I would like to give you tips how to recognize AI generated images. They are getting more realistic, but they still tend to “cheat” on details, physics and text, especially in emotionally charged viral posts. If you know where to look, you can spot many of them in a few seconds and you can avoid sharing fake nostalgia photos, miracle stories or political information that seems true.

Note: all of the images below are AI generated.

1. Start with a quick vibe check

Before you zoom into pixels, ask a simple question: does the overall scene make sense in the real world?

• Is the story almost too perfect, dramatic or heartwarming to be true?
• Does the image hit your emotions first and only later your critical thinking?

AI images shared on social media often target nostalgia, religion or empathy, because these themes lower our guard and trigger cognitive biases like confirmation bias and familiarity.

2. Count fingers, teeth and limbs

The second way to recognize AI generated images is looking at anatomy. Anatomy is still a weak spot for many models, especially in busy scenes.

Look for:

• extra or missing fingers, fused fingers, or fingers bending in physically impossible ways
• strange hands: too big, too small, wrong angle, fingers going through objects
• teeth that form a continuous “white wall” instead of individual teeth
• too regular a row of teeth / the people in the picture have almost the same row of teeth

These errors are more common in group photos, dynamic poses or images with many overlapping limbs.

3. Inspect faces and symmetry

AI can generate beautiful faces, but they often become slightly unnatural when you look closer.

Check for:

• Eyes looking in slightly different directions, different eye sizes, off‑center pupils
• Ears that are distorted, missing, blurred into hair, or have no clear structure
• Hairlines that look painted on or impossible curls and braids

Another tell: faces that look too symmetrical and flawless, almost like a beauty filter turned to maximum.

4. Look for background and object glitches

AI tends to “give up” on background details, especially when the foreground is complex.

Look for:

• objects that float, merge, or intersect in impossible ways (a mug melting into the table, a chair leg disappearing, faces are distorted etc.)
• reflections in windows, mirrors or water that don’t match reality
• background people with melted faces, broken glasses or missing limbs

These anomalies often hide at the edges of the frame. Zooming or mentally walking through the scene helps.

5. Study textures and materials

Many models still struggle with realistic surfaces, especially when patterns or fine details are involved.

Suspicious signs:

• skin that is too smooth, plastic‑like or uniformly perfect, with no pores or subtle imperfections
• clothing with chaotic folds or fabric that doesn’t follow gravity, or patterns that bend in impossible ways
• repeating textures where there should be variation (tiles, grass, bricks, crowd clothing)

6. Check text, logos and signatures

Even that image models are more and more precise, text is a classic weak point: AI often produces spelling errors, warped letters or meaningless symbols.

Watch out for:

• street signs, shop names, T‑shirt prints, posters and book covers with garbled or unreadable text
• signatures on the corner of an artwork that look smeared, inconsistent or unreadable
• logos that are almost right, but with wrong font, missing elements, mirrored details

Even with newer models, small text in the background is still a good place to look for glitches.

7. Test the physics: light, shadows, gravity

Reality has rules. AI sometimes ignores them.

Look for:

• shadows going in different directions or not matching the visible light sources
• liquids that look solid or frozen in an unnatural way (coffee that doesn’t move, water that behaves like gel)
• objects that seem to float or rest in unstable positions without any support
• the creases in the clothes are strange

If the lighting feels movie‑perfect everywhere:

• every face perfectly lit,
• no harsh contrast,
• no real imperfections

that can also be a subtle sign.

8. Look at crowds, pets and complex scenes

AI is much better at single portraits than at big, messy situations.

Potential tells in crowds:

• background people with distorted faces, extra limbs or missing body parts
• animals with strange anatomy: too many legs, missing tails, weird eyes
• repeated clones of the same person or dog in different parts of the image

Group scenes with many interactions (hugs, handshakes, sports) are still a frequent source of glitches.

9. Watch for over‑polished, style‑averaged art

In illustrations and digital paintings, AI often produces beautiful, but generic look.

Typical signs:

• many different stylistic influences mashed together without a strong personal style
• lighting and rendering that are extremely glossy and perfect, with no sign of brushwork or consistent technique
• backgrounds that feel less carefully designed than the main character

If an artwork looks like ArtStation, Pinterest and Instagram blended into one, but you can’t feel an individual artist’s hand, it might be AI.

You can notice on AI digital paintings also similar signs which I mentioned above (like distorted text, distorted faces).

10. Combine visual clues with context

Finally, don’t stop at the pixels. Context still matters.

Ask:

• Where is the image posted? Does the account frequently share AI art or sensational content?
• Does the caption mention an AI tool, or use hashtags like #aiart, #midjourney, #aigenerated?
• Is there any source, photographer name, place or date – or is everything vague?

If you are still unsure, you can look at metadata or use reverse image search, but even without tools, these simple questions often reveal that something is off.

