I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but if someone knows nothing about generating AI images like the ones on this thread, and wanted to give it a try, what would be the best place to start? Maybe a YouTube tutorial? And what's the best program to use? Seems like I see a lot of references to Stable Diffusion.
 
I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but if someone knows nothing about generating AI images like the ones on this thread, and wanted to give it a try, what would be the best place to start? Maybe a YouTube tutorial? And what's the best program to use? Seems like I see a lot of references to Stable Diffusion.
Hey Roman,

I'd be happy to point you in the right direction. I would say for a beginner you can head over to Bing's image generator or Microsoft Designer both of which use Dall-E Ai. I find that Microsoft Designer is more forgiving when it comes to explicit terminology and you don't get banned or suspended for repeat violations. Bing generates four images at a time where Microsoft Designer only generates one. There are other image generators like Mage Space.

Play around with words and themes or even try the example prompt below, replacing location words and hair colour as well as actions and poses. Give it a shot and see what you get.
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4k, high quality, hyperrealistic, extreme detail, photograph, man, barbarian, fair skin, hairy, muscular, hairy muscles, engorged muscles, muscular physique, flexing both biceps, hairy arms, hairy abs, hairy body, steroids, hairy bodybuilder, hairy chest, chest hair, body hair, hands behind head, sweating, sitting on log, forest, morning
 
I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but if someone knows nothing about generating AI images like the ones on this thread, and wanted to give it a try, what would be the best place to start? Maybe a YouTube tutorial? And what's the best program to use? Seems like I see a lot of references to Stable Diffusion.
I would suggest not to install Stable Diffusion on your own. Instead use an offer on the web, possibly put some little money on it. I started with this one and I still think it is very flexible. Has many models already available, with ability to upload your models of choice if they don't already exist. You also can upload Loras of your choice: Sign in to graviti

To get inspirations what is possible, go to Civitai: The Home of Open-Source Generative AI , have a look at the models they present there, look at the image galleries. These images also contain positive and negative prompts. Check if the model is available on gravity.com, copy the prompts and just try to reproduce what you saw on civitai.com.