This woman saved my client's life. To thank her, he commissioned a caricature celebrating her life, incl. a personal element represented by her breaking through Pink Floyd's "The Wall". Caricatures are the most personalised gifts imaginable! 😊 #caricatureartist #caricaturist #capetown #southafrica

A thread by the founder of #Cara, the AI-free artists' platform: How to distinguish between AI art and human art. #illustration

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I built an artist platform that filters out gen AI so people can find human artists more easily. We started beta in 2023 and have over a million users today. Needless to say, I’ve spent a lot of tim...

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A custom 80th birthday caricature, incl. personal details and private jokes, set at Paarl Golf Club. Nowadays, I create my cartoons using a digital drawing tablet to achieve a clean, polished finish, while preserving the charm of a hand-drawn illustration. #CaricatureArtist #CapeTown #SouthAfrica

Graphic designers might relate: When you've lowered the resolution of old Photoshop files to save space, bringing 75 GB free space up to 107 GB ✌️ #graphicdesign #photoshop ... also, by merging some layers in these old files – you're never going to use them again anyway, right?

This AI feature is getting closer to a public release. We know that Adobe's demos show best-case scenarios, as Unmesh Dinda mentions too, but it's impressive nonetheless. #graphicdesign

Insane NEW Photoshop Tool: Rotate ANY Photo in 3D!

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I remember Kai's Power Tools (KPT) fondly. The Photoshop plug-ins were enormous fun to play with. Not much commercial application in my experience, but what a joy they were! #graphicdesign

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Kai's Power Goo (1996). I bought my boxed copy from CompUSA.

And overprints ... chromies ... subtle desaturation to avoid flat and dull areas when converting to CMYK ... and from a long time ago: manual registration marks in FreeHand 😂, remembering to embed images, and remembering to ship the fonts or convert text to paths. #graphicdesign

The latest @photoshop.adobe.com update brings useful AI tools: 1. "Harmonise" – paste an object and Photoshop automatically adjusts hue, saturation, contrast, light direction 2. Gen. upscaling to 8 MP – this works not only for current generative work but for any old pic. #graphicdesign #photoshop

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Photoshop Gets New AI Editing Tools

#GraphicDesigners may find this video by @timesnewboman.com interesting. It includes the story of how Bitstream shamelessly stole Linotype's fonts, with parallels to the current AI art heist. Remember the pre-digital era Linotype font books, and Bitstream's "Swiss" font – the Helvetica clone?

The secret history of font piracy

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#Graphicdesigners etc: Prices are going up by 16% (again), unless you're willing to downgrade and accept having only 25% of the AI credits you're used to.

Adobe Creative Cloud gets more expensive – blame AI again

: Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu

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Graphic designers, cartoonists, caricature artists and illustrators, here's what it takes to stand out on social media today. These two pointers are particularly interesting: 2. Hashtags don't work anymore 3. The number of your followers doesn't matter anymore – it's each post that does.

I just hit 1 million followers… 🤯 Here are 8 things I’ve learnt about… | James Barnard | 30 comments

I just hit 1 million followers… 🤯 Here are 8 things I’ve learnt about showing up on social media. FYI, that’s a million followers across Instagram (~600K), TikTok (~300K), YouTube (~60K) and Linke...

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Why graphic designers are currently in no danger of losing their jobs: Unmesh Dinda of @piximperfect.bsky.social explains, sarcastically. Generative AI is impressive but it just can't create practical, finished art for commercial use. #GraphicDesign

Why Learn Photoshop When ChatGPT Does Everything?

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There's been a lot of talk about the #Affinity suite as a far cheaper option than @adobecreativecloud.bsky.social, so here's a video explaining the main differences between Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign vs Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher. #graphicdesign

Adobe vs Affinity | The Ultimate Guide

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Good morning! I remember starting on #Photoshop 4, but then again, I seem to remember working on a version that didn't yet support layers nor multiple undos, so maybe I started on version 2.5. From @pinsky.xyz's LinkedIn page.

Great cartoon by "JF" from itweb.co.za #AI #genAI #deepseek

I'm proud to share a recent logo design for a YouTube sleep video channel developed by software developer Dominic Lee. The biggest challenge? Ensuring legibility at only 36 × 36 pixels without losing detail – especially in the sea's reflections. #logodesign #southafrica #capetown 1/3

New in the Photoshop Beta! The Object Selection tool just got supercharged! ⚡️

Wheee! I'm getting to know my Wacom Intuos Pro drawing tablet. It was about time I joined the 21st century. It'll revolutionise how I work – better quality caricatures, cartoons and photo illustrations with less frustration. ✍️🖥️

Time's running out to book your Xmas caricature gifts! 🎁🎄 Here's one I created for a beloved Italian manager at Heineken, Cape Town, emigrating to Mexico. 🎨✨ Don't miss out on a unique festive gift! #SouthAfrica #CapeTown #XmasGifts #Caricatures #GiftIdeas #CaricatureArtist

#GraphicDesigners and digital artists: Does your Mac/PC also crash or misbehave just when you're on a deadline? Does it do so *especially* when a client is looking over your shoulder? 👨‍🎨🖥️💣

I frequently receive requests to create #caricatures as Xmas gifts for individuals from all over #SouthAfrica. They're highly personalised gifts displaying their hobbies, interests, work-related elements and traits. 👨‍🎨🖼️🎁🎄 This nature lover's caricature was commissioned by his partner.