I use AI only for inspiration and to test some ideas. Once I have something good I redo it from scratch in Affinity Designer. As an artist this is my favourite part. Yes, it takes time to finish it, but at the end it’s my original artwork and the quality is superb.
AI art is here to stay, so artists should embrace it. If you are a academically trained artist, AI will help you become even more creative with your skills. I use AI daily to create art, and then fine tune them using Photoshop, Illustrator, Gimp, etc. To upscale I either use whats offered on the AI platforms, or use outside upscaling sites, or desktop upscaling apps offline.
@@quickpstuts412 unfortunately, some traditionally trained artists are not willing to even try to adopt to new tech. I remember the same type of resistance to Digital art back in the early 2000s. Today, AI is really just the advancement of Digital Art that was popular on creative platforms such as Deviant Art. Today, Digital made art are being displayed and sold at some of the most prestigious galleries globally.
Another con (related to #5), in order to use AI art commercially, you will likely need a paid subscription. Be careful and read Terms of Service and look to be sure that your output may be used on a commercial product.
And unless you make a transformative artistic change to the output, under current copyright law nothing protects you from people taking that output and doing anything they want with it. That is my understanding and I'm fine with being corrected if I'm missing something here.
I would add con no. 6. Scalability. You can't easily make a template from an AI art and create various designs out of it. I just wish I had some of your artistic talent. :)
You kind of can... If you made a birthday shark... it could be for a 4th birthday or 5th birthday or 6th birthday.... you could do the same with years or cities if the graphic is generic enough to work with those things.
@@DetourShirts I had some nice AI generation graphic ideas about half a year ago...now I will redo them in the updated generators. Quality has improved massively since then.
I love using AI for ideas and a base design for graphic design. I find it to be a good foundation, but not really a great stand alone solution. I like that it gives me unique designs and can be a good co pilot on your print on demand journey. Just don’t hand over complete control, lol! Thanks for the great video as always Juna!
I spent hours earlier jusr trying to make a simple picture. I tried both Canva and Kittl. Neither could actually make what I wanted. It wasn't listening to me and not putting in what I said to put in. I finally gave up.
Hey Juna! I'm interested in your take on the future of POD with AI. As you said, AI is going to get better and better, so good in fact that everybody and his dog will be able to come up with unique and original designs by himself. Those cons you were talking about will be gone in latest 3 years. How about POD? How about us designers? I think a large part of the business will be customers making their own t-shirts, mugs, stickers, etc. 🤷🏽♂️
It will still be all about value to the customer. Just because everyone has access to AI that doesn't mean they will be able to make a design that is cool, unique or original. That's going to be the difference. Most people only know how to copy what they see. The ability to be more creative than AI or more creative with AI and creat something new is going to be key. The creativity and value a person can give will be the thing that makes them stand out even when everyone has access to AI.
That's more or less my thinking too, Juna. However, I do hope we're not deceiving ourselves. AI is already far more creative than we ever anticipated. Remember five years ago when everyone (especially those whose livelihood depended on the arts) said, 'AI might take over administrative jobs or, in combination with robots, crafts, but it will never be able to do creative work. Humans will always be better at the arts.' And yet, creative tasks were among the first that AI excelled at! We all like to believe our jobs are safe, and that we're better at what we do than AI, but the time will come when AI does EVERYTHING better than us. 🤷🏽♂️
The one thing that makes me worry less about AI completely taking over our Merch on Demand opportunity is that Amazon makes a ton of money from us advertising. So I can't see them dropping people who are spending hundreds or thousands on ads every month. Now, I can see them limiting or even cutting off new applicants down the road, but we'll see.
It all depends on the AI app and the POD site you are selling on. MidJourney, Leonardo, Ideogram and ChatGPT can all be used for commercial purposes with subscriptions but terms of services vary a little so make sure to read the TOS of the one you are using. Each POD site also have there own rules about using AI art. So make sure to read their rules too. Most POD sites are okay but some are not.
