Using AI Imagery for Illustration and Design
1h 55mIntermediate2023-08-24
Authors

George Maestri
Animation Director and Producer
Course details
It's easy to think of generative AI tools as being suited only for creating fully realized scenes. But illustrators and designers can employ these tools to create assets that are intended to be part of compositions being created in Photoshop and other tools. Backgrounds, characters, individual objects—generative AI tools are ideal creativity copilots for creating elements like these. In this course, animator and illustrator George Maestri shows how to use Midjourney, Firefly, DALL-E, and other AI imaging tools to create components that are destined for finished work being created in Photoshop. Learn how to write prompts that work for photos and lighting, as well as art and illustration. Explore tools you can use for inpainting and outpainting using Photoshop’s Generative Fill tools, and step through the process of building AI images. Go over ways you can use existing images in a product shot. Plus, dive into techniques you can use to adjust and finalize your AI images.
Skills covered
Stable DiffusionMidjourneyDALL-EArtificial Intelligence for DesignOpenAIPhotoshopVideoPhotographyGraphic DesignAdobeAnimation and IllustrationOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Explore the potential of generative AI tools to create composites
- 02 - What you should know
- 03 - Working with the exercise files
1. Creating with AI
- 04 - Using AI in image production
- 05 - Exploring AI tools
- 06 - AI in Photoshop
2. It Starts with the Prompts
- 07 - Prompt writing basics
- 08 - Writing prompts that work
- 09 - Photo and lighting prompts
- 10 - Art and illustration prompts
3. Inpainting and Outpainting
- 11 - Inpainting in Firefly
- 12 - Generative Fill in Photoshop for inpainting
- 13 - Outpainting with Generative Fill in Photoshop
4. Building AI Images
- 14 - Doing a virtual photo shoot in AI
- 15 - Creating the subject with prompts
- 16 - Isolating a subject from the background
- 17 - Create and add background elements
- 18 - Inpainting additional details
- 19 - Finalizing the image
5. Product Shot - Using Existing Images
- 20 - Separating objects from backgrounds
- 21 - Generating new background
- 22 - Cleaning up background details
- 23 - Glass and transparency effects
- 24 - Refining details
6. Adjusting and Finalizing AI Images
- 25 - Fixing AI faces with neural filters
- 26 - Replacing AI faces with inpainting
- 27 - Modifying environments in Photoshop
- 28 - Adding realism with Focus Effects
- 29 - Color correction and final output
Conclusion
- 30 - Next steps
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