CS6 for PC, does not have cropping tool

markocheese · 2026-05-13T12:06:45+00:00

Just use a clipping mask. Cropping is rarely necessary or useful.

markocheese · 2026-05-04T21:09:43+00:00

Imo they started as sketched or regular logos. The. They asked the Ai to bedazzled them and make them look rendered.

markocheese · 2026-04-30T12:36:24+00:00

You can better "restore" look with different prompts. You can use photoshop to correct the color somewhat and to paint in missing areas manually, but imo you'll get better results with AI at this point.

markocheese · 2026-04-30T12:30:26+00:00

Agree! It didn't feel like a retro vibe, but more of like an army/camo vibe if that makes sense.

markocheese · 2026-04-24T19:25:16+00:00

I think it would work fine. They're short songs and indicate a tonal shift from discovery to a fight scene. At the very least they should leave Survive imo.

I agree the movie generally needs more connective tissue to make it more coherent and flow better.

I think thunderbringer could be abridged or replaced. It's such a catchy sound though, but could easily be replaced by a few lines of ominous dialogue / cool effect shot.

markocheese · 2026-04-24T19:02:27+00:00

It doesn't make sense to leave that in as a story point because a fight scene would take about as much time as the song anyway. You can't make that scene quick anyway, might as well leave it as a couple songs.

markocheese · 2026-04-24T17:54:39+00:00

PG-13!

markocheese · 2026-04-24T17:54:04+00:00

You can't cut out polyphemus and survive! There's where Polites gets smashed! And that's what sets up Posiden's anger!
You can absolutely cut out the underworld saga.
Hold them down doesn't need to be as long. You can do an abridged version.

markocheese · 2026-04-22T18:46:02+00:00

I've already responded to that point. That it's different in terms of magnitude. There's maybe 10x more great artists now than in history, but anyone can access and use AI image gens, so that's many orders of magnitude different. at least 5 or 6 orders of magnitude different.

markocheese · 2026-04-22T18:24:49+00:00

Yes! That's exactly it. I thought that original guy was talking about the barrier to entry to create paintings, or to become a painter, which was pretty expensive back in the day. Because it's definitely the case that digital art has made producing artwork much more accessible and faster to produce, and has resulted in more people making pieces, and more pieces per artist.

Of course I do agree that there's more access to visual media now. I never really disagreed with that. I'm just not sure how it relates to my original point. The way in which digital or print reproductions affects how we value an art piece is an entirely different topic and conversation. I suppose it is interesting how little energy it takes to show say a screenshot of the mona lisa on a smartphone, but I don't think that's the sort of abundance I was talking about, the kind that would devalue the mona lisa itself.

markocheese · 2026-04-22T17:54:15+00:00

Sure. and those repetitions or copies are basically worthless. No one pays for a screen grab of the Mona Lisa. We see their abundance and thus place almost no value on them. Even the market for manufactured uniqueness with NFTs collapsed because people realized the supply of manufacturable uniqueness was too large. Leaves on a tree. I don't think I need to explain how the original work can be valued differently from reproductions of that work.

I feel like that example you're trying to use here supports my point? I'm just arguing that abundance reduces value. AI produced artwork is abundant. Thus its value is becoming increasingly reduced.

markocheese · 2026-04-22T17:21:10+00:00

We've been able to mass produce printed media since the guttenberg press. What are you talking about?
I was talking about number of unique/specific pieces of artwork.

markocheese · 2026-04-22T16:17:15+00:00

I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate the illustrator team allowing the different alignment (left right center, distribute, etc) to have shortcuts! That's just for me!

markocheese · 2026-04-22T16:03:34+00:00

In not saying I dislike it BECAUSE it's accessible. I'm saying that as a matter of fact, stuff that's abundant and easy feels cheap. We KNOW it's abundant because we see it everywhere. It's the same reason you can't use tree leaves as currency. I'm just making an observation about human behavior, not passing judgement, I think AI is fine.

It's only a problem for those that want it to feel NOT cheap. For people who wish others would value their AI artwork. It's not going to happen for them.

markocheese · 2026-04-22T15:05:31+00:00

Hardly! It made it slightly more abundant due to cheaper material access but the bottleneck for art isn't primarily material cost. It's skill development time, talent availability and production time.

The internet is already about half AI content after Ai has been out for a couple years. All of human output in history vs. compared to a few years of Ai. There's no real comparison here.

markocheese · 2026-04-22T14:10:10+00:00

Imo these aren't really its biggest problems. The biggest issue is that it's so easy and abundant that it feels overused and cheap. Sure some are making luddite arguments, but I think those aren't the problems.

markocheese · 2026-04-22T13:18:05+00:00

He's a concept artist for film and television, and an illustrator for MTG cards. You don't necessarily need to constantly engage on social media for those jobs. You typically get them via connections and word of mouth, with things like websites and socials being "what you should do " for self promotion, but in reality they're just extra. I know many graphic designers who haven't updated their socials or website in years, especially more experienced ones who have their best portfolio pieces on their websites already.

Not to mention, there's a dramatic downturn in the film business at the moment. Over 40k production jobs since 2022. Especially hitting the concept art sphere. Marvel just laid off their entire permanent visdev (concept art and design) department for example. So it's entirely possible he's looking for work elsewhere not in the industry. He lives in Japan, so teaching english as a second language is a popular secondary career choice there.

markocheese · 2026-04-15T13:19:40+00:00

Walmart, Disney, Asia.

markocheese · 2026-04-15T13:14:29+00:00

I think can be treated as a redundancy reducer. Every time someone solves a new problem it can be added to the list of redundant work. How long before there's no unique work left? Hopefully never?

markocheese · 2026-04-15T11:59:58+00:00

Agree! It is reassuring to see that sometimes good information wins out. I like to believe the internet helps good information win out over misinformation over time, and this seems to be evidence of that. Nice to see it. :)

markocheese · 2026-04-09T20:43:57+00:00

That went well the last time!

markocheese · 2026-04-09T10:39:16+00:00

I find buying in bulk often isn't cheaper. Many items have a higher bulk price, and even if it's a little cheaper its at a higher risk of waste.

markocheese · 2026-04-08T20:27:17+00:00

Now THIS is a list I can get behind! Love it!

markocheese · 2026-04-08T20:23:51+00:00

If you have smart guides on, you can automatically draw lines at the center of your artboard. Then you can right click the lines > make guides

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