ICYMI: Chevy feeds its original photos into an AI to create an NFT series (and documents it all here). Follow on IG And Twitter for first glances.
Gather fellow degenerates, for I have a story to tell you…
I used to buy a used Nintendo 64 from a friend of mine for $10 (big score!).
I thought because I had such a bargain on the console – I could go a little crazy buying second-hand games.
I found a bundle on eBay containing Golden Eye, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros. and Conker’s Bad Fur Day – what a lineup!
Unfortunately, when they arrived, none worked.
But here’s the thing: it was not me scammed – I was stupid.
In my rush to make another deal, I failed to see that Nintendo made different cartridges for different regions, and that those new game cartridges didn’t match the region setting on my Nintendo 64.
I could see the games. I could hold them. I could blow the dust out. But I couldn’t get them to work.
I tell you this story to highlight a similar frustration I have with myself today.
See, my rush to start shooting with Midjourney led me to make a false assumption.
I had images generated at 1024 x 1024 pixels – thinking there was a button I could click to have Midjourney magically upscale each photo to 4k.
(Because why couldn’t it? It creates an entirely new image – scaling up should be a breeze… right?).
No.
Turns out 1024 x 1024 is the maximum resolution Midjourney will push to.
And while that’s fine for web use, I wanted to make sure anyone who owned one of these NFTs had an image they could enlarge and print.
…and 1024 x 1024 just isn’t enough for that.
So I had two options:
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Suck it up and release the series in low resolution.
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Cross my fingers, toes, legs and arms – and hope there was some magical upscaling software.
I rolled the dice on option two.
Turns out: Getting your extremities tangled actually gets results! I found a piece of software that did exactly what I wanted.
It is called Gigapixel AI, and you can drag/drop/scale each image as you like. I had to pay $99 for it, but that was a one-time fee (which in the world of recurring subscriptions is a breath of fresh air).
These are the settings I used along with the results…
Photo and settings: