Artbreeder UI: Upload

Click on "Upload" on Portaits or Landscapes pages (which are the only ones that allow it)

This is the upload UI, click on the "little basket" to choose a picture to upload. You must upload one picture at a time.

Only the face will be recognized on the Portraits upload. If anything else is uploaded it will try to make it into a face

The Landscapes upload works best with high definition pictures. It will only mimic the colors of what you are uploading and try to guess mountains / trees out of silhouettes.

See how the pictures above fared on examples below

### Examples/ Tips

All examples are referring to images on the Gallery below. As you can see, even if it's a full body picture, the Artbreeder AI will pick up the face in it. Sometimes it does a good job, like on "Jecht" below. sometimes it invents a face out of thin air, like on the "wire mesh" picture below. That is fine, this is just the first step on creating a "real life" looking portrait. You will then Crossbreed/ Merge the first upload with a portrait that looks a bit similar, as I described here

* **Jecht**: I tried my first crossbreed with an ash blonde male with very little beard stubble, using most of Jecht's face with most of the blonde style (the first picture with ash blonde merge was using 100% Jecht's face and results were goofy, and that is why I used about 80% on my better attempt.
* **Jecht**: My second crossbreed was with a dark haired bearded male. He has too much beard and his hair is not spiky enough. Plus Jecht is darker skinned. That is ok for a first pass though. I'll get to "Jecht" eventually, with careful cross breeding
* **Wire Mesh**: This was a bad recognition attempt by the AI, which tried to make the entire body into a face. For better odds, crop the picture to just the face. If that still doesn't work, add eyes and mouth too.
* **Wire Mesh**: Even bad recognition attempts can be fun to merge! By using a picture with good style, you can get goofy looking faces you can later use on your projects.
* **Wire Mesh**: By using the mesh style I got a portrait with some odd coloring, this will be fun to use to create demons, aliens, etc..
* **Osterby**: The Artbreeder AI struggles with side profiles so I added eyes and mouth "clues" but ultimately I hade to rotate the face to a more forward fronting picture. I describe the process in more detail at the Osterby page, a part of my Bog Bodies project
* **Macalania**: An example uploading landscapes. Remember it will only mimic the colors of what you are uploading and try to guess mountains / trees out of silhouettes. By merging the uploaded file with a single tree on a muted colored landscape I got some lumpy mountains when I used 100% Macalania content + 100% red tree style and a bluish looking tree when I used 100% tree content + 100% Macalania style

Original JechtJecht UploadMerged Jecht, character I used had the wrong skin / hair colorMerged Jech with genes edited laterOriginal wire meshUploaded wire meshMerged wire mesh, using the style from the wire mesh pictureMerging wire mesh, using style from realistic colored pictureOriginal Osterby male mummyOsterby with added clues for AIOsteby with face rotated from side profile to a more frontal look, plus AI cluesMacalania OriginalMacalania after Upload, merging results