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8:17am on Monday, 24th August, 2026:

Cover

Anecdote

Here's a composite image of the development of the cover I created for my novel Dheghōm.



Top-left shows the raw image generated by Midjourney.
Mid-left shows the image after I edited it to remove a weirdness on the lower eyelid on the right.
Bottom-left shows the image resized and cropped to a book-cover aspect ratio.
Top-right shows the image after I edited it so that the irises were circular and the tint was more golden. This is the one on the actual book.
Mid-right shows the image after I sent it off to a company to turn it into a paint-by-numbers set, then painted it by numbers (badly).
Bottom-right shows the image after I put it through a smart-blur filter and added a yellow cast to it.

Many people complain about the use of AI for creating images.

Which, if any, of these six images are acceptable to people who don't find the use of AI images acceptable?




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