# History Brought to Life {% embed url="" %} Yes! ANYONE can learn to do this SUPER FAST! {% endembed %} OVERVIEW This article will show you the steps involved. Please NOTE this is a technical demo so no energy was spent to push for historical accuracies. This is solely for the sake of explaining the workflow. Greater minds and artists will certainly outshine our results. Enjoy!

## STEP 1 - TRANSFORM SUITE: UPLOAD REFERENCE + REMOVE ARTIFACTS Upload an image inside Transform Suite and then use inpaint to remove any artifacts. The resulting image will be used to reimagine in the subsequents steps.

We screenshot this reference image and uploaded it into TRANSFORM SUITE

using inpaint brush we masked over the trouble areas and used ARCANA SD 3 to inpaint it out

RESULT
Prompt: "drawing of early new york 1800s" | Suite: Inpaint | Model: Arcana SD3 | Transformation: 50% | Style: None | Dimensions: 1483 x 970

## STEP 2- SEND RESULT TO X-RAY Take your result image and send it to the source window inside transform. This is the image we are going to transform. \ \ Select the 3 dots inside SOURCE WINDOW and send a copy of the image to X-RAY (ultrasharp):

Selected Pre-process so we could preview the x-ray to ensure we liked the lines. This also saves the preprocess asset to our library for future use.

RESULT
The Pre-rendered line structure guidance image.

## STEP 3- SET TRANSFORMATION STRENGTH, MODEL, AND PROMPT Now that we are using x-ray to guide and predetermine the line structure of our upcoming generation, we can take the source image inside TRANSFORM SUITE and transform it at various transformation strengths. This will reimagine the image using a photo trained model while still adhering to the line structure of the image thanks to X-RAY. For this demo we used the MJ XL model.

Prompt: "photograph of early new york 1800s" | Suite: Transform | Model: MJ XL | Transformation: 54% | Style: Cinematic | Dimensions: 1232 x 800 | Tool Used: X-ray (Ultrasharp) | Influence: 1

RESULT
Prompt: "photograph of early new york 1800s" | Suite: Transform | Model: MJ XL | Transformation: 54% | Style: Cinematic | Dimensions: 1232 x 800 | Tool Used: X-ray (Ultrasharp) | Influence: 1

Once you are happy enough with the image move to the next step. If you are unhappy with result, either adjust your prompt, transformation strength or x-ray influence number. \ \ If you notice, this image has quite a lot of blemished faces but since its strong enough it is ready to be enhanced as we will explore in the next step. ## STEP 4- (optional) INPAINT TO REFINE IMAGE If you feel that the image needs a bit of work follow the classic inpaint approach. If you want to preserve the lines as you aggressively inpaint make sure to keep x-ray active. ## STEP 5- SEND TO ENHANCE Send your transformed image result to enhance by either clicking on the ENHANCE overlay button or simply dragging the image to the ENHANCE SUITE. Note that your prompt will autamtically be sent to the describe section. Adjust the Creativity level to suit your needs. We recommend attempting at least 3 enhances within the creativity range of 1-12:

RESULT
Prompt: "photograph of early new york 1800s, boats, water, statue of liberty, men and women" | Suite: Enhance | Optimized for: Photo Soft | Creativity: 15 | Style: Cinematic | Sharpness: low | Dimensions: 2464 x 1600

## STEP 6- (optional) USE [ZOOM OUT](https://help.arcanalabs.ai/learning-center/introduction/other-tools/zoom-out) If you want, you can expand the image and create beyond the borders of the image. To do this to your enhanced image simply follow these steps:

Inside IMAGE PREVIEW select ZOOM OUT (icon to the left of reconjure)

Select EXPAND IMAGE aka ZOOM OUT (depends on which version of Arcana you're using)

Enter optional prompt and select or deselect the sides of the image you want expanded by clicking on the pink lines.
Then enter the number of pixels you want added.

## STEP 7- (optional) SEND TO POLISH If you want, you can then send the image to POLISH SUITE by dragging the image to the POLISH SUITE, or by SELECTING POLISH inside the image preview modal. Select a filter or adjust a range of levels. When happy with the adjustments then click download and you are done!\

## RESULTS