Get Accurate AI Headshots: How to Create Your Flux LoRA

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Michael I could take an image of you for example and I could upload that and tell it to render that in the style of a Pixar image and and my my tool would do or my FAL implementation would do that for me today I'm very excited to be joined by Jonathan Mast if you don't know who Jonathan is he's an AI coach and founder of Whitebeard strategies a consultancy that uses AI to help businesses save time deliver more value and become more more profitable his course is AI prompting Mastery and his newsletter is the AI prompting Insider his very successful Facebook group is AI prompts for entrepreneurs Jonathan welcome back to the show how you doing today I'm excited to be here I'm doing great thanks for having me back I'm super stoked that you're here today Jonathan and I are going to explore how to create AI head shots that look exactly like you and I'm sure people that are listening have seen these um they're really really cool we're going to get into it we're by the time we're done today you're going to be able to to figure this out all on your own now before we get into the details Jonathan why should marketers entrepreneurs creators care about creating AI head shots of themselves let kind of focus in on kind of like the uses well I give you an example I use today so just literally today I uh got an opportunity to promote an event I'm speaking at in uh April I'm going to be at a college campus I don't have any pictures of me at a college campus and within about 3 minutes I now had 12 photos of what looked like me at a college campus dressed in a Navy Blazer and a blue Oxford and a baseball cap with the Marvel Avengers stuff on it and again I did all of that in just a few minutes and now when I post that it's applicable it's relevant it's not me with my typical head shot it's not me standing in a studio I'm literally standing on a sidewalk at will looks like a university and that's going to appeal and be relevant to the marketing message so okay uh that's really cool but what are the other and where else could we use these kind of images because I know you do these all the time and you take it for granted but not everybody's gone down this Rabbit Hole you know fair enough I use them on social media to make sure that I've got relevant things for social media you know if I need to have a picture of me looking in particular way the other day my my staff I did a video and they said we need a picture without your hat and with your hands on your head and you looking excited well that's hard to come up with really quickly now we can do that not a problem easy to easy to do maybe I want to be in a different location maybe I want a different type of clothing on um whatever the case may be literally the other day somebody was playing around and they said for fun can can you do this and put you on a Tyrannosaurus Rex writing on its back and yes I could um some of that Mak sense to you some of it's just for fun but a lot of it again is really about making sure when you're sharing imag online especially for marketers and business people that those images are relevant to the discussion that you're having I like that um and I know when we were prepping for this um I want you to share the the vision board story of Lindsay who was a consultant do you remember that story can you share that a little bit I do yeah so Lindsay is one of my coaching students and she did something absolutely amazing so she's big in the vision board she teaches people how to do vision boards and if you've ever done that before you know you're going to run out and you're going to go ahead and uh find a magazine or find an image online and you're going to grab that but what if you could create a vision board that included pictures of you doing what was part of your your goal so imagine I want to take a trip to Paris and I I create a picture of me standing at the Eiffel Tower or if I want to go downhill skiing in Veil and I get a picture of me doing that that I can add to my vision board that is actually going to resonate with me so much more and help me achieve those goals gos I love that so the obvious applications here are um you can put these on sales Pages you can use them as your profile photos as you mentioned you can use them um if you're speaking at an event and you want this to look relevant to the audience um so the applications are kind of endless and the benefits it seems to me and I'm just I I want you to like add on to what I'm about to say not everybody has what they would call really great pictures of themselves right like abely and not everybody can afford to go out and hire a professional photographer um does this help solve for some of that it absolutely does you know I think we've all been in that spot we don't have the right picture or the picture is a couple years ago and maybe it's not relevant so yeah with this now you can literally take pictures from your cell phone selfies that you can take upload them into the tools that we're going to talk about Michael and you can then train that model to to create images that represent you that look like you in almost any scenario that may be just a professional head shot where I place myself in a photography studio on a you know a clean white draped background or anything else for that matter and yeah it gives us that ability to do so for a few dollars in costs as opposed to hundreds or thousands of dollars now I've seen these kind of images in the past and they tend to look a little artificial and cartoony are we beyond that now do they look real now