Okay, let me walk you through this little project I tinkered with recently. I had this idea, maybe a bit silly, to see if I could get pictures of famous folks wearing sharp suits, you know, digitally.
Getting Started
So, first things first, I needed some pictures. I grabbed a few headshots of celebrities that I thought might look good in formal wear. Nothing too complicated, just clear shots. Then, I started thinking about the suits. Finding good suit images wasn’t hard, but the real task was putting them together convincingly.
I initially thought about using some photo editing software, the kind most people have messed with. Layering things, cutting things out. But man, getting the lighting and the angles to match up? That’s tough. It looked pretty fake, pretty quickly. The collars never sat right, and the shoulders looked weird. It just wasn’t working out the way I pictured it in my head.
Trying the AI Route
Then I remembered all this talk about AI image generators. Seemed like maybe that was the way to go. Less cutting and pasting, more telling a computer what you want. So, I jumped onto one of those platforms. You type in what you want to see, right?
My first tries were pretty basic. Stuff like “[Celebrity Name] wearing a black suit“. The results were… interesting. Sometimes it got the face okay but the suit looked like a cartoon. Other times, the suit was perfect, but the face was like some weird cousin of the actual celebrity. And don’t get me started on the hands. AI really seems to struggle with hands, lots of extra fingers or weirdly bent ones.
I spent a good chunk of time just tweaking the descriptions. I tried being more specific:
- “photorealistic image of [Celebrity Name] smiling, wearing a tailored navy blue suit”
- “headshot of [Celebrity Name] in a classic tuxedo, looking serious”
- “full body shot, [Celebrity Name] standing confidently in a grey business suit”
It was a lot of trial and error. Honestly, way more error than trial sometimes. You’d get a great image, but the tie would be merging into the shirt, or one side of the jacket would be missing. It felt like I was rolling dice with every click.
Refining the Process
I figured maybe just text wasn’t enough. Some of these tools let you upload a picture to guide the AI. So, I tried feeding it the celebrity headshot and then describing the suit. That seemed to help keep the face more accurate. It still wasn’t perfect, mind you. Sometimes the AI would put the original picture’s background into the new suited-up image in weird ways.
I also played around with different styles. Asking for a “photorealistic” style sometimes gave better results than just asking for a “photo”. I even tried asking for specific lighting, like “studio lighting” or “outdoor lighting”, to see if that made the suits look more natural on the person.
Final Thoughts
After a fair bit of messing around, I did manage to get some decent results. Not Hollywood movie poster quality, maybe, but definitely recognizable celebrities looking like they were actually wearing the suits. It took way more fiddling than I initially thought it would. You really have to learn how to ‘talk’ to the AI, figure out what keywords work and which ones just confuse it.
It wasn’t as simple as just typing a sentence and getting a perfect picture. It was more like guiding a very talented but sometimes very weird artist. Definitely learned a bit about how these AI tools work and how much patience you need to get something specific out of them. Got a few cool pictures out of it in the end, though, so it was a fun way to spend some time.
