This was one of those images I had to work to get right. Starting with a photo of a Yonezawa Douglas C-124 Globemaster II taken back in 2018, I wanted to see what Chat GPT could do with it. Unfortunately, I didn't look at the original photo good enough to see the flaws that were right there in front of me and only after a series of Chat GPT and Photoshop edits did I end up with an image I'm okay with.
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Original Photo (2018)
The original photo was taken on my 2'x4' airfield display board that has been used on a number of occasions and is a nice enough tabletop toy display.
Edits
A
The prompt given to the Chat GPT program was "make the background a more realistic military airfield"
Only after this first edit did I notice flaws.
-The first thing I noticed was the missing propellors on the outboard port engine! DOH! They were missing all the time as the original photo attests to. How could I have missed that?
-The second thing I noticed was the pilot figure still retained its base
-Last was a flaw generated by Chat GPT: it put an odd bubble kind of thing on the port wingtip. Like, what the heck is that?
B
Somewhere along the line, Chat GPT thought that adding a third engine was the right thing to do!!
C
Chat GPT did manage to partially fix the propellor issue on the outboard engine. There's still one propellor missing
D (FINAL)
This was one of the first projects using the Chat GPT program and I quickly found out that I simply cannot do all the edits I want to in it because:
a) I can only do four images a day using the free version
b) the more you ask of the program, the more it's likely to screw things up
The solution? Photoshop!
I placed the photo in Photoshop, editing out the base under the figure, getting rid of that odd bubble on the port wingtip and adding the last propellor to the engine.
This is my final image and I'm okay with it.
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