Building My Skill Stack in AI

Mar 15 2025 | By: Stephanie Richer Photography

A long-haired Chihuahua sits among flowers

The dog above is real.  The composition is not.

I am excited by the tool that AI - Artificial Intelligence - can be for my art and, by default, your products.

I am learning and improving my skills at "training" an image generator to take a pet and have the machine "learn" what it looks like - and then by giving the image geneator prompts, it can create for me a composition that I can further embellish using my expertise in Photoshop.

Want to be further amazed?  The images you see here were created using just cellphone pictures.  Yes, that's right - the input to the machine learning can be just what is on your phone.  And as you know, if you love your pet I suspect you have dozens of such images on your phone right now.

A Chihuahua stands on a beautiful windswept beach.

Consider this - is there a dog from your past who is no longer with you that you would love to see immortalized in a portrait?  And what if all you had were just a bunch of cellphone pictures?  The dogs here here, I am happy to say, are alive and well but any pet owner knows the heartbreak of having to say goodbye to our best friends.

It is not too late.  I will be attending a workshop next month to master this technique so I can provide this service to my clients.  If you have an interest in a painterly portrait of your pet in a specific setting, let's see what we can have the machine dream up!

Two Chihuahuas are seated by a red sofa in a stately manor house.
A Hungarian Pumi and a Chihuahua are seated on a windswept beach.

I had already started using AI in my work to supplement my photography.  It is fascinating to me and I think it will only get better!

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