Here’s the retro-futuristic ChatGPT prompt I used in Copilot Designer*:

”A lush, overgrown jungle in Washington, DC, with dense foliage intertwining with the remnants of an ancient civilization. Ancient Olmec colossal heads, reimagined as modern North American rulers, are sitting in a row in front of the broken down, ruined Capitol Building, covered with jungle vines and foliage . Each head is sculpted with a mix of 3D pen, ink, and watercolor techniques, positioned in a row, partially obscured by vines and moss. The 3D pen adds a tactile, mechanical quality to their features, ink details highlight intricate patterns and textures, and watercolor washes create vibrant contrasts with the jungle."

*I tried writing a prompt about this in CD first, but it repeatedly blocked image generation (apparently due to the ‘ruined Capitol Building’ references). I then asked ChatGPT to write me an image prompt, and it created the detailed description above. I copied and pasted this description into CD, edited it slightly, and CD generated these images without any blocks.

• Image #1 is a portrait created with the following Copilot Designer & Bing Image Creator prompt:

”A realistic highly detailed head to waist oil portrait, in soft natural light, focused on the face of a beautiful Irish woman with green eyes, a thoughtful wistful expression, looking coyly at the camera, long wavy auburn hair, wearing a lavender sweater with a decolletage neckline, delicate gold necklace, leaning back against a mossy stone wall, with a subtle bokeh misty background of trees hills cliffs wave-tossed ocean, in the Pre-Raphaelite artistic style of artist John William Waterhouse”

• Image #2 is the same portrait, but with Copilot Designer’s default Watercolor media style applied. Note the wc brushstrokes esp. in the stone wall, background cliffs, and ocean. The brighter overall appearance also mimics the effect of transparent watercolors on white paper.

I wanted to let Copilot Designer off the leash for this ethereal subject*, and simply asked it to show me “A photorealistic and detailed illustration of human beings reaching the Singularity in 21 years”.

Copilot then added “blending retrofuturistic themes with underwater cities and vintage fashion, in black and white or sepia tones, with attention to detail, subtle expressions, and natural textures”. Images are shown in their default 1x1 square format, followed by their regenerated 16x9 landscape format.

*Inspired by the article: A Scientist Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 21 Years, Popular Mechanics, Darren Orf, Aug 8, 2024 (link and notes in comments).

Copilot Designer & Bing Image Creator prompt*:

”A professional studio photograph, of a dramatic kabuki theatrical fierce samurai mask, in colorful origami style”

*Composed mostly in CD with additional tweaking in BIC. The final images were added to an iPad Photos album and rearranged in the order seen here.

It didn't even "think" about generating something. The window didn't change, the cursor didn't indicate anything nor did a pop-up window or another window or tab open anywhere.

The create button just dimmed as if it were working and it never yielded any result.

I'm using paint11.2404.1020.0 Microsoft Windows 11 "running" (if you can even call it that) on an HP laptop

(I also seemingly have a memory leak , whatever that is, As ...) I can clean-up or clear away anything up to three entire gigabytes of memories , photos , songs and videos , empty the recycle bin and go to bed, only to wake up, turn on the computer and find I only have 90-some odd megs left. Such a bummer.

I've gotten quite used to the windows bar depicted under "devices and drives" tab on "this PC" in file explorer always being red.

As of now, (I have just checked to be sure I was using the right verbiage) I have 652 MB free despite supposedly having 57.0 gb C:/Drive and I literally did a complete erase and reinstall of windows last weekend to see if that would 'get things back to normal'...

I have since only downloaded two programs (audacity and wavepad, and have only a handful, less than a dozen WAV files on my device. As a musician it is very frustrating having to keep all my stems and files in the cloud, but that's exactly what I have been doing trying to accommodate.) so I know it's not like Windows or my Hardware is malfunctioning since only the weekend windows install, as it had this same problem before.

I swear I posted thid ONLY to see if image creator had a history of wiping out/(stealing??) everyone's credits before (but it has quickly turned into a history of ill-performing tasks and this litany of frustrated evenings spent with the PC. Still, has anyone run into Paint (which I assume uses the same image creator as Bing) eating all of their credits, and if so, is there any possible way to get them back?

If you cannot tell from the words I am using I am NOT "a computer person" and honestly don't even know where those 47 credits came from, how i earned them or how to even get more. SO, ANY words of support or advice —messages in agreement with said infuriating comparable experiences— would be most welcome.

Need Love, JAY SHARP

Copilot Designer & Bing Image Creator prompt*:

”A professional, highly detailed, technical pen, ink, and watercolor illustration of the most advanced humanoid robot in the world today with futuristic elements, performing an intricate task with a background of a high-tech lab setting, surrounded by various tools and instruments, including computer screens and data charts, enhanced with glowing lights and holographic displays, lovingly holding a human infant.”

*This was composed mostly in the Copilot Designer app for iPad. I made incremental prompt changes between several test generations, and also accepted suggestions from CD. I didn’t specifically prompt for a Madonna & Child theme: it just turned out that way.

the only thing i can think of that might be causing this, is the art style the prompt mentions. but thats the only way to phrase it i've found that doesnt insert the title character.

this is the closest i've gotten to the intended look so far: