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Super disheartening to see this. Any designer could have done an illustration, any number of local artists could have created a piece for this event. It's a seminal event that marks the reopening of Detroit’s Michigan central. Truly monumental moment for Detroit, highlighted by the crazy opening concert directed by Eminem and it wasn't worth getting a person to do the poster? Very sad.

This is one of those moments in the history of ai that I will look back on with genuine disgust.

A soulful event with a soulless AI facade.
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>>460808
who says they are not trying??
and who says that talking about it with others is not part of trying?
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>>455677
It's way worse. They hired a "designer" Ave he convinced them that this is not ai, it maybe it's didn't even cross their mind to ask if this is ai.
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>>462335
God I love AI. I ironically. If it can generate dank memes like this, then that's all it needs to do for me to be convinced!
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>>462572
*unironically
I don't know why autocorrect thought
"I ironically" was more correct
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the only thing any of these people ever wanted was a zero cost means to and end.

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imagine being in DA or pixiv or anything and maybe targetting a huge crowd for traffic, clicks, sales...where would you start? And how would you then, decide if it's working. orjust,does it.
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>>462585
I would start by asking on the 4chan graphic design board

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how would I edit this to have a realistic looking crack in it? I'm trying to troll my son
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>>461916
search google images for similar photos with cracks and broken pieces etc, once you find a few use yandex to get more, use the most realistic high-quality ones, with similar lightning and then copy paste it on top of your pic and blend it on photoshop there's tons of tutorials on yt, or just ask someone at /wsr/ to do a quick job
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Put a real crack in it, and then lecture your son about how it's not okay to play with knives.
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>>461916
Just tell him it dropped on the concrete floor and tip chipped off.

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Affinity Release Happening.
Get in here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP_TBaKODlw

Download it here (for free):
https://www.affinity.studio/de_de
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Why did they make every fucking button gray.
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>>462569
I think the UI looks more consistent that way. But yes, in AF2 you could switch between color and monochrome. It’ll probably come back with an update. I’ve already seen that complaint several times.
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They moved the login and v2 download page to https://store.serif.com/sign-in/
Save your installers before these kikes remove them altogether.
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>>462571
>these kikes
Serif was a British company with a Caucasian leader. Canva's CEO is an Asian-Australian woman.

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this made with a simple protractor, the figure has 40 parts
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>>462496
how would a mirror-symmetrical arrangement of shapes with a single one at the center ever count an even number of pieces, retard?
>geometric axioms
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you get 2 points for a good name , name boi, but thats it.

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Then you should know that at the current year of 2023 graphic design is pretty much dead. I was a professional gd for almost 10 years working in both studios and on my own and I can't really find a job anymore. It's not even because of AI to be honest, its because of how the industry works and how bad the corporate environment has become.

There's still web design, 3D and VFX/motion design(primarily 3D too) and if you want something similar or easy to transition then chose one of those but I'm not sure for how long they will be relevant themselves because of the AI which is basically a final nail in the coffin of gd. Of course there are and will be exceptions and maybe you will get lucky to find some obscure local business that needs you, but if you are young and looking for a career in the future you should stop consider becoming a graphic designer. This profession is dead.
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>>460023
Like...?
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>>445757
bump
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>>462283
>>445757
How is thread like 30 years old. Anyway, I'm a newfaggot here and surprised you guys aren't actually seeing an uptick in design request from small business wanting to polish up AI slop.
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>>462312
Why on Earth would anyone request that when they can just get a nephew to slopify it and call a day with zero "polish" to it? You think people like giving out free money to non-family?
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>>459502
How tf do you get commissioned? I can draw pretty good, have been in the industry for 5 years, yet freelancing withiut furry or fetish art is impossible. Where do I even advertise myself?? The fucking plebs at tiktok get commissioned wtf

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Guys i've just made an account on Upwork and getting my first client is way harder than i though it'd be. I can make really good YouTube Thumbnail, Book Covers, and other Graphic Design related stuff.
But selling it while competing with other freelancers on Upwork who have done way more jobs than me is really challenging.
Also on reddit with my (very first) new account i can't connect with other people to alteast promote my work.

Do you guys have any advice for me? I really need money, i've been unemployed for a year now.

I'll add some of my thumbnails here
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>>462556
First always make sure to use an online grammar tool like: https://quillbot.com/grammar-check

Also you sound desperate, you get hired by being confident, consistent, reliable and by helping others, joining communities and making connections, 4chan is the opposite of that.

