blp said:
some problems can be fixed with simple, non-AI photo editing like cropping out signatures, hands with bad fingers, paws with odd numbers of toes, etc. can sometimes use a vignette effect to do the same thing. it's not always a solution just because you still need a decent image with reasonable composition or the problem is in the middle of the image, but it is a solution at least some of the time.

Okay. I haven't thought about going to basics that much. I've been focused on preserving the whole image, and using AI to perform the corrections or avoiding the error in the first place. I focus a lot on movement and the scene so keeping everything in is generally important to me. I probably need to rethink this.

My impression is the better quality generations we're seeing today are due to a modification/add-on that can tag specific portions of the image, and using a base such as a sketch. Not sure how true that really is. The really good stuff seems to be from custom models and algorithms, but I don't have a lot of insight into those.

I'm used to the idea of going in manually and redrawing or manipulating an area to fix issues, which is super time consuming and I'm not skilled at. How do people go in and quickly make changes to say a hand or the eyes? I've seen some folks turn things around in a couple of minutes, which very likely moves it beyond doing it manually.

Novelai seems to be a year or so behind from what I can tell. I like novelai as it seems to generate better overall anatomy and texture, but it really seems to not do eyes well. It also doesn't seem to handle fingers and toes too well. Still trying to get something working on the desktop so I can try out some of the other things that exists today to see how they really compare. A lot of what I'm seeing generated I'm guessing is trained on a narrower dataset, and it produces the same errors I see a lot of artists produce. In fact that's getting worse, probably because it's more prolific.

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Also before the original question is lost. Is there a way to view the image along with the deleted post so I can identify what was actually deleted? This is something I really want to figure out.