I have actually had the issue where art I get out of Kittle is too large (over 25mb) for Amazon. Also Amazon list that art has to be less than 25mb but in my experience anything over 24mb has failed to upload.
AI Image generation has become an indispensable tool for my work. In fact, about 1/3 of my PoD sales are now coming from images I have generated and processed though AI. And, I find working with AI to be a very enjoyable process. Any amount that I spend on image generation and tools to post process the images has paid for itself almost immediately as I start making sales from the images. LOVE it!
@@DetourShirts I basically do it much the same as you do. Use Image AI as a supercharged clip art library. Upscale when I have continuous tone images, vectorize when I have more illustrative content. Post production in Photoshop and Illustrator. Combine images with typography. All driven through deep market research catering to search demand. I've overcome most of your cons column with experience, efficiency, tools and sales. I get pushback when I advocate using image AI from people saying " you can tell it was created with AI and it's bad " Not the way I do it and I'm not sure that consumers even care if its something they really like and want to buy.
Great vid! I'm still using the free ChatGPT for general queries and writing, if I upgrade to the paid version, does it also include the specific AI art tool you're using or is that another fee on top of the upgrade?
Kittl is the worst, I can't get images to come close to what I type in..and it always deletes the good graphics when you go to PNG the file..thanks for all the info, it's all 100% true. April
@@DetourShirts It's mainly when I use the Watercolor prompt. I reported it to them and sent photos of how it was deleting most of the graphics. Hopefully they get it figured out, I have wasted sooo many of my credits trying to get a great prompt and like I said it takes away parts I wanna keep, so then the graphic isn't as good as It originally came out. I appreciate your reply, 😊😊April
Sir if you create a design on Photopea and write any word on it then you can use any style of font in it. Is the font style copyrighted or not and if it is copyrighted then where to check it.
@@DetourShirts I tried that one out today after watching one of your videos but the edges were still far from straight and sharp. It was an AI design and I had removed the background and tried upscaling as is and up scaling after adding an outline. It is just unusable :( too bad. I guess that's one of the issues with AI images as you said
hi! Can you tell that how our design should show on first page on teepublic and other sites! is we need to do specific seo for ranking ot up! also how many design we should upload in 24 hours !
TeePublic and other POD site show designs that are getting lots of sales on the first page. Create a design that lots of people want to buy. You can upload up to 25 designs in a day for TeePublic if you are in the Apprentice category. If you are in the Artisan category the limit is 50. Other POD sites have different limits. teepublic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115013698727-Is-there-a-limit-to-how-many-designs-I-can-upload
AI is a venue to continue with art and illustration, it is a new territory for me as a watercolor artist. One thing that was not mentioned is AI art is not Copyrightable according to the Agency or Entity that governs copyright creations. So, if you create a super cool and profitable AI art, it can easily be copied, copycat, dubbed, etc., and you will not have a recourse. There was already one issue with an AI creator, who has complained to the appropriate party and he is not getting any support. His creation falls under the public domain. The art creation in question looks like a fancy dance hall with dancers or attendees, it looks like a painting from the 15th century by a very famous artist. His complaint emanates from the fact that he is losing money to the competition. The art at issue can be found on the internet with a tad of patience.
Hi Juna!!! How many AI apps have you sunscribe to?And do you subscribe on Canva or Kittl?In total how much do you pay for all the subscriptions?Thanks!!!
Good one.... I am subscribed the 4 mentioned in the video. MidJourney, ChatGPT, Ideogram & Leonardo. I pay a lot for subscriptions and really should only have one but I do it so I can make the videos. I am also on Kittl and Canva Pro but again I do it for the videos. If I was not a content creator talking about these I would just pick one or the other.
@@DetourShirts wow!That's a lot! yeah those apps will be a great help in producing like this kind of video...Thanks for sharing us your wisdom,we truly learned a lot!🙂🙂🙂
@@DetourShirts Thank you for the response. Total newb, so through the response into PI ai who is guiding me through the process now. If you ever cover or have covered the process in the video, please let me know where to go. Greatly appreciated!!!!
