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I was convinced AI art tools were just gimmicks until I used one to fix a bad background in under 10 minutes.
My friend showed me how she cleaned up a messed-up cityscape in this one painting she spent 20 hours on, and honestly it saved the whole piece, so has anyone else had a moment where a tool you hated changed your mind like that?
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michaelrodriguez21d ago
The whole thing kind of reminds me of how people used to swear by manual transmissions in cars, saying automatic was for people who couldn't really drive. But now pretty much everyone drives automatics and nobody calls it cheating. It's like with any new tool that makes a hard task easier, people get real suspicious until they actually try it and realize it's just another way to get the job done. I've seen the same thing happen with power tools at the hardware store, old timers would say a hand plane is the only real way to shape wood, but then they borrow a belt sander once and suddenly they own one themselves. So yeah, the whole AI art hate feels like the same cycle playing out again. We all just want to finish stuff and make it look good, the method matters way less than people act like it does.
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My buddy spent like 3 weeks on a digital portrait and the lighting was totally off in the background, one afternoon with a generative fill tool and it looked like a completely different piece. The whole time I was like nah this is cheating, but then I tried fixing some dumb photo of my dog by the garbage cans and now I get it.
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Did you try lowering the opacity on the generative fill layer? That's what I do when I fix backgrounds, just blend it with the original so it doesn't totally take over the piece. It's kind of like using a shortcut in a video game, sure it feels wrong at first, but it saves you from having to redo the whole scene from scratch. Your buddy probably coulda cut that time down even more if he used it for blocking out lighting before the detail work.
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