In week 2 of Media 4 Augmenting Creativity, we played around with Leonardo AI and were set different prompts to make up with different settings involved. I found this exercise to be really fun and different than what we had been doing previously. It was my first time on Leonardo Ai and definitely will not be my last. I learnt that this tool is able to do so much with the different settings and how many photos you can get out of each prompt.

The subjects that’s seem to generate clearly was the self-portrait. I was easily able to explain what I looked like without having to generate any images. It did take a few different tries and tweaking, but I started off generally explaining what I looked like and what I was wearing on this day. This took me to a very older version of the person I was describing where I had to then make myself eighteen rather than twenty-one which seemed to have worked better.

The prompts that were able to work best were the prompts that required to be more creative. This included making a Media 4 poster that looked more futuristic without me having to put the words ‘futuristic’ in the prompt. This probably comes from the word ‘media’ Ai has sensed that it’s a futuristic term.It’s quite fascinating how whenit comes to the different prompt categories Leonardo ai was able to do a better job at adding in people with different ethnicities and gender. Ai is being able to be unbiased when I wrote the prompt of a media 4 poster. I didn’t have to type into the prompt to add different people of different races and gender. Leonardo ai was able to make a poster without a human having to directly say that only one type of person can do a media 4 course.

The moments of frustration with Leonardo ai were when I wasn’t able to get the settings right and had to ask for help but once I found out what frame and preset, I needed to use things went pretty well. I also enjoyed having a go with the different types of vibes I could

go for, being an abstract or a HD image I was happy to see that I could still write in the same prompt and get a different image considering on this one feature. One of my biggest challenges was the square for social media. I feel like this wasn’t one of my favourites and I played with it quite some bit. Regarding its abstract style I used this because all of the others didn’t seem appropriate to use due to it not looking like it would fit on an Instagram feed per say.

Overall,  I had a lot of fun trying to figure out Leonardo Ai, it was definitely a good classroom experience because we were all sharing and talking about the different types of people we looked like in prompt 1 and how they looked so different to us and we could definitely laugh about it.