If you're not a programmer and not interested in learning programming then don't worry about it, but basically, take the content of any image and make it look like it's in the style of any other image.
So you can take a photo (like this guy did) and make it look like it's a surrealist painting, or any other style of painting, or a cartoon, or from a video game. Or take a cartoon or videogame screenshot and make them look like a photo or painting. Once you've got you're neural network up and running all you need to do is choose the image you want it to get the style from, the image you want it to get the content from, and maybe play around with some parameters to get a result you're happy with.
That's the theory anyway, results vary based on the two images, your processing power, and how suited to those images the neural net you've chosen to use is, but they can often look really good.
I started a thread - https://hexbear.net/post/159260
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I found an online site to play around on. I merged an eye and part of a koi. Playing around in raw code is no fun for me but I'm tempted now. Still - I have to ask - do you know of a simplistic "mashup" like Photoshop filter on steroids that would - for example - let me "blend" the pattern of the koi into the eye?
My end goal is to just fool around with a source photo into the I'll call it a source "pattern/color". I'm not trying to get Van Gogh to come out.
What could I possibly do? I'm not a programmer and it seems like a total nightmare.
If you're not a programmer and not interested in learning programming then don't worry about it, but basically, take the content of any image and make it look like it's in the style of any other image.
So you can take a photo (like this guy did) and make it look like it's a surrealist painting, or any other style of painting, or a cartoon, or from a video game. Or take a cartoon or videogame screenshot and make them look like a photo or painting. Once you've got you're neural network up and running all you need to do is choose the image you want it to get the style from, the image you want it to get the content from, and maybe play around with some parameters to get a result you're happy with.
That's the theory anyway, results vary based on the two images, your processing power, and how suited to those images the neural net you've chosen to use is, but they can often look really good.
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I started a thread - https://hexbear.net/post/159260
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I found an online site to play around on. I merged an eye and part of a koi. Playing around in raw code is no fun for me but I'm tempted now. Still - I have to ask - do you know of a simplistic "mashup" like Photoshop filter on steroids that would - for example - let me "blend" the pattern of the koi into the eye?
My end goal is to just fool around with a source photo into the I'll call it a source "pattern/color". I'm not trying to get Van Gogh to come out.