I used DALLE2 and Photoshop to create the image above. It’s kinda crazy, but it’s meant for my Tower of Gates book series. The image above started with this one…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/688294e07ec48bae34bad613a4ce35793082511b29e540d079f16fdcd9d26a66.png)
As you can see, it started as a fairly simple image. However, I quickly began to use a new feature of OpenAI’s DALLE2 called outpainting that allows you to expand an already generated image, like so…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/c1a77eaca54f118c0492c84732c8fb414646329c834d919965a72403de72d4cf.png)
I gradually added more sections to the image…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/cf5c7a5a9fc85cea0e68b23979d39eb112ea9b790ee0b4137a5fe80c2439ee23.png)
… and even more sections!
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/c2ab8b89ff5037000f933381a97ccb424f2f8b4994e516d085cb953f4b9a927d.png)
At this point I should’ve changed the prompt more, but I kept going!
Sometimes, like in the photo below, the AI didn’t do a great job…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/43a13be088201e7a0052ee538be187ff10d0298452ca54d3e422a6f50da61a65.png)
So I erased a bit and asked it to do it again!
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/81f13a4935d439a3a0aa452453bf0c762c8e9bb57a9243b87f1db64334f96241.png)
And DALLE2 filled it in a little better…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/c5cd14f6c1b6afe0a30f4dd643a6a9c7d30fa29aba07b9f0b636913c990d7405.png)
So I continued building out the image. Knowing the Tower of Gates is about dimensions to other worlds, the image getting a little crazy didn’t bother me too much.
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/fe1480ec6b95777127d9c9efadde5c87342a84f0e5587330a85609543c89ad07.png)
And I kept going…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/ca7ebb26e3e45067fb95324480a3296f491b001a34e07e836564b9027ebb8cd2.png)
… and going… I had to keep erasing occasionally…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/c52ccb2a716e3c974e911417a10be0665856282e6bd3f1c8cd769f45ea49a6f0.png)
But it would always get back in line (mostly!)…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/86745ac5116417248e2433f8a6896db9bf2f9837629097f23b4443ca46e57bea.png)
After I finished, I took it in to Photoshop to clean up a bit more… Like the top left corner…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/b84423579a95a12f7b77a93f07eae36d9699c3dfdc69842f4192a998fbf4ca71.png)
After Content Aware Fill in Photoshop…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/f30623c233181c8b231bec9e053cc6d951e51cc04302fb2d23aff9bdca2a250e.png)
Then I added the series nameplate for Tower of Gates…
![](https://glossingdress.com/lib/img/all/548/1101d381fa05cf0b98491afe867653fdae098c5a09b95e77668e9973ad0e463c/c2a5aab1ba4cc402cb16aff71cd20eae012803c9d54a4f6012af37c06d68ca1f.jpeg)