll get to it very shortly.
I'll show you exactly how the process is done.
But first,
how is actually a AI art created?
AI image generator has looked at billions of images,
lots of them online as well, and learned the pattern, connections
for those images, styles, took bits and pieces to compose its own art.
So when you ask by words for a certain style of image,
it will give you just that.
I asked for gold and red rose
with water drops and splashes
and this is what I got.
Here is a photo I took in a
past and then manually added those splashes
which I also separately photographed and composed it all together.
It took a few days to come up with this and other photos from that set.
2 minutes versus days of work.
This whole new technology
created a huge wave of upset artists all over the world
because this new competition can create the same results in the same style
and actually it generates income. Remini
app is charging for those avatars. Computer versus people.
Technology is changing very fast, is evolving
in a lightning speed and is very difficult to adapt to it.
It's very difficult to accept it.
Many years ago I studied web design.
I was learning HTML coding.
I don't need this anymore because I can create a website
with literally just dragging and dropping items on the page.
And AI can certainly
also create stunning web design for you.
I asked for a photography website and this is what I got.
I also asked for a lens logo.
This is what I got.
Now I just need to replace the letters in Photoshop further and I'm set.
I just bought this very fun sticker for a car.
It's a dog jumping out of the broken glass.
Well, I was curious if I can create a very similar result, and this is what I got.
Now, it is very clear to me
that I purchased a sticker with AI generated art.
Someone made money with AI art here.
I wanted to see if I can create photography there.
So I grabbed one of my very old modeling photos.
It's 20 years old and I uploaded it there and I asked a computer
to recreate this style, this image, with a very stunning model.
And these are the results I got. Wow.
You can see the same settings, colors, just different faces.
I was very surprised to see this.
I was also curious if I can get a little bit better quality avatars here
than I got on Remini app. So I grabbed this photo and uploaded it.
I asked for superhero, Wonder Woman, Queen.
This blew my mind away.
I don't see myself there as much as I saw myself in Remini app,
but I can tell
you that it is very addictive.
Once you start, it's hard to stop. Before I show you exactly how I did this
and what you can actually sell on Adobe Stock and Dreamstime...
Do you want to have a good laugh?
Well, I'm offering my face for this.
I uploaded this photo and ask the
AI generator to create a cartoon of me.
Well, I was not ready what I was about to see.
Are you ready to see this?
Here it comes.
And the best one of all is
this one.
This is how I feel
after all the food and the Christmas stress and preparations.
That photo is a winner.
It's going to go right here on the wall.
Do you see how to use the colors
from my clothing and all that?
Just mind blowing.
Okay, so let's answer one of the questions.
What you can upload to Adobe
Stock and Dreamstime to generate income from this.
Okay, So let's be clear.
One of the limitations is that when you are uploading
an AI art based on a person like I did
the Avatars, I uploaded my photos first and then it creates images.
I do need to sign a model release.
However, if I have images, fictional images
which were not based on any real person, I don't need the model release.
Otherwise, everything else is the same, just like you would be uploading to stock.
I would review all the terms directly on the Adobe website.
Let's talk about the Shutterstock situation a little bit later on.
Now let's get to the point.
If you watched until now, you deserve to see how you can do this.
I went to the website MidJourney.com.
There are other ones as well, but I use this one.
I opened up a free account and it asked me to download the Discord app.
Just to give you heads up, you can create a lot of AI art
for free at first, and it was actually quite a big number.
But then it asks you to pay a membership.
I paid $30 this month because I'm testing this
and I want to see if I can actually sell some of this.
Just out of curiosity, I really want to know.
Once your account is created
open up Discord app.
Click on this icon on the left to get to MidJourney.
Here is where all the art is created.
I'm going to go to one of the rooms newcomers.
Here it goes... Type in forward slash.
Imagine. That is a prompt for the computer to create something.
Now let's just type the vision.
Red rose with water drops, ultra realistic.
Fine detail.
Then at the end, you want to add dash
dash v
space 4. That means that you will use
the latest version, the latest technology, which is very detailed.
Then you hit enter and wait.
You will get 4 versions.
Click on it.
Click View original, Right Click and Save.
You can also upsize them.
Just select which one you want to create
variation of the one you like.
This is version 1, version 2, version 3, version 4.
This is U upscale 1, U2, U3, U4.
You apparently created this.
It's under your name, under your account.
You can now go ahead and sell this.
If I was going to upload this to Adobe Stock or Dreamstime
or wanted to create items for sale such as T-shirts,
the size is not enough.
You have to use either Photoshop to upsize the image
or go to tinywow.com
where you can upsize the image completely free.
You just upload the image there,
select if you want to upsize 2x or 4x
and wait. You can just then download the final result.
You still need to tweak it a little bit here
and there in Photoshop, cleaning up, making sure that there are no problems,
but it's pretty much ready to go.
All it literally takes is to come up with ideas,
those words to generate the content. That is all.
So I guess you become an AI artist.
New job has been created.
Well, this is going to be get very saturated
on stock very quickly because it's so easy to create.
Let's say you want to create an art from your photo
like I did the cartoon or the avatar.
Just upload the photo here.
Right click to copy the URL address or select a photo you have online.
It has to be a URL address
and the same thing as before, type in prompt forward slash,
Imagine, select if you want to create female or male.
Paste the URL address of the image,
type in what you want the outcome to be.
Enter --V 4 version
4 and enter and wait for the result.
What's the story with the Shutterstock?
Let's finally talk about that.
Shutterstock partnered with Open AI, the creators of Dali 2.
So now you can generate AI art directly on Shutterstock.
So far, it's only available to a limited amount of people.
They will eventually open it up to all. The software
is creating this from Shutterstock images.
So if you sell on Shutterstock, you will see a new tab called
contributor found.
This is where you will see a new commission.
This is all I know for now.
I do have a ton of questions about this, and I'm pretty sure
that if you contribute to Shutterstock, you do have a lot of questions as well.
Will this replace photographers on stock?
Well, not if you take photos of models and you have a model release,
then they are good.
But if you are taking other styles of photos, other types of photos,
then it will definitely get saturated very quickly
and it's going to be harder to sell.
Whether we like it or not, it is here to stay and it's getting huge.
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I would really like to know your thoughts on this one, so please comment below.
Let me know what you think about all this.
Also, let me know if you are interested to learn a little bit more
because I've done quite a big research about this last week or so.
There's different prompts and stuff.
It's not as simple as it looks, but there are many tricks and stuff,
which definitely
are a bit overwhelming, I would say.
So let me know if you want more on this.
See you in the next video. Cau... Ahoj...