absolutely not all of them do and it's probably an important thing to reminder when we create images like today when I created them I threw away about half the images because it it wasn't quite right but I was still able to get the images that I needed and do so in a few minutes and for a total cost this morning of less than a dollar and again to have that ability to do that in my mind is is just amazing it may just be you need a new LinkedIn headshot your LinkedIn headshots from three years ago you can learn how to do this and for probably less than five doll you can have a really great library of five or 10 LinkedIn headshots that you can use okay so let's start from the beginning um what are the first things that we need to be doing we need to be thinking about in order to be able to create these AI head shots well before we do anything we need to understand that you're going to need probably at least a dozen I generally recommend about two dozen images of yourself and they should be a combination of images some can be selfies that you've taken with your phone some might be you know hand your phone to your spouse or your family member or a friend and go hey just literally take some pictures of me uh you know torso up waste Up full body shots you want to mix them up a little bit and then you may have maybe it is a professional shot from two years ago that you want to put in there and maybe you were at an event and you had a picture and you can get the other person out of it so it's just you a combination though of about in a perfect world about 18 to 24 images that you feel represent you different clothes different stances different perspectives all as long as your fa face is showing that you are ready to upload because you're going to need that training data to train the model on who you are okay so I got a couple questions on this um there are some people that like yourself have you have a baseball cap that you wear right right now it's Avengers I don't remember it being Avengers last time it might have been something totally different so talk to me a little bit about like the how important it is that we get the clothing right and also kind of the any tips on like the angles that we ought to take the shots at like just just great question let's get into that a little bit so I wear glasses so I made sure that the images that I had had my glasses on because I wanted my glasses to portray realistically obviously as you can see if you're listening you can't but I've got a long white beard I wanted to make sure that was portrayed effectively I didn't I'll remove the Hat here but I didn't put any pictures of me with a hat on I took pictures of me without the Hat because it's easy to add a baseball hat in I took pictures with me in different shirts and again some that were you know face shots Head and Shoulders like you're seeing online others that were torso up and then a couple of full body shots as well so that I can understand that I'm not built like a Greek Adonis and if it's going to create a photo of me it should probably be a little bit more physique accurate I like that so um as far as uh um what about the Angles and stuff and and also for to our our female audience is there anything that they need to be thinking about when it comes to the shots that they're taking should they because you know how a lot of women change up their hairstyles and stuff right yeah and that is that is going to matter so the the main thing it's going to key in on is going to be your face and your facial structure but obviously you're if if you do a lot of different hair designs that could make it more difficult you'd want to upload again more samples of those if you want to do that and then you're just going to need to remember when you're prompting it which we'll get to in a minute that you describe that appropriately facial angles I try to make sure you're looking at the camera assuming that's the type of images that you're going to want to be creating if you only wanted to create side shots then for those that listening you couldn't see me turn sideways in my chair but then you would create a upload images of you in that that profile perspective instead I made sure that you know I was standing straight on the camera I turned a little bit and leaned in on a couples I made different things but I tried to make sure my face was visible in all of those images because I knew that's what it would be modeling to try to recreate yeah it's intriguing because anybody who uh has ever had a professional photo shoot done maybe you think back to your wedding they have you try all sorts of different angles right like they have you tilt your body to the side but have your face face the camera sometimes you know um dead on shots um do you recommend like as far as the angle of the picture if it I mean you know how some people I don't know like you could take it from from dead on versus up a little bit versus down a little bit does that kind of stuff matter to the AI at all it's a great question I've not I've not tried enough different angles I readily admit I originally trained the model that I use on about 24 different images and I've been so pleased with the output that I've never went back to try different things at that point in time it just worked super well and and again most of the images that I did I had a photo shoot that I'd done last summer that I uploaded a couple images from uh I most of mine were selfie images or images that I had from events that I was participating in where you know Michael you and I might be standing next to each other and I would just use Photoshop or something to pull you