Using AI to create moodboards
Thursday 30 November 2023, 20:02 by Elja Trum | 4,557 views | 3 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help you take a lot of work off your hands. In Photoshop, you can now easily remove elements from your photo or add them, while Lightroom helps you quickly create masks.
You can also use AI very effectively to create a moodboard for a photoshoot. I make a moodboard for almost every shoot I do. It helps you make clear to yourself and, of course, your model what you have in mind.
Previously, I mainly did this by looking for photos that came close to what I had in mind. That is still a great way to do it, but sometimes it is difficult to find good images.
A fun solution is to have AI generators create a photo for you based on a few lines of text describing what you have in mind. I use ChatGPT for this. These days, you can also ask it for images.
About the author
Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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3 comments
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Donald Willemsen
wrote on Thursday 30 November 2023 at 23:01
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I don't think making photos based entirely on AI is great at all. you can often clearly see that it's not a photo, but an image generated by a computer. It all looks too much like images from a computer animation. We shouldn't want that in photography. However, there are also AI-based tools that are a useful aid in photography. For example, with the help of AI you can make masks just fine, remove noise, sharpen, remove small parts from the photo and have them replaced by pixels that are present in the photo. So use AI with common sense and discretion so that a photo remains a photo and doesn't become a computer-generated image.
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Donald Willemsen
wrote on Thursday 30 November 2023 at 23:11
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I would still like to comment on the last picture. The one of the girl doing the laundry in the little lake. Take a good look at the girl's hand. It only has 3 fingers and the tendons are unrealistic. The skin also lacks texture, just like the textile. At first glance it seems quite nice, but if you really look closely, a mass of errors come to light. So this is what a photo should not look like.
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Elja Trum
wrote on Thursday 30 November 2023 at 23:20
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That’s not what I’m getting at in this case either. My suggestion is that you can use these AI images as examples for creating your own photos.
Translated from Dutch.
So let’s say you have a number of ideas for a shoot; you enter those ideas into an AI in text form and get a number of example photos back as a result.
You can then use those photos to refine your ideas and as an example of what you want to create in your actual photo shoot.
So my suggestion is not to actually use or publish the images as photos, only to use them as examples for your own work.
I often spend quite a bit of time myself looking for suitable photos to go with my ideas, so that I have a useful mood board. AI enables you to even work out ideas that there are no examples of yet.
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