That’s a reasonable point. I have definitely found that saying “a painting by X” or a “a movie by X” gets results that a) I personally like much better, and b) are much more consistently and recognizably in the requested style!
I’m not sure whether “in the style of X” just ends up being less of a strong hint for DALL-E, or whether it’s pulling on a much bigger set of training data. Maybe there are all sorts of images online labeled as “in the style of Alphonse Mucha” by people who don’t actually know how to assess styles? Anyway, this is “A woman at a coffeeshop working on her laptop and wearing headphones, in the style of Alphonse Mucha” and it’s fine but it’s much less what I ordered!
That’s a reasonable point. I have definitely found that saying “a painting by X” or a “a movie by X” gets results that a) I personally like much better, and b) are much more consistently and recognizably in the requested style!
I’m not sure whether “in the style of X” just ends up being less of a strong hint for DALL-E, or whether it’s pulling on a much bigger set of training data. Maybe there are all sorts of images online labeled as “in the style of Alphonse Mucha” by people who don’t actually know how to assess styles? Anyway, this is “A woman at a coffeeshop working on her laptop and wearing headphones, in the style of Alphonse Mucha” and it’s fine but it’s much less what I ordered!