**Created**:: [[2022-12-31 Saturday]] **Link**:: https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo **Duration**:: 39:56  # Summary In this video, the creator discusses the advantages of using AI-generated icons as a substitute for traditional sources like Flat Icon. They demonstrate how to effectively utilize MidJourney to create unique SVG icons tailored to individual projects, avoiding the issue of using common designs found elsewhere. The video emphasizes the growing potential of AI in enhancing creativity and personal expression in visual work. # Key Takeaways - AI tools like MidJourney can generate unique SVG icons tailored to personal styles and needs. - Using prompts strategically can produce better results in icon creation, including color palettes and styles. - AI-generated icons may surpass traditional sources in uniqueness and suitability for specific projects. # Content Okay, I admit the thumbnail is a bit of an exaggeration, but hear me out. Let me start by saying that I love Flat Icon. I recently purchased a one-year subscription, and I use Flat Icon in all my work—in my book, on the pages, in my mind maps, at work, at home. Anytime I need an icon, I go to Flat Icon. I think they're simply the best source of SVG icons on the internet. I love that you can search for any term and Flat Icon will return dozens of good icons. I love that you can choose between different styles, and I especially love that I can recolor my icons so they fit my color palette. I love that I can create collections, and I also love that even if you're not a paying member, you can download the icons in PNG format for free. All you need to do is attribute Flat Icon, and then the extra you get if you pay is that you can get the SVG icons, which will scale much nicer in images, and you can save your color palette. Flat Icon is simply great! [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=0) So a Flat Icon is so good you may ask, what's the issue here? Why the thumbnail? Well, if you've been following my channel, then you will have noticed that in my previous two videos, I started to explore the use of AI-generated art in visual thinking. The more I learn about AI art and the more I experiment with it, the more I see its potential in helping creativity and visually express myself in helping knowledge work. So a couple of days ago, I had this idea: What would happen if I would type in "SVG icon hiking" or "SVG icon light bulb" or "SVG icon rocket launching"? And I was blown away by the results. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=45) My issue with Flat Icon is that the more I use these icons in my work, the more I notice on YouTube, on websites, even on posters in our office, that other people are using exactly the same icons as I'm using. And this doesn't feel good—it feels like I'm a copycat. It feels like I'm not expressing myself in a unique way. And yes, you could say, "Jolt, learn to draw!" and frankly, I've been trying for the last 10 years with mediocre results. So I have to accept, I have a handicap here, and this is the opportunity I see in AI art generators. I can create unique icons—icons that are going to appear only in my work—but I don't need to learn the hand technique of painting, of drawing, of inking, whatever the technique might be. I can use the AI or the generator with maybe some good seed images from the internet to create unique art that's unique to my thinking, that's unique to my project. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=90) So I'm not saying that Flat Icon and the sites similar to Flat Icon are going to die tomorrow, next week, or next month, but what I am saying is that AI art generators are already a viable alternative, and in the not-so-distant future, are going to overtake Flat Icon and the other sites by a lot. So join me in this video as I walk you through the practical details of how you can create your own SVG icons, or rather your own icons, using AI or generators. I'm going to be using MidJourney in this video, and that is because after experimenting with a number of different sites and tools on my PC, I found that MidJourney is easy to use and generates beautiful artwork. If you want to use MidJourney, there is a subscription fee after a short trial, so you need to understand that, but I think you can use the same thoughts and the same approaches with other art generators as well. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=180) So there are free alternatives if you want to play with them, but also, if you follow my instructions, you can get pretty good mileage out of your MidJourney trial as well. So join me in the video, and let me prove to you that indeed AI generators are a viable alternative for creating your own icons already today. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=270) You can access MidJourney via a Discord bot. What you see on screen is Discord. I just removed the site panels to make the interface look a bit cleaner. To invoke the bot, you need to type "slash" and then you type in "Imagine," and you hit enter. This brings up the image prompt, and now I can type "icon New Year celebration." When I hit enter, then MidJourney starts its processing. Now you can notice here that I have "q 0.5" here, which means that MidJourney is processing at half the quality. This means that it will eat half the GPU time, and that's important because it will consume less of my quota. And also, what I found is that for icons, actually half image size is perfectly okay, and you can see the result here now. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=310) Let me show you because you saw that I didn't type in Q 0.5. So the way you do that is you press "slash" and you type in "settings," and this will bring up the MidJourney settings, and here you can do various settings. I have set version 4, so that's why I'm not typing "hyphen hyphen V4," and I pressed here half quality, so I don't need to type "hyphen hyphen Q 0.5" each time. So these are some settings you can do to make life easier for yourself. So this is the result we got—this is not yet an icon in the sense of a computer icon; we can see this is more an "icon" like an artwork of an icon, maybe in a church. So let's work with this and let's see how we can make this icon look better. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=390) So this is my second attempt here—the only change I did was adding SVG before the icon to explain to MidJourney that I actually want an SVG icon, not an artwork, like an icon in a church. You can see that it created a set of nice-looking icons. Now, if I would want to use this icon with a transparent background, let me just show you something. If I now copy this image right here, like this, and I come over to my Obsidian ExcaliDraw and I paste this in here, you can see that this will have this surrounding color. Now, if instead, I save this image—let me just do this again—I’m going to cut this once more like this, and I'm not going to be too fussy about the cutting now, and I'm going to save this locally like this. Now I can remove the background. I found the best removal tool is PhotoRoom. PhotoRoom has a free background remover without size limitation. So if I come here and I upload my newly generated image, then you can see PhotoRoom removed the background in a second. I can download this, and now if I come back to Obsidian and I drop this image in there, so let me just find this image that I just downloaded, and you can see that my image is now without a background. Now, I didn't pay enough attention to cut things, so you can see there's a bit of an issue on the side, but I think you get the idea that with PhotoRoom’s background removal, you can easily remove the background, and you'll see a number of examples later on how I've been working with this. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=510) So if I add "SVG icon," then I already see more icon-looking icons here. So what if I want to have a slightly simpler? So these look pretty complicated; there's lots of stuff in these images. So I can also add "simple SVG icon New Year celebration." Now note that I'm using the commas strategically to chunk the information for the AI engine, and you will see this later on. So here I have one sound byte of information: simple SVG icon, and the next one is New Year celebration. It's the content of the image, and I have a comma in between. Now, if we move on, I can also add colors, and so this is what you see here. Here I'm saying this is a simple SVG icon still about New Year celebration, but here I didn't specify a color, and you can see that these images were all colorful in different ways. This one is monochromatic red. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=600) We can also go on, and for example, you can see this; this is a triadic blue color. Now, where do these names come from? So if I look here, you can see I have a video on this as well—it's the palette loader in Obsidian. But here I have this drawing that explains the different types of color palettes. So you have the monochromatic, the analogous, the complementary, the split complementary, the triadic, and tetriadic, and you can easily create these with Palettin. And so let me just show you that tool. So if I type in Palettin, I can create a blue triadic palette like this. So I selected blue here, and here I click on this icon here—it's a triadic color scheme—and you can see the colors; it's a sort of gold and orangey and the blue color. And now if I come back here, you can spot these color combinations. You can see the orangey, I think that's more of the orangey; this is the gold and this is the blue color. So indeed, with this instruction, I could instruct MidJourney to follow this color scheme. And again, notice how I have my commas here, so I separated the type of image I want and the color scheme I want. Also, notice that here I was asking for a simple SVG icon. You can play with other words here, so for example, this is now a clipart, not an icon. If we go forward, then I can also ask for a simple clipart, so this looks slightly simpler. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=690) I can actually add additional details, and that's what you can see here. So this is now a New Year celebration with some champagne and fireworks. Also, notice I misspelled champagne, and I'm going to be copy-pasting this all the way, so I misspelled it all the way, but MidJourney still recognizes it. You can also see now this is a complementary blue palette. Let's just go to Palettin and let’s look at how a complementary would look like. So I'm adding the complementary, and so you can see I have this brown gold color here and blue, and indeed those are the colors that you see here on the blue complementary. This is already, I think, a pretty cool icon. We will see later on when I remove the background that this icon looks quite nice. But moving on, I can also add different colors. So I have my own color palette. If I come here, I can show you—this is my color palette, and you can see the colors right here in the corner. I have two colors—it's a two-color complementary color palette, and I wanted to use these colors. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=820) So how do you instruct MidJourney to use these colors? You cannot use the hexadecimal colors, so you cannot use, for example, "FFF6F0" mention; it will not understand that. You need to give it a name. But what's the name of this color? So there's a solution for that as well. The way you can find out the name of a color is you open colors or coolers, and coolers have a couple of tools, and here I want to draw your attention to the color picker. And if I open the color picker, I come back here, and I choose my brown like this. I'm going to switch this back, and I come here; I paste the color, and right now I already see that this is a coffee brown. Also, I can check my other main color, which is this blue-green color, and so I can also check the name of this color by simply pasting it here, and this is a Viridian Green color. So what do I do with this? I want to instruct MidJourney to use my coffee color. So again, simple clipart on a white background, so you can see that it had a black dark background. I usually like transparent clipart that I can insert into my document nicely, and it doesn't have a surrounding—that's my preference. So the way I can achieve it is by putting it on a white background, and the white background will be easy to remove with the PhotoRoom removal site. Now I have my simple clipart on a white background. Here, it's still the same New Year celebration with champagne and fireworks. But here I have a monochromatic coffee color. But you can notice that it's not only coffee color; instead of the champagne, I have a cup of coffee. So that's not exactly what I wanted. The way to overcome that is to add exclusions. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=910) So this is exactly the same as before—the same prompt—but I added "no coffee" at the end, so this is called a negative prompt or an exclusion. The way you do it is you add double hyphen "no," and then you list the different words that you want to exclude. So in this case, all I wanted to exclude is the coffee. So you can see that these are pretty nice looking. But let’s see how we can play further with this. So, a next step is now I'm introducing two colors here. So now I want my monochromatic coffee brown and Viridian and black colors. So here you can see that I have one comma, and after the comma, I have all the colors listed. So I don't have commas between the colors; I rather have the word "and," and I've found that this results in better color palette recognition if this is worded like this. And you can see here that I instruct that I actually want monochromatic colors on two monochromatic scales. I also tried complementary coffee brown; that didn't work, and also the complementary Viridian didn't work as well, so I found it was better to instruct MidJourney to use monochromatic scales and then list the two colors I want on my monochromatic scale. But you can see here that this color scheme now looks pretty similar to my color scheme here, for example, on this book on a page, so this image would fit nicely in that color palette. