using ChatGPT for sign design and logos

[The Vector Doctor]

For those of you that get good results, perhaps you can share what sites you are using. That would be helpful to others that want to do the same. i am sure some services have better results than others

Also write out what you typed in to achieve those results and share the photos. I have seen a few oddball examples in this thread so far

 

[Boudica]

For those of you that get good results, perhaps you can share what sites you are using. That would be helpful to others that want to do the same. i am sure some services have better results than others

Also write out what you typed in to achieve those results and share the photos. I have seen a few oddball examples in this thread so far

I did my Pepsi splash with fire fly I think.... I was experimenting with what I could use through our Adobe subscription/tools

 

[GAC05]

I was looking for a background for the wife's Valentine's card.
Snached a list of emoji's off the web, clipped and arranged them the way I wanted:

Told my AI slave to 'make me look good'

 

[Johnny Best]

So GAC05 has a round head and smiles a lot. He would be easy to spot in a crowd.

 

[GAC05]

So GAC05 has a round head and smiles a lot. He would be easy to spot in a crowd.

 

[Johnny Best]

This is closer

 

[GAC05]

This is closer

ALMOST

 

[GAC05]

 

[GAC05]

To pull back on topic.
Customer sent me a pencil drawing of a logo he wanted.
I drew it up and got it to where he wanted it.

Loaded it as a bitmap into Adobe Firefly to use as the reference image at 100% strength.
Prompts : Metal Hot Sparks Grinding Welding Glowing Industrial
It definitely needs to be improved to stop mangling text.
It's not good for a logo, but it looks pretty neat.

 

[unclebun]

Design work is shrinking as AI and Canva take over, but many don’t get why their designs fail on big prints. Repeat customers and "nephew art" keep things going, but production is a more reliable source. Better to focus on making quality prints than struggling with unrealistic design expectations

The designs fail on big prints because what you get is something like 640x320 pixel image.

 

[Chris Keena]

Evidently the AI hasn't read the U.S. Flag Code.

Funny, I had a meeting with Spencer Gifts about 15+ years ago. In the lobby, while waiting for the meeting to start, they had a Flag Etiquette flyer posted in their bulletin board. I read that thing twice over, and it's now like a disease I contracted. I can't help but pick apart any flag display that is not proper.

 

[ozpall]

I used photoshop AI, customer wanted a worker with safety gear, showed them the proof, then they wanted safety glasses, AI add safety glasses done!, blue hard hat, ai done, brown gloves and boots, ai done, orange vest instead of fluorescent, ai done. it took me no time and customer was super excited, yes a lot of things could had been done in photoshop but with AI it took me literally no time to meet customer request. so I don't totally hate AI.

 

[DL Signs]

It's not generated... And its 100% vector.
I'd rather draw than just tell a bot what I want... This is all vector, all easily editable, modifiable, printable, scalable, can modify colors in seconds, and done in an afternoon. I do this stuff just for fun and practice.

All I used for this is a pen tool to make vector shapes, fill colors, layer masking, and blurs, no brushes or other effects (do put an HSL layer so I can change the color at will). I've done a lot of canvas wraps with drawings like this of peoples (or their favorite) cars boats, bikes, etc, to hang in their man caves. Yes, ai will eventually become the norm, but how can you take any pride in that over drawing. Sadly, human skills are fading away.

 

[Boudica]

It's not generated... And its 100% vector.
I'd rather draw than just tell a bot what I want... This is all vector, all easily editable, modifiable, printable, scalable, can modify colors in seconds, and done in an afternoon. I do this stuff just for fun and practice.

All I used for this is a pen tool to make vector shapes, fill colors, layer masking, and blurs, no brushes or other effects (do put an HSL layer so I can change the color at will). I've done a lot of canvas wraps with drawings like this of peoples (or their favorite) cars boats, bikes, etc, to hang in their man caves. Yes, ai will eventually become the norm, but how can you take any pride in that over drawing. Sadly, human skills are fading away.

That's beautiful!

 

[DL Signs]

That's beautiful!

Thank you...
I'm not just another pretty face. Seriously, my wife will back me up on that

 

[JBurton]

It's not generated... And its 100% vector.
I'd rather draw than just tell a bot what I want... This is all vector, all easily editable, modifiable, printable, scalable, can modify colors in seconds, and done in an afternoon. I do this stuff just for fun and practice.

All I used for this is a pen tool to make vector shapes, fill colors, layer masking, and blurs, no brushes or other effects (do put an HSL layer so I can change the color at will). I've done a lot of canvas wraps with drawings like this of peoples (or their favorite) cars boats, bikes, etc, to hang in their man caves. Yes, ai will eventually become the norm, but how can you take any pride in that over drawing. Sadly, human skills are fading away.

This reminds me of the motorcycle tutorial they had in the corel x3 manual. I couldn't even begin to imagine how a glare looks from a particular angle, or anything of the sort. Kudos for certain.

 

[DL Signs]

This reminds me of the motorcycle tutorial they had in the corel x3 manual. I couldn't even begin to imagine how a glare looks from a particular angle, or anything of the sort. Kudos for certain.

People here call me the Vector Junkie, and motorcycles are my specialty.

 

[ringocat22]

I use Ideogram for idea generation when I'm stuck on a logo. It handles text really well for the most part, and is easy to use. I can then take the best idea and design based off of that in Flexi or Affinity Designer to get it to where it needs to be.

 

[Ron at Forest Litho]

When you get AI generated art from a customer, Don't they always come in in RGB? What do you do about eh RGB Flooded Black? I usually photo shop the black back to CMYK Black. but that is no so easy on a large file.

 

[kcollinsdesign]

I don't like most of it, and the stuff I think is okay is boring. The whole sign business irritates me today.

I got into this business because I was a good artist and came up with good ideas. I had a style, and eventually a reputation. I'd get invited everywhere and got to know a lot of people by doing show cards and banners for events, race cars, everything from Demolition Derby cars to airshows to window splashes. Eventually, they wanted me to make their signs, so I started doing that. Then I had to install them.

So now I'm spending more time running a business than drawing and painting. But it was worth it! I put up with all the headaches because at the end of the day I was able to be an artist. I could draw cool looking pictures and come up with clever ideas and get paid for. I'm not lying when I say didn't mind being a bit of a celebrity – no big deal really, but everybody knew me and knew my work.

I did sort of have my customers over a barrel. Computers weren't invented, clip art was available but only affordable for the largest studios. Nothing could be printed that lasted outside. If you wanted a snappy ad, a cool logo, or a distinctive, memorable sign you had to go find some guy who could do it, and that was me!

The buy-in was that I could draw and use a brush. The reward was my ideas. I also enjoyed the appreciation of the clients and the public. I'm just good at it and I love doing it!

There is little interest in the type of work I do today, other than some crusty old sign painters like me or a small coterie of hipster artisans who see the value in the work. Like I said, I put up with all the tedious BS needed to run a successful sign shop so I could be an artist (sort of a non-pretentious, not so hoity-toity, regular guy artist with some street cred who was actually raking in some money). I'm not so sure I'd be interested in being in the sign business if I were a young person today. I'd probably end up a lawyer!