Take a look at the linked photography/art page in OPs profile. Seems to be an edit of this one. This looks like a real picture of a miniature with some clever photo magic and postprocessing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Actually it's an edit of a different one I haven't shared yet‡ but it's the same mini from a different angle in a different spot of my desk.

But yeah not AI. Just some fun editing using Lightroom and Audacity.

‡ I just shared the 4k 16x9 version of the source image on my Deviant Art page if you're curious.

Edit: Link for the curious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Cool stuff thanks for sharing :)

[–] Shampiss 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that this is AI. In fact I'm curious to how it was made

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Correct it's not AI but some weird photography and strange edits.

Basically I took the picture using an old lens from an x-ray machine using a custom adapter to put it on my Lumix G-9, then put the image through Lightroom, GIMP (to convert the file), Audacity (to bend the data), then back through GIMP (to convert it again) , then back through Lightroom.

The file conversion is necessary because Lightroom won't output a BMP file which is needed for Audacity because of the type of bending I'm doing there. Technically you can import any raw data into Audacity but BMP files are easier to mess with IMO. Using a TIF file you can edit each color channel separately a lot easier (in theory) but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It's not AI and in some of the comments that replied to you I explain the process of how made it.

The long and short of it is that's it's a databent image of something I took a picture of