Summary

We know that genAI models are constantly evolving. Sometimes it’s almost impossible now to make a difference between real and fake art or photo.

I hope this guide helps you to notice the differences. You can train your eye, you can create AI images yourself and see the difference between photo and generated visual content.

You can also search for “fake or photo quiz” or “AI or Photo” and you can take quizzes – this is fun and also a good training opportunity.

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Login to Flextreme AI

If you open the flextremeai.com site a Welcome page appears.
Scroll down and click on the Get Started button to open the login page.

You can use the app only with a Google account, but you don’t need to register.

After login, you see this simple and clean user interface and you can immediately start generating images:

Just type the prompt, select the aspect ratio and the number of images. Then click on Generate and Flextreme AI will do the rest for you.

Detailed, medium-length prompts also work. You don’t need to write the prompt in english. My experience is that Flextreme AI also understand german, italian and other languages. It’s worth to experiment with different languages.

Test #1 – Cinematic photo

Prompt: Cinematic photo of a red sportscar drifting in the sunset on Florida street. The sports car is taking a sharp turn. Low camera angle, full shot, motion blur, city lights, dust.

Test #2 – Landscape oil painting

Prompt: Oil painting of Swiss Alps in daylight.

Test #3 – Macro photo

Prompt: Extremely detailed photo of a beautiful blue tiger butterfly on a pink flower. Green background, shallow depth of field vivid colors, 4k fine art, sharp details.

Test #4 – Vector graphics

Prompt: Medium detailed and shaded vector illustration of a angry black cat warrior with shield and spear. He stands on his two back feets in the endless desert. Full shot, side view.

Test #5 – 3D Logo design

Prompt: A silver-cyan 3D gear logo on darkgray background with “COMPANY” written below the gear with silver sans serif font. A “YOUR SLOGAN HERE” text below the company text with serif font.

Test #6 – Using a complex prompt

My plan was to test the accuracy of the model and the prompt adherence. In fact, this is exactly the prompt from my Nano Banana Pro test:

Prompt: “Create a comic with the title: Getting started with Nano Banana Pro. Panel 1: A mobile interface on Gemini, rendered in a poetic watercolor-ink style with fine ink outlines and soft, bleeding washes. The interface is friendly and a hand painted with expressive brushwork taps a prominent button labeled “Create image”.

Above the button it should say “Choose your Model” then below there should be a checkbox that says “Thinking with 3 Pro” Muted greys and blues dominate the background. The button has a vivid yellow accent. “ Select the Thinking with 3 Pro model” and tap “Create image” to begin. Panel 2: A cheerful person is depicted adding their selfie from the phone’s camera. The user’s face is drawn with soft outlines and warm pastel colors, while the phone and UI maintain the delicate water-ink aesthetic. Visible paper grain adds to the texture.

Panel 3: The person thinks about what to create. In the background, different options are visualized to show what they’re thinking, including — them as a plushie, them with a mohawk hairstyle, and a figurine. These options are clearly rendered behind the person in the same style as the rest of the comic.

Panel 4: The person is shown adding a style prompt, with a speech bubble saying “Transform me into a watercolor painting”. The text is integrated into the panel’s watercolor-ink look, and the interaction feels natural and intuitive.

Panel 5: The person is seen editing the image by simply typing into Gemini. The scene captures the ease of this interaction, with the final edited image, now in a watercolor style, appearing on the screen. The overall tone is friendly, instructional, and inspiring. It feels like a mini tutorial comic, all conveyed through the specified delicate water-ink illustration style. Make the aspect ratio 16:9.”

Test #7 – 3D render

Prompt: 3D render of an enchanted treetop forest village with rope ladders on a summer evening with fireflies illuminating it during the blue hour

Test #8 – Pencil sketch

Prompt: A detailed pencil sketch of a flying dragon over the rocky mountains.

Troubleshooting

As I tested this app I experienced sometimes little but annoying bugs. If I have the solution, then I will share it here.

Issue #1 – Login service

Solution: just hit the refresh button or F5 key to reload the page. I’m sure that the Google login button should then appear immediately.

Issue # 2 – Strange results

Symptom: Strange text and irrelevant result.

Solution: Log out and log in again, refine your prompt.

Summary

Althrough the Flextreme AI art generator is still in alpha phase, it already works very good for basic tasks. In most cases the results are quite convincing. Below, I summarize my experiences in bullet points.

However, be aware that Flextreme AI does not save your generated images on their server.
Instead, they are storing them only in your browser session, as far as I understand. Therefore, I strongly recommend to download the images as soon as possible. Additionally, make sure you log in on the same computer or mobile device and use the same browser if you want to access them again.