How can you say "no one else will have it" without specifying that there is currently no way that you can copyright AI art unless it is transformed in a substantial way manually. Also, unless you are paying the higher price for privacy on Midjourney (not sure about others) your works go to the public feed where anyone can take your "creation" and do whatever they want to do with it, including sell it. Isn't AI art already just flooding the market with stuff that people immediately go "oh, that's AI, why would I buy that when I can just prompt it?". The over saturation is going to get ridiculous, and it already is to a large extent. Pardon my negativity on this, I'm so torn about it. Not trying to diminish whatever success you are having.
Well if you are paying for a subscription there is the private generations like you said at the same time there are so many people on the public feed and it it is being addd to so often that the chances of them finding yours are pretty low. There is a better chance that someone will pick the same clipart from Creative Fabrica than find your unique graphic on a public feed.
True... I think it's the beginning stages. POD sites are still trying to figure out what to do with AI. I predict it will be come more and more normal to use AI art in the future and POD sites with relax on requirements
AI art is also great to get rough ideas out quick to see what you like BUT most of them have become trash. Ideogram has changed into something unusable. They reduce the credits , increase the time and increase the cost per generation.
I use AI only for inspiration and to test some ideas. Once I have something good I redo it from scratch in Affinity Designer. As an artist this is my favourite part. Yes, it takes time to finish it, but at the end it’s my original artwork and the quality is superb.
Thanks for sharing! That's a great way to use AI
AI art is here to stay, so artists should embrace it. If you are a academically trained artist, AI will help you become even more creative with your skills. I use AI daily to create art, and then fine tune them using Photoshop, Illustrator, Gimp, etc. To upscale I either use whats offered on the AI platforms, or use outside upscaling sites, or desktop upscaling apps offline.
Nice! Thank you for sharing that
This is the answer. So many trained designers feel threatened. I love how Juna embraces it as an artist. It's your ally, not your competition.
@@quickpstuts412 unfortunately, some traditionally trained artists are not willing to even try to adopt to new tech. I remember the same type of resistance to Digital art back in the early 2000s. Today, AI is really just the advancement of Digital Art that was popular on creative platforms such as Deviant Art. Today, Digital made art are being displayed and sold at some of the most prestigious galleries globally.
That's what I think too
Glad you said that there’s still so much file prep work to do with Ai art output … sorta tired of people thinking it’s print on demand upload ready
Yup... I does take time
Another con (related to #5), in order to use AI art commercially, you will likely need a paid subscription. Be careful and read Terms of Service and look to be sure that your output may be used on a commercial product.
Yes. I should have mentioned that. That's a really good point. Know the terms of service. Every AI art app is different.
Thanks for sharing that. I didn't know this
And unless you make a transformative artistic change to the output, under current copyright law nothing protects you from people taking that output and doing anything they want with it. That is my understanding and I'm fine with being corrected if I'm missing something here.
I would add con no. 6. Scalability. You can't easily make a template from an AI art and create various designs out of it.
I just wish I had some of your artistic talent. :)
You kind of can... If you made a birthday shark... it could be for a 4th birthday or 5th birthday or 6th birthday.... you could do the same with years or cities if the graphic is generic enough to work with those things.
Good stuff. The last pro-point was very powerful. It's early days!
Very true... still early
@@DetourShirts I had some nice AI generation graphic ideas about half a year ago...now I will redo them in the updated generators. Quality has improved massively since then.
I love using AI for ideas and a base design for graphic design. I find it to be a good foundation, but not really a great stand alone solution. I like that it gives me unique designs and can be a good co pilot on your print on demand journey. Just don’t hand over complete control, lol! Thanks for the great video as always Juna!
Great point. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing!
beautifully explained
Thank you! 🙂
I spent hours earlier jusr trying to make a simple picture. I tried both Canva and Kittl. Neither could actually make what I wanted. It wasn't listening to me and not putting in what I said to put in. I finally gave up.
