Use Machine Learning for Making Birthday Cards!

AI Prompt: “a woman in an Indian sari with a birthday cake in the night sky with a full moon”

They say that a handmade card is always much better than the ones from Hallmark, but I often found that the beautiful, intricate, and most importantly, customized cards I wanted to make were a bit too difficult for my un-artistic hands :D.

So came my savior – stable diffusion (and other text-to-image models)!

Stable diffusion is a kind of text-to-image model, where given a prompt, it will create an image (from scratch) based on it. The model works by taking an array of randomized pixels (analogous to a blank canvas) and then over multiple passes, makes adjustments to “paint” the picture. (Expect an ML Club video on this!)

Pro tip: some interfaces allow you to also give a negative prompt along with the original prompt. Like the name suggests, the negative prompt tells the model what not to do. If the result the model gives you something you do not like, consider putting it in the negative prompt and running the model again. (generating nice images takes many tries – I have had to try as much as 19 times!)

There are also models like DALL-E by OpenAI and Dreamstudio service (created by the makers of Stable Diffusion).

AI Prompt: “An air traffic control tower with balloons and confetti in the sky.”

I asked Dreamstudio to make this image for my grandpa, who is an retired air traffic controller who served in the Indian Air Force, to add to his birthday card.

I also asked Dreamstudio to make this image for my friend, who (like me) is a huge Minecraft fan, for his birthday card!

Feel free to take this as inspiration for your card-making endeavors!