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For anyone looking for a prompt to do this manually, it seems to be as simple as this:

> Generate a version of this photo that can be used as a coloring sheet

Close enough! The prompt I use is:

> Make this a page in a colouring book. The drawing is in a simple Studio Ghibli portrait style. Bleed all the way to the edges. Background colour is #ffffff and lines are bold and #000000. There is no shading or crossthatching.

I think one thing that slightly drags this down is the Ghibli style produces images that don’t really look that much like the original people. If you can find a prompt that is still stylized while preserving more of the characteristics of faces would go a long way on the personalization front. Maybe easier said than done.

Anyone else feeling this weird vibe in the age of AI? You get a cool new idea, but then you think about how easy it is for someone else to replicate it, and you end up not doing it.

Often multiple times a day, but on top of that concern, also throw in various ethical concerns and a few questions about if it actually has value or should exist

likewise, at this point I am just giving in and making what I can to see whether or not it is feasible, to speak nothing to its value or existence

Me too except I usually don’t get very far into making the things

Yeah I've been doing this with image-gen AIs pretty much since they started and it's a lot of fun. Even early Dall-E etc was awesome at doing stuff like "Create a colouring in sheet with some dinosaurs having a party" or generic prompts like that, and more recently giving photos to convert has been loads of fun for the kids.

The OP looks like it runs images through a Ghibli filter first

I’ve done this a bunch with my son. It’s not quite that simple because often times it’ll create images that have too much detail, sometimes it’ll actually include colors. But yeah, it’s not really all that complicated

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