out of the image and just put my image in now what about the backgrounds on the images how important is this like inside outside kind of stuff lighting is probably more important than the background because the background is really going to be defined by the prompting that you use okay so the key is that your face is is well lit enough that it can see it so you know I've got lights on right here if I turned off my lights um that's going to make it harder to see the details in my face the details in my beard the details on my glasses so you know a great thing is you know good light but you also don't want to necessarily be outside in the bright Sunshine as I look outside right now if I was there I'd be squinting and it would be overblown so balancing that out if you're outside maybe find a shaded area that's still got good natural light if you're inside try not to stick with a dark room get something again where your face is reasonably well lit okay so the goal here is to end up with about two dozen shots correct and it sounds like we don't need to love them all we just need we just need to like them all is that kind of what I'm hearing you say as long as they represent you in a in a fashion you're comfortable with you're it's again it's training on your face so keep in mind that's the part that we're really trying to train it hairstyles to a certain extent beards if for men if you have them to a certain extent but it's really training on that this structure that is as I'm outlining in for those you're listening my head my face and my beard that's a part of your your body that it's really going to be looking at the other body shots are helpful but the the main part is your face okay we've got let's say we end up with 25 26 30 24 Shots what do we do with all this so the next thing we're going to be using a software called flux flux okay and that is not a software you can just go to a website and subscribe to by normal terms because it's actually software that's available to download so we're going to recommend they actually go out to the developers website and I use a site that they recommend that's called f. Ai and there are a lot of models that I can do on that but flux is one of those models that works really well and it's why I recommend that particular site it real quick you mentioned the developer without saying the name of the developer I'm sorry yeah we both know there's a lot of people out there masquerading as the developer but who is the actual developer if they were to go look that up and see the recommended tools so it is actually Black Forest Labs okay which makes it even harder because if you Google Google flux you probably will not find a link for Black Forest Labs you'll find a link for a lot of people saying they offer flux they do but it's not the model you probably want okay so flux is my understanding of flux is it's kind of an OP Source model corre or it requires API access it's not like a piece of software that we're used to using like chat GPT or claw and as a result of this um there's a lot of services that offer this f. a is the one that you're recommending and you use their flux model can you just talk to us a second about why flux what is it about flux that makes it so powerful well you can you can do this with a few other models as well but flux is the easiest to establish and train what's called a Laura an L R A or a low resonance uh model of your your face there's tons of Graphics out there but or graphic tools out there but very few of them allow you to actually upload data and then it creates a training file that resembles Jonathan or that resembles Michael and that's then what I use to create those additional images well and I'll also add that I use flux um Pro Ultra I think it's called to generate realistic images of people and I feel like flux is one of the best models for creating photo realism I don't know if you agree with that or not that's the the yeah that's the other side of it is like the model is trained un like Dolly which always feels to be a little bit less realistic more artsy right wouldn't you agree yes 100% yeah so okay so we go to this f. website and um what do we need to know when we get in there what you need to know when you go in there is that in order to use flux because it is like you mentioned it's a model that can be downloaded and the reason I like f is that they they handle all the server hosting and everything else you don't need to worry about any of that but it does cost a few pennies in order to use it and so when you go there you're going to need to set up an account they give you a couple different ways to do that I recommend using a service called GitHub G Hub uh and you will have to deposit some money into that account GitHub is a multinational company if whether you've heard of it or not it's very reliable and I deposited 20 bucks when I got started I said okay they're owned by Microsoft aren't they owned by Microsoft I feel like they might be I they might be I don't honestly know but they might yeah just a real just a real quick tangent GitHub uh is really like a big repository for code for lack of better words I mean like a lot of developers technical people understand GitHub non-technical people have probably heard GitHub and their eyes have rolled backwards is setting up an account relatively simple as easy as setting it up on Facebook or anywhere else you literally just give it your email address then they're going to ask if you want to deposit any funds you say yes because you are going to have to pay as you go for this model and again I recommend 10 or $20 and that'll last you a long time okay so we've