#graphic designer problems

[mbrainspaz]

This week in Horrors Beyond Human Comprehension

I was photoshopping some people out of an image to create a cool effect for a company booklet and decided to chance the ai feature. The prompt I tried first was ‘remove the people’

When I saw the result I actually screamed

It removed all the casually dressed smiling people —-and replaced them with a dozen 40ft tall faceless nightmare generals with laptops.

I can’t shake the feeling that their purpose is great and terrible.

The next prompt I gave it instructions to replace the people with trees, sky, and grass, and that worked ok except that the trees looked kind of Italian for no reason.

[scarefox]

Mom send me a job ad for graphic designer...

requirements:

besides the classic software stuff, creativity but then "knowledge of AI in the graphic area is an advantage"

[the-better-parts-of-space]

Me: And you're absolutely sure there are no more edits? I owe press files by noon today.

Project Manager: Yes, totally sure.

[lily-alphonse]

Hey look

Cool thanks B)

Ive been really getting into graphic design for the promo images for my fics. Unfortunately I got carried away with this one and made it way too cool so I can't use it. Like it doesn't match the vibe of the fic at all and I don't want to falsely advertise it. But I love how it turned out so I wanted someone to see it. So thank you for putting your eyeballs on it.

The fic I made it for is basically a tragic existential romance. This graphic is giving, like, cyberpunk thriller. Like the Enderman is alive and coming for my ass through the screen lol. Which would be sick, but is so not the vibe this time around.

Someone will probably ask anyway so you can read it on AO3 here: Sandy Again, tragic. No cyberpunk thriller here. But I like it a lot.

[allergictocolor]

I'm both amused and dismayed that I'm a professional graphic designer (and photographer), and I've been in this business for longer than I will disclose here, but when it comes time to make a cover image for my fics I'm like, "Uhh.... How make pictures with words?"

[catfirebrand]

Do you have any idea how complicated it is to take a black & white vector file designed for engraving and convert it to a color file for printing, but still keep it a vector file

This thing took so long 😂 but I’m damn proud of it

[shadesofmauve]

Okay, I'd agree with this totally if you'd picked any other common technological device except for printers. The single most obstreperous piece of home computing equipment, which do not get any better when you get the higher end professional machines in a print shop. The one bit of technology that repeatedly prompts me yo give up on logic and attempt animal sacrifice to appease the demons which surely possess it. No, even the dumb printer has malice in its heart.

Gonna pretend this is about fridges instead.

stumbled across some of my printer opinions that i don't recall writing but am correct about

[hinamie]

btw i benched (scrapped probably but u never know) the itfs full pokemon teams draws but i do have a fun lil sketch of the first years with the gen1 eeveelution trio chibi-style planned :>

[kinnbig]

someone needs to take this app away from me... [part 1 here]

[mbrainspaz]

“Can you please add _____ to the design?” No. Because I just opened my third eye like Doctor Strange and drafted a million possibilities for fulfilling that request in under 10 seconds and we died in every single one

[shadesofmauve]

I actually had to correct for this when I did graphic design for the library system, because older librarians would ask for posters advertising "Adult Storytime", and while I did think having someone with a sexy voice doing live erotica readings at the library would bring in a new demographic, that is not what they were hosting.

(Usually changed to "storytime for grown-ups", not perfect but better).

The real reason millenials say "Adulting" is that that if you say something is "for adult reasons" or "grown up reasons" we've been trained to associate that with sex and shit when we just wanna say, be vague about our chore habits

[scarefox]

All graphic designer job ads be like now

When they told us in the job training that, as designer, you have to prostitute yourself a bit and sell your soul... That was about working for companies like McDonalds in order to pay your bills when no other jobs are around... not about AI T_T

But yes... unfortunately I have to sell my soul a bit no matter how I feel about it in order to get a job at all in the industry again. The training I get soon includes AI too (just a small part of the classes).... Tho it is not bad to be informed and actually know how these bishes work in order to judge them, find better solutions or include them if demanded... but maybe in a way I don't stab my heart every time.

I will never use picture generator AI in private, personal projects. But in business it's not my problem if companies want to ruin their image by using cheap, buggy AI that looks exactly like every other companies cheap, buggy AI designs.

At least german AI laws are in favor of artists atm and bad for AI. (AI art doesn't get copyright so you could technically take every companies AI bs and do whatever mockery you want with it and they can't sue you)

[etherealbards]

silly poster i made for my graphic design class. "san dimas highschool" was too long for me so i just did "teen highschool"

[id: a poster depicting normal oak holding a trophy that says "sports fest" in all caps. there's a blue burst shape behind him and the entire background is teal. there's also text in white that says "teen highschool" on the top and "april 2, 2024 | 10 am" on the bottom. end id]

[allgremlinart]

I rly need to set up an inprint (?) it seems like a lot of people use that site (is it good you guys?)

however none of my art is really print material, I might want to re-work some of it... hm...

[blamemma]