AI

I’ve been using ComfyUI to enhance photos from a set of over 300 aerial balloon photographs taken by the U.S. Army’s 14th Photo Section during World War I. These images are part of a bigger archive that shows everything from ruined towns to giant trenches carved across the countryside, all captured from balloons tethered high above the Western Front. What I love about these shots is how they’re basically a window into a time when aerial photography was just getting off the ground....

Süleymanname is an illustrated manuscript chronicling the life and achievements of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Unfortunately, while copies exist and there are photographs of the illustrations, they are poor in both resolution and lighting. In this post, we’ll look at the first 10 images from Süleymanname detailed with AI. Take a look here to see all the original images with more descriptions about the scenes. Click here for the Wikipedia article about the book....

London Street Views There was recently a post on Hacker News that linked to a Map Collection showing a bunch of scans from a surveying book for London from the 1840s. I ran these through my ‘Enhance!’ ComfyUI workflow to imagine what these might look like in color. This is still using SDXL but I’m keen to try to update it to Flux when I have a chance. That should improve the text fidelity quite a bit I believe....

Getting Started In this guide, we’ll walk through how to train LORAs for the Flux AI Image generation model end to end including: Tools and tips for building and organizing the dataset Captioning options Training the model using a Comfy UI workflow Testing the LORA This method was used to generate: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Amiga Deluxepaint Specs Required This guide was written with a 24GB Geforce RTX 3090 and 24GB RAM....

ControlNet was released early this year and lets you ‘control’ image generation in Stable Diffusion images with normals/depth maps, face poses, globally aware inpainting, and more. Learning how to use ControlNet has been on my to-do list for some time, but I lacked a project interesting enough to really get started on that. If you want a good general overview and guide for using ControlNet, take a look here. … in life the QRCodeMonsters win I first found QRCodeMonster after seeing this meme on the Stable Diffusion Reddit and being curious how they got that working....