The images used in Saving Satoshi were generated using tools like DiffusionBee and Midjourney. These tools became possible right around when Saving Satoshi started, so we wanted to experiment with them to see how they can be used to illustrate the story we want to tell. How awesome can we make the visuals for Saving Satoshi? Let’s push on this and not hold back.

Goal: To have a collaborative process around these. It’s a lot of fun to experiment, but we also need a bit of structure so the images all work well together.

This is a first draft of this process, primarily based on Christoph’s initial work and ideas. Feel free to propose changes.

A framework

• Let’s identify what images we need (for example, a cover on the home page and intro covers for each chapter).
• For each image, let’s look at the story & lesson and think of a creative brief. What type of scenario is this for? What elements of the story and lesson lend themselves to visualization? What environment, people, mood, objects, etc do we want?
• Identify size and quality requirements for each image (landscape, square, mobile vs desktop, etc).
• Define an overall style or creative direction with text and visual references.
• Original created images should be saved in a place where we don’t lose quality. We should also add them to a Figma file, organized by the needs in number 1 (with prompt and tool info for remixing).
• Then we can pick the best images that go into the site, as a group. And the structure should also make it fairly simple for anyone else to generate and propose new images.
• Images in the site should never be considered final. The tools are to new and quickly evolving and we are learning better how to use them. We may iterate many times until we settle.

Images we need

Home page cover

This one is super important as it defines the first impression and sets the tone for the whole site. See the description further down for more thoughts on this one.