• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    16 hours ago

    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.

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      15 hours ago

      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.

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        8 hours ago

        100% agreed.

        And now to finalize the design for my annual heavily photoshoped holiday card…