set up a GitHub account account we've deposited $20 what now let's what do we need to do as far as this f. side of things so we're actually going to start at f. a and then it's going to give you that option to fill it out and so as soon as you do your account at geub it's going to come right back to f. as long as you start at f. you're good real quick should we have had the G GitHub account already established before we start to F okay it's not necessary okay not necessary all right if You' got one you can use it but no you don't need to and that's why if you start at f. it's really easy okay and then when you come back to it'll once you signed up for your account deposited your 10 or $20 it's going to bring you right back to falai and then we need to use their explore function so just a quick disclaimer FAL has lots of different software products visual video image products they make available and you're simply going to search for what's called flux flux trained Laura okay and when you when you do that uh it will bring you directly to a link that will allow you to train your own model Okay cool so we've set up uh We've located the flux trained Laura um feature for lack of better words inside of f l. a what do we do next once we do that you're going to be presented with an input form because there's not going to be anything trained for you on your account at that point and you're going to have the opportunity to upload those images that we just talked about you can upload them one at a time or as a zip file okay so um we were when we were prepping for this we talked about fast Laura training are we getting ahead of ourselves here or where are we we're that's right where we're at ra so it's called um in FAL it's called flux dlur it's l a for those that are spelling d fast-train and that'll get you right to where you need to go and by the way we set up a short code uh we set up a short code at social social media examiner.com L A will automatically get you there so people don't have to worry about like remembering all this that's perfect yeah going yeah so then you literally are presented with that opportunity to upload your images and then to choose what we call a trigger word and this is a phrase or a word that you're going to use anytime you use this model in order to replace the picture with yourself okay how do we what do we need to know about that um you know give like what give us an example what you mean by a Trigg word mine I just put my name in so I use my trigger word is my name Jonathan Mast and it's all one word together no spaces and so so now in the future when it goes to train because the next step we're going to literally say to start the training takes about 15 minutes it's going to analyze all your images it's going to create all the map by the way that training currently as we're recording this costs $2 um that may change over time but currently that's a $2 expense every time you do it and then it presents you on the right side of the screen with a hey here's an alpha numeric code that represents your model and it's super easy you then just click a button that's called run and when you click that you can enter your prompt put in your your your trigger word that you gave it into your prompt and you're starting to create images that resemble you okay so let's talk through a couple of these steps um first of all we've gone to after we've set up the account to social media examiner.com Laur just to get there quickly we've uploaded our images and as you mentioned they could be a zip file or you could just manually I guess upload them um and then as far as the size of the images is there any restrictions on the resolution or size of the images in your professional opinion there I'm sure there are some not that I'm aware of you want to make sure that you're uploading those high quality images as you have versus low res images so don't take an image necessarily your your LinkedIn profile that you have that's from LinkedIn if you save it it's going to be a very optimized file that will not work as well as the original file that you have from your camera upload the highest resolution file that you have well and for anybody who has iPhone you know they have their own file format called heic or something crazy like that does it work with those kind of images or do we have to convert these over to jpegs or something I am pretty sure it does work with hc's um as long as you put them in yeah I'm I'm 99% sure it does okay so we this trigger word does it have to be something completely original that no one else is using no it doesn't because it's going to be combined with your your Laura training model so it's basically if you can imagine it's um I'm trying to think of a good example but it's it's grabbing the model and then saying what's the trigger word for the model the model is going to be trained on that so I could use Michael as my trigger word and that would be fine it doesn't need to be unique got it it's just needs to be something that you're going to be able to easily remember you can remember yeah okay so um looking at the interface here there are some other options that we have one of them is called in style talk to me about whether or not that is important and then also we talked about masks and whether we need to create masks and also steps so I I leave everything by default when I go ahead and and run my first training so when I'm training that Laura I leave everything by default in style is turned off create mask is turned on and steps as we record this are at a thousand um so I just would recommend leaving those at the defaults that'll work just fine the inst