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I spent many years in very demanding art classes honing extreme drawing and painting skills, learning about composition, balance, color schemes, harmony, value gradation, proportion, scale, texture, etc. I've taught art professionally for many years, and I've sold thousands of dollars worth of my own art. I have EMBRACED AI-image generating as an art technique. Many people don't consider AI-generated images to be art. But the public felt the same way about photography until the 1950s, once that art form was almost 100 years old. They would say, " you didn't make that picture, the camera did. All you did was aim and click." Now they're saying the same thing about AI art- you didn't make that picture. You just put in a word prompt and the AI made it. Sometimes this is true. A lot of creators are using AI to make fake images of famous people, pictures of girls in bikinis (or less), and silly stuff. Most AI images aren't art. Then again, most photos, drawings, paintings, and sculptures aren't art either. Most of what we see in museums and galleries is trash aimed at getting attention by being weird and shocking. My AI images often begin with photos I take. Then I alter the color, lighting, shadows, and contrast of my photos digitally based on the principles of art that I've learned and taught. Then I load the pictures into an AI Image Generator. Then I take the results and further digitally alter them, removing errors and unnecessary details, adjusting color, lighting, shadow, and contrast. Last, in some places, I added a picture within the bigger picture.