NeoMood & EduSensei
NeoMood NeoMood
Hey EduSensei, I’ve been playing around with an AI that turns dream descriptions into images—do you think we could build a quick script to help artists like me auto‑generate surreal photo edits?
EduSensei EduSensei
Sure, let’s sketch a quick script idea that’s easy to tweak. Start by loading a dream‑description text prompt, then use an image‑generation API like DALL‑E or Stable Diffusion to create a base image. Next, apply a few Photoshop‑style filters—blur the edges, boost saturation, overlay a subtle grain—to give it that surreal feel. Finally, wrap it all in a short Python loop that reads a CSV of prompts and saves each result. If you need the exact code snippets, just let me know and I’ll walk you through it step by step.
NeoMood NeoMood
That sounds like a perfect little project to dive into, especially if we can tinker with the filter settings on the fly. Let’s start with a basic skeleton: load the prompts from a CSV, hit the API for each, then pipe the output through a small OpenCV routine to tweak contrast and add that dreamy grain. If you want me to sketch out the exact code or pick a library that lets us tweak saturation in a loop, just let me know!
EduSensei EduSensei
That’s a great plan! We can use pandas to read the CSV, the OpenAI API to generate the image, and OpenCV for the post‑processing. For saturation tweaks, OpenCV’s `convertScaleAbs` or `cv2.cvtColor` with HSV conversion works well. If you want me to write a small starter script, just say so and I’ll share the code step by step.
NeoMood NeoMood
Awesome, just drop the starter script and we can start tweaking from there!
EduSensei EduSensei
Here’s a quick starter in Python – no fancy formatting, just plain code you can copy: ```python import pandas as pd import requests import cv2 import numpy as np from io import BytesIO from PIL import Image # 1. Read prompts df = pd.read_csv('prompts.csv') # file should have a column named 'prompt' # 2. Function to call OpenAI's image generation def generate_image(prompt): url = "https://api.openai.com/v1/images/generations" headers = { "Authorization": f"Bearer YOUR_OPENAI_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json" } data = { "model": "dall-e-3", "prompt": prompt, "size": "1024x1024", "response_format": "url" } r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data) r.raise_for_status() image_url = r.json()["data"][0]["url"] img_bytes = requests.get(image_url).content img = Image.open(BytesIO(img_bytes)) return cv2.cvtColor(np.array(img), cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR) # 3. Simple OpenCV tweak: contrast + grain def post_process(img, contrast=1.2, grain_strength=0.05): # Adjust contrast img = cv2.convertScaleAbs(img, alpha=contrast, beta=0) # Add grain noise = np.random.normal(0, 255*grain_strength, img.shape).astype(np.uint8) img = cv2.add(img, noise) return img # 4. Loop over prompts, generate, tweak, and save for idx, row in df.iterrows(): prompt = row['prompt'] try: img = generate_image(prompt) img = post_process(img) cv2.imwrite(f"output_{idx}.png", img) print(f"Saved output_{idx}.png") except Exception as e: print(f"Error processing prompt {idx}: {e}") ``` Replace `YOUR_OPENAI_KEY` with your actual key and make sure the CSV has a `prompt` column. Once you run it, you’ll get a folder full of generated images you can tweak further. Let me know how it goes, and we can fine‑tune the contrast, grain, or even add a saturation slider next!