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It's fucking sad and funny thinking about the (subscription) versions of Photoshop released in the last couple of years, ones where Adobe added AI-based tools.
The shadows on this post are all wrong.
"It was GIMPed"
A co-worker recently asked which AI I used to make some drawings in a presentation. I made them all by hand in Inkscape, so I'm not sure if I should feel good or bad about the question.
I'd have flipped tables.
It’s just awful these days. I was presenting the other day with some co-workers. One made a nice looking edit to a slide, but had some typos. I asked for the original since the slide was just a rendered image. The response I got was the prompt they used to generate the slide in copilot “give me an engaging slide using this information…”
I re-drew the damn thing in like 5 minutes myself, but jebus, this is what counts as work these days?
You should’ve kept the original slide and made sure to give them credit when presenting it: “and before we go to the next slide, I wanted to give a huge thank you to so-and-so for their contribution to this presentation!” *everybody claps*
It was someone in a higher position than I, and I’m 4 months in to the role. So…
I’m lucky to have colleagues that understand that doing things with AI, that are supposed to reach some audience, will feel low effort to said audience. Like, if I’m tryna sell someone my shit I better not half-ass advertising. Not to mention broken telephone game of me explaining stuff to AI for AI to explain it to potential clientele.
I’m in a relatively high up position, so the audience was the C level types. I find they tend to prefer the AI type responses, mine tend to be a bit information dense.
So, my workflow now is to draft, put it through AI then re-edit to remove the typical AI hallmarks.
“My own.”
Latest version of photoshop keeps pushing AI tools anyway, so they're interchangeable imo
TBH you cN usually tell a photoshop from an AI, but Adobe outlived its relevance regardless.
Verb
retouch (third-person singular simple present retouches, present participle retouching, simple past and past participle retouched)
- (transitive) To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.
a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 201:
For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand;
Retouch your figures with his ripening hand;
Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint;
Add every grace, which time alone can grant;
To future ages ſhall your fame convey,
And give more beauties than he takes away.
I remember an article from the 90s that first mentioned 'computer doctoring' in terms of photo manipulation. Before Photoshop become well known, the practice was called doctoring.
From shopped to slop
Adobe, rest in piss.
Time to go back to commissioning portraits from painters who forage to make their own pigments.
Pretty sure humans still use Photoshop, and LLMs are being trained on their work.
What end of an era?
Went from Photoshop: I can tell by the pixels. To AI: I can tell by the fingers.
Will CGI be the next to go?
So people don't know how to use language anymore?
Or is tech literacy so low that people don't even understand the difference between an edited image, and some absurd slop generated bt a trash machine?
Yes
Imagine how stupid the average person is, and then consider that half of them are stupider