Using ai for player photos

[Buster Narum]

I made some templates and did these recently...

[Buster Narum]

Lewis played 40 games for the Cardinals in 1964.

[Buster Narum]

Cleon played 12 games with Chicago in 1976 to finish his career.

[sdw1000]

Originally Posted by Buster Narum

What imaging engine did you use?

ChatGPT

[BaseballMan]

Originally Posted by Buster Narum

I made some templates and did these recently...

These are fantastic. Are you doing them in the style of the baseball card for that year?
If so can you try 1987 Topps or 1991 Upper Deck?

[BaseballMan]

Made some owners for 1871. Used real photos were i could find them and had chatgpt use its imagination for the others. Its hard to pin point an owner for a team in the early days. I tried to just get a name that be the closest to an owner.
Oh and i tried to age them to what their age would be in 1871.
If i didn't know birth date i just used age 50.
For players i use age 25.
George Gage
George Mayer
Hiram Waldo
Ivers Whitney Adams
John Ford Evans

[BaseballMan]

John Morrissey
Nick Young
Thomas A. Scott
William Cammeyer

[Buster Narum]

Originally Posted by BaseballMan

These are fantastic. Are you doing them in the style of the baseball card for that year?
If so can you try 1987 Topps or 1991 Upper Deck?

I've been using a modified 1965 card format regardless of the player and season. Most of my stuff is from 1964-1981. I changed a few of the colors and I do them at 2:3 ratio instead of 5:7.


I'm too old to do 1987 or 1991, sorry!


Templates can be a lot of work to get right.


Give it a try yourself!

[jotis1760]

VERY nicely done. Do you do requests for other players ?

[Buster Narum]

Originally Posted by jotis1760

VERY nicely done. Do you do requests for other players ?

I'm not sure which of us you were addressing...


If it was me, I'll do them from the 60s, 70s & 80s.


- Cheers

[Buster Narum]

Barker played in 11 games for the 1965 Indians before his trade to the Yankees.

[BaseballMan]

Originally Posted by Buster Narum

I'm not sure which of us you were addressing...


If it was me, I'll do them from the 60s, 70s & 80s.


- Cheers

Pretty sure it was you since it was players and i posted some owners.
Have you tried using the ai images for cards in the game?

[Buster Narum]

Originally Posted by BaseballMan

Pretty sure it was you since it was players and i posted some owners.
Have you tried using the ai images for cards in the game?

I'm actually a Strat-o-Matic player - although I mostly make photos and graphics instead of playing


For this project, I changed the photo/card size to a 2:3 ratio instead of the Topps 5:7 ratio, since that's what the SOM game uses. I made these at 350x525, which is bigger than any photo sets I've done before.

[BestbatBoy]

Hey fellas, got a quick question for ya? I've thought about using ai for a mod I'm working on instead of 700 million facegens I'd need lol ... What are your recommendations for best AI app to use? Any advice on what kinds of prompts to give? This would be modern day players. I'd use regular pics but I like uniforms changing to match transactions drafts etc

[Buster Narum]

Originally Posted by BestbatBoy

Hey fellas, got a quick question for ya? I've thought about using ai for a mod I'm working on instead of 700 million facegens I'd need lol ... What are your recommendations for best AI app to use? Any advice on what kinds of prompts to give? This would be modern day players. I'd use regular pics but I like uniforms changing to match transactions drafts etc

I used ChatGPT to build up a library of hats, jerseys and uniforms taken mostly off eBay to use as templates. Then I use Seedream 4.5 for photos and lighting and Nano Banana 2 for corrections and modifications.

[Buster Narum]

Just 1 game and 1/3 of an IP, but here he is:

[BaseballMan]

Originally Posted by BestbatBoy

Hey fellas, got a quick question for ya? I've thought about using ai for a mod I'm working on instead of 700 million facegens I'd need lol ... What are your recommendations for best AI app to use? Any advice on what kinds of prompts to give? This would be modern day players. I'd use regular pics but I like uniforms changing to match transactions drafts etc

I would just test them out and find what you like.
You may like more than one.

One thing i would advise is organizing your project.
In my project i am putting every player in uniform of the team he played for and at the age he was that year.

So i used chatgpt to create prompts for every player on the roster.
I then organized real players of players to every team they played for.
Trust me it is a whole lot easier to create ai images from players on a single team than doing a single player at a time.
If you choose chatgpt i would advise opening multiple tabs for chatgpt and that way you can do several players at at once.
Otherwise i think chatgpt would just do 1 player at a time or make a group photo.

[jotis1760]

Originally Posted by Buster Narum

I'm not sure which of us you were addressing...


If it was me, I'll do them from the 60s, 70s & 80s.


- Cheers

I think I meant Buster. I found a number of players but thought it would be best to initially ask for a few and be satisfied with however many you'd like to spin your artistry on. The toughest would be (1) Don Reid Williams (1963 Twins pitcher). The only posts I've seen of him on this site are scratchy black and whites. The other desires are: Trench Davis (1987 Braves outfielder), Steve Demeter (1960 Indians 3B), Steve Gajkowski (1998 Mariners pitcher), Granny Hamner (1962 KC A's pitcher), Danny Kravitz (1960 KC A's catcher), Moe Thacker (1963 Cardinals catcher), Johnny Blanchard (1965 Braves or KC A's catcher), John Romano (1967 Cardinals catcher), Ted Lepcio (1961 Twins or Chisox infielder), and Don Blasingame (1966 KC A's 2B). I graciously thank you in advance for anything you do.

[Buster Narum]

Man, the 2 pics I found of him were awful - in order to do the AI stuff, you have to at least have a decent face shot - but here's what I got using a Dallas-Ft. Worth Rangers photo as the source:

[jotis1760]

"WOW!" is really an understatement. I could not believe this could be generated so quickly based on the B/W photos you had to use. I really appreciate this. Thank you! Krantzbucks did post a large colorized image on 9/14/2013, which I just came across. Would that have helped ? Either way, I'm still pleased.