The City of Old Utopia

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Y'all wouldn't believe the amount of work that went into thos piece. First, the castles that make up the city had to be designed. There are six in total and each one was created by selecting a normal, medieval castle image and running it through the text-to-image generator with the prompt 'Baroque gold castle with lots of decoration' to turn it into one of the fantastical structures on display here. Once they were ready, the casltes couldn't just be combined into a single image right off the bat. Since the ones further back needed to look smaller and more shadowed, three distinct layers had to be created, all of them ultimately mapping onto the nebula background that I created earlier. SInce the finished image was a long way from perfect, I then ran it through the text-to-image converter to get the A.I. to come up with its own interpretation. I then used that interpretation as a style filter for my own image to create the finished product, thereby cleaning up some of the artifacting and other issues with the raws image.