Pros:

• easy to use interface
• fast image generating
• 15 images per day for free
• the minimum number of images is 1
• your generations are private

Cons:

• no pro plan / subscription
• images are for non-commercial use only
• minor application issues sometimes (eg. login)
• strange, irrelevant results sometimes
• no community gallery
• no extra features like:
  • negative prompt
  • AI art generation from reference image,
  • remove background,
  • inpainting,
  • selecting AI model
  • image enlargement

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How to try it out?

Nano Banana Pro is available in Google Gemini. You will see this starting screen when you open the Gemini webpage:

I would like to note that if you click on the Try It link at the top of the page, then Banana will load a sample prompt and generates an image, which already counts towards your 3 image limit per day.

Click on the Create Image button to activate the Nano Banana Pro image model.

Note: You can create only 3 images / day for free.

Test #1 – The inbuilt sample prompt

The prompt is very detailed and long, so I pasted it with a small sized font:

“Create a comic with the title: Getting started with Nano Banana Pro. Panel 1: A mobile interface on Gemini, rendered in a poetic watercolor-ink style with fine ink outlines and soft, bleeding washes. The interface is friendly and a hand painted with expressive brushwork taps a prominent button labeled “Create image”. Above the button it should say “Choose your Model” then below there should be a checkbox that says “Thinking with 3 Pro” Muted greys and blues dominate the background. The button has a vivid yellow accent. “ Select the Thinking with 3 Pro model” and tap “Create image” to begin. Panel 2: A cheerful person is depicted adding their selfie from the phone’s camera. The user’s face is drawn with soft outlines and warm pastel colors, while the phone and UI maintain the delicate water-ink aesthetic. Visible paper grain adds to the texture. Panel 3: The person thinks about what to create. In the background, different options are visualized to show what they’re thinking, including — them as a plushie, them with a mohawk hairstyle, and a figurine. These options are clearly rendered behind the person in the same style as the rest of the comic. Panel 4: The person is shown adding a style prompt, with a speech bubble saying “Transform me into a watercolor painting”. The text is integrated into the panel’s watercolor-ink look, and the interaction feels natural and intuitive. Panel 5: The person is seen editing the image by simply typing into Gemini. The scene captures the ease of this interaction, with the final edited image, now in a watercolor style, appearing on the screen. The overall tone is friendly, instructional, and inspiring. It feels like a mini tutorial comic, all conveyed through the specified delicate water-ink illustration style. Make the aspect ratio 16:9.”

And this is the result:

Click on the image to enlarge

It’s pretty convincing. The typography is perfect. I don’t see any typos or other problems on the picture.

Remark: Gemini also included the banana emoji in the prompt, but I had to delete it to able to save the blogpost.

Update: I tried the same prompt with ChatGPT (GPT Image 1.5):

This results is impressive too. I think that Nano Banana Pro has a new rival.

Test #2 – Infographic

I used this prompt:

Create an infographic-like image of the most popular brushes in similar style as on the attached example picture, but with landscape aspect ratio (eg. 16:9). The brushes are from top to down: 2B Pencil, Ballpoint Pen, Soft Airbrush, Watercolor brush, Acryl brush, Oil paint, Calligraphic brush. Each row contains the stroke of the brush or tool with realistic and relevant color. Next to the stroke is the photorealistic illustration of the tool (for example it is clearly visible that the brush stroke was painted with the brush) and a sample image that was drawn with the tool. The image should also contain the name of every tool with a good readable darkbrown coloured font. There is also a darkbrown coloured victorian ornamental frame around the infographic.

The reference image was Krita’s first picture about brushes.

This is the generated image:

The result is impressive! Gemini precisely followed my instructions: text, tools, samples, structure, victorian border: everything is on the picture.

Using Banana in Leonardo.Ai

You can also try it in Leonardo.Ai, but in the free plan you have only 150 tokens. One image with Nano Banana Pro costs 140 tokens, so you can generate only 1 image.
Tokens are resetting in 12 hours, so you have a 2 image daily quota.

In Leonardo free plan you can use 1 reference image. I made a test with it.
This is the starting real estate interior photo:

This is a very simple prompt to replace some objects on this living room photo:

Replace the pictures on the wall with photos from Gobi desert. Replace the couch with a darkbrown leather couch. Change the wall colour to matching bluegreen, increase the density of the foliage.

And this is the final result:

I think it’s pretty good. Nano Banana also was able in August to make this kind of change on a picture – I think.

The best thing is, that it doesn’t change the alignment or form of the objects in the scene, it changes only what you define in the prompt.

Let’s summarize what are the new features of the 2nd version of Nano Banana.

Summary

Nano Banana Pro is a revolutionary model. It’s fantastic and a little bit scary at the same time. Images made with this new model are more realistic and hard to make a difference between real photo an AI generated image. In another article I will post images which compare the standard and pro version of Banana.

The main new features are:

• enhanced prompt adherence
• better consistency (you define what to change or replace, the other objects and forms remaining intact)
• ability to create complex text and image combinations on one picture, like:
  • infographics
  • comics
  • accurate scientific graphics
  • easily change the mood, like: lighting, season, camera angle etc.

