#low effort photoshop

[yingxtkm]

I don’t know why but I still have this old shitty photoshop edit I made in my server awhile back in my camera roll. So I’m blessing y’all with it :^)) yw

[angelsandarsenic]

Hey look I made a little ever after high oc and put her in the thronecoming episode

idk i don't like the dress but I've spent most of the day on this so i dont wanna change it. Howeverrrr I'll probably design more clothes and stuff cuz ever after and monster high are so fun with it, so i can do those better

[shallowoak]

he has so much cred

[mumblesplash]

I disagree, one time I asked AI to draw Judas' hands and it made the stack of coins in his hands cast a shadow in the middle of his palm that looked like the stigmata. I did have to feed it the idea of there being silver coins and "red liquid,/ and a rope necklace" but by selecting what I wanted it to be drawing from (pictures and statues of saints, therefore basically entirely public domain) and having a keen eye for what I was looking for (photography, after all, is 90% selection), I got a lot of intent in there! Haven't really done anything with it since, because I don't have any other projects that would avoid the sourcing issue that well/working around the fact that the sites demand you ask for squeaky clean prompts is annoying.

this is a good point and not a type of ai program use i was addressing in the original post, but fwiw i don’t think we actually disagree

like, a camera is also a tool that allows people to generate images that prior to its invention could only be produced through sometimes-inaccessible levels of skill and practice, but it’s still possible to take bad pictures. you get out what you put in. you got a lot of intent in your generated picture because you HAD a lot of intent, and the skills necessary to effectively use the tool

the thing is, the actual, stated goal of a lot of ‘ai artists’ is to make artistic skill itself obsolete/less valuable, for some godforsaken reason. and they’re trying to accomplish this by feeding examples of the result of that skill into a machine until it can replicate everything they understand about it without learning anything themselves.

what i’m saying, and i think your example here supports this if anything, is any image produced with that primary motivation is going to fail in its purpose because even aside from any ethical/intellectual property issues, it’s self-defeating. cameras didn’t make art obsolete, they just gave us a new way to make art.

and it also feels relevant to note that to this day one of the best compliments a photograph can receive is “it looks just like a painting”

[silverwolf1249]

this picture reminded me of this old tweet so I combined the two:

[sollucets]

mm episode 1 bts x tor & gun, #1 namtan supporters

[bigshotspambot]

What’s around the corner in the dark .. ?

(This was my attempt at a flashlight shining on him until photoshop decided to take away my undo privileges and I Gaveup)

[citizenerased77]

hUh

[toddfrom]

I took at least an HOUR just photoshopping my banner so it would be red and also say horse

[surfdudeboy]

New Kitten! Time for a weigh-in!

[angry-snails]

screenshot redraw from s3 bc he looked so cool like damn sorry u got possessed but ur slaying ig :P

[oddlyunadventurous]

Vol. :3 (The Subliminal Verses)

[curlyburp]

[girlwarlock]

feeling a lil hopeless re art being used w/o permission for ai training sets

one of the things that kind of makes me despair a bit [and i have to consciously push that feeling down] with regard to people scraping vast swaths of media to train machine learning algorithms to make digital art or to imitate voices or churn out trash-tier derivative fiction or whatever is like...

how do you stop it? strengthening IP law is the kneejerk response but any kind of ''IP owners can dictate what kind of transformative works can be based on their IP'' regulations will immediately be used by eg disney to banhammer fanart they don't like, and would be too expensive for the majority of individual artists to engage with if they wanted to use it.

you can try to exert pressure on consumer preference but a lot of the pressure driving development of ai art [and the theft of artists' works to fuel it] comes from businesses that don't want to pay already-underpaid artists in order to get their cover art or ad images or whatever--what the average person online wants matters less than what publishers and ad agencies and whatever want.

a universal basic income would allow artists to be creative full time even when large customers refuse to use them, but that would make rich people's money slightly sad, so it's forbidden under capitalism.

i just- what do you do?

[i-amsoup]

I made this in and I don’t know why. But I need someone besides me to see it

Denji kaminari and denki.

[andtheghost]