Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦
@marksweeney.bsky.social
Comic Book Flatter, Developer, Deaf Advocate. He/Him. #Deaf Clip Studio Paint Tips & Tricks Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/marksweeney.bsky.social/feed/aaali6lbe4dkg
It's been a couple of years since I tested converting from RGB to CMYK in apps other than Photoshop to see if we can achieve the same results. So, with most apps now updated, I figured it's time to compare results once again. Follow this thread. #ClipStudioPaint #Krita #AffinityPhoto2
Professional writer organizations should not send out pro-AI propaganda in the form of tantrum-having "essays" to their members, and I don't think that's controversial.
Regarding The Pro-AI Tantrum In The HWA Newsletter
Today I, and every other HWA member, received the HWA newsletter in our inboxes. In that newsletter was an essay (“essay”) of pro-AI propaganda that made a number of specious points in …
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Saw this and had to make a video about it. Text size is way too small in games and if you're wondering what the size should be or why we need it, I just made a video about it. Thanks @duckvalentine.bsky.social for the article. youtu.be/YgpFiavCktE
Beast of Reincarnation’s Text Is Way Too Small
YouTube video by Steve Saylor
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Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterdayBeast Of Reincarnation's Text Is Impossible To Read https://kotaku.com/text-small-beast-of-reincarnation-2000721285
A SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour today. Unfortunately, Elon was not on board.
If AI disappeared tomorrow I wouldn’t notice it.
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 14h agoI have one answer.
That’s a “Fuck, no” from me. If your movie / novel / cover / comic / art is made with gen ai, I’m not wasting my money on it.
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 18h agoEli Roth confirms that generative AI was used in his new horror film ‘ICE CREAM MAN’. “It was an opportunity where technology and creativity came together to help bring my vision for the film to life.” (Source: www.polygon.com/eli-roth-ice...)
Just finished the audiobook version of Guillotine. It fucking rocked!
Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 4d agoGUILLOTINE is on sale for $1.99 across all e-book platforms! 🌹 This novella: * is short + sharp as a stab wound * is cathartic if you're mad at rich men always getting their way * includes a shark named Sally * appeals to those furious about the Epstein Files 🌹 Pls pick up a copy & spread the word!
It's a long weekend in BC, but when you're a freelancer.... that's the same as any other weekend. French press coffee in the thermos mug, flatting pages, and Delilah S. Dawson's audiobook, 'Guillotine' oozing through my ears.
GUILLOTINE is on sale for $1.99 across all e-book platforms! 🌹 This novella: * is short + sharp as a stab wound * is cathartic if you're mad at rich men always getting their way * includes a shark named Sally * appeals to those furious about the Epstein Files 🌹 Pls pick up a copy & spread the word!
Now if only PM @mark-carney.bsky.social has the balls to do anything like this. But he'd rather kiss Elon's ass than hold X responsible for the child porn grok produced.
Falter? We don't want the 'AI boom' to falter - we want it to die. Horribly and quickly.
Kevin McGarry: Why Not Just Let This Whole Thing Die?
Alt: Kevin McGarry, a white man in a jacket and shirt saying: "Why not just let this whole thing die?"
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The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Clip Studio Paint Tip: Zooming out until a comic page is the size of a postage stamp, or zooming in far enough to see electrons on the page is pointless. You can limit how far in and out you zoom in preferences with the magnifying glass / scrubby zoom. #ClipStudioPaint
See, what people do not understand...and I'm saying stay with me til the second half upfront so no one is pained needlessly is that sometimes you have to bend the knee, to live to fight another day AND SOMETIMES YOU FIGHT TO THE WALL This is a fight to the wall. Amnesty International failed.
Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5d agoA dark day for human rights.
How many weeks away are we from reading, "Bryan Johnson claims sucking the blood of his unborn child through a straw in his wife's abdomen makes him look 20 years younger" headline?
