using ChatGPT for sign design and logos

[ChaseO]

I haven't gotten much from AI, mostly Canva. My customers are asking me to create logos but are making their own with AI or Canva then telling me they don't like my logo..."here look what we made last night, we like this better". It happened a few times then they don't want to pay the balance owed. I stopped doing logo work, for the most part.

I'm 100% fine with never having to design another logo from scratch again. I'll refine and tweak then make money on production, not design. It sounds terrible but it seems we have no choice...

Honestly, we do a lot less design work than we used to. A lot of my customers are repeat and we are still using logos from days gone by, or new customers come in with their nephew art. Canva seems to be here to stay, as does AI stuff. There are some cool things about AI, I wish I knew more, but it always seems like people that try to use that stuff never understand why it won't work on the side of a semi trailer. The local boutiques never seem to realize that what they did on canva can't be read from 10 feet away either. Very little of my money comes from design these days, and I'm not sad about it. I'll take production over design any day of the week. I'd rather go dig from frozen post holes over trying the please the girlfriends, wives, members of the board, etc.

 

[Stacey K]

Honestly, we do a lot less design work than we used to. A lot of my customers are repeat and we are still using logos from days gone by, or new customers come in with their nephew art. Canva seems to be here to stay, as does AI stuff. There are some cool things about AI, I wish I knew more, but it always seems like people that try to use that stuff never understand why it won't work on the side of a semi trailer. The local boutiques never seem to realize that what they did on canva can't be read from 10 feet away either. Very little of my money comes from design these days, and I'm not sad about it. I'll take production over design any day of the week. I'd rather go dig from frozen post holes over trying the please the girlfriends, wives, members of the board, etc.

DITTO!!!!!

 

[unclebun]

AI doesn't seem to be useful at all in what I've tried. I have yet to see any which gives you a picture that is high enough resolution to use on a sign. And trying to get it to give me the picture I want seems nigh unto impossible.

The only useful AI I've found was with an adobe online one and also at some of the clipart sites that let you add extra background to photos so they fit the shape you want them to.

 

[The Vector Doctor]

Text is usually not handled well at all

 

[Boudica]

I used AI to make pepsi splash out of a cup last summer. I can't remember what prompt got me close enough to what I wanted, but I do remember having to try it a few times. Then I took the splashing cola and added it to a fountain cup in photoshop. I originally created it for a wall mural, but I've used it a few more times since.

 

[netsol]

Some of my best selling designs now are AI generated. I would be very concerned if I was a graphics artist

a good friend is a fairly big player in the banner business.
he has started using AI instead of paying residuals to the artists.
quite a savings. some of the images look "cartoony" until you apply the proper photoshop filters.
then they are practically identical

 

[Solventinkjet]

I remember when using photoshop or cutting vinyl instead of painting was considered "cheating." AI is probably going to be similar for my generation where the young people see it as normal and the oldies complain about the good ol' days when humans made the art.

 

[Johnny Best]

And be a good swimmer

 

[FireSprint.com]

I use GPT alot. Multiple times a day. I have learned the best way to utilize it is like talking to a pretty well educated intern. All for documentation and written content, no artwork or anything of that nature.

My process often starts with me asking it to create an outline of the idea. Then I refine the outline going back and forth until I am happy with it. Then I'll ask it to fill in sections, one at a time, refining those until I am happy.

Just like working with an intern. Step by step until it's exactly what I want.

I have three tips:

1.) Ask GPT to ask you clarifying questions. Then answer those questions.
2.) Ask GPT if it understands the request at a high level before diving deeper into things.
3.) At least for the $20/month version, it remembers our previous conversations, so it's getting better and better at working with me as it's knowledge about FireSprint grows. Scary, sure, but this is how we lean in and "Ride the wave"

 

[christopher68hg]

Meh, I dont take much artwork from clients as I do it for them...but I have been able to get/use a few decent pics out of a couple AIs.
Some are better than others, but you cant blame customers much as AI generation/editing is built right into Photoshop/Illy now...
selecting the weird screwed up AI generated text in PS and then saying "remove text" is pretty handy when you have to replace it with real vector text by hand...Adobes generation is pretty weak though, it took me 7 attempts before it made a Santa Clause cartoon that wasn't a black Asian she/her.
I was using Shutterstocks AI generator for a few assets/backgrounds till they put the price/generation through the roof...
biggest problem is Shutterstock seems to be just adding all the AI generated images of Ford Ecoboost to their catalog...

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