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1000) Moving on, I can still play with this. So in this case, I noticed that I have some text here, so I didn't want that text. Therefore, under the negative prompt, I included "text" as well. So I now have "no coffee" and "no text," and I also added the word "instead of simple clipart" because this is very cliparty; I rather want a simple SVG icon. And you can see that this is the result. Now, moving on, you can do another trick. You can state you want a set of simple SVG icons, and what it's going to generate is going to generate four sets of icons. So then you have plenty of icons to choose from. Otherwise, nothing changed here; only that I added this simple set of SVG icons. Also, if you want, just as a side note, if you want some characters for a cartoon or something, you can write that you want a character sheet, and then you will get that character in multiple positions. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1090) So the similar here—a set of simple SVG icons creates this drawing. Now, if I want to use one of these, you will see that the quality of these images is now pretty, pretty low. So you don't have many pixels; that's partly because I'm using the Q 0.5 switch. So if I'm creating a set of icons, then probably I'm better with the full quality, so I would not add the Q 0.5. So I would go to settings and I would remove this setting. And also, if I like one of these—and that's what I did here, that I liked this top part—I actually wanted these glasses, so I press U1, and "U" stands for upscaling the image. So that instructs MidJourney to take this drawing and upscale it. Now notice that the upscaled image doesn't exactly look the same. So look at this firework here—right here—how it looks, and then look at this here. It's a bit more complete. Sometimes you need to upscale multiple times to get to a result that you like, but in this case, I actually like the glasses that were created, so this is exactly the same as this one was; all I did was press "upscale." [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1200) Now moving on, what if I come across an image? I looked for this random image, and I want the composition that looks something like this. Sometimes it's easier to show MidJourney the type of image I want instead of trying to write it down in words. So here I'm using this image. So this link here is the link to this image—you need a link to an image that is directly accessible. You can also just simply, and I'll show you in a second, you can just drop the image into Discord and then Discord will create a link, and you can reuse that link. So I'm prompting MidJourney with this image, and I'm saying that I want a simple SVG icon on a white background, and I want a silhouette of a man watching colorful fireworks. I actually said here that I want an image with the aspect ratio of two to three, so I want a standing portrait image. Now I'm not very happy with the end result—the sky is there, the grass is there; this is not exactly what I had in mind. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1300) So one thing I can do—and that’s what I did here— I went ahead and downloaded this image and uploaded it to PhotoRoom. I'm not going to bore you with the process now, and I created a transparent version of this image that I dropped in here. And so here, this time I'm running the same script but I'm using the transparent image. So here in the browser, the transparent image comes across as wide, but you can see this is my Discord link—Discord image link—and so now if I use this, then I get slightly better results. So here instead of this original image with the grass, I'm now using this transparent image, and you can see that these are already looking better. But they are not yet icons; I like how the guy is stepping out of the picture here, so for example, this silhouette is pretty cool. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1400) Now if I want to work further on this, I actually recognize that maybe the aspect ratio is not something I should be setting because icons are usually square. So this was my next attempt; it's the same as this one right here. So "SVG simple SVG icon on white background," similar to the man watching colorful fireworks. I omitted the aspect ratio, and so these are the results I got, and you will see later on—I'm going to be using one of these. I think this one, and you will see how it looks when I remove the background from this. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1500) So let's now play a bit with different sets of SVG icons. I think the benefit of doing a set is because you get a broader selection of items. So the difference here, it's the same story—so this is a simple SVG or a set of simple SVG icons on a white background. I have my New Year celebration; I have my monochromatic color palette. At the end, the new thing here I added pencil drawing style, and if you look at these, these have a pencil drawing style. So these are not so sterile drawings, and if you want to have a bit more rustic images on your page, on your book, or on a page or mind map or whatever you're working on, then adding something like a pencil drawing style—or maybe you could add instead—here you can see the pencil sketch style. That's then even more sketchy. So the pencil sketch will be even more schematic and less in detail. So you can play with these various styles. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1600) Also, you can add the word abstract. So in this case, I have abstract pencil drawing style, and you can see that these images are definitely more abstract. Some of them I don't even quite know what they represent, but I think this is probably a Christmas tree here; these are Christmas trees—these triangles—and these are probably cops. This is definitely fireworks. So yeah, I mean this is now abstract, but it again depends on the objective you have with your work; these icons might exactly be the ones that you're looking for. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1700) And going on, you can start to add, for example, artist styles. In this case, I have Picasso style. Now what you will notice here is suddenly I have all these guys on the picture, and you will see the same here. So my next one was Salvador Dali style, and again, I have all these people in the icons. And that's when I realized that MidJourney is not only treating Salvador Dali as a style but also as a person. So I think we have the image of Salvador Dali; that's the male figure. So what I did here is this is a repeat in the Picasso style. You can see here, but under the negative prompts, the exclusions, I added two things. So you can see here I added the person as a negative prompt, and I added Picasso as a negative prompt, so I don't want people on my drawing. So these are now New Year celebration icons in Picasso style. I'm not quite sure these are really Picasso style, but the icons look nice, so I think from a styling perspective, this did result in quite cool-looking icons. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1800) And here I have the same with Dali. Again, I don't quite recognize Dali's artwork on these, but the end result is a pretty cool-looking set of icons. Now moving on, here's another one. I also noticed these icons were not as detailed as previously, so I switched back to simple SVG icon on a white background, and again I have the Picasso style without the person. I think this now looks pretty cool, and I can indeed sense some Picasso inspiration on these icons right here. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1900) And this is the same with Dali. I still cannot quite feel Dali on these images, but again, these icons have a very special look and feel, so I think these are also pretty nice. And then you can play with other types of styles as well. So in this case, I'm playing with a watercolor style or watercolor painting style; you can see it right here, and the results are just simply amazing. I love these. Then I tried crayon style, and then I tried the same. Here I changed the color scheme, so here I added muted neon colors, and I added the word muted, so it's not so vivid; it's not too vivid. I actually asked for oil painting style. Maybe I should add as a negative prompt "canvas." I didn't do that; this is I think my last example, yes! So in this example, I could add a negative prompt "canvas," and then I wouldn't have this canvas but would have icons more looking like this. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2000) So here I have a mind map that summarizes these. Let me just quickly show you that mind map, and we can also do a couple of things based on that. So let me bring up my mind map. So first of all, here you can see my transparent silhouette of a man with fireworks in the background, and you can see here are the different tools that we've been using. So Palettin was a very constructive color palette. Then Colors was the site where we found out the name of the color, and you can transform your color to be transparent by a couple of different tools. PhotoRoom is good, and I’m going to show you one more trick with PhotoRoom in a second. But PhotoRoom is a good choice. I like LunaPic; it's a very simple image editor. In my other two videos on the topic of AI-generated art, I go a bit more into LunaPic. Today, I'm not going to go into LunaPic. And there are some others as well. So Remove.bg did a very nice job at removing the background, but you can only download a reduced resolution image. For icons, it actually is sufficient. So if you’re only using it for icons, then Remove Background works for free. If you do a subscription, I found that Remove Background is very expensive compared to the value it gives me; you will pay about 10 cents per image to remove the background. I find that to be a bit too much if you're working with icons. But of course, much or little is a very relative term. And then I also tried express.adobe.com remove background; they have this free tool. It's free; it works, but it's not nearly as good as PhotoRoom or Remove Background, so I think this would be my last choice, but it's also an option. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2200) And so here I have the structure of my prompt. The way I've built my prompts was using one of these words here. I actually should add as well that a set of simple SVG icons—I don't have it here, but so that's also true. So you can start with one of these words; you may or may not want to add on a white background, or you might want to use a different type of background. Then you follow with a comma, and you describe the icon you want. Then following a comma, you can add the color palette that you want to use, and then again after a comma, you can set the style of the image. And of course, I think your imagination is the limit on the types of styles you can use—and then you have the exclusions. And I use the "no text." You can also add "no background," and you can add any misleading— not only color names, anything that's misleading, so that was Picasso or Dali, and I had "person" there as well. But I had "coffee" here; the other color in my color palette is "Beaver Brown," so I had "Beaver" here as well. So you may need to add exclusions based on the image that you receive, and finally you have these switches, and this is the half quality to save on GPU time, and this is a version 4 engine. I'm going to post this image; I'm not going to go through each of them, but you can see that I have a whole bunch of examples here showing you what the effect of the different words are. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2400) There are three things I still want to highlight. So first of all, I want to use this image right here. Let me show you how I can create this transparent color, and especially I want to show you in PhotoRoom how I can easily remove this thing from the corner. So now if I go to PhotoRoom, I first I'm going to go to the three tools, and I'm going to click on "Magic Retouch," and I'm going to start with my photo, and I'm going to choose my ant queen right here. And here I want to actually remove that like that. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2500) So I removed—you can see that I easily can remove items I don't want. So with this magic removal tool, I can remove parts of the image like these icons here from the corner. And then if I'm not going to show you that—you've already saw this—if I download this and crop this image, then with the background removal, I can remove the background and I’ll end up with this view of the ant queen. Again, I think this is pretty cool how I have this transparent background and this ant queen. