Intermediate AI for Photographers
Online Class with Charles Sainty
LIMITED TO 10 STUDENTS
ABOUT THE CLASS
Are you ready to dive deeper into the exciting world of AI-generated images? This course is perfect for those who have created basic images with AI and want to explore the next level of this powerful, new medium. Over five weekly sessions, students will learn how to use Stable Diffusion at the intermediate level, far beyond basic prompting and inpainting. In addition to exploring how to use initial images to inform the basic color and composition of your result, we will go over extensions that allow full control over the poses of figures, architectural elements, and more. Students will be introduced to engines and interfaces such as InvokeAI and Automatic1111, which provide access to Stable Diffusion’s more advanced capabilities. The course provides an overview of these features, as well as demonstrations and one-to-one instruction time with Charles.
Who Should Take this WORKSHOP
This course is for those who have explored image synthesis services like Dall-E, Firefly, Midjourney, or DreamStudio and want to learn how to gain more control over their results. In addition to improving their prompting and editing skills, students at this level will be introduced to Stable Diffusion's ControlNet extension and its many powerful applications.
Charles Sainty (b. 1985 New York) is an artist working with digital media, from photography to game engines and AI. His work uses information processing systems to explore themes including ecology, social competition, and the effects of time. An inaugural member of the New Museum’s groundbreaking art and technology incubator NEW INC, he has exhibited in the United States and China, and his work has appeared in publications such as Vice’s The Creator’s Project, Hyperallergic, Der Greif, Art F City and more. His awards and include the Curatorial Team Prize for Fantastic Art China in 2015, and a U.S. patent for a VR control system. He earned his M.F.A. from New York’s School of Visual Arts’ Photography, Video, and Related Media department in 2014, and an M.A. in art history with a focus on critical theory from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 2021.