style is probably the only button that you may want to use at some point and that means instead of training it on your face or your image you're training it on the style of image as an example of what that means I took a number of 3D Pixar Disney animated style images and I uploaded those totally different characters totally different pictures but they were all done in the style of what you might expect in a Pixar movie and I then clicked the style button and my trigger word then was 3D cartoon so I can use that style it will then create any image in that style of image so the first thing you want to do though is likely train your face so you don't want to have that on in your first training in most cases now when we were prepping for this Jonathan you recommended possibly increasing the steps from a th000 to 1500 to 2,000 has any of that changed since we last were prepping for this um and what are the benefits to take it up to more steps potentially so the more steps just is essentially the more reasoning it's going to do on your files the more analysis of the file it's going to do in my experience a number between a th000 and 2,000 is fine they have changed their default not too long ago to a default of 1,000 that should be ample I wouldn't bump it up you can bump it way up if you want to you know but to like 10,000 uh two things are going to happen if you do that one it's going to take longer because it's got to process more and I'm not sure but but it may actually charge you more money too I'm not sure about that I would imagine it probably would okay so so far we've we've uploaded all the images we've clicked the inst style if we want to model the style and we've put our trigger word and um and then how long does it actually take like what do we what what happens after we hit the whatever Buton you you hit the start button at that point and it it starts analyzing and that in my experience takes 10 to 15 15 minutes okay for it to do that and to build out you'll know because as you're looking at the screen when you do this when the new model is done there's a training history box it's on the right side of the screen and as soon as it's done your your train Laura will pop up in the training history box Okay cool so um once we've trained this thing what what what's the next part of the process so once you've trained it you would go back to that same page the next time you want to use it which could be immediately or could be a day later not a problem and under the training history again you're going to see the Laura that you created and there's a button that says run inference and you just click on that button and as soon as you do that then it opens up a new schedule for you and on the left side of the screen uh or it's stacked if you're on a narrow screen but you'll see the spot where you put your prompt in so like any AI image tool we then just prompt it with the type of image that we're looking for and then we make sure that that trigger word so in my case my name Jonathan Mast that trigger word needs to be part of the prompt at the appropriate spot ah okay that's the reason why the trigger word is there because it's going to be in the prompt so you need to pick something that's unique that you would not normally use in a prompt is what I'm hearing you say right yeah so for example the images that I created of me on the University campus I had a prompt that I had chat GPT helped me write that was basically you know uh a stocky man with a Long White Beard and glasses standing on a college campus in Arkansas because that's where I'm speaking at I replaced that when I pasted that in instead of that it was Jonathan J Mast that's my term as a stocking man with a Long White Beard and glasses standing at a University campus in Arkansas by putting that that trigger word in there that's what allowed it to pull my image and recreate me in that image does it matter where put the trigger word in the prompt you want to make sure it's still logical so that it makes sense for AI so as you're reading it you know uh I could have instead of I could have just put uh you know Jonathan J mask with a long bite beard in or something like that but I often use one AI model Chad GPT to help me create prompts for the image models and in that process of doing so in fact I think we have one we're going to share with everybody later Michael on that in the process of doing that that that makes it easy really really simple for me to just find the spot where it references you know a man or whatever and I put my name in there that trigger word goes in there yeah so we set up a short code called social media examiner.com Felix feix and that goes to your custom GPT why don't you explain a little bit about what your Felix custom GPT does so when we're trying to create images Michael saying it in the right way makes a big difference and there is a bit of trial and error involved I want to encourage people if you haven't done AI imagery before it's not a perfect science so not every prompt is going to turn out exactly the way we want Felix is a GPT it's runs on any you just need a free chat GPT account and you can put in the concept of what you're looking for so you don't have to put in all the details you can just put in the concept and like this morning uh a man standing in a University campus in Arkansas that's what I put into Felix Felix then creates five unique prompts it's been trained on flux so it knows how to say things in a manner that flux likes and then you take those prompts copy and paste them into the input box in f. add your trigger word and then you there are some options you can select like