Your thumbnails are too generic and outdated, just do what everyone else does and study/copy everything from these channels: MrBeast, Sidemen, RyanTrahan, Veritasium, Johnny Harris and MarkRober
>https://thumbnails101.com/inspiration

Once you have better work, you need a strategy and start marketing yourself, since you probably are clueless about that, just copy what other are doing, here's a basic example of what you should have in different formats, short for social media and large for emails etc. example https://sharetext.io/9fd0b3c1

0- A professional selfie
1- A short sentence about you
2- Link to previous works with social proof of how you solved creative problems with the results
3- Your services or the packages you offer
4- Deliverables and timeline

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How can I fulfill my FLIR fetish? Asking here instead of /r/ because they couldnt answer this. I have a fetish for FLIR images plus women or stuff I find hot, but I like the additional layer. How can I make pics like this? AI can do it but not commercial AI accepts material that\s explicit or even lightly suggestive, defeating the point. Do I do this in photoshop? Do I use AI?
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>>460863
>https://vk.com/topic-178186634_39330245?offset=2080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w8sWtH2XpE
look for heat gradients or thermal tutorials for photoshop
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>>460863
>I have a fetish for FLIR images plus women or stuff I find hot
This is so specific that i'm willing to believe this is not a joke.
What is this, how did you acquire such a fetish?
I'm truly confused.
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>>460863
There are relatively affordable handheld FLIR cameras on aliexpress (40-100$), photoshop can do some decent gradients but it wont actually be a 1:1 of what actual thermal imaging looks like. You can get the cam and just do stills of whatever you want.
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You sick fuck

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How would you apply a glitch effect like this to text and images?

Glitch effects like this are (and I am trying to achieve) seemingly random, asymmetrical, etc. Is there particularly techniques or tools to do something like this, or is it just a pain in the ass "do each bit one by one" sort of deal?

Ultimately I don't want something as extreme as this, something much more minor (just for a single line of text really) so my first thought as a retard is to just go in to paint and shift a few lines of pixels left or right
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Displacement maps. Also if you can ask here, you can use google to get a much more refined answer by just searching "glitch effect how to in (whatever program)"

Im assuming youre a zoomer and dont know google exists, in which case, die
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>>462551
There's different types, the best ones are made for posters or titles from scratch by experimenting with typography and even programming or drawings, example:
https://vimeo.com/118998266

The ones you posted are kinda generic, if you want to learn just download premade from psdkeys or creativemarket and dissect them either on photoshop or aftereffects, for Ae you can stack all crazy effects and animate them pretty easily.

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Hello, 4chan dwellers :)
I recently made this 3D model of the famous Excalibur from a movie I loved as a kid.
I just adore the knightly theme and everything related to it.
I hope you’ll like it
m also sharing the model and textures.
May the power of this sword, along with the love I’ve put into this work, be passed on to you :)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ariss91uzdboagw/EXCALIBUR_For_4Chan.zip/file

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Trying to figure out a ban where the core idea is a way to have the second "E" in "series" be composed of "OU" so it could be interpreted as "serious". I don't think this design lands, at all, it's giving radiator manufacturer vibes, not anything related to review. Is this salvageable?
Have no real experience designing text so any feedback would be nice

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Thread only for motion graphics using After Effects and the rest of the Adobe programs.
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ok go ahead
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>>462224
Man this is a slow board.
Adobe products suck.
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>>462541
grass is green

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Is affinity actually a good replacement for what it advertises?
I don't mind paying for software so long as it's a perpetual license. I don't wanna give any money to adobe nor do I wanna pirate their software and risk getting fucked.
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>>462382
>>462380

They have announced a major update that will be released on October 30. Many design influencers say that Affinity has gathered a lot of information and has taken ideas and feedback into account.

Since being acquired by Canva, there seems to be more money and resources available for development. It's definitely exciting to see what comes next.

I also don’t think they will introduce a subscription model—but who knows.