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Why is it hard to create cards manually (one-by-one) and what can be the solution for this?

In board game design there are some time consuming processes like the creation of the cards. Did you now that this process can be automated? If you have a table or CSV file with the cards data (eg. Title, serial number, neccessary icons, images) and some basic images, then ImageMagick and Python can help you to create the cards. Imagine if you have 100 or more cards with different text on it and you decide to change the font or the background color. Instead of doing this manually for all 100 cards you can simply edit and run a Python script to update your cards.

In this article we will use the powerful and free ImageMagick tool which has a lot of image editing functions. Just check this site for examples, but avoid to deep dive into the documentation at this moment.

First, we write a Python script with the help of chatGPT.

Then we run the script and check the result.

Finally I give you a brief explanation of the most important parameters to understand which ones you need to edit to reach the expected result.

I will guide you through the whole process step-by-step.

It is good if you have some basic programming experience, but it is not a requirement to follow this tutorial.

If you are not familiar with programming or scripting or you just search for a more user friendly method, then jump to the end of this guide where I give you alternate ways to create the cards.

Tools we will use

• ImageMagick,
• Python,
• chatGPT,
• Notepad++ (or other IDE)
• Google sheets or a CSV file

Steps before building and running the script

Installing Python

Go to python.org and download the latest version. Follow the steps of the installation wizard. Before selecting Install Now turn on “Add python.exe to PATH”.
This option gives you the ability to run Python scripts in any folder on your computer.

Make sure to check “Add python.exe to PATH”

Installing ImageMagick

Go to the ImageMagick website and select the appropriate version of the software.
I use Windows, so I downloaded and installed the Windows version.

Make sure to check the “Add application directory to your system path” option

Installing a text editor, like Notepad++

I recommend to use Notepad++, because it has many useful features, like syntax highlighting. Go to the Notepad++ download page and install it.

Remark: You can use any other text editor or IDE. The simplest text editor in Windows is Notepad, but it don’t have the syntax highlighting feature. Another popular and powerful IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is Visual Studio Code (shortly: vscode).

Creating the project folder

Use any file management tool (or command line) to create a project folder with any name you like. I created the create_cards folder for this example project.

Create a subfolder with the name images in the project folder. We will put our basic images into this folder.

Create the icons subfolder in the project folder and place the text bubble icon into this folder.

After the project folder and the cards subfolder are created move on to the next step.

This is the folder structure after all necessary folders are created:

Remark: The output folder will be created by the Python script.

Create or download the starting images

We need to put the starting card images into the cards folder and the message.png icon into the icons folder.

You can download them in one .zip file or one-by-one below.

message64.png:

message64.png (white background at the text bubble)

Generating the first script

I use chatGPT to generate the Python code.

This is the prompt to generate the script (feel free to use other prompt to customize the script for your current project):

Help creating a Python script which uses ImageMagick to create cards for a fantasy themed card game. The card with is 45mm and the height is 68mm. The resolution is 150dpi. Use a CSV file as a data source for the cards. The CSV file contains the title, serial number, icon and base image. Place the title in the upper center part of the card in yellowish gold color on darkgreen background. Place the serial number in the upper left corner with black text and use an orange circle with black border as background. If the third column (icon) in the CSV file is True, then place the message64.png icon from the icons folder into the lower left corner on the card. Place the base image in the center of the card. Use darkblue background for the card. The base images are in the images folder. Save the cards into the cards_output folder. Be aware of how ImageMagick works: “Image Composition is the process of merging two (and only two) images in a variety of ways.”

So my prompt contains the following parameters:

• Using a CSV file
• Card size in millimeters
• Print resolution in DPI (I use 150dpi for faster process and testing)
• Using some images without any text and number (center align)
• Card title (top align)
• Card serial number in an orange circle
• Message icon – if needed on a specific card

Tip: Be as concrete as you can when you formulate your prompt. Then the result will we more close to your wishes.

Script and CSV file what I got

Here you can see the script (double click on the code to select all):

import csv
import os
import subprocess
import tempfile
import shutil

# Constants
WIDTH_MM = 45
HEIGHT_MM = 68
DPI = 150
WIDTH_PX = int(WIDTH_MM / 25.4 * DPI)
HEIGHT_PX = int(HEIGHT_MM / 25.4 * DPI)