how many images in that and then you are Off to the Races okay um speaking of prompts outside of using your custom GPT social media examiner.com Felix and the only reason we're saying that is because it's a really long URL and this is going to get you there faster cuz uh open AI doesn't do a great job with short you know URLs um what other kind of tips do you have about like um prompting because you had mentioned that like you can add hats and stuff later like how do we do how do we do stuff like that so you know one of the things I I did is I just when I was in Felix I said I wanted to be a man wearing with a Long White Beard wearing glasses and a hat a baseball cap that had Marvel uh Avengers information on because that happened to be the Hat I had on today right you may go well Jonathan if you trained it on your face why did you need to tell it glasses in a Long White Beard I did that because I've just learned that sometimes and you'll do this as you learn sometimes different facial features that we have that are unique it helps to remind the model to include those so if I don't say with glasses about 80% of my images come through with glasses and about 20% of them I look different because the my glasses aren't on and so I've learned learned just to put glasses and I've learned in my case because I have a beard and it's a longer beard if I don't specify long beard sometimes it gives me a beard that's cut right to the chin that doesn't look as much like I do so those are things you'll learn over time that the model may need to be reminded of uh just to to give you the best possible image will Laura know what your glasses look like do you understand what I'm asking it will in fact yeah so if you train the model with my glass glasses the vast majority of the images that I do of myself the glasses look identical to the glasses that I wore now all of my training images had the same pair of glasses if I had had different glasses that might not be the case but I had the same exact glasses on an every image and when I create them they look just like my glasses okay so so far what we've done is U I'm just going to start from the top we've created a GitHub account we've gone to f. we've funded it with like five or $10 and then we've gone ahead and we have um trained up uh our Laura uh using the fast Lura training model we've uploaded the images um and um now we're at the point where we're about to generate images and we've we've learned about enhancing the prompts specifically using your custom GPT call Felix um once we get that enhanced prompt we're going to use our trigger word right like Micha stellner Jonathan J Mast um what else do we need to know when we're rendering images from the flux Laura inside of f. so there are a number of options if you're not sure you can literally just click the Run button that's underneath where your prompt is and it will create the images using the defaults there are some things that you can play around with though that can have impact on it for example you can choose a different aspect ratio of your image do I want it to be you know a portrait a land landcape style Square you can make that choice um there are a number of steps that you can have it use I've I leave that at default just for the reminder it's just leave the steps they're called inference steps leave that at the default real quick on the aspect ratio does it matter what the aspect ratio of the original shots were that we took so we could take them vertical horizontal it really doesn't matter is what you're saying correct okay okay good question so uh aspect ratio formats are what Square vertical and horizontal I mean for essentially yep yep you basically got Square portrait and then landscape and then you can also put in a custom one if you want so if you had a very unique one let's say for a Facebook Banner LinkedIn Banner you could put that in as well and it will then match whatever whatever you put in Okay cool so keep going what else do we need to be what are our other options uh when we're so then there is a seed which in very rarely are you going to use I've actually never used the seed the seed would be if I was going to give it another image that I wanted it toite reference so in generally I'm not doing that so the next one is guidance scale and this is one you're going to want to experiment with so the guidance scale starts off they call it CFG uh it starts off relatively low it's a a numeric number from 0 to 25 I'm sorry to 35 and I generally recommend going about a third to the half way up the scale that means somewhere between about 10 and 15 for the guidance scale now this number may change over time but I found as it's change staying about a third to a half of the way up the scale is a really good spot to be what the heck does this thing do this guidance scale thing so the lower the number is the more creative freedom you're giving the model to take with the the training data that you gave it so the pictures will likely look less exactly like you so I may end up with a really crazy beard I may end up with a skinny body instead of a fat body you just you never know what could happen as I get higher you may go well Jonathan why don't we want to Max that out so it always looks most like us the more the higher we get then it starts changing things like our skin and things like that so that they the best description I can give you is they look more plasticky they don't look as realistic I find once we get much over halfway point then aspects of our face in particular will start looking less realistic okay so what I'm hearing you say is right now somewhere between a third to