A few of us have been experimenting using Gemini and Chat GPT to enhance screenshots. Please make your AI enhanced screenshot full size and your original screenshot a thumbnail. Feel free to add any interesting details including what AI you are using. If this becomes popular then I may consider a contest format.
The quality you have achieved is astonishing. I cannot believe what I am seeing. 'The camera never lies' is dead as a phrase, it also means that every photo I now see on the internet is untrustworthy!
Definitely nice. I'm ambivalent about it: On one hand the composition is still ours, it's mostly just much better rendering. As such, it might be worth to fix up some of our favourite shots to make them publish-proof (printing, slideshow). On the other hand, it's removing the aspect of documenting the game. One risk we're running is that capturing fine screenshots becomes less important because you can not just ask for a fidelity boost (which is already an important factor) but possibly a mild composition fix as well. For me a big part of the screenshotting game is to try and make the best of it. At its extreme, some of the shots might as well come from TSW, RWE3 ;-) or something similar. Unfortunately, that's the reality for years. I had a run on Facebook where I appreciated a lot of nature shots and those of cute log cabins, until I realized that they are AI generated with the chimney above the window and somesuch. In fact, AI is used to generate traffic and revenue - hard business. On the upside, when stated (or otherwise known) to be AI it's nice to accept it as a what-if. For example, about two years ago some gardening company suggested that we plan ours in 3D, with its help - live.
I have had much better overall results with Gemini. I use the following base instructions then add additional such as make it Winter, raining, snowing, ect. Make this screenshot appear real (like it was taken with a DSLR camera). Do not change the type of train, shape of the locomotive, or paint scheme of the trains featured. You may adjust the items featured in the landscape, as long as you maintain the original setup of the image. Adjust lighting as needed to make the screenshot to make it look more realistic as needed.
Very nice, I'm tempted. You need to pay for Gemini, correct? There is really just one thing with the S1 pic, the shadows are very nice in most cases, except the loco itself is lit by a sun 70° apart from the scenery. Absolutely not important, just shows how much we're going into nuances to discover what's real. Well, and the Pennsylvania above the coach windows. This is crazy anyway. If your intention is to create fantastic images, the workflow of arranging in TSC and then using a good AI is already working. Who needs TSW anyway. ;-)
You will get a limited number of PRO enhancements per day for free. Always check the PRO option. Open Gemini and drag your screenshot into Gemni then add your instructions. After processing download your processed screenshot. Drag into Paint to convert from .png to .jpg.
One from Gemini and one from ChatGPT. Bottom one is Gemini (note watermark). I prefer the Gemini enhancement.
