Picture generated by inpainting and outpainting a photograph shot by the author. Image editing in this and other shots of the articles were done with Dall E 2, whose generations are usable for all legal purposes including commercial use as detailed at https://labs.openai.com/policies/terms as of September 4th 2022.

The pond in the tomato jungle -except it’s not all real!

Learn about “inpainting” and “outpainting” your own real shots with this great artificial intelligence tool.

What you see in the lead photo is the result of the joint effort of an AI and a human -AI standing for artificial intelligence and the human being me in this case.

The lead photo is a scene of a pond in a tomato jungle, as imagined by me and this AI together. Or rather, as conceived by the AI program by extending a photograph that I shot and fed it together with some prompts I designed and refined.

It all started with this picture:

Another picture generated by using Dall-E-2 starting from a shot by the author.

whose only real part is its upper right corner minus some of the tomatoes:

Photograph by the author.

BTW, the starting photograph is from this story.