Creating Title Images

Using AI to create images of Victorian erotica

My latest serial, The Diary of a Victorian Disciplinarian, explores the affairs of Emily Havercock with Arabella Horsham, whom she is employed to be the companion of and Arabella’s husband, Alexander Horsham, who is a devotee of the birch.

The events that took place have been recorded in Emily’s diary. Although photography was invented in the 1800s, Emily, unfortunately, did not possess a camera and I needed title illustrations for each of her diary entries.

I have had some success creating composite images featuring real life models superimposed on a background in Photoshop to use as the title images.

I have already started using AI generated backgrounds and elements in some of my composited title images for my other stories, especially my Supernatural Collection, as these tend to be more surreal. These were images were subjected to a lot of Photoshop tweaks, which also uses a lot of AI driven editing and selection tools.

There came a point where none of my stock of images fitted Emily’s diary entries, so I turned to AI. It produced some interesting and NSFW images. Since I am trying to keep the title photos on my Substack a nipple and genital free zone you can read this article in full and see the more explicit images on my website.

Creating Erotic Title Images Using AI