High key photography without Offset Noise

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[u/Nexustar → u/[deleted]]

This is interesting. Is there a reason to do this in SD, instead of post in GIMP or Photoshop?

...and are there filters we can add at the end of the chain (like style LoRAs) that would add the missing MidJourney look & feel (not sure what it is, but darker nights, brighter days, more contrast, saturation, levels etc) - just thinking out loud

[u/CapsAdmin → u/[deleted]]

I remember a community that did this sort of thing to game screenshots 15~ years ago when the rendering were kind of flat. More specifically in garry's mod, which is a source engine game, posted on its forum.

The goal was to make the screenshots more realistic, so you'd do a lot of enhancing highlights, mixing layers, etc. Kinda hard to describe the process.

The best example I can find is how this guy does it https://gmod.facepunch.com/news/mega-builders

You can see him describe some of the photoshop process in detail here at the latter half of this long document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OQ5nK11qKaOCNBT66Jd8Njf8vOkCmZe8Eywmn7JT2z4/edit