the halfway mark experiment with that and see if you like the output and if it's getting way too creative then bump the scale is it just like a a number you have to put in there literally yep there's a slider that you can move and and just adjust As you move the slider or you can enter an exact number in okay what else do we need to know there then you the last option is the number of images so I should say the second to last number of images you can go one to four Images if you pay for if you do four Images you're going to pay for for four images and you pay for whatever you create here so if you're on a budget maybe one at a time is better if you're in a hurry like I tend to be in a hurry I then do four at a time because I I just don't want to take the time to create four go through that process four times and just say what how much does it cost typically to create an image about three and a half cents give or take a little bit so every image is going to cost you three three to five cents okay well the idea of just creating four of them makes a lot of logical sense I would imagine because you're not going to love every single one of them right exactly I find that I toss at least 50% of the images that I've created because it's messed something up sometimes as simple as messing up fingers we know Ai and imagery sometimes messes up fingers so sometimes it's that sometimes it gives me the wrong type of beard sometimes it just doesn't look like me for whatever reason um so just expect that's part of creating images with AI okay there was something else you were about to say before I interrupted you yeah no the last part is the output format so you can choose to Output as a JPEG file a JPG or a PNG file either will work just fine uh I personally prefer a PNG because it's not a compressed format and so if I need to bring that into Photoshop or something later I've got more data for Photoshop to work with yeah I I also love PNG because it's considered lossless compression meaning meaning you won't lose any visual things when you compress it and definitely um the file sizes can be smaller on jpegs for sure so I mean I would imagine if you start with a PNG does it is one more expensive than the other or are they all no they cost the same it's just whether it compresses it or not so why not get the highest quality I can at that point so okay so how how long does it take to generate these four Images typically so I do four Images it's probably going to take about 30 to 60 seconds for it to generate that on most days sometimes a little bit less sometimes a little bit more depending on how busy their servers are but typically 30 to 60 seconds okay so how many how many times do we think about let let's assume most of the listening audience is this the first time how many variations of this are they going to be realistically experimenting with because my guess is it's not going to nail it on the first render right it will not it's one of the reasons we have Felix give you five different prompts because some of the prompts are going to work out better than others and again I definitely I will run a prompt from Felix and if I like the output overall I may run it again it's important to understand though that AI images are not not copy machines in other words let's say I run a prompt Michael and I love the image and I go I want to create another one it's going to be a different image the next time it'll be similar but it'll be different they're not copy machines so it's one of the reasons that if I find a prompt that I like I may run that four five times and get a series of again 10 to 20 different images that I can use because I'll use my college campus one I had me in a Navy Blazer wearing jeans and a blue Oxford and a hat standing on a college campus sometimes I was standing in front of a building sometimes I was standing in what looked more like a park that buildings in the background sometimes there were other students walking by sometimes I was in front of something that looked like you know the university sign out front it it will change those things as you're doing it so you can't simply go oh I love this this is the exact prompt and I can get another image just like it does work that way how about the resolution of the images are they generally decent resolution they're very good I use them on my website I use them for social media uh I don't think I try to put one on a billboard necessarily but there are upscaling tools that you can upload these images too that can create much higher resolution images so if you needed it for a print product or something like that you can absolutely what we call Upscale those images accordingly so all the images that we generate are they easy to locate in the future when we come back to this falai tool easy as a matter of perspective but the answer is yes in my opinion they are so at the top when you go to the page that you mentioned so if you put in uh like we talked about social media examiner.com Laur that'll always bring you back to this page uh you're going to see some tabs one is called playground that's where we're we're at right now everything we've talked about is in the playground you're then going to also see one that's called requests and if you click on the request tab it will have all of your files that you've created and they're there to redownload so if you don't download one right away and you want to go back you just click on the request Tab and it's got all your history there okay this is just a crazy idea but what's your thoughts about eventually picking let's say we've eventually rendered dozens of these things out of the AI and