Yup... that can happen. Very hit and miss
Hey Juna! I'm interested in your take on the future of POD with AI. As you said, AI is going to get better and better, so good in fact that everybody and his dog will be able to come up with unique and original designs by himself. Those cons you were talking about will be gone in latest 3 years. How about POD? How about us designers? I think a large part of the business will be customers making their own t-shirts, mugs, stickers, etc. 🤷🏽♂️
It will still be all about value to the customer. Just because everyone has access to AI that doesn't mean they will be able to make a design that is cool, unique or original. That's going to be the difference. Most people only know how to copy what they see. The ability to be more creative than AI or more creative with AI and creat something new is going to be key. The creativity and value a person can give will be the thing that makes them stand out even when everyone has access to AI.
That's more or less my thinking too, Juna. However, I do hope we're not deceiving ourselves. AI is already far more creative than we ever anticipated. Remember five years ago when everyone (especially those whose livelihood depended on the arts) said, 'AI might take over administrative jobs or, in combination with robots, crafts, but it will never be able to do creative work. Humans will always be better at the arts.' And yet, creative tasks were among the first that AI excelled at! We all like to believe our jobs are safe, and that we're better at what we do than AI, but the time will come when AI does EVERYTHING better than us. 🤷🏽♂️
@@JensGraikowskithere might be some truth to that
The one thing that makes me worry less about AI completely taking over our Merch on Demand opportunity is that Amazon makes a ton of money from us advertising. So I can't see them dropping people who are spending hundreds or thousands on ads every month.
Now, I can see them limiting or even cutting off new applicants down the road, but we'll see.
No mention of copyright issues? What's the current state of play with using AI from a copyright angle? I have no idea
It all depends on the AI app and the POD site you are selling on. MidJourney, Leonardo, Ideogram and ChatGPT can all be used for commercial purposes with subscriptions but terms of services vary a little so make sure to read the TOS of the one you are using. Each POD site also have there own rules about using AI art. So make sure to read their rules too. Most POD sites are okay but some are not.
Thank you for the reply, I'll bare it mind going forward.
I have actually had the issue where art I get out of Kittle is too large (over 25mb) for Amazon. Also Amazon list that art has to be less than 25mb but in my experience anything over 24mb has failed to upload.
Yes. You may have to remove some art pieces or change it in some way. Some times the photos can be too big
AI Image generation has become an indispensable tool for my work. In fact, about 1/3 of my PoD sales are now coming from images I have generated and processed though AI. And, I find working with AI to be a very enjoyable process. Any amount that I spend on image generation and tools to post process the images has paid for itself almost immediately as I start making sales from the images. LOVE it!
Wow thanks for sharing. I would love to learn more about how you do it.
@@DetourShirts I basically do it much the same as you do. Use Image AI as a supercharged clip art library. Upscale when I have continuous tone images, vectorize when I have more illustrative content. Post production in Photoshop and Illustrator. Combine images with typography. All driven through deep market research catering to search demand.
I've overcome most of your cons column with experience, efficiency, tools and sales.
I get pushback when I advocate using image AI from people saying " you can tell it was created with AI and it's bad " Not the way I do it and I'm not sure that consumers even care if its something they really like and want to buy.
Congrats! Do you also edit them massively or just add effects/filters?
Do you sell on Redbubble?
hi,
Can the free version of ideogram be used for commercial purposes? Like selling it on POD?
Yes but I believe you are very limited on credits and the things you can use
Great vid! I'm still using the free ChatGPT for general queries and writing, if I upgrade to the paid version, does it also include the specific AI art tool you're using or is that another fee on top of the upgrade?
Yes it does!
Can we use them for threadless challenges..?