Just use DaVinci Resolve. Hovid edits all his videos with it, and it’s also about 90% free.
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>>462380
download cc 2018 from rutracker

never had any problems with that
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>>462464
The next version is going to be full of AI Jeet code.
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>>462472
let’s hope it won’t be like that
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>>>/g/107033485

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hi everyone, this is my first post in here, so i am making a fictional car brand for my game, something more like gta, and i made this logo for a bugatti-inspired car brand called "ZENVETTI", a high end luxurious supercars, please tell me everything i can do to make it better, criticize it brutally so i can improve it and actually work as a freelance and to support my project
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venzetti
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My take
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>>462535
It cleared my upload selection -.-
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>>460557
>it is obvious that the 2010 version would not be the best iteration to decorate a pixel phone with eg
Why not?
>no, it doesn't. you just happen to have decided hating the things that (to your mind) are being represented by its style.
No,it just doesn't look as good. Do you think it's impossible for somebody to dislike it?
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>>460791
>why not?
because the consumer market pays more for 'fashionable' designs that fit contemporary sensibilities
>just doesn't look good
you don't understand that graphic design is not an artistic endeavour but an economically oriented service that aims to maximize profits by connecting to a populations aesthetic standards.
>good is not what you like.
>what you like is not good.
>good is what works.
>and what you like is what you like.
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>>462524
Everything you just said is all true, and it perfectly describes why I hate graphic design, interior design, home Reno shows, most "art" based industries in general.
It's not about making something that tells it's own story or has its own personality, it's about trying to robotically generate something that appeals to everyone to sell as many products as possible, so they make something so bland, so generic, so uninspired and pedestrian, that it appeals to no one, but is merely "meh" to most observers. They really want to just make something that doesn't OFFEND anyone and turn away customers. But everyone knows brilliant art is bold and not afraid to offend. But that is not compatible with maximizing sales. It's the reason most people can't tell the difference between an AI generated logo and a human created one: both are based on the most generic conglomeration of training data, either in the machine, as in the case of AI, or the human's brain at cal arts when they drop $60,000 to learn Toon Boom and draw bean mouths to please their industry overlords with generic crap that some risk-averse producer thinks will sell well.
Then these designers whine about
>AI SLOP AI SLOP ITS SOULLESS AND TAKING OUR JERBS!!!! MUH JERB! WE ARE TRUE ARTISTS CRANKING OUT THOUGHTFUL ART, NOT DA CLANKERZ AND EEEEEVIL TECH BROS!!!!!
MUH JERB MUH JERB!!! CLANKERZ WILL NOT REPLACE US!!!!!(insert illogical and legally unprecedented nonsense about training data being copyright infringement in a desperate effort to build some kind of argument that doesn't sound like it's based purely on emotion and fear of being replaced by a slopbot better at generating slop than themselves)
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hyperfocusing on a logomark rather than the target technology, utility, styleguides and UI toolkits around it is skitzo brainlet tier.

the dumbo round fixed stroke width uppercase G is more readable in a tiny 1:1 dark or light bg rectangle/circle (favicon, social media avatar), easier to recognize among the other slop, easier to scale and animate than the serif ones. no critical areas of detail would disappear in a shitty crusty jpg compression image. that makes it more effective. these things are not meant to be artwork, merely recognizable and readable

and being able to claim something close to a plain geometric shape like circle or rectangle of fixed stroke width or fill as yours while remaining completely recognizable is also a corporate egotism.
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>>462528
your rant is mostly emotional posturing without much substance, don't you think?

you hate graphic design because it's not "real art"? so what's your alternative for making mass consumption goods appealing to wide audiences, then? hating something without an alternative is dumb, like hating gravity for making groceries heavy. you hate plumbing for not being real art too? or does your hate just stem from feeling lied to, from realizing that you fell for someone abusing your rose-tinted glasses? kek

>brilliant art is bold and not afraid to offend
bs! art is art. sometimes offensive, sometimes safe - declared art when it resonates with its moment. your personal taste doesnt matter to the larger question of what art even is. it's just snobbish projection. you're mad that 'working as intended' doesn't feel special enough lol?

complaining about 'bean mouths'?! bruh your opinions are as derivative as the logos you're whining about.
**graphic design isn't an artistic endeavor, it's a service.** no matter what the Cal Arts brochure says. it's about building shit, informed by consumer psychology and insights from actual art - closer to engineering than genuine expression.
you went in expecting poetry and got plumbing, so now you're having a tantrum. but there's no real alternative to plumbers doing plumbing in the current environment, is there?

>mocking designers for worrying about AI taking their jobs
cheap cruelty dressed up as insight. many of these people trained for years, exchanged parts of their individuality for corporate logic, and now face heartless sacrifice in the form of obsolescence. your response is to sneer at them for... caring about their livelihoods?
must be nice living with your parents.

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