Hey ladies :-)

Since my last post showing off some of the AI art I've created of my characters, I've been... well, we need a better word than 'busy.' :-) Don't worry, I'm still writing too, faster than ever in fact (I have a full thirteen chapters in my backlog that I need to get to editing). But here are some of my favourite images I've created. Here's Laura, a bit older than she was in her story:

Here are two of my favourite images of Ian:

Two of Janet:

And two of Nikki:

And here of some of my favourite supporting characters. Two of Ophelia:

And two of fly girl Paige:

So you're probably asking yourself: why is she posting these images in pairs? And why the pessimistic post title? Well, the reason for that is also that little watermark you see at the bottom of all of these picture. FaceApp is- or rather, was- brilliant. It allowed me to customise images, make-up, hairstyles... And it allowed me to swap faces from other photos. All of the above photos originally had completely different faces in them- if you give an AI image generator the same prompt 100 times it'll give you 100 different faces, which is why FaceApp's face swap feature was so essential to my art- all of the pairs of photos are recognisably of the same character.

But then FaceApp removed face swap.

The reason given is 'our developers want to take the app in a different direction,' which I personally think is obvious bullshit, but what do I know? I'm just a consumer who knows what I like from my apps and have left them a 1* rating on the Play Store expressing my discontent for their 'direction.' In the meantime, I'm looking for alternative face swap programs that are as good as FaceApp (I've tried about eight so far, none come even close), and I have AI art lined up until August 2nd and a few more I've got saved up in the meantime, but after that my art output might get a bit spotty. If anyone can recommend any good face swap programs, though, I'm all ears.

Debs xxxx