Alright, let’s talk about my little project with this “tennis player sinner” thing. It all started because I was just messing around, trying to get my hands dirty with some image stuff. I saw this buzz about Jannik Sinner, you know, the tennis dude, and thought, “Why not?”
First thing I did was grab a bunch of images of him. Google Images was my best friend here. I downloaded a whole heap of pictures – action shots, close-ups, you name it. The more, the merrier, right?
Next up, I needed to clean things up a bit. Some of the images were blurry, some were too small, just a mess. I used this basic image editor I have, nothing fancy, just to resize and crop them so they were all roughly the same size and the focus was mostly on his face.
Then came the actual “doing” part. I was trying out this new library I found online, it’s supposed to be able to do all sorts of cool stuff. I started by just feeding it the images and seeing what would happen. Messed around with the settings, tweaked a few things. Honestly, at first, it was a bunch of errors and weird outputs, but that’s part of the fun, right?
I kept at it, reading the documentation (yeah, I know, boring but necessary). Slowly, things started to click. I figured out how to adjust the parameters, how to get the library to focus on certain features. It was a lot of trial and error, like, “Okay, let’s see what happens if I crank this value up to eleven!”
After a whole lot of fiddling, I finally got something that looked… well, not terrible. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a start. I had this output that kind of resembled Sinner, but with a twist. It was a bit distorted, a bit abstract, but you could still tell who it was supposed to be.
I wasn’t completely happy with it, so I went back to the drawing board. I tried using different images, different settings, even different libraries. It was a real rabbit hole, let me tell you.
But eventually, I landed on something that I was actually proud of. It wasn’t a photorealistic recreation or anything, but it was a cool, stylized version of Sinner that I made myself. It was a really satisfying feeling, finally seeing all that work pay off.
Here’s a quick rundown of the steps I took:
- Grabbed a ton of images from the web.
- Cleaned up the images – resized, cropped, the usual.
- Fired up the library and started experimenting.
- Tweaked the settings until I got something decent.
- Kept at it, refining and improving.
- Finally, got a result I was happy with.
Look, it wasn’t rocket science, but it was a fun little project that taught me a lot. And hey, now I have a pretty cool image of Jannik Sinner to show off!