Chris Taylor@christaylornyc.bsky.social · 5d agoBryan Johnson: Maybe I’ve gone too far with this longevity thing Also Bryan Johnson:
Every few years a comic company repeats the mistake of holding a contest for artists to "win" a gig, in this case it's Ghostmachine's cover contest. "Submit 3-6 samples of cover art featuring Ghost Machine Characters. . ." Some people see opportunity. Experienced pros see a scam. 1/8
I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...
Another Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your Writing
Back in February I did a long post about “AI” and why I wouldn’t use it for my own writing, and one of the reasons I gave was “the fact that ‘AI’-generated text …
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TubiTV Canada may not have Tales From the Crypt… but they do have the original Addams Family. Watching one episode a day.
The Addams Family: Classic Spooky Halloween
Alt: The cast of the Addams Family snapping their fingers in tune to the Addams Family tv theme.
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When you absolutely, positively need to completely fuck it up - use OpenAI.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
Trump portrait made with horse shit sells for $1,800, titled ‘Don of Dung’ Finally, a medium fit for Donald Trump.
‘Seemed appropriate’: Vancouver Island artist uses horse manure to paint Trump portrait
When Vancouver Island artist Wendy Chartrand decided to paint a portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump, she used a new medium she thought “seemed appropriate” for the subject—horse manure.
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Increasingly, Soylent Green serves as one of the best metaphors for AI -- it's taking all that we are, as people, chumming it up, and feeding the slurry back to us. We're told that we need it, it's nutritious, it'll save the world, even as it damns it and us.
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
The Blob Booger
Alt: A man covered in transparent pink goo that is dissolving his flesh as he tries to reach out for help. From The Blob 1988.
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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com@inkskratch.com · 7d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
This comes out next week! I love winter horror, so I’ll have to grab a copy.
Ian Boothby@ianboothby.bsky.social · 7d agoA very nice shout out from @gailsimone.bsky.social , who've I've been a fan of as a writer and person since we both worked at Bongo Comics .
I've said as much before, but ReedPop scamming professional comic artists - the lifeblood of comic conventions - out of $200 says everything you need to know about their shit company and their shit shows.
Cody Ziglar@yayforzig.bsky.social · 7d agoI’ll join Hydra before I pay for a professional badge for NYCC. SDCC gives them to you for free!!!
Thank God for daily backups. Working on an app, adding some things, and I borked something pretty badly, and couldn't fix it. Grabbed a copy from my backup, made similar additions, and it works properly. If you're not doing daily backups, you're playing Russian Roulette with your hard drive.
Love that my one-year Clip Studio Paint Pro Update Pass is going to cost a whopping... $13.49 CDN for a year. vs Adobe Photoshop's $24/mo. Would love to be able to dump PS.
![Todd Keisling
Just now
With regard to today's HWA/Newsletter discourse, here's something I had to say about Al in a recent interview:
"There's been a steady erosion of appreciation in the work that real artists do. Somehow, the work that entertains and enriches our lives has been deemed disposable and not worth actual effort. Personally, it's been disheartening to see a percentage of the populace embrace the soulless slop that Al produces; it's hurtful to see many non-artists shrug their shoulders and say, 'So what?' or 'It's not going away, so just use it.' It's infuriating to find many so-called 'Al artists' who are ripping people off by charging for their slop and passing it as a professionally-made cover; doubly so for the authors and publishers out there who are embracing it and feigning shock when they're called out, or worse, simply not caring about the negative impact it has on the world. Whenever I see an Al cover, I question the integrity of the author whose words are being represented. You can't claim to have pride in your work if you're using a system that was trained on the stolen work of thousands of other artists. It's malignant hypocrisy. ...] [We need to] educate the public on the dangers of Al usage and adjudicate the bad actors who insist on using it within creative spaces. To quote Batman, it is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it; we will not use it."
So, there's that.
Furthermore, an organization that publishes a trustee's pro-Al rant to an audience of creatives whose work was literally stolen to train LLMs is not only questionable, but negligent and disingenuous as well--especially when the trustee is actively promoting their own Al-powered app. The author's false-equivalency comparing the matter to the struggles of indigenous folks is both ignorant and deceptive.
To the HWA: Fix your org. And to the author: Fix your heart.
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