OUTPUT_DIR = "cards_output"
IMAGES_DIR = "images"
ICONS_DIR = "icons"

os.makedirs(OUTPUT_DIR, exist_ok=True)

def run_magick(args):
    subprocess.run(["magick"] + args, check=True)

def generate_temp_image(filename, args):
    temp_path = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), filename)
    run_magick(args + [temp_path])
    return temp_path

def create_card(title, serial, icon, base_image_filename):
    base_image_path = os.path.join(IMAGES_DIR, base_image_filename)
    icon_path = os.path.join(ICONS_DIR, "message64.png")
    output_path = os.path.join(OUTPUT_DIR, f"{serial}.png")

    temp_files = []

    try:
        # 1. Base background (dark blue)
        base_bg = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_bg.png", [
            "-size", f"{WIDTH_PX}x{HEIGHT_PX}", "xc:#001a4d"
        ])
        temp_files.append(base_bg)

        # 2. Title bar with text
        title_img = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_title.png", [
            "-size", f"{WIDTH_PX}x40", "xc:#004d00",
            "-gravity", "center", "-pointsize", "20", "-fill", "#FFD700",
            "-annotate", "+0+5", title
        ])
        temp_files.append(title_img)

        composed1 = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_step1.png", [
            base_bg, title_img, "-gravity", "north", "-composite"
        ])
        temp_files.append(composed1)

        # 3. Serial number circle
        serial_circle = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_serial.png", [
            "-size", "100x100", "xc:none",
            "-fill", "orange", "-stroke", "black", "-strokewidth", "4",
            "-draw", "circle 20,20 50,0",
            "-gravity", "northwest", "-extent", f"{WIDTH_PX}x{HEIGHT_PX}",
            "-gravity", "northwest", "-pointsize", "20", "-fill", "black",
            "-annotate", "+25+30", serial
        ])
        temp_files.append(serial_circle)

        composed2 = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_step2.png", [
            composed1, serial_circle, "-gravity", "northwest", "-composite"
        ])
        temp_files.append(composed2)

        # 4. Center image (base image)
        resized_base = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_baseimg.png", [
            base_image_path, "-resize", f"{int(WIDTH_PX*0.8)}x{int(HEIGHT_PX*0.5)}"
        ])
        temp_files.append(resized_base)

        centered_base = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_basecenter.png", [
            "-size", f"{WIDTH_PX}x{HEIGHT_PX}", "xc:none",
            resized_base, "-gravity", "center", "-composite"
        ])
        temp_files.append(centered_base)

        composed3 = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_step3.png", [
            composed2, centered_base, "-gravity", "center", "-composite"
        ])
        temp_files.append(composed3)

        # 5. Optional icon in lower left
        if icon.lower() == "true":
            resized_icon = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_icon.png", [
                icon_path, "-resize", "40x40"
            ])
            temp_files.append(resized_icon)

            icon_layer = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_iconlayer.png", [
                "-size", f"{WIDTH_PX}x{HEIGHT_PX}", "xc:none",
                resized_icon, "-gravity", "southwest", "-geometry", "+10+10", "-composite"
            ])
            temp_files.append(icon_layer)

            composed4 = generate_temp_image(f"{serial}_step4.png", [
                composed3, icon_layer, "-gravity", "southwest", "-composite"
            ])
            temp_files.append(composed4)

            shutil.copy(composed4, output_path)
        else:
            shutil.copy(composed3, output_path)

        print(f"Card created: {output_path}")

    finally:
        # Clean up temp files
        for file in temp_files:
            try:
                os.remove(file)
            except FileNotFoundError:
                pass

# Read CSV
with open("cards.csv", newline='', encoding='utf-8') as csvfile:
    reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile)
    for row in reader:
        create_card(
            title=row["title"],
            serial=row["serial"],
            icon=row["icon"],
            base_image_filename=row["base_image"]
        )

Here is the csv file:

title,serial,icon,base_image
Spartan Soldier,01,True,spartan.png
Titan Warrior,02,False,titan.png
Elf Wizard,03,True,elf.png
Dark Goblin,04,False,goblin.png

Saving and running the script

chatGPT generated the Python script and a sample .csv file (see above).

Create a new Python file in your project folder, copy-paste the script and save it.
Remark: you can create a new file in Notepad++, paste the Python script and save as create_cards.py file.

Create a new CSV file and copy-paste the sample CSV file content from chatGPT or the code above. Save the file as cards.csv.

Run the script simply by double clicking on the filename.

If there are no errors, then the script runs and saves the card images into the cards_output folder. Check the folder for the results.

If there are errors in the Python script, then you should fix them to run the image export. See the Troubleshooting chapter to learn how to fix errors.

Tip: if you would like to see what Python writes on the screen, then do one of the following:

1. run the script in command line. To do this open the command line by hitting the Windows button and type cmd, then hit ENTER. Navigate to the folder of the script (use cd foldername) and type the Python program name to run it.
2. Insert the following line of code after the last line in the script in a new line and save the file:
   input(“Press ENTER to exit the program!”)

Editing the script

Right click on the .py file and select “Edit with NotePad++”. Be sure to save the file after editing.

Troubleshooting the script

Python prints error messages on the screen if the script contains errors. I help you fix these errors in this chapter.

