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    • Bonus Q&A Webinars -- Live Support Calls
    • Got questions? How to get support for your Ai art process...
      2:09
      0 How to get support for your Ai art process?
    • Ai Orientation (from Part 1 of the course)
    • Let's learn together ๐Ÿ˜Š
      4:49
      1 Warm welcome to Ai Art Course
    • Situations where you might use your Ai art...
      2:13
      2 Where can we use Ai images?
    • Ideas for things to generate as Ai art...
      4:34
      3 Start describing a visual you'd like to generate
    • Play with Adobe Firefly
      5:01
      4 Adobe Firefly intro
    • Describing humans for Ai images
      2:47
      5 How to describe humans for Ai art
    • Let's look at (and learn from) Firefly's settings...
      8:19
      6 Adobe Firefly Settings
    • How do you come up with image ideas? (before Ai)
      2:35
      7 How do you come up with imagery ideas?
    • Let's play with Stable Diffusion...
      5:01
      8 Stable Diffusion intro
    • Let's start playing with Midjourney...
      7:43
      9 Midjourney intro
    • A couple of Discord tips...
      3:17
      0 discord hide user profile
    • The 5 overall stages of creating with Ai Art
      4:36
      1 overall stages
    • The Vision stage
      4:06
      2 vision stage
    • Subject
      1:51
      3 subject
    • Subject's posture or interaction
      1:10
      4 subject posture
    • Composition
      1:32
      5 composition
    • Medium
      1:13
      6 medium
    • Environment
      1:35
      7 environment
    • Style (advanced)
      1:34
      8 styles
    • Lighting (advanced)
      0:37
      9 lighting
    • Color palette (advanced)
      0:32
      10 color palette
    • Mood
      0:54
      11 mood
    • Camera (advanced)
      1:28
      12 cameras
    • Let's piece it all together into a super image prompt!
      3:02
      13 super prompt
    • Using ChatGPT to help us with imagery ideas (part 1)
      4:02
      14 chatGPT for imagery help
    • Get image prompt ideas from others' successful creations
      7:01
      15 learn from other creators
    • Any other elements you like to include?
      0:44
      16 what other elements?
    • Midjourney: Describe & Shorten
      9:13
      16a Midjourney Describe
    • Midjourney: basic buttons & settings
      3:10
      17 Midjourney basic buttons
    • Midjourney: downloading images
      1:31
      18 Midjourney downloading
    • Midjourney: create your own "server" to organize your images
      3:16
      19 Midjourney server channels
    • Best tips for using Midjourney
      2:02
      20 Midjourney tips
    • Colorize a sketch (or turn photo into sketch!) with Picsart
      4:47
      1 colorize a bw pencil sketch
    • Turn your photo into a professional portrait/headshot!
      5:57
      3 professional headshots
    • Other Ai Image/Graphics Tools?
      0:50
      4 other Ai graphics tools?
    • Create icons and logos
      4:58
      5 logos and icons
    • Remove text from an image
      2:31
      6 remove text
    • Online groups for learning Ai art tools
      1:53
      7 free groups Ai art
    • The Serendipity stage
      7:02
      8 serendipity stage
    • Remixing with Firefly
      4:22
      9 remixing firefly
    • Remixing with Stable Diffusion
      3:28
      10 remixing clipdrop
    • Midjourney Parameters intro
      1:46
      11 MJ parameter intro
    • MJ: aspect ratio
      2:32
      12 MJ ar
    • MJ: style raw
      4:32
      13 MJ raw
    • MJ negative prompting -- if you want to remove an object or idea...
      10:42
      14 MJ negative
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    Module 4
    • A new way of looking at the world around you ๐ŸŒ…
      4:37
      1 describe real life
    • Firefly generative fill
      8:19
      2 adobe generative fill
    • Clipdrop Uncrop
      3:19
      3 clipdrop uncrop
    • Canva Magic Edit
      4:50
      4 canva magic edit
    • Canva Magic Eraser
      4:22
      5 canva magic eraser
    • Canva Background Remover
      2:47
      6 canva background remover
    • Zoom backgrounds!
      3:10
      7 zoom backgrounds
    • Image upscaler
      2:26
      8 clipdrop image upscale
    • Crop then Uncrop
      3:24
      9 crop uncrop
    • MJ if your prompt gets rejected...
      1:47
      10 midjourney moderation
    • MJ: work again with an old image (and "job ID")
      8:51
      11 midjourney find old images again
    • "Remix mode" in Midjourney
      2:14
      13 remix mode
    • MJ: faithful remixes with image-upload and iw (image weight) parameter
      13:30
      14 remix existing image iw
    • MJ: zoom & pan
      9:46
      16 MJ zoom & pan
    • Midjourney other key commands
    • Midjourney server benefits
    • Ai image / photo mobile apps
      3:19
      1 mobile apps
    • Ai for Website Design?
      10:50
      3 Ai for web design?
    • Case Study: Jeremy Blanchard "Chaos to Clarity" Website Imagery
      9:37
      4 Jeremy Blanchard
    • Creating vector images
      2:48
      5 Vector images
    • โญ๏ธ Hat Manual for using Ai for image generation
      6:24
      6 HAT
    • MJ /blend two or more images!
      4:39
      7 MJ blend
    • MJ --stylize parameter
      2:16
      8 MJ stylize
    • MJ --chaos
      2:39
      9 MJ chaos
    • MJ advanced: /prefer suffix
      4:03
      10 MJ prefer suffix
    • Ai for Social Media Images
      3:49
      Ai for social media
    • Blog post / newsletter images
      1:23
      Ai art for blog posts & newsletters
    • Video thumbnails
      7:00
      Ai video thumbnails
    • Event announcement images
      1:07
      Ai art for Event Announcements
    • Logos and icons
      1:49
      Ai for logos & icons
    • Offer (service, product) cover images
      3:53
      Ai art for product images
    • Blend an image more into the background in Canva..
      1:19
      Blend an image more into the background in Canva
    • Book covers
      3:08
      Ai art for book covers
    • Greeting cards
      0:58
      greeting cards
    • Other ways to use Ai art
      0:44
      How else are you using Ai art?

