Ready to place your AI prompting abilities to work for product customization? Smartphone case and accent maker PopSockets is as we speak introducing a intelligent new AI Customizer tool that can enable anybody to design their subsequent telephone accent — together with grips, instances, and wallets — by way of an optimized model of Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL). The firm believes the characteristic will encourage its prospects to create personalised instances and equipment which can be distinctive and inventive, and permit for self-expression in ways in which a standardized product catalog can’t totally ship.
To use the characteristic, prospects can go to a web page on the PopSockets website the place they’ll enter a immediate that describes the picture they wish to generate.
Before getting began, PopSockets first shows a pop-up that requires you to conform to the phrases and circumstances, which incorporates indicating that you’ve all the mandatory rights to pictures you add, and are not infringing on third events. It additionally says PopSockets could reject orders that do not adjust to its phrases or those who embody infringing content material. The phrases moreover apply to a contest Popsockets is working that awards $100,00 value of prizes for the perfect AI paintings, with the grand prize winner in November incomes $50,000. Daily winners may also be introduced by means of Dec. 25, 2023.
To generate a picture, you sort within the supplied textual content field. For instance, you could possibly sort one thing like “a fantasy land of rainbow flowy rivers, mountains, and cotton clouds” or every other concept you’ve got.
If you are stumped, guided prompts are available that recommend numerous topics, actions, locations, colours, and kinds and level you to trending imagery throughout classes. It will even recommend some prompts for you, like “Futuristic New York,” “Neon Mountain,” “Galactic skyscraper,” “cotton sweet gradient” and dozens of others throughout trending classes, which at the moment embody journey, floral, animals, nature, surrealism, butterfly and patterns.
Image Credits: PopSockets AI Customizer
You also can optionally decide a method, like Photographic, Cinematic, Line Art, Comic Book, Fantasy Art, Landscape Painting, Impressionism, Pop Art, Sketch, and lots of extra from classes like Artistic, Realistic, Unique, Pattern, and Mood. The platform additionally provides an non-compulsory background elimination characteristic, so you possibly can place a photograph of a person or a pet into an AI-generated scene. (e.g. You might put your cat in outer house.)
After you generate your distinctive designs and paintings — a course of that takes lower than 60 seconds — you possibly can select to both modify the consequence, generate new pictures, or apply it to an available product. The AI Customizer helps the corporate’s fashionable PopSockets telephone grips, its telephone instances, and wallets (each customary and MagSafe choices) in addition to its new Looks graphic telephone case inserts.
Under the hood, the corporate tells TechCrunch its PopSockets Customizer AI is constructed on a large-scale mannequin engine that delivers “superior decision, finer particulars, and extra practical pictures” in contrast with many text-to-image turbines as we speak. That’s mandatory as a result of the pictures should be printed on merchandise, not simply displayed on a pc display screen.
Image Credits: PopSockets AI Customizer
Unfortunately, the AI would not all the time get issues fairly proper. For instance, once I requested for a photographic picture of a unicorn (sure, I’m a 10-year-old lady), I used to be given pictures of a white horse with two horns, no horn, or a drooping horn, in a single case.
Sometimes the horn was off-center too. In one other, the unicorn gave the impression to be making an attempt to eat its flower necklace and had one thing hanging from its eye, like an earring.
Image Credits: PopSockets AI Customizer
But once I prompted the AI Customizer to make 3 extra pictures, it got here up with extra usable choices, although it ignored different requests, like “with a flower necklace” in some instances.
Using solely the supplied prompts can also be not advisable, as you could not get a lot variation in your outcomes. For occasion, once I prompted utilizing solely the choice “futuristic New York,” I acquired four similar photos of tall buildings covered in greenery. But when you add extra particulars to your request — like asking for a futuristic New York with neon indicators and flying vehicles — you’d get a greater diversity of outcomes.
In different phrases, similar to AI picture turbines on the internet, the precise outcomes might be hit and miss and you will have to retry a number of occasions to get the pictures excellent.
Of course, you do not have to make use of the brand new characteristic to generate some type of fantastical imagery, although many do. Rather, you need to use it to easily create a better-looking, extra skilled photograph of your topic in a background of your selecting. You also can merely use the software so as to add textual content or stickers to your picture, when you select.
Before trying out, PopSockets will present you ways your picture seems in your product, which is useful — significantly if it cuts off a part of the picture to make room for the telephone’s digital camera array, as an illustration, and must be moved round, or zoomed out. Or perhaps you may discover the picture would not do effectively when compressed to the small house supplied by a telephone grip and can wish to return and alter it.
The ensuing product is then available so as to add to your cart at a normal worth, as you’d every other product from the positioning’s catalog.
“This pioneering use of know-how permits customers to create a really distinctive accent for the product we use greater than the rest – our telephones,” stated Gary Schoenfeld, CEO of PopSockets, in a press release concerning the launch. “This breakthrough in AI know-how really displays that Imagination is countless, and we won’t wait to see the artistic potentialities it brings to our group’s fingertips this vacation season and past,” he stated.
