Catzilla Meets ChatGPT
Hanz "da Bronze"Finding the Frame
While browsing on Facebook recently, I saw this ad for a company called Frame & Tail. The customer uploads a photo of a pet (or pets) or a person and chooses a background into which the photo is merged. This sounded like fun, so I uploaded my smiling photo and browsed the various options into which it could be placed. JACKPOT! One of the backgrounds was labeled “Catzilla,” which sounded just about “purrfect.”
I selected an 8″ x 10″ print in a black frame and placed my order. The company sent a downloadable photo, which appears below:
Fitting the Photo
At work, my computer has a slideshow of photos that serves as my Windows desktop. I thought it would be fun to have Hanz, in his role as Catzilla, appear in the rotation. The problem: my slideshow photos are landscape (1600 px by 900 px), but the Catzilla photo is portrait orientation. The potential solution: I remembered a recent email from ChatGPT about its ability to create or alter images. Hmmm! Could ChatGpt work in this situation?
I signed into her ChatGPT (free) account and posed the following question:
I have an image 900 px high and 720 px wide at 300 dpi. I would like to create an image in which my original image is centered, and the background (a scene from Godzilla destroying a city) is supplemented so the final is 1600 px wide and 900 px tall. Can you do this?
Yes. I can do that.
Please upload your 720 × 900 pixel original image. I’ll create a 1600 × 900 pixel landscape image, keeping your original centered at its existing size and extending the sides with a Godzilla-destroying-a-city scene that blends naturally with the original image.
I’ll preserve the original image itself rather than altering or resizing it.
The Final Result