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2600) The other bit I wanted to show you here—you can see these blue highlights which are differences—so I wanted to show you here that this is the same rocket to the moon icon, but in this case, I’m using my color palette, and in this case, I didn't specify a color palette. And you can see the difference between the colors, and of course also the icons. Note that every time you run the MidJourney bot, it's going to generate slightly different icons. So it is not a recipe to get exactly the same icons. You could notice it here. So if I come back to Discord, you can see my icon here, which was "icon New Year celebration," and before that, I have an icon "New Year celebration," which—let me just scroll up here—looks, I would say, completely different. And also, here, we had an icon "New Year celebration" at the beginning—which let me just scroll up here—so this icon, again, looks different. If you look at this and you look at this and you look at this, these are three different-looking icons, yet they have the same prompt. So whenever you run the bot, it will create different-looking rockets to the moon. But what I want to highlight here is the difference in the color palette. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2700) Finally, I wanted to show you some cool items here—this Mario net or this lamp with the brain in it—and I like this horse. The way I created this was similar with image prompting. So I simply used this image; I didn't even specify what I want. I just supplied my journey with this image, and I said I want an SVG icon on a white background. I provided my color palette, and I asked for a hand-drawn drawing. I think the icon I received is pretty cool. Here's the blue icon with the glass without the background; I think that looks cool—the watercolor and the Picasso style icon; these all look nice. One more thing—this is the set of icons with the glasses, and what I want to highlight to you is look at the quality of this icon. Even after the upscale, this is the upscaled image. The upscaled image isn't that great a quality. So compared to the other icons like this one or this one, these look pretty sharp and nice. This one looks a bit blurry. So again, I think using a set of icons—you probably don't want the Q 0.5 here. So that's the comment I added here. If I would have not used it, I would have doubled the number of pixels here, and I think the image would look nicer. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2800) So that is my case underlying that I think Flat Icon and the other sites have their days counted. I can really see the potential in creating AI-generated icons already today. I played with this for two days now and I generated tons of icons, and they all look much better than the icons—or maybe not much better—but they all look more unique than the ones I get from Flat Icon. I can still use Flat Icon as inspiration, so sometimes the benefit of Flat Icons—so let me just show you one more thing here—so if I open Flat Icon and I type in New Year, for example, and I hit enter, then I get all sorts of nice icons also with 2023. So that's something that MidJourney and none of the Stable Diffusion algorithms—none of the AIs today—are able to write proper numbers; it just doesn't work. But yeah, you can see that Flat Icon has this benefit that I type in a word and I get a whole bunch of icons and ideas. But I can look at these ideas, or I can search the internet and then go to MidJourney and generate my icon there, and therefore I think the future is the AI-generated icons. I'm just looking forward to my next book on a page where I can use these icons, so I can show you how a full document with all AI-generated icons looks like. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2900) So thank you for taking the time to watch this video, and I hope to see you next time. [* ](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2980) # YouTube Details ## YouTube Description #midjourney #icons #expressyourself Why would you want to use AI to generate your icons? Because everyone is using the same icons. You want your presentations, mind maps, visual summaries, and marketing materials to look unique. In this video, I explore to use of generative AI to create "SVG" icons. Note, that technically the generated icons are, of course, not SVG, but PNG images. If you are a visual thinker and would like to learn more about creating single-page visual summaries, and using Excalidraw in Obsidian for visual thinking, consider signing up for the next Visual Thinking Workshop cohort starting in January. https://www.visual-thinking-workshop.com/ If you find my videos helpful, please say thanks by buying me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/zsolt If you want to connect, you can reach me (@zsviczian) in the Obsidian Members Group (OMG) on Discord or on Twitter. The mind map in this video and some of the presentation slides were created with the Obsidian-Excalidraw plugin. Timestamps ---------- [00:00](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=0) Intro - I love Flaticon [01:17](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=77) So then... why the thumbnail? [03:26](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=206) AI Art will overtake paid icon sites [04:06](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=246) About Midjourney [05:07](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=307) Creating AI icons - step-by-step walkthrough [07:28](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=448) Background removal with PhotoRoom [10:33](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=633) Color palettes with Paletton [13:08](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=788) Color naming with Coolors [15:28](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=928) Negative prompts [18:10](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1090) Generating a whole set of icons [20:22](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1222) Image prompting [23:26](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1406) Setting artistic styles [29:13](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1753) Summary mindmap [33:14](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1994) Unwanted object removal [34:40](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2080) Different images each time you roll the dice [36:59](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2219) Image resolution issue with icon sets [37:53](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2273) Closing remarks Watch Next: ---------- Crafting your colors in Excalidraw: https://youtu.be/6PLGHBH9VZ4 Visual thinking with AI Art: https://youtu.be/4pxDotgnyls A step-by-step guide for crafting your 2022-on-a-page: https://youtu.be/WPgSxlaukYg Links ---------- Mind map in the video: https://twitter.com/zsviczian/status/1609279547219787776?s=20&t=u60KcbdFZ8pVUoq3O65BoQ PhotoRoom background removal: https://www.photoroom.com/background-remover/ PhotoRoom removing unwanted objects: https://www.photoroom.com/tools/remove-object-from-photo/ Paletton color palettes: https://paletton.com/ Lunapic: https://www3.lunapic.com/editor/ Coolor color naming: https://coolors.co/color-picker AI art generation: Midjourney: https://midjourney.com/ Stable Diffusion Online: https://stablediffusionweb.com/ DALL-E 2: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ DreamStudio: https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/ InvokeAI: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI A1111: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui Icon sites: Flaticon: https://www.flaticon.com/ IconArchive: https://iconarchive.com/ Icons8: https://icons8.com/ Iconfinder: https://www.iconfinder.com/ Other links: Excalidraw Plugin: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin Obsidian: https://obsidian.md My blog: https://zsolt.blog Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/zsolt The visual thinking workshop: https://www.visual-thinking-workshop.com/ ## YouTube Transcript [okay I admit the thumbnail is a bit of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=0) [an exaggeration](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=3) [but hear me out let me start by saying](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=5) [that I love a flat icon I recently](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=8) [purchased a one-year subscription and I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=10) [use flat icon in all my work in my book](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=13) [on the pages in my mind maps at work at](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=16) [home anytime I need an icon I go to Flat](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=19) [icon I think they're simply the best](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=23) [source of SVG icons on the internet I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=26) [love that you can search for any term](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=30) [and flat icon will return dozens of good](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=32) [icons I love that you can choose between](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=36) [different styles and I especially love](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=39) [that I can recolor my icons so they fit](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=41) [my color palette](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=45) [I love that I can create Collections and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=47) [I also love that even if you're not a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=51) [paying member you can download the icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=53) [in PNG format for free all you need to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=56) [do is to attribute flat icon](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=59) [and then the extra you get if you pay is](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=62) [you can get the SVG icons which will](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=65) [scale much nicer in images and you can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=67) [save your color palette](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=72) [flat icon is simply great](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=74) [so a flat icon is so good you may ask](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=77) [what's the issue here why the thumbnail](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=81) [well if you've been following my channel](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=84) [then you will have noticed that in my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=87) [previous two videos I started to explore](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=89) [the use of AI generated art in visual](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=92) [thinking the more I learn about AI art](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=96) [and the more I experiment with it the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=100) [more I see its potential in helping](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=103) [creativity and helping visually express](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=106) [myself](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=109) [in helping knowledge work](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=110) [so a couple of days ago I had this idea](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=112) [what would happen if I would type in SVG](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=115) [icon hiking](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=118) [or SVG icon light bulb or SVG icon](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=121) [rocket launching](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=126) [and I was blown away by the results](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=127) [and my issue with flat icon](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=133) [is that the more I use these icons in my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=136) [work the more I notice on YouTube on the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=139) [websites even on posters in our office](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=143) [that other people are using exactly the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=146) [same icons as I'm using](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=149) [and this doesn't feel good it feels like](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=151) [I'm a copycat it feels like I'm not](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=154) [expressing myself in a unique way and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=156) [yes you could say jolt learned to draw](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=159) [and frankly I've been trying for the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=161) [last 10 years with mediocre results so I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=164) [have to accept I have a handicap here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=168) [and this is the opportunity I see in AI](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=171) [art generators](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=174) [I can create unique icons icons that are](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=176) [going to appear only in my work](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=180) [but I don't need to learn the hand](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=183) [technique of painting of drawing of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=186) [inking whatever the technique might be I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=190) [can use the AI or the generator with](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=194) [maybe some good seed