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The photo shows what happened when I asked an AI image generator to give me a mohican. Not sure what part of Mohica she's from, but I guess I ain't complaining.

It has to be said, AI imagery is getting terribly fun. A while back I tried a month on Adobe, and had a jolly wheeze giving myself the kind of photo-makeover that could get me arrested. Some of the results can be seen here.

After the Adobe freebie ran out, I was in a quandary - do I give them what they expect, and sign up for their Creative Cloud, which is expensive at half the price, or do the only right-and-proper thing, and check out open source alternatives.

I've been using GIMP for years, it's very good, though PhotoShop definitely has the edge in terms of slickness-of-use. Also so far I haven't successfully linked AI inpainting, something that GIMP's Adobe pro brother excels at.

I look forward to blogging much more about AI creativity in later posts 😊