“No such file or directory” error

magick: unable to open image ‘images\spartan.png’: No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/3596.

Solution:

• copy the images to the correct folder
• rename the images if the names are incorrect

Fine-tuning the results

Fixing object size, transparency settings and alignment

I made several fixing steps.
To fix transparency I replaced row 60 with this line:

        "-gravity", "northwest", "-background", "none", "-extent", f"{WIDTH_PX}x{HEIGHT_PX}",

These are the thumbnails of the test images:

More tweaking needed:

• decrease the radius of the orange circle
• decrease the border of it
• fix the background of the message64.png icon (you can download the fixed version above)

These are the thumbnails of the refined images:

You can download the refined Python script from this link.

Changing text color

I checked the exported images and I see, that the text is too bright so I change the code:

Sorry, this chapter is just a draft. Update coming soon…

Different aspect ratio

If you would like to create 1:1 aspect ratio images, then simply write the same number for width and height (row 8 and 9 in the Python script, CARD_WIDTH_MM and CARD_HEIGHT_MM).

Using Google fonts

You can easily change the font by replacing the approriate line:

Sorry, this chapter is just a draft. Update coming soon…

I selected the Fancy Feeling on fonts.google.com and browsed through the fonts. My final decision was the Birthstone font.

Always read the license of the fonts to learn about the usage of them.

Creating exact number of some type of cards

Sometimes we need to create almost the same cards but with different text, icons and numbers.

Imagine that we would like to create a deck of 30 cards. 10 cards with a dragon, 10 cards with a knight, 5 cards with dwarfs, 5 cards with a sword.

Then instead of using different images for every card, we shoud include another column in the table or in the CSV file, which indicates which image we need on which card.

Sorry, this content is just a draft. Update coming soon…

Prepare the cards for print

Now we have separate cards with nice text and icons. The next step is to print them. Use the following script to align more then one card on a page with. I use A4 paper size, but you can use any other standard. A4 paper dimensions: 210x297mm.

Sorry, this chapter is just a draft. Update coming soon…

Alternative ways to create cards for board games

If you don’t like scripting and you would like to do this job with a more user friendly way, than you can use one of this tools:

• Nandeck
• Dextrous
• Forge of Cards
• Tabletop Creator

Dextrous is very user friendly, you see the end result immediately and it can use .CSV files as data source for card data. The free version can be enough for most of the use cases.

The list is not complete and I may update it later.

Final words

I hope you enjoyed this guide and found it useful. Happy card designing! If you have any questions feel free to ask them in the chat below!

Thanks for reading this long article! 🙂

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So from now on, image generation is not done by Dall-E by default in ChatGPT, but by the GPT-4o model. This development has also been integrated into the Sora video generator. The descriptions and demonstration images are quite promising, so I thought I would try what this tool can do. Update: it is no longer available in the free version, so I have not tested the service yet. I will only highlight a few official images.

According to OpenAI, a good image generator should not only be able to create spectacular photorealistic, fantasy, and surreal images, but also be useful and functional.

When creating the new image generation model, attention was paid to ensuring that the texts appearing in the generated images were accurate. The model not only monitors the correctness of the text, but we can also specify the exact arrangement of the text, so we can write poems or create beautifully illustrated recipes or infographics.

The model also supports differentiated imaging, so after image generation, we can easily modify the existing image by entering a short prompt.

Furthermore, this model can easily create comics and even user interfaces (UI) for games with full visuals and consistent icons.

This latter feature could be a game changer, as it will now be possible to create UIs and infographics with precise text much faster and more efficiently.

Sample images

Unfortunately, access to the new image generator has now been disabled in the Free version, so I’ll only show some of the official images:

Example #1 – Infographic

Image credit: OpenAI

Correct captions and convincing depiction.

Example #2 – Reflections and text

Image credit: OpenAI

The reflections look quite accurate. Many AI image generators have trouble representing reflections properly.

Example #3 – UI design

Image credit: OpenAI

We can create computer game visual designs even with consistent icons.

Example #4 – Transparent background

Credit: OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation/?video=1069289433

Example #5 – Illustration for a science experiment

Image credit: OpenAI

Availability

The gpt-4o image generator is now available on Plus, Pro, and Team subscriptions. Due to overwhelming demand, the ability to generate images with the new model was disabled in the free version to prevent server overload.

The service will soon be available in Enterprise and Edu versions.

Performance

This model is a bit slower than Dall-E, as it interprets and processes our prompt more precisely. It can take more than 1 minute to render an image.

Advanced prompting

Since there is no UI element to set parameters (such as aspect ratio, colors used, image style) during image generation, all of this can be specified simply in text form. You can even specify the hexadecimal code of specific colors in the prompt. If you want to create a photorealistic image, you can specify the type of camera or lens or even the style of the photo (example: polaroid photo).

