There are people who could Photoshop something just as clean as OPs picture but it takes skill and work people aren’t willing to spend on a throwaway picture for social media. Memes are lazy for a reason.
I know. I’ve done a tremendous amount of high (or at least decent) quality Photoshop image edits. In GIMP and actual Photoshop back when it wasn’t subscription-based.
Which is why I called out @OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org and their obvious underestimate of “oh, it’s easy! Anyone can do it!”
It’s not easy. Not everyone can do it. I would obsess over this for an hour or so to get this right. The Clanker took 30 seconds.
Recognize that there’s a fucking difference in quality and time needed to evoke an emotional and physical reaction here. Don’t gaslight yourself for political reasons.
I agree, it’s not easy. As an intermediate photoshop user it would probably take me an hour to replicate what chatgpt produced in 4 seconds. Was that picture really worth an hour? Was it worth spending years getting good at Photoshop? I think dumb little memes like this are the perfect place to apply generative AI. It gives better results than the effort it would take to do it by hand. Nobody’s ever going to confuse it for actual art.
Ok. Let’s see your attempt.
Like I said, it’s not hard. Made this while getting ready for a wedding. Enjoy!
Meh. It’s really not very smooth or shiny, factors that make the other image feel closer to a body horror uncanny valley.
This just looks like mediocre MS Paint.
Maybe it’s harder than you expect. Just like a mandible plate.
There are people who could Photoshop something just as clean as OPs picture but it takes skill and work people aren’t willing to spend on a throwaway picture for social media. Memes are lazy for a reason.
I know. I’ve done a tremendous amount of high (or at least decent) quality Photoshop image edits. In GIMP and actual Photoshop back when it wasn’t subscription-based.
Which is why I called out @OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org and their obvious underestimate of “oh, it’s easy! Anyone can do it!”
It’s not easy. Not everyone can do it. I would obsess over this for an hour or so to get this right. The Clanker took 30 seconds.
Recognize that there’s a fucking difference in quality and time needed to evoke an emotional and physical reaction here. Don’t gaslight yourself for political reasons.
I agree, it’s not easy. As an intermediate photoshop user it would probably take me an hour to replicate what chatgpt produced in 4 seconds. Was that picture really worth an hour? Was it worth spending years getting good at Photoshop? I think dumb little memes like this are the perfect place to apply generative AI. It gives better results than the effort it would take to do it by hand. Nobody’s ever going to confuse it for actual art.
100% agreed.
And now to finalize the design for my annual heavily photoshoped holiday card…