images from the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=196) [internet to create unique art that's](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=199) [unique to my thinking that's unique to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=202) [my project](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=205) [so I'm not saying that flap icon and the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=207) [sides similar to Flat icon are going to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=209) [die tomorrow next week or next month but](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=212) [what I am saying is that AI art](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=215) [generators are already a viable](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=218) [alternative and in the not so distant](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=221) [future are going to overtake](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=224) [flat icon and The Other Side by a lot](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=228) [so join me in this video as I walk you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=232) [through the Practical details of how you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=235) [can create your own SVG icons or rather](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=238) [your own icons the AI or the generators](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=241) [I'm going to be using midi journey in](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=246) [this video and that is because after](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=249) [having experiment with with a number of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=252) [different sites and tools on my PC I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=255) [found that mid-journey is easy to use](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=258) [and generates beautiful artwork](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=261) [if you want to use mid-journey there is](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=265) [a subscription fee after a short trial](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=267) [so you need to understand that but I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=270) [think you can use the same thoughts the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=273) [same approaches and other art generators](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=276) [as well](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=278) [so there are free Alternatives if you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=279) [want to play with them but also if you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=283) [follow my instructions you can get](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=286) [pretty good mileage out of your](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=288) [mid-journey trial as well](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=291) [so join me in the video and let me prove](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=294) [to you that indeed air generators are a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=298) [viable alternative for creating your own](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=302) [icons already today](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=305) [so you can access mid Journey via a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=308) [Discord bot what you see on screen is](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=310) [Discord I just removed the site panels](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=313) [to make the interface look a bit cleaner](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=316) [to invoke the bot you need to type slash](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=318) [and you type in Imagine and you hit](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=321) [enter and this brings up the image](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=324) [prompt and now I can type icon New Year](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=327) [celebration](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=330) [and when I hit enter then mid Journey](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=333) [starts its processing now you can notice](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=336) [here that I have q 0.5 here which means](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=339) [that](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=343) [mid-journey is processing at half the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=344) [quality this means that it will eat half](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=347) [the GPU time and that's important](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=350) [because it will consume less of my quota](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=352) [and also what I found that for icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=356) [actually half image size is perfectly](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=359) [okay and you can see the result here now](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=363) [let me show you because you saw that I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=366) [didn't type in](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=369) [Q 0.5 so the way you do that is you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=370) [press slash and you type in settings and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=374) [this will bring up the mid Journey](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=378) [settings and here you can do various](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=380) [settings I have set version 4 so that's](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=383) [why I'm not typing](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=387) [hyphen hyphen V4 and I pressed here half](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=389) [quality so I don't need to type hyphen](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=393) [hyphen Q 0.5 each time so these are some](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=395) [settings you can do to make life easier](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=400) [for yourself so this is the result we](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=402) [got this is not yet an icon in the sense](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=406) [of a computer icon we can see this is](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=409) [more an icon like a an artwork of an](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=411) [icon maybe in a church](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=416) [so let's work with this and let's see](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=418) [how we can make this icon look better so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=421) [let's go through a series of changes](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=425) [so this is my second attempt here the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=428) [only change I did was adding SVG before](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=431) [the icon to explain mid-journey that I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=435) [actually want an SVG icon not an artwork](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=438) [icon like in a church and you can see](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=441) [that it created a set of nice looking](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=445) [icons now if I would want to use this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=447) [icon with a transparent background so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=449) [let me just show you something if I now](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=452) [copy this image right here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=455) [like this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=458) [and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=461) [I come over to my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=462) [obsidian ex college rule drawing and I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=466) [paste this in here you can see that this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=469) [will have this surrounding color now if](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=471) [instead I save this image so let me just](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=477) [do this again I'm going to cut this once](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=480) [more like this and I'm not going to be](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=483) [too fussy about the cutting now and I'm](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=487) [going to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=490) [save this locally](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=492) [like this now I can remove the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=494) [background I found the best removal tool](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=497) [is photo room photo room has a free](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=501) [background remover without size](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=504) [limitation so if I come here and I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=506) [upload my newly](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=509) [generated image then you can see photo](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=512) [room removed the background in a second](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=514) [I can download this and now if I come](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=517) [back to obsidian and I drop this image](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=521) [in there so let me just find this image](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=525) [that I just downloaded and you can see](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=528) [that my image is now without a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=530) [background now I didn't pay enough](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=534) [attention to cut things so you can see](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=536) [there's a bit of an issue on the side](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=539) [but I think you get the idea that with](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=541) [photo rooms background removal you can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=543) [easily remove the background and you'll](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=546) [see a number of examples later on how](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=548) [I've been working with this so if I add](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=550) [SVG icon then I already see more icon](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=553) [looking icons here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=557) [so what if I want to have a slightly](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=560) [simpler so these look pretty complicated](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=563) [there's lots of stuff on these images so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=565) [I can also add simple SVG icon New Year](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=568) [celebration now note that I'm using the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=572) [commas strategically to chunk the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=575) [information for the AI engine and you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=578) [will see this later on so here I have](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=581) [one sound byte of information simple SVG](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=585) [icon and the next one is New Year](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=589) [celebration it's the content of the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=591) [image and I have a comma in between](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=594) [now if we move on I can also add colors](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=597) [and so this is what you see here here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=601) [I'm saying this is a simple SVG icon](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=603) [still about New Year celebration but](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=606) [here I didn't specify a color and you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=610) [can see that these images were all](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=613) [colorful in different ways this one is](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=615) [monochromatic red](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=619) [and we can also go on and for example](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=622) [you can see this this is a triadic blue](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=625) [color now where do these names come from](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=630) [so if I look