Limitations

The model does not always work flawlessly. There may be problems with rendering multilingual text, hallucinations may occur. Longer, small texts may be incorrectly rendered. There may be problems with content authenticity if we want to display more than 10-20 small icons in an image. We can see examples of this in the official article.

Summary

Based on the sample images on the official website, I can say that the gpt-4o image generator can be a very useful tool for creating illustrations, infographics, UI elements and icons.

Of course, we have to be careful if we want to use the images for commercial purposes. If we have the image made in the style of a specific artist, it can lead to legal problems. This applies to any AI image generator.

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Capricorn is the last earth sign of the zodiac.

Period: 22 Dec – 19 Jan

Motto: “I create order and structure in the right time with responsibility!“

Characteristics of the Capricorn sign

Representatives of this zodiac sign are taking life seriously. They have strong self-discipline and they are making a strong progress towards their goals. This zodiac sign is practical. The predictability is very important for a Capricorn. They love to plan things which gives stability to them. Financial security is another high priority area for them. Capricorn thinks always twice what the want to purchase. Female and Male Capricorns are both full with ambition and working hard both in their job and in private life. They are reliable, accurate, trustworthy. They rarely ask for help, preferring to solve tasks independently. Sometimes they are more productive alone then in a team.

Development opportunities

If you are a Capricorn, then you should try to be more empathetic with others. Try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, even if it’s the hardest thing in the world for you.

Capricorn Celebrities

Eddie Redmayne, Diane Keaton, Kate Moss, Mel Gibson, Orlando Bloom

Prompt

The first prompt is very simple, but gave me (almost) the desired result. I removed the unwanted constellations in the background.

create a highly detailed, cinematic digital concept art of a woman who is a representative of the Capricorn zodiac sign

I cropped the image and removed some unwanted elements in the top left corner.

Prompt #2

Create a 2:3 aspect ratio image: highly detailed, cinematic digital concept art of a man who is a representative of the Capricorn zodiac sign. There should be no constellations in the sky, just a simple starry night sky and rocky mountains in the background.

DALL-E don’t respected my directions about aspect ratio, but the image is quite strong and cinematic.

I hope you enjoyed the AI art gallery of the month: Capricorn. See you soon in the next one!

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This year was full with innovative AI solutions. Some AI tools got interesting new features and some new tools are arrived.

Download the gift

You can download the wallpapers for your computer, smartphone or tablet. Just browse through the images below and click under the thumbnail on which size/format you want to use them.

All of this images was generated with Playground AI. I used pro templates to create the wallpapers. This is a different approach on that site. The creators of Playground AI decided to shut down the traditional AI art generation method and use design templates instead.

Feel free to download the wallpapers and share them with your friends, colleagues, etc.

You have the right to:

• use the images as wallpaper,
• print them
• modify and share them, if you indicate that you downloaded the images from aiartblog.com.

Seamless patterns

The first two images are simple seamless, tilable patterns which you can use for wrapping gifts (if you print them) or for tilable wallpaper on your screen.

Right click on the images and save as.

Full HD Wallpapers

There are some Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixel) wallpapers:

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Ultra HD Wallpapers

This image is in the standard UHD format, quite big image:

Download the Ultra HD Image

Mobile phone wallpapers

Use them as smartphone background:

Hope you like these images! Enjoy the holiday and these Christmas gift for free!

I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See you soon in the next year!

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It was also mentioned that due to the high energy consumption of gen AI, the AI ​​Art Gallery of the Week is expected to become the AI ​​Art Gallery of the Month. So from now on, instead of the weekly gallery, I will only create one or two thematic AI Art Galleries per month.

This time, get to know the characteristics of the Sagittarius zodiac sign!

Period: 22 Nov – 21 Dec

Motto: “Faith moves mountains! I am capable of achieving great things!”

What do we know about people with the Sagittarius sign?

Being a fire sign, they are eternally restless, tireless, curious, a true explorer.
They love to travel, they would love to travel the whole world.
He has great enthusiasm, a great sense of justice.

Sagittarius is important for his sincerity and straightforwardness.
Representatives of this zodiac sign are eternally cheerful, their optimism never leaves them.

He dreams big, furthermore he tends to soar too high, to “fly away like a balloon”. It is good if he has a practical (earth type) partner by his side, who brings him down to the ground of reality.
In the best case, he is a real social figure, a real “party face”, as he has good speaking skills.
In a relationship, he is a chivalrous, romantic, attractive man or a seductive woman.

Development opportunities

Sagittarius must make sure that he can “bring down” his good ideas and lofty ideals to the physical level. He should be able to put knowledge into practice. Don’t just dream big and have his feet not touching the ground.

