Personally I kinda disagree. I try all viable models all the time for prompts I like, and choose the model with the best outputs to test prompt derivations. It's not one or the other but always the best and most apt for the task. Some are good for backgrounds, some for anime characters, some for photorealistic characters, some for sci-fi, some for fantasy, etc.
Most of the time, though!
Sometimes I'd just like to go to midjourney because I want a fast image and don't care if it's got that perfect anime style or that perfect dark 60s photography feel. Which reminds me I wanna pay for midjourney but it's so expensive. Sadsad.
I need to pay for it too.
Accepting hive already? 😆
Good, understand, but i have some difficult choosing among too many options... But for different works is needed
I would but I don't do anything that justifies the expense :( I'm not a professional artist, and the cost of MJ is very high compared to my art income. I have never made more than what it costs in returns for art. Maybe if I get a good job later this year :)
Kinda! I have been on hive since 2017 and I have never browsed it much daily for content. I'm always going for places like Reddit where things are neatly filtered and rated by category & quality, and I follow some categories.
When the communities hit in, I had already gotten burned out of Hive, and I'm only now trying to come back, so it will take some time & effort to take in all the new things and learn to enjoy this way of browsing.
I hope I accept it and flourish into it soon :)
Maybe it's because I'm very patient (some people suffer looking at me willingly fail over and over hahah, or failing with me). I'm okay with losing a few hours in the process without anything good, just to know what doesn't work. I enjoy the process of seeing and filtering out all the failure to take out the few successes and roll with them to victory.
With SD, I pick around 7 models, I put my prompts there, I hit play on all of it, and it can take 30-50 minutes to finish, so I go and brush my teeth, wash the dishes, clean my room, then I come back and see which ones are viable. If nothing is, I try again with more prompts. Sometimes I watch Netflix while I wait, and 99% of the results get discarded. Some days I don't share any of the results I spent hours creating.
It sounds absolutely bonkers even to myself which is why I have stopped doing it as much as I would before (I spent months working more than 10 hours a day on this lol). Nowadays I feel like doing some cool creative posting so I'm doing a temporary exception, but in the long term I might either learn some time-saving tricks or go with Midjourney because spending 4 hours a day to get $5-7 if lucky per post is not a viable business idea :)
Understand you.
I used to purchase stock images for my jobs. Now, i still purchase, but sometimes i want a specific image that is hard to find. So, MJ help getting the idea out of my head. Otherwise i have to select similar ideas from stock images.