here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=633) [you can see I have a video on this as](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=637) [well it's the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=639) [pallet loader in obsidian but here I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=642) [have this drawing that explains the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=645) [different type of color palette so you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=648) [have the monochromatic the analogous the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=650) [complementary split complementary](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=653) [triadic and tetriadic and you can easily](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=655) [create these with paletin and so let me](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=659) [just show you that tool so if I type in](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=662) [palatin I can create a blue triadic](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=666) [palette like this so I selected blue](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=670) [here and here I click on this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=673) [icon here it's a Triad the color scheme](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=677) [and you can see the colors it's a sort](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=680) [of gold and orangey and the blue color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=683) [and now if I come back here you can spot](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=685) [this color you colors you can see the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=689) [orangey](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=691) [um I think that's more the orangey this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=693) [is the gold and this is the blue color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=695) [so indeed with this instruction I could](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=697) [instruct mid-journey to follow this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=701) [color scheme and again notice how I have](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=704) [my commas here so I separated the the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=707) [type of image I want and the color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=711) [scheme I want also notice that here I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=714) [was asking for a simple SVG icon you can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=717) [play with other words here so for](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=720) [example this is now a clipart not an](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=723) [icon](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=726) [if we go forward then I can also](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=727) [ask for a simple clipart so this looks](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=731) [slightly](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=734) [simpler and I can actually add here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=735) [additional details and that's what you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=739) [can see here so this is now a New Year](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=741) [celebration with some champagne and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=743) [fireworks also notice I misspelled](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=745) [champagne and I'm going to be copy](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=748) [pasting this all the way so I misspelled](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=750) [it all the way but my journey still](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=753) [recognizes it and you can also see now](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=756) [this is a complementary blue palette and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=758) [let's just go to Palatine and let's look](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=761) [how a complementary would look like so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=764) [I'm adding the complementary and so you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=767) [can see I have this brown gold color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=769) [here and blue and indeed those are the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=772) [colors that you see here on the blue](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=775) [complementary and this is already I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=778) [think a pretty cool icon we will see it](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=780) [later on when I remove the background](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=782) [that this this icon looks quite nice but](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=785) [moving on I can also add different](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=788) [colors and so I have my own color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=791) [palette if I come here I can show you my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=793) [this is my color palette and you can see](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=797) [the colors right here in the corner I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=799) [have two colors it's a two color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=803) [complementary color palette and I wanted](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=805) [to use these colors so I how do you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=808) [instruct mid-journey to use these colors](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=812) [you cannot use the hexadecimal colors so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=815) [you cannot use for example FFF](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=818) [6f0 mention you will not understand that](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=821) [you need to give it a name but what's](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=825) [the name of this color so there's a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=827) [solution for that as well the way you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=830) [can find out the name of a color is you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=832) [open colors or coolers and coolers has a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=835) [couple of tools and here I want to draw](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=841) [your attention to the Color Picker and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=844) [if I open the Color Picker I come back](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=847) [here and I choose my brown](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=850) [like this I'm going to switch this back](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=854) [and I come here I paste the color and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=857) [right now I already see that this is a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=860) [coffee brown also I can check my other](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=863) [main color which is this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=866) [blue green color and so I can also check](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=869) [the name of this color by simply pasting](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=873) [it here and this is a Viridian Green](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=876) [color so what do I do with this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=879) [I want to instruct my journey to use my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=882) [coffee color so again simple clip art on](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=886) [white background so you can see that](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=890) [this had a black dark background I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=891) [usually like transparent clip art that I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=895) [can insert into my document nicely and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=899) [it doesn't have a surrounding that's my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=902) [preference so the way I can achieve it](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=905) [is by putting it on a white background](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=907) [and the white background will be easy to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=910) [remove with the photo room removal](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=914) [site now I have my simple clip art on a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=918) [white background here it's still the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=923) [same New Year celebration with champagne](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=926) [and fireworks but here I have a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=928) [monochromatic coffee color but you can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=930) [notice that it's not only coffee color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=934) [but instead of a champagne I have a cup](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=936) [of coffee so that's not exactly what I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=939) [wanted the way to overcome that is to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=942) [add exclusions](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=945) [so this is exactly the same](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=947) [as before the same prompt but I added no](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=950) [coffee at the end so this is called a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=953) [negative prompt or an exclusion and the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=956) [way you do it is you add double hyphen](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=959) [no and then you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=962) [list the different words that you want](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=964) [to exclude so in this case all I wanted](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=967) [to exclude is the coffee so you can see](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=969) [that these are pretty nice looking but](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=972) [let's see how we can play further with](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=975) [this so a next step is now I'm](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=978) [introducing two colors here so now I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=983) [want my monochromatic coffee brown and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=986) [Viridian](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=990) [and black colors](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=991) [so here you can see that I have one](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=993) [comma and after the comma I have all the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=996) [colors listed so I don't have commas](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=998) [between the colors I rather have the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1000) [word and and I found that this com](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1003) [results in a better color palette](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1006) [recognition if this is averted like this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1009) [and you can see that I instruct that I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1012) [actually want monochromatic colors on](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1014) [two monochromatic scales I also tried](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1017) [complementary coffee brown that didn't](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1020) [work and also the complementary Viridian](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1022) [didn't work as well so I found it was](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1026) [better to instruct](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1028) [mid journey to use monochromatic scales](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1031) [and then list the two colors I want on](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1034) [my monochromatic scale](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1037) [but you can see here that this color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1038) [scheme now looks pretty similar to my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1041) [color scheme here for example on this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1044) [book on a page so this image would fit](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1047) [nicely in that color palette moving on I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1050) [can still play with this so in this