Images
“The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It’s usually a cycle, a coming and a returning”
–Joseph Campbell, Hero With a Thousand Faces
Image Generating Text
In order to create suitable images, you will need to provide specific details about your story: character and brief description, setting, mood, location, time period, surrounding culture, etc. You may also want to add specific symbols used in your story: animals, insects, paintings or other art forms, weapons, etc.
If you want the same character to appear in more than one image, the best way to do so is to create it with a quirky description plus an unusual name then re-use that name in future prompts.
Also be sure you know the “style” of the image you want to generate: anime, fantasy, photorealism, noir, gritty, ominous, serene etc.; you can also use a genre: horror, gothic, steampunk, cli-fi, etc.
Tools
- Find a name
- Use a simple AI tool: Use Bing.com–>Images–>Create
- Use a more complex AI Tool: LeonardoAI
- Pick the right Model
- Create 2 images at a time, until you select your “look”; the try 4
- Try Image to Image generation
Task
Create 5-9 images that you can use in your story to convey some critical aspect like: mood/setting, visuals for key characters, important scenes, turning points, or climax moments, etc.
Upload the images in a Gallery in WordPress–to do so click “Add Media” button, then “create Gallery”, then Upload your images, and make choices in the gallery setting.
Caption each image describing the key scene or moment of your story.