Scorpio Celebrities

Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears

Prompt

A 3:2 digital 3D render, a true masterpiece with amazingly rich details, depicting a half-shirtless, muscular, athletic man in black pants in a side view, who holds his bow at about 45 degrees to the sky, ready to shoot. The bow and arrow, half aimed at the sky, symbolizes lofty ideas. In the background, ash and embers glow. The kind of fire that remains after a big campfire and can still catch fire. In the distance, dark mountains stand and the sky is a light gray shade. The lights are dramatic, sublime, epic. The character is heroic, full of optimism, enthusiasm and energy. The image has a warm, optimistic yet dramatic atmosphere.

I used DALL-E to generate this image and I made a little post production in Affinity Photo to extend the upper part of the image because the bow was cutted at the top.

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Period: 23 Oct – 21 Nov

Motto:
“I get to the bottom of things, even at the cost of my life!
What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger!”

How do we get to know Scorpio people?

Scorpios are energetic, passionate and brave. Based on these signs, they look like fire signs, but in fact their element is water.

They have a solid vision of the ideal world. They have a huge inner drive, they are passionate and determined towards the goals they set for themselves.

Their strong intuitive instincts make them very good at knowing people.

The representatives of this zodiac sign are sensitive and vulnerable inside, but they hide this well from outsiders.

They are often able to reach great emotional depths within themselves and characterized by extreme emotional states: love or hate, but no middle ground.

They remain stable even in difficult and dangerous life situations, they are real survivors.

If they get to know, experience and overcome their emotional extremes, they can greatly help others.

They are attracted to the deep connections of life, secrets and taboos.

Development opportunity for Scorpio Zodiac sign

In human relationships, Scorpio should practice being able to let others get closer to him or, if necessary, let them go.

Scorpio celebrities

Leonardo DiCaprio, Katy Perry, Ryan Gosling, Julia Roberts

Prompt

A beautiful gold-plated metal scorpion statue on the lakeside, finely crafted and engraved, with small ruby ​​red jewel inlays. Fine damages and scratches are visible on its metallic surface. This indicates that it has taken on difficult tasks and has been injured many times in its life due to external and internal battles. The scorpion statue is the precise goldsmith work of ancient Egyptian culture.

The statue is on the shore of the lake, in the upper right corner of the picture. The water of the lake is crystal clear, small stones and aquatic vegetation can be seen on the shore and in the water. Toward the lower right edge of the picture, the lake suddenly deepens and we cannot see the bottom, only the deep blue darkness. The scorpion seems to come alive and want to crawl into the water. There is some negative space on the edges of the image so that the scorpion does not completely touch the edge of the image.

I made this picture with DALL-E.

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During this period, besides Halloween, it is even more important to remember our loved ones who have left the physical plane. This is what the feast of All Saints is for. With these few pictures I would like to illustrate the important moments of this period. Let’s not forget to remember our departed loved ones and keep their memory in our hearts.

Prompt #1: Generate a 3:2 aspect ratio digital painting, early November, the sun is about to set, but the sun’s disk is partly visible due to the cloudy sky, the sky is glowing with soft bluish-purple lights. A middle-aged man puts flowers in the white plastic vase on his mother’s grave. The man is holding the hand of his five-year-old daughter, the wife stands on the other side of the grave. All of them are understatedly elegant, beautiful but colorless clothes. The whole picture exudes an atmosphere of intimacy, a respectful remembrance of their departed loved one. In addition to the grave, there are other beautiful and well-kept graves, on which are arranged plants, flowers, shining candlesticks and reddish-brown, yellow, rust-brown and greenish-yellow autumn leaves that have fallen from the trees. In the background there is a very light fog and huge sycamore and maple trees with their thick trunks and beautiful branch structure are a wonderful sight. In the distance are some tall, slender pines.

Prompt #2: 3:2 aspect ratio early evening (blue hour), close-up cinematic photo with narrow depth of field, bokeh effect in the background, burning candles on a marble tombstone, the candles are reflected on the smooth surface with the wax flowing down their sides, a halo shines around the candle flames , which fills the image with warmth.

Prompt #3: Dull color fresco with saints standing in 3 rows, 12-14 saints next to each other.
In the lower row, closest to us, there are female saints. The 3-4 women in black and white clothes are actually nuns.
In the middle row are holy men of middle age, mostly brown, with short, curly hair, some have long brown beards, some hold golden shepherd’s staffs, their legs are covered by the torsos and halos of the women in the lower row.
In the back row are gray haired bearded male saints, their legs covered by the torsos and halos of the men in the middle row.
Everyone is in dark gray or red or blue or dark green cloaks. Their legs and feet are not visible because they are completely covered by the long cloak. Some saints looking at the painter, but most look to the left. Around each head is a halo. Some saints are holding bible with gold ornament, while others are praying.

I hope that this is the beginning of a peaceful and calm period of the year for you, and that you will have the opportunity to turn to yourself, spend time with your loved ones and remember those who have passed away.

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