case](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1055) [I noticed that I have some text here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1058) [so I didn't want that text and therefore](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1062) [under the negative prompt I included](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1066) [text as well so I now have no coffee and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1070) [no text and I also added the word](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1074) [instead of simple clipart because this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1078) [is very cliparty I rather want a simple](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1081) [SVG icon and you can see that this is](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1084) [the result now moving on](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1089) [you can do another trick you can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1092) [State you want a set of simple SVG icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1095) [and what it's going to generate it's](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1100) [going to generate](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1102) [four sets of icons so then you have](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1103) [plenty of icons to choose from otherwise](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1107) [nothing changed here only that I added](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1110) [this simple set of SVG icons also if you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1113) [want just as a side note if you want](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1118) [some characters](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1121) [for a cartoon or something you can write](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1123) [that you want a character sheet and then](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1127) [you will get that character in multiple](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1131) [positions so the similar here a set of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1134) [simple SVG icons creates this drawing](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1137) [now if I want to use one of these you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1140) [will see that the quality of these](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1143) [images are now pretty pretty low so you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1146) [don't you don't have many pixels that's](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1149) [partly because I'm using the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1151) [Q 0.5 switch so if I'm creating a set of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1155) [icons then probably I'm better with the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1160) [full quality so I would not add the Q](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1164) [0.5 so I would go to settings and I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1166) [would remove this setting](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1169) [and also if I like one of these and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1172) [that's what I did here that I liked this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1176) [top part I actually wanted these classes](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1178) [so I press U1 and U stands for upscaling](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1181) [the image so that instructs my journey](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1186) [to take this drawing and to upscaling](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1189) [now notice that the upscaled image](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1192) [doesn't exactly look the same so look at](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1194) [this firework here right here how it](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1196) [looks and then look at this here it's a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1200) [bit more complete](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1203) [and sometimes you need to upscale](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1205) [multiple times to get to a result that](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1208) [you like but in this case I actually](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1211) [like the glasses that were created so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1213) [this is exactly the same as this one was](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1216) [all I did was press up scale now moving](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1219) [on what if I come across an image and so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1223) [I looked for this random image and I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1228) [want the composition that looks](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1231) [something like this and sometimes it's](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1233) [easier to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1235) [show my journey the type of image I want](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1237) [instead of trying to write it down in](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1239) [words so here I'm using this image so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1242) [this link here is the link to this image](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1245) [you need a link](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1249) [to a an image that is directly](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1250) [accessible you can also just simply and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1253) [I'll show you in a second you can just](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1256) [drop the image into Discord and then](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1258) [Discord will create a link and you can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1261) [reuse that link so I'm prompting mid](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1263) [Journey with this image and I'm saying](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1267) [that I want a simple SVG icon on white](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1270) [background and I want a silhouette of a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1273) [man watching colorful fireworks and I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1276) [actually said here that I want an image](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1280) [with the aspect ratio of two to three so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1282) [I want a standing portrait image](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1285) [now I'm not very happy with the end](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1288) [result the the sky is there the grass is](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1290) [there this is not exactly what I had in](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1293) [mind so one thing I can do and that's](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1296) [what I did here I went ahead and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1299) [downloaded this image and uploaded it to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1304) [the photo room I'm not going to bore you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1307) [with the process now and I created a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1311) [transparent version of this image that I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1314) [dropped in here and so here this time](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1317) [I'm running the same script but I'm](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1320) [using the transparent image so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1322) [here in in the browser the transparent](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1327) [image comes across as wide but you can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1329) [see this is my Discord link Discord](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1332) [image link and so now if I use this then](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1335) [I get slightly better](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1340) [results so here instead of this original](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1342) [image with the grass I'm now using this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1345) [transparent image and you can see that](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1349) [these are already looking better but](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1352) [they are not yet icons I I like how the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1355) [guy is stepping out of the picture here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1357) [so for example this silhouette is pretty](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1359) [cool now if I want to work further on](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1362) [this I actually recognize that maybe the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1364) [aspect ratio is not something I should](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1368) [be setting because icons are usually uh](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1370) [Square so this was my next attempt it's](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1373) [the same as this one right here so SVG](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1377) [simple SVG icon on white background](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1381) [similar to the man watching colorful](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1383) [fireworks I omitted the aspect ratio and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1386) [so these are the results I got and you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1391) [will see later on I'm going to be using](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1394) [one of these I I think this one and you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1398) [will see how it looks when I remove the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1402) [background from this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1404) [so let's now play a bit with different](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1407) [sets of SVG icons I think the benefit of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1410) [doing a set is because you get a broader](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1413) [selection of items so the difference](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1416) [here it is the same story so this is a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1420) [simple SVG or a set of simple SVG icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1423) [on white background I have my New Year](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1427) [celebration I have my monochromatic](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1430) [color palette and at the end the new](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1433) [thing here I added pencil drawing style](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1437) [and if you look at these these have a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1440) [pencil drawing style so these are not so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1444) [sterile drawings and if you want to have](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1447) [a bit more rustic images on your on your](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1451) [page on your book on a page or mind map](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1455) [or whatever you're working on then](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1458) [adding something like a pencil drawing](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1460) [style or maybe you could add instead](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1463) [here you can see the pencil sketch style](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1466) [that's then even more sketchy so the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1470) [pencil sketch will be even more](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1474) [schematic and and less in the detail so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1477) [you can you can play with these various](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1482) [styles](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1484) [also you can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1485) [add the word abstract so in this case I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1488) [have abstract pencil drawing style and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1491) [you can see that these images are](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1494) [definitely more abstract some of them I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1498) [don't even quite know what they](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1500) [represent but I think this is probably