Zoom backgrounds!

1 of the many uses for AI art is making Zoom backgrounds just like I've done here. And I, you know, I placed my my old credit, the journey image by GeorgeKao Cowell there. So I wanna give you my template and my template I'm gonna keep adding as I create more zoom backgrounds. I'm just gonna keep adding to my templates. So you can you can actually click on the link below and that will bring you to a stent a Canvas template and you click on use Simplero, it will hereby create for you, duplicate what I have at this time.
Right now, I've only made a few. But in the future, if you watched this several months later, and click on that button again, it'll create a lot more because I I will keep adding to this. And what you can do once you get here is you can click on an Simplero. Right? You can click on it.
You could basically click on an image. You can click delete, press the delete on your keyboard. So it clears it, and you can upload your own AI generated backgrounds. So I don't know. I'm just gonna randomly choose 1.
Yeah. Well, I don't know whatever. Click click on choose random choose this 1. And then you click and drag the corners. Remember, if you use whatever AI tool you use, you might want to change the aspect ratio to 16 by 09:16 colon 9.
And then there it is, and then you can change you can click on the credit thing here, you can even click and drag, move it around if it's a little clearer to read here, and then change my name to your name. Right? Change, you know, change change my name to your name. Jane Doe. Okay.
And or if you want to give me credit, you could just use my images and it'll have my name on it. Right? When you when you're done with it, click on share on the top right and then click download, and something I just realized today, I can't believe it took me years of using camera to realize this. I can I should it's a good idea to change it to at least double the size or even triple the size for it to show up more clear on on the zoom background? I've noticed that if I if I go with the original setting, which is size 1.
Right? Size 1. The the words are kind of fuzzy, and the image itself is a little bit fuzzy. So consider making a larger size and then and then and then and then downloading it. And then you could select which pages you wanna download or download all 5 pages, you know.
Deselect everything and then just download specific pages if you want to. And then click download and then you could go to Zoom and select next to you know, when you're in Zoom, notice that there is a stop video thing. Start a meeting with yourself. Right? Go to this next to the stop video button, there is a little drop menu, click on menu, and then you can choose virtual background and then click on the plus button to load the images from your computer.
So have fun with your Zoom backgrounds. I look forward to seeing it whenever we meet. And if you create particular ones that you just actually love, you can go and share them with us, attach them as in your comments below. Thanks.

You're welcome to use my Canva template of Ai-generated Zoom backgrounds!ย 

George Kao Zoom Backgrounds

You can delete the image and upload your own, then change my name to yours on the bottom left.

Or feel free to download mine and use as is, if you don't mind my name being on there :)

Last updated 12 Jul 2023.