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I have created some new images and wanted to see if there was just one person out there that would buy them. This write-up will be focused on this journey.

My Questions

• What are some good places to sell?
• Should I use Etsy?
• Should I setup a different bank account?

Where to Sell

I have heard of a few places but really do not know which is the best. I am going to focus on print-on-demand sites and select three to start deep diving into:

• Amazon Merch Store
• RedBubble.com
• Printful.com through Etsy

RedBubble.com

Account creation was pretty easy. You need to upload 5 items into your portfolio before you can set up your store. I also used midjourney to create my profile image and banner.

I used the following prompt for my profile image:

MidJourney: a paint brush, glowsticks and a piano keyboard icons in a circle --niji 5

Make sure to spend some time on each image and how they show up on the product page. As far as tagging strategy I am thinking chatGTP for some guidance.

I ran through two prompts on chatGPT:

CHATGPT:looking for some tags for redbubble for some electronic music, colorful, artsy items

1. Electronic Music
2. EDM (Electronic Dance Music)
3. Techno
4. House Music
5. Trance
6. Ambient
7. Psytrance
8. Synthwave
9. Chillwave
10. Glitch Art
11. Vibrant Colors
12. Abstract Art
13. Digital Art
14. Music Artwork
15. Music Lover
16. Music Festival
17. Rave Culture
18. DJ Gear
19. Music Production
20. Neon Lights

CHATGPT: looking for some tags for selling items on redbubble they are themed for electronic music, colorful, rainbow, artsy, minimalistic, fauvism, happy

1. Electronic Music Art
2. Colorful Vibes
3. Rainbow Delight
4. Artsy Creations
5. Minimalistic Designs
6. Fauvism Inspired
7. Happy Artwork
8. Electronic Beats
9. Colorful Rhythms
10. Rainbow Spectrum
11. Artsy Expression
12. Minimalist Style
13. Fauvist Inspiration
14. Happy Vibes
15. Electronic Music Lovers
16. Colorful Abstracts
17. Rainbow Palette
18. Artsy Decor
19. Minimalistic Aesthetics
20. Fauvist Colors

I am going to take the best of both worlds and use the following as my tags:

EDM,Techno,House Music,Trance,Glitch Art,Vibrant Colors,Abstract Art,Music Lover,Music Festival,Rave Culture,Electronic Music Art,Colorful Vibes,Rainbow Delight,Artsy Creations,Happy Artwork,Electronic Beats, Colorful Rhythms,Rainbow,Artsy Expression,Happy Vibes,Electronic Music Lovers,Colorful Abstracts,Rainbow Palette,Artsy Decor

The product pages look great on Redbuble

This is a work in progress and I will continue to update as I build out these three stores. Please add comments if you know a better way.

Welcome aboard.  Typically I like to go down rabbit holes and bring people along with me.   My first post will be about using https://www.midjourney.com/ to help me create a few shirts for a festival in late summer.  I plan on putting all my learnings and process in the post.  Feel free to comment if there are better more efficient ways and I will add your comments and name. 

My Planned Process

Human Inspired –> AI-Generated –> Human Edited –> AI Upscaled. 

• Step One Select a Style
• Step Two select the subject matter
• Step Three Send to the bots.
• Step Four: Bring back into Gimp for human edits
• Step Five: Upscale using AI

Selecting the correct art style to start with.  I am really leaning towards a mashup of the following art styles.

 Neo-Impressionism:

Fauvism :

–> There is a great resource on GitHub for styles: here

Subject matter.  I am thinking of something that is not extremely busy but easy to recognize.  The festival is in Chicago and focused on House Music with a touch of Techno.

1. Headphones
2. A SL1200
3. a TB303
4. Chicago Skyline
5. A Record
6. Lights  
7. Dancing person

I started my process with the midjourney bots.  After about 15 prompts I decided to focus on  Fauvism and changed records to record crate.   I am looking to get a very colorful, stylized image and am not getting anywhere near what I want.

My prompt ended up like this: a classic milk crate full of 12-inch rave records that an old school DJ would take to a rave while complaining about who new people are all digital, white background,Fauism –ar 2:3 –stylize 550 

I ended up with these because I spelled Fauvism wrong in my prompt. simple proofreading goes a long way.

 

I then spent hours on hours trying to find prompts that would give me something I was looking for. I ended up zoning in on 6 very specific subjects for my prompts

• Headphones
• Dancing
• Smiley Face
• Speaker
• Disco Ball
• TB 303

Using the following prompt on midjourney I was finally able to use something.   I absolutely love the colors and think this will look good on a dark shirt.   

“dj style headphones with wire, no background, fauvism –ar 2:3”

Next drop this into Gimp and clean up some of the weird AI artifacts.   One day I may be able to afford Photoshop.

I did the same for five more images.  I do not love the smiley but I will roll with it.   Gimp for basic editing then off to GigaPixel for AI upscaling.    

The one other thing I did was set a couple of backgrounds to transparent.  This is fairly easy in Gimp.   Do the following.

Transparent Backgrounds in Gimp:

1. Open Image in Gimp
2. Right-click on the background layer 
3.  Select Add Alpha Channel
4. Select by color
5. Select the background and hit delete. 
6. Save as a PNG with transparency on 

Now I have 6 images inspired by me, created in midjourney, edited in Gimp, and upscaled in Gigapixel. I have no idea how to sell these or what to do next. I will try a few print-on-demand houses and see what comes of it. Feel free to comment if you have found better ways to do any of the above.

Returning

It has been a few years since I regularly updated a blog but I missed it and wanted to share some new projects I am working on. Please hang in there while I grow the site, this time we will be focused on at least the following topics:

-Starting Topics

• Geek Culture
• AI
• Board Games
• Movies/Showes
• Digital Art
• Music