a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1502) [Christmas tree here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1504) [these are Christmas trees these these](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1506) [triangles and these are probably](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1509) [cops this is definitely fireworks so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1513) [yeah I mean this is now abstract but I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1516) [again depends on the objective you have](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1520) [with your work these icons might exactly](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1524) [be the ones that you're looking for](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1528) [and going on you can start to add for](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1531) [example artist so in this case I have](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1534) [Picasso style now what you will notice](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1537) [here is suddenly I have all these guys](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1540) [on the picture and you will see the same](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1542) [here so my next one was Salvador Dali](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1546) [style and again I have all these people](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1549) [on the on the icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1552) [and that's when I realized that](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1555) [mid-journey is not only treating](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1558) [Salvador Dali as a style but also as a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1560) [person so I think we have the image of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1564) [Salvador doli and that's the male figure](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1567) [so what I did here is this is a repeat](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1569) [in the Picasso Style](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1573) [you can see here but under the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1575) [negative prompts the exclusions I added](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1579) [two things so you can see here I added](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1582) [the the person as a negative prompt and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1586) [I added Picasso as a negative prompt so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1590) [I don't want people on my drawing so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1593) [these are now New Year's celebration](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1596) [icons in Picasso style I'm not quite](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1599) [sure these are really Picasso style but](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1604) [the icons look nice so I think from a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1606) [styling perspective this did result in](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1610) [quite cool looking icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1613) [and here I have the same with Dolly and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1616) [again](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1620) [I don't quite recognize Dolly's artwork](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1621) [on these but the end result is a pretty](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1624) [cool looking set of icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1628) [now moving on here's another one so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1632) [what I also noticed is these icons were](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1636) [not as detailed as previously so I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1639) [switched back to simple SVG icon on](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1643) [white background and again I have the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1645) [Picasso style without the person and I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1648) [think this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1652) [now looks uh pretty cool and I can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1653) [indeed sense some because so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1657) [um inspiration on these icons right here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1660) [and this is the same with Dolly I still](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1665) [cannot quite feel Dolly on these images](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1669) [but again these icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1672) [have a very special look and feel so I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1675) [think these are also pretty nice](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1677) [and then you can play with other type of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1681) [styles as well so in this case I'm](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1683) [playing with a watercolor style or](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1685) [watercolor painting style you can see it](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1688) [right here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1691) [and the results are just simply amazing](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1692) [I I love these then I tried crayon style](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1695) [and then I tried the same with here I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1700) [changed the color scheme so here I added](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1705) [muted neon colors](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1708) [and I added the word muted so it's not](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1711) [so vivid it's not too Vivid and I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1714) [actually asked for oil painting style](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1717) [maybe I should add as a negative prompt](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1720) [canvas I didn't do that this is I think](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1724) [my last example yes so in this example I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1727) [I could add a negative prompt canvas and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1731) [then I wouldn't have this canvas but](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1734) [would have icons more looking like this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1735) [so I have a mind map that summarizes](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1740) [these let me just quickly show you that](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1743) [mind map and we can also do couple of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1746) [things based on that so let me](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1748) [bring up my mind map so first of all](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1752) [here you can see my transparent](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1755) [silhouette of a man with fireworks in](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1759) [the background and you can see](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1762) [here are the different tools that we've](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1766) [been using so Peloton was a very](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1769) [constructed or color palette then colors](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1774) [was the side where we found out the name](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1778) [of the color and you can transform your](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1782) [color to be transparent by a couple of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1786) [different tools photo room is good and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1789) [I'm going to show you one more trick](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1791) [with photo room in a second but so photo](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1793) [room is a good choice I like Luna pick](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1796) [it's a very simple image editor in my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1801) [other two videos on the topic of AI](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1804) [generated art I go a bit more into Luna](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1807) [pick today I'm not going to go into](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1810) [lunapic and there are some others as](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1811) [well so the remove dot BG did a very](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1814) [nice job at removing the background but](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1818) [you can only download A reduced](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1821) [resolution image for icons it actually](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1824) [is sufficient so if you're only using it](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1827) [for icons then remove background works](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1831) [for free if you do a subscription I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1834) [found that remove background is very](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1836) [expensive compared to the value it gives](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1839) [me so you will pay about 10 cents per](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1841) [image to remove the background I find](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1844) [that that is a bit too much if you're](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1847) [working with icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1850) [but of course much or little is a very](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1852) [relative term and then I also tried](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1856) [Express adobe.com remove background they](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1860) [have this free tool](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1863) [it's free it works but it's not nearly](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1865) [as good as photo room or remove](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1869) [background so I think this would be my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1871) [last choice but it's also an option](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1875) [and so here I have the structure of my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1878) [prompt so the way I've built my prompts](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1882) [was using one of these words here I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1885) [actually should add as well that a set](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1889) [of simple as SVG icons I don't have it](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1893) [here but so that's also true so you can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1898) [start with one of these words you may or](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1902) [may not want to add on a white](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1905) [background or you might want to use a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1908) [different type of background then you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1910) [follow with a comma and you describe the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1912) [icon you want](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1916) [then following a comma you can add the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1918) [color palette that you want to use and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1921) [then again after a comma you can set the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1924) [style of the image and of course I think](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1928) [your imagination is the limit on the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1931) [type of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1933) [Styles you can use and then you have the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1934) [exclusions and I use the no text](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1938) [you can also add no background and you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1942) [can add any misleading not only color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1945) [names anything that's misleading so that](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1948) [was Picasso or Dolly and I had person](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1951) [there as well but I had coffee here the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1954) [other color in my color palette is](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1957) [Beaver Brown so