Making mood boards helps me visualize a mood or feeling I’m trying to articulate so I spend plenty of time on Pinterest and Shuffles making boards and collages for projects. While I can see and create an overall vision through collages of images, it is hard for me to then translate that vision into written language. Furthermore, once I have created a mood board, it is difficult for me to find similar images that fit the vibe and feeling I am looking for as I’m not sure what to type in a search bar.
So, to attempt to alleviate these issues I looked into an AI platform that could take a mood board I created and translate this visual vibe into written language which I can then use to search for more images as well as verbally illustrate the vision I have.
First, I stumbled upon CLIP Interrogator. This platform on huggingface.co takes an uploaded image and creates a written prompt for you based on the image you provide. With this prompt, you can then generate new images that have a similar look and feel to your uploaded, original image.
Next, I uploaded a mood board of mine then waited for the platform to scan the image and return a written prompt. Here are the mood boards I created in Shuffles and then uploaded to CLIP Interrogator.
After uploading my image, I received detailed prompts based on each mood board image as shown below:
With my prompt now created, I opened Midjourney in Discord and copy and pasted the prompt to begin generating images.
I continued this process many times as well as generating variations of images I liked on Midjourney until I collected a sufficient amount of images I felt illustrated the overall vision I was attempting to portray. Here are some results with the original Mood Boards for reference:
This methodology can be very helpful for creatives looking to push their vision as well as getting general inspiration from campaigns and visual content. It is also a great tool to learn about the key words that make a successful prompt. Overall, using this system of creation has helped me a lot in pushing my creativity as well as accurately translating my vision into written text.
Alli Keeler
