Something old is new again - Revisiting prompts
By Sealine
I constantly find myself revisiting old prompts. Sometimes it's to run something I was never happy with in a new model. Sometimes it's to see how a new model compares. Other times it's to take a piece of something I created and use it in a new way. This prompt is from almost a year ago. I was inspired by a bridal bouquet I saw using vintage book pages to create roses and the idea for this Steampunk bridal still life was born. Prompt: Sepia tone still life of steampunk bridal bouquet and top hat sitting on table. Metallic bronzes, golds, muted coppers, and earthy browns. On the left is a rose bridal bouquet. Rose petals are made of aged, burned edge book pages in full bloom. Scattered throughout the bouquet are metallic gears in various sizes and metals. On the right is a rich, textured top hat made from distressed brown leather. Round, aviator-style goggles are sitting on the brim. Metallic plates are riveted to the hat and there are few various size gears. Background is shelves with steampunk decorations and a few antique books. Models at the time struggled to fully realize the idea for the roses, but it was the best I could get at the time. This bouquet made another appearance a few months later. I believe the challenge had to do with steampunk animals. I decided to change the top hat to a falcon. I didn't love the results. Honestly, not sure what I was thinking with this combination other than this was the only steampunk image I had. Around the same time as the original bouquet, I decided to experiment with a steampunk style dress. I was still mainly created still life images. Prompt: Still life vintage photograph. Highly detailed, ornate brown, gold, cream and copper formal steampunk dress presented on a dress form. Bodice is a structured fitted top with lacing down the front and puffed long sleeves that transitions into a fitted forearm section. Skirt is voluminous and multi layered, with an asymmetrical hemline. Draped, ruched, and ruffled fabrics and lace creating a tiered effect. Victorian era detailing and gear accents throughout. Background in soft focus is steampunk seamstress shop. After my move to BudgetPixel, the idea for a jilted steampunk bride at a train station had me pulling details from the dress and bouquet prompts but setting the bride on a pile of vintage suitcases in a train station looking mournful. This prompt was massive taking the bulk of the previous prompts and adding more. I didn't know at the time that this was too much information. And due to length, only sharing results but no prompt here from a few different models. Since then, the dress and/or bouquet have made a few appearances. Today, I decided to rerun my original prompt using GPT 2.0 hoping to see the detailed burnt edge book page roses. As expected, GPT is fully capable of creating the details I had originally requested. I also decided to take my favorite image from the past and enhance it with GPT 2. Left in the enhancement and right is the original. I decided to rerun my jilted bride in GPT 2. The left is the original prompt, the right the addition of some pops of teal for contrast. Last, and the whole reason I revisited this prompt today, was to create a steampunk image for X. I hate just reusing images I already have so I revisited the old to make something new. Here is the image I'm sharing on X today. Thank you for taking time to read my blog. If you enjoyed this, please clap and comment below! Also, if you have an X account, please visit and like my post there! https://x.com/Sealine752/status/2075217508374593744?s=20