I had Beaver here as](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1959) [well so you may need to add exclusions](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1962) [based on the image that you receive and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1967) [finally you have these switches and this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1970) [is the half quality to save on GPU time](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1974) [and this is a version 4 engine](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1977) [and I'm going to post this image I'm not](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1980) [going to go through each of them but you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1983) [can see that I have a whole bunch of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1985) [examples here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1987) [showing you what the effect of the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1989) [different words are](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1992) [there are three things I still want to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1995) [highlight so first of all I want to use](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=1997) [this image right here let me show you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2001) [how I can create this transparent color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2003) [and especially I want to show you in](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2006) [photo room how I can easily remove this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2008) [thing from the corner so now if I go to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2010) [photo room I first I'm going to go to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2014) [the three tools and I'm going to click](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2018) [on Magic retouch and I'm going to start](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2021) [with my photo and I'm going to choose my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2025) [ant Queen](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2030) [right here and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2031) [here I want to actually remove that like](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2034) [that](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2038) [so I removed you can see that I easily](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2040) [can remove items I don't want so with](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2043) [this magic removal tool I can remove](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2045) [parts of the image like these icons here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2048) [from the corner](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2051) [and then if I'm not going to show you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2053) [that you've already saw this if I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2056) [download this and crop this image then](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2058) [with the background removal I can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2061) [remove the background and I'll end up](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2064) [with this view of the ant Queen which](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2067) [again I think this is pretty cool how I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2071) [have this transparent background and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2074) [this ant Queen](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2076) [the other bit I wanted to show you here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2078) [you can see these blue highlights which](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2080) [are differences so I wanted to show you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2083) [here that this is the same rocket to the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2086) [moon](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2091) [icon but in this case I'm using my color](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2092) [palette](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2096) [and in this case I didn't specify a](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2097) [color palette and you can see the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2099) [difference between the colors and of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2101) [course also the icons note that every](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2104) [time you run the mid-journey bot it's](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2108) [going to generate slightly different](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2111) [icons so it is not a recipe to get](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2114) [exactly the same icons you could notice](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2117) [it here so if I come back to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2119) [Discord you can see my icon here which](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2122) [was icon New Year celebration and before](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2126) [that I have an icon New Year celebration](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2130) [which](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2132) [looks I would say completely different](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2134) [and also here we had an icon New Year](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2137) [celebration at the beginning which let](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2140) [me just scroll up here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2143) [so this icon again looks different if](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2145) [you look at this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2148) [and you look at this and you look at](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2149) [this these are three different looking](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2152) [icons yet they have the same prompt so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2155) [whenever you run the bot it will create](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2158) [different looking Rockets to the moon](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2162) [but what I want to highlight here is the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2164) [difference in the color palette](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2167) [and then finally I wanted to so you can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2169) [see some cool items here uh this Mario](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2173) [net or this lamp with the brain in it](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2176) [and I like this horse and the way I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2180) [created this was similar with image](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2183) [prompting so I simply used this image I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2186) [didn't even specify what I want I just](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2189) [supplied my journey with this image and](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2192) [I said I want an SVG icon on white](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2195) [background I provided my color palette](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2198) [and I asked for a hand run](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2201) [drawing I think the icon I received is](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2204) [pretty cool here's the blue icon with](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2208) [the glass without the background I think](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2212) [looks cool the watercolor and the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2214) [Picasso style icon these all look nice](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2217) [and one more thing so this is the set of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2219) [icons with the glasses and what I want](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2224) [to highlight to you is look at the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2228) [quality of this icon even after the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2230) [upscale so this is the upscaled image](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2234) [and the upscaled image isn't that great](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2236) [a quality so compared to the other icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2240) [like this one or this one these look](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2243) [pretty sharp and nice](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2245) [this one looks a bit blurry so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2248) [again I think using a set of icons you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2253) [probably don't want the q000 0.5 here so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2257) [that's the comment I added here](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2262) [if I would have not used it I would have](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2265) [doubled the number of pixels here and I](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2267) [think the image would look nicer](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2270) [so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2273) [that is my](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2274) [case underlying that I think](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2276) [flat icon and the other sites have their](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2279) [days counted I can really see the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2283) [potential in creating AI generated icons](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2286) [already today I played with this for](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2290) [two days now and I generated tons of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2293) [icons and they all look much better than](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2296) [the icons or maybe not much better but](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2299) [they are all they all look more unique](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2301) [than the ones I get from Flat icon I can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2305) [still use flat icon as a as an](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2308) [inspiration so sometimes the benefit of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2311) [flat icons so let me just show you one](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2314) [more thing here so if I open flat icon](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2317) [and I type in New Year for example](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2321) [and I hit enter Then I get all sorts of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2326) [uh nice icons also with 2023 so that's](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2331) [something that](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2335) [mid-journey and none of the stable](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2337) [diffusion algorithms not the none of the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2341) [AIS today are able to write proper](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2343) [numbers](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2347) [it just doesn't doesn't work but yeah so](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2348) [you can see that flat icon has this](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2352) [benefit that I type in a word and I get](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2354) [a whole bunch of](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2357) [icons and ideas](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2360) [but I can look at these ideas or I can](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2363) [search the internet and then go to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2365) [mid-journey and generate my icon there](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2368) [and therefore I think the future is the](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2371) [AI generated icons I'm just looking](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2375) [forward to my next book on a page where](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2378) [I can use these icons so I can show you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2380) [how a full document with all AI](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2383) [generated icons look like](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2387) [so thank you for taking the time to](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2390) [watch this video and I hope to see you](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2392) [next time](https://youtu.be/ZeqsDWBawdo?t=2395)