we found some that are really good what's your thoughts about training up an entirely new flux Laura have you done something like this on the best AI generated images so you increase the lik Hood you get it really really dialed in I actually did so we recently did that on my account and I found it made a bit of a difference I'm not going to say it was dramatic difference okay yeah we took we took about 24 AI generated images that I went I really like these we uploaded it and I think it is probably more accurate than the first one I did but not not so noticeable that I would say oh this is something you've got to do don't I don't know it was worth the time and effort that I put into it talk to me a little a little bit about um your thoughts on disclosure uh when it comes to utilizing these images uh to represent yourself my opinion is is if you're representing something that's not accurate then you want to make sure that you're disclosing that I'm as a matter of course on of course I talk about AI so people don't are not surprised when I'm using it like on social media but on my website we I should have a disclaimer on the website that lets people know that we do use AI to help us generate content that's on this website uh we want to be very forthcoming about that now I don't wear a a neon sign so to speak around every image and goes this image is generated by AI because the reality is for example me standing on a un at a University campus in what appears to be Arkansas isn't misleading any of my customers it's not misleading anybody in my audience that's not something that's not true now if I did a picture of me receiving the presidential met Medal of Honor and I was reporting that that was true obviously that would not have integrity and it's not something I would recommend doing so unless that's on your vision board right that's a different spot yeah if it's on your vision board that'd be a great spot for it exactly what about other creative applications of this you mentioned cartoons and stuff like that can you use this because I know you do a lot of stuff that's like cartoony looking do you create flux lauras for that too so yeah I do I actually have a a style that we talked about that's trained in that so I can now take you know Michael I could take an image of you for example and I could upload that and tell it to render that in the style of a Pixar image and and my my tool would do or my fa implementation would do that for me certainly if you're if you're creating images of other people though then you also want to be very careful because you're using their likeness at that point in time and that opens up a whole another can of worms shall we say when it comes to fair use and everything else but if you're doing it on your own I think as long as you're not representing something that's again clearly not accurate a vision board excluding from that then I I don't see any issues with it myself okay I'm going to just ask a crazy question that we did not have prepared but I've seen models where you can take images and you can slightly animate them or make videos out of them um have you experimented with any of these and what's your thoughts on taking some of your flux lauras and and using them inside of these I have in fact it's a great way to have have a little bit of fun and then create some b-roll video or background video maybe transition video for something you're doing uh and the nice thing is is FAL the site that we're recommending it hosts a number of those video models as well so I can then take that image that I've got and I can upload it and generally for about 10 seconds 10 cents per second of video I can basically upload a picture again give it a prompt and say I want you know an man with long white beard walking down the sidewalk at a university upload a picture of me standing at the University and it will then literally animate that so that it appears that I'm walking down that sidewalk instead of just stand Standing on the sidewalk most of them do a very good job but again much like with images it's a bit hit or miss so some are going to do exactly what you want some are going to be off I saw a good example in my Facebook group the other day was a beautiful woman sitting on a sofa and they'd instructed her to get up and walk to the kitchen which you could see was in the background of the photo and her standing up looked realistic her walking to the kitchen looked realistic except one thing she walked right through the sofa and that's the type of thing that can happen with AI video and then you have to try again yeah that's so funny Jonathan Mast this has been really eye openening and I cannot wait to see the images that everybody makes um if people want to connect with you on the socials where do you want to send them and if they want to learn more about your Facebook group and the different products and services you have where also do you want to send them same place if they just remember my name it's Jonathan Mast M and go to Jonathan mast.com linktree and I've got tons of free resources how to contact me and everything else right there yeah and folks I would love it if you tag me and Jonathan on Facebook or whatever platform if you end up making some images I know we're both on Facebook um it'd be really cool to kind of see the output that you make as a result of this and I do strongly recommend you check out his Facebook group uh what's the name of your Facebook group cuz I I know it's hopping AI prompts for entrepreneurs we got about almost 360,000 of us in there now Jonathan thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today thank you Michael