@bob-jackman Oh yes, I was just in a hurry.... to duplicate YOUR car 100% exactly I would need to upload a photo.
if I take my time (68 seconds of work ) better results can be achieved. For example, here's Tony's 2025 Cadillac XT5 in argent silver expressed as a 1/43 model. 😎 😎
I am but a simple peasant and live in the Dark Ages, with a deep mistrust of many aspects of invasive AI or letting it anywhere near my PC (I even added an app to my browser to stop Google forcing its "AI overview" onto the top of its search results). So Gemini has entirely passed me by.
But obviously we have some very tech-savvy oldies amongst us. So would somebody like to point me in the direction of a basic explanation of how the above images were done (for example, specifying non-standard changes to bodywork, trim, colour, combining features from different model years, the kind of plinth to be used, and so on). Is it really that quick and easy? How much control do you have over how the final image is composed? Why does it sometimes change or "disguise" nameplates and sometimes not? Etc. etc.
Maybe someone could post a link giving an introduction or showing a demo?
BTW I have enjoyed posting my own Photoshop alterations to "What if?" pics from time to time, but I guess it's not worth bothering any more if Gemini can do it better in a matter of seconds. Ah well, like they say, we humans may just have to accept we are about to be overtaken . . .
"But obviously we have some very tech-savvy oldies amongst us. So would somebody like to point me in the direction of a basic explanation of how the above images were done...."
Yeah, we're messing everyone Graeme.
Both John & I are M.I.T. graduates with 56 years combined software/programming experience. Even a "crash course" to explain what we're doing would take at least 3 weeks.
JUST KIDDING! 😀 😀 😀
I'm a 60 yr-old dumbass that "mastered" the VERY basics of GEMINI in about 4 minutes, maybe 5.
Here's what you do:
1) Sign into GOOGLE.
2) Search "Google Gemini."
3) Click on the site.
4) A greeting ("Hi Graeme" or your account name ) and a rectangular space, "Ask Gemini" will appear.
5) In that space, ask Gemini to create something.
6) FOR EXAMPLE: "Please create a blue 1/43 scale model of a 2025 Ford Mustang GT convertible with RHD, and a black interior sitting on a silver plastic base with a box showing that car and the owner's name "Graeme Ogg."
7) Then hit enter, or the or the black horizontal "V."
Gee whiz. As the drunk said when he walked into a pole "I can't quite get my head round this".
But I would still be interested to read how far you can go with more detailed instructions like "Use my photo of this car rather than your own" or "make the model look lower or wider than the 1:1" or whatever. Maybe some more pics of ideas anyone has tried along these lines (anything you can come up with without wasting more than, oh, 40 seconds or so.)
Maybe it could even be posted in Nerds' Corner (the Handicrafts forum)
Many thanks.
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This is addictive and fun. Here is my 1966 Malibu SS Convertible that I owned way back then. One could play with this for days. Thank you John and Chris.
@randyrusk HA! John insisted. He proposed (demanded ) a special Goldvarg limited edition 1 of 1, "John Kuvakas - intoxicated weekend." Here's the final revision; he should be quite pleased. 😀 😀 Well, I hope he is - you know what a hothead he can be. 🙄 😮
@graeme-ogg Wow that's me in the background carrying my big stick. I wouldn't know how to do that if it weren't for my 60 IQ. Seriously, after you get the details you like, where do you go from there?
