So you guys have probably seen my videos before where I show you how to integrate OpenAI (which is the ChatGPT engine) into your Microsoft Access database and use it for all kinds of cool things. Well, tonight I spent a little time playing around with image generation using the OpenAI API, and while it's not quite as good as what you can get with the web-based ChatGPT interface, you can get it to do some pretty cool things, and you can control that with your Access database.

You basically use code very similar to what I've built before. You write a prompt like you would on the web, send it to a particular page, and then it will return a URL to a picture generated based on your prompt, which you can then download and save locally and display in your Access database. Then you can do whatever you want with it.

I put together a simple database where you put a prompt in and specify what your images folder is. You can set a couple of things: HD or standard quality (obviously it's an API, so you have to have an API key, and standard quality images cost less than HD images). Then you can pick a few options: vivid or natural style. Vivid is like the colors really pop, whereas natural is a little more muted. I made a list of a whole bunch of different types of styles (like ink wash, impressionist, fantasy, hand drawn, pencil, that kind of stuff), futuristic, sci-fi, so you could pick one of those just to give you some ideas.

Down below are some sample images that I generated with this, and it takes about 5-10 seconds to generate an image, so it's not bad at all. Then you've got them to use with your database. You can automate this, so if you want to make multiple images for different things, you can. I'm curious how many of you would like to see a set of videos on this and how I did it. If enough of you are interested, maybe I'll put something together. And if not, then I'll just put this together as a template, and you guys can play with it and figure it out on your own lol.