-: Okay, this is how to make your own AI stock photos.
So stock photos, super important
because, you know, we don't have time to go out
and take photos of everything.
You know, some of the things that we want
we won't be able to go and, and capture, right?
So that's why these stock photos sites exist.
And I think for most use cases, they're really good,
especially have a license, right?
So this is Unsplash.
The really cool thing about Unsplash is
that it's free, right?
And they have a really permissive license,
but they have been bought by iStock photos.
And you know, now they have Unsplash Plus
and they have these banner ads
and you don't always get like even what you want, right?
Like, I've searched for people in a business meeting.
She's not in a meeting.
This isn't the business meeting I was suggesting, right?
Like, this one looks good, but it's on Unsplash Plus.
She's not with other people.
Like, maybe this kind of?
Like, that looks like really creepy and weird.
This doesn't look realistic.
So I mean, it's a bit of a pain
to find the right type of image.
And you know you, you...even when you do find it,
you end up with like the same picture
that everyone gets, right?
So if I search with chart,
I've seen so many blog posts with this image, right?
And you know this image, right?
This is like really popular
and you just kind of recognize these from some
of your favorite blogs, I bet.
Cool. So now what if you wanna make your own
stock photos with AI?
Well, the way you would do that, let's find one
of the images here.
So like, this one's kind of the closest to what we wanted.
And I'm gonna click in here. You can see the artist.
So it has like a lot of views, right?
It's free to use under Unsplash license.
So this is where I would say I'm not a lawyer, right?
Like you need to kind of figure out
what your own risk profile is.
But from my understanding,
all photos can be downloaded
and used for free for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
No permission needed, although they do prefer attribution
and they cannot be sold without significant modification.
So I would say, you know,
kind of using, like retraining
and making a new photo that looks similar,
but using AI is a significant modification.
Although I wouldn't do this, right?
Like I wouldn't create like your own,
competitors to Unsplash.
That probably wouldn't be cool.
And I think in general you could probably give
attribution to the artist, right?
Like they deserve it.
So I'm gonna show you how to kind
of replicate the same look and feel, but with,
but you know, kinda make it look your own
and then you own the license, right?
Like you don't have to worry about, you know,
like attribution necessarily.
If you if you do make it considerably different
and modify it with your prompt,
but also, you know, it looks unique,
your blog doesn't have
that same problem of like everyone using
the same stock photo.
Cool. So few things that I wanna point out.
So one is you wanna really see
what the meta description of the images.
So I just right clicked and go went to inspect.
And then, so this is the image.
And then just gonna click in here,
just gonna drag this across.
Oh, back up.
Okay, let's drag this across
so that there's the image.
Let's right click inspect again.
Okay, this is the image and here we go.
So here's the alt tag.
So we click in here, it's four people watching
something on a MacBook, right?
So I'm gonna put in here imagine
and then the prompt
"Four people watching a white MacBook on top
of glass top table".
So that's gonna generate it
and you can actually just say like what you want, right?
I want a stock photo of people in a business meeting.
And it does like a pretty decent job of that anyway,
although that looks a bit gloomy.
So all that is generating,
the other thing I'm gonna pull out here is the camera.
So I think like that's kind of useful.
That's quite interesting.
There's other metadata sometimes.
So you know, you can just press up
and then you'd say,
oh in the prompt,
"camera", and then you could say like
you actually want it to be a business meeting
of four people and then you want it
to be like a stock photo.
Cool. So, you know, we're just kind of using this to
get into like the baseline and kind of figure this out.
You know, not all these are great, right?
But we're getting a little bit closer.
This one looks like more interesting,
but the faces are a little bit weird
and this one's facing away, so that doesn't make any sense.
Cool. Here we go. This is getting better.
Because we called it stock photo,
it's looking a lot more interesting.
So that seems to be helpful.
And we also put in the camera here,
so I think it'll kind of change the style.
Like we wouldn't have some of these like black
and white things or like this...
Here we go. So look at that. That is much better.
Okay, so like, this is almost there.
Some of the faces are a bit messed up.
This is pretty good, you know,
and they don't look very happy.
So maybe we'll try one more thing here, which is...
Oh, cancel.
So let's, instead, let's say I'm gonna do this prompt,
but then we're just gonna do a negative prompt.
We're going to say no unhappy.
So that's gonna make them happy.
Yeah, you could also just say happy, but
like, you know, I think there's, you know,
different ways you can mess around with this.
So that's... while that's generating,
there's also another way you can kind of do this.
And I think this is like a little bit dicier,
but you know, I'll show you anyway
because you know, it's really up to you to decide.
So I'm just gonna paste in.
Lemme see. So if you copy image address,
see if this works and pasting the prompt,
then you can say it's got a photo of
business meeting
of four people, blah, blah, blah.
Okay? And then what this is gonna do is
it's going to use that image as the base image.
So again, you are transforming it.
I think this is a little bit... like if I was the artist,
I'd be a little bit -- off if I found someone
was doing this unless like the image looked
really different.
So I think that's the key is like, start with the alt text,
start with the image maybe,
but you know, make it look your own, right?
Like it needs to be something that's your own.
You can kind of mimic the look and feel and the style.
But you can see here, I mean, this didn't work very well,
that's kind of weird.
So I guess getting rid of unhappy doesn't work as well.
Okay, here we go. So this is a lot better,
this is like much more what we wanted.
So, you know, we're getting a little bit closer,
but you know, it doesn't take a long time to do this.
Sometimes it's quicker than, you know,
than all the searching through stock photos
or, you know, it's definitely quicker than searching for,
you know, like licensing
and like you just pay once for a Midjourney a month
rather than paying a huge amount of money
for licensing a bunch of photos.
Again, you know, this is a gray area, like this isn't,
you know, there's no rules around this
that anyone's figured out yet.
So I would say use your good judgment.
Don't just blindly copy someone else's photo like this.
You know, this isn't actually what I wanted anyway.
I wanted something more like this, right?
Cool. Okay.
Hopefully, you know, use your good judgment and,
and if you do, then you have really unique,
interesting looking stock photos that nobody else has.
And once you develop a style, then you can kind of
keep using that prompt again and again.
So really, really helpful.