Tools

I thought some of you might be interested in the tools I use to make my bots and images.

Making my bots is largely done within Crushon or JuicyChat, but I often use MS Word to spellcheck and fix formatting issues. I've used both the web-based interface and my phone, but lean towards the computer since I can troubleshoot things a lot better.

Images take a lot more work. 
For initial image generation, I use:
Sexy.ai
Civitai.com

I mostly use Sexy.ai since I have a solid handle on how to make my image styles, but if I want to do an unusual style, want to do an existing character (sexy.ai doesn't allow that) or want to do something that stretches what sexy.ai can do, I'll use Civitai. Things sexy.ai are bad at: full enclosure, especially of the head, character inside of something (box, cryo sleep pod), messy/sketchy looking images if I'm going more stylistic.

I typically go with two styles, one a bit more realistic and one more anime. I try to match these with the "feel" of the bot; the more outlandish and silly bots have the anime style.

I do a lot of rework and retouching on the images. I used to just generate dozens of them until everything was perfect, but now I just get "close enough" and fix them up manually. This includes watermarks and other text. I don't waste prompt words to get rid of watermarks, I just edit them out. 

pixlr.com
fotor.com

Fotor is a little better, especially with style filters and such, but it won't allow naughty images so I've been using Pixlr for the most part/ I'll sometimes use Fotor if I need to get a certain look.

Lately, I've been saving extra images that didn't quite work for whatever reason. Sometimes it's an early character design that I changed, or imagegen gave them two braids instead of one, or long hair instead of short. These I've been storing in the dropbox for paid subscribers.

Once that's complete, I add my own watermark. I have two versions: one for posting on Crushon/JuicyChat, and the other for my dropbox files with my subscribestar link.

For these, I use:
watermark.ws

From there, it's just a matter of posting the images. Most can be linked within the bot in CrushOn, but images in the greeting and links in JuicyChat are hosted on ibb.com, linked using the format: 

Once done, I post images to my dropbox. The date for the file folder isn't necessarily the posting date, but the creation date of the bot, which you can see in the "character detail" page. This makes it easier to look things up later when you don't know when I posted it.

And that's pretty much it! 

Feel free to ask any questions if there's anything else you want to know.
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