Trying out the new photo reference feature to enhance my anime

For those curious about this process and interested in bringing their anime images to life, i just need to warn you that it is a difficult process. It isn't as easy as the press of one button, unfortunately.

First i have to correct the anatomy of the raw AI anime shots. then i have to cut out faces and hands and use a more sophisticated AI to enhance their faces so that they are life like illustrations, without all the giant oversized anime eyes. Then I layer in the new faces as well as any other details, shadows, textures and such, until i'm confident the illustration is at what i call a Norman Rockwell level of quality.

Then and only then is it safe to run the image through the reference feature in the creation generator here. You need to do much of the heavy lifting yourself to help get the AI to understand what is there otherwise it is just going to mess everything up and you'll end up with a tangled mess of mutant limbs.

It took me most of the afternoon just to do craft 2 images.