To think I've been fleeced? Any AI image tool whizzes please help!

[Kenclucky]

Think I've been duped out of £100 to make an image from some photos. They claimed it was hand drawn but is quite clearly just a really bad computer gen image. Won't give a refund now.

That in itself is bad enough but I specifically asked for it to be in a colour scheme / style to match another picture we have (nothing complicated). They agreed but clearly didn't follow it.

For all AI tool whizzes out there - is there any free / cheap tool that i could upload the reference picture, then upload the photos I wanted merged together and ask them to do it in the style of the reference image? I can only find AI tools that do images from prompts not from other reference images.

Forgot to say it's a Christmas gift im trying to sort

Hi I work in AI development. I haven't come across anything that can use multiple images as part of the prompt, sorry OP. That's not to say it's definitely not out there but I work with the upcoming stuff and haven't seen anything like this in the pipeline for my company (who contract across the big names). Getting the current crop of AI image gen to do what you want is very hard even for those of us who work with them day in day out.

Out of work hours, I was trying to use a commercially available model to illustrate a picture book for DS and as an example amongst many, the model couldn't even get the right number of Christmas trees in a picture even when I stated "one Christmas tree" I got one response with two and one with three! And they charge money for this AI model!

Tagging @Boiledbeetle as she possibly knows a thing or two about AI image gen too.

Some of the newer tools in Photoshop might be able to “learn” from the style of an existing artwork - I can’t remember offhand. You could edit the photos into a single image and try to use that as a source for an AI to work with, but the editing would have to be done pretty skilfully to have any chance of the outcome being good.

If you don’t mind my asking, what’s the subject matter of the artwork you want, and what kind of style? That will affect how likely you are to get a decent result. If there are people in the image, for example, it may be harder to get a result that you’re happy with. And some artistic styles seem (in my experience) to be easier than others for computers to mimic successfully.

Yes people unfortunately

Its probably an app, I have seen people marketing supposedly hand drawn things that are very very obviously (well at least to an artist who does hand draw) produced by an app that takes a reference image and then spits out a 'hand drawn' whatever.

And no these things typically can't take more than one ref. image or alter the colours in a specific way, say change a complementary colour scheme to an analogous or triadic ...

There are also people very clever with image editing (and I can do this but don't) who can turn a photo into a lovely brightly coloured 'watercolour' image by selecting different areas of the original photo and fiddling with the hue and saturation and so on and then adding in artistic splatters and flecks by pasting in images of actual paint splats and again, fiddling with the colour...

This type of image creation should be able to match the colour scheme/tones you wanted... so if they've failed to do that they have still conned you out of your money by not supplying what they said they could supply.

Did you pay via paypal or credit card that you could stop/claw back or is your payment unprotected?

I had a similar issue before and found that using a prompt generator really helped me figure out how these AI images are made. You just copy the image into the tool or describe it, and it gives you the kind of text prompt that might have been used. Helped me understand what I was actually paying for.

Not sure if this is helpful but I have seen a board on Reddit where people upload images and other clever users will manipulate them for you. It’s often people want something removed, or a person added to a photo. Some of them are excellent and they do it for contributions. I don’t know what the board is called, though, sorry.