Ohhhh.... I think Threadless is for art from artists not from AI but that's just a guess
Kittl is the worst, I can't get images to come close to what I type in..and it always deletes the good graphics when you go to PNG the file..thanks for all the info, it's all 100% true. April
Sorry to hear that. I haven't had any problems
@@DetourShirts It's mainly when I use the Watercolor prompt. I reported it to them and sent photos of how it was deleting most of the graphics. Hopefully they get it figured out, I have wasted sooo many of my credits trying to get a great prompt and like I said it takes away parts I wanna keep, so then the graphic isn't as good as It originally came out. I appreciate your reply, 😊😊April
Sir if you create a design on Photopea and write any word on it then you can use any style of font in it. Is the font style copyrighted or not and if it is copyrighted then where to check it.
You should be fine to use the style. Just make sure the words are not trademarked
Hey Juna! I am wondering which is you favorite upscaler
DGB.lol
@@DetourShirts I tried that one out today after watching one of your videos but the edges were still far from straight and sharp. It was an AI design and I had removed the background and tried upscaling as is and up scaling after adding an outline. It is just unusable :( too bad. I guess that's one of the issues with AI images as you said
hi! Can you tell that how our design should show on first page on teepublic and other sites! is we need to do specific seo for ranking ot up! also how many design we should upload in 24 hours !
TeePublic and other POD site show designs that are getting lots of sales on the first page. Create a design that lots of people want to buy. You can upload up to 25 designs in a day for TeePublic if you are in the Apprentice category. If you are in the Artisan category the limit is 50. Other POD sites have different limits. teepublic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115013698727-Is-there-a-limit-to-how-many-designs-I-can-upload
Sir, where did get so many ideas for making die cut stickers?
I brainstorm on a topic before I make my prompts
So true! mate
Thanks
Do i need keep making accounts on Teepublic to get an artisan knowing the artisan level standards?
You need to keep making good designs that people want to buy. I wouldn't make more than one account.
AI is a venue to continue with art and illustration, it is a new territory for me as a watercolor artist. One thing that was not mentioned is AI art is not Copyrightable according to the Agency or Entity that governs copyright creations. So, if you create a super cool and profitable AI art, it can easily be copied, copycat, dubbed, etc., and you will not have a recourse. There was already one issue with an AI creator, who has complained to the appropriate party and he is not getting any support. His creation falls under the public domain. The art creation in question looks like a fancy dance hall with dancers or attendees, it looks like a painting from the 15th century by a very famous artist. His complaint emanates from the fact that he is losing money to the competition. The art at issue can be found on the internet with a tad of patience.
Good point. This is why I like to add my own words and graphics on top of the AI generated art. Then my "new" design is copyrightable.
Hi Juna!!! How many AI apps have you sunscribe to?And do you subscribe on Canva or Kittl?In total how much do you pay for all the subscriptions?Thanks!!!
Good one.... I am subscribed the 4 mentioned in the video. MidJourney, ChatGPT, Ideogram & Leonardo. I pay a lot for subscriptions and really should only have one but I do it so I can make the videos. I am also on Kittl and Canva Pro but again I do it for the videos. If I was not a content creator talking about these I would just pick one or the other.
@@DetourShirts wow!That's a lot! yeah those apps will be a great help in producing like this kind of video...Thanks for sharing us your wisdom,we truly learned a lot!🙂🙂🙂
How are you dealing with semi transparent pixels?
There are lots of ways to do it. I personally mask everything I don't want out so that I have a nice crisp edge.
@@DetourShirts Thank you for the response. Total newb, so through the response into PI ai who is guiding me through the process now. If you ever cover or have covered the process in the video, please let me know where to go. Greatly appreciated!!!!
@@mac.rodose Thank you for the response. Total newb, so through the response into PI ai who is guiding me through the process now.
Do I need to disclose if I used AI for a design on TeePublic? Should I include that in my bio or the t-shirt description.
I don't think you have to
2nd first 😂😂
Not bad... you get a medal🏅
Trying to lean 3 one
Nice... thanks for sharing
❤❤❤
Thank you
These are not cons of AI, but more of a "part of the process" type of thing and by time they will be solved as the AI tools are becoming much better.
Good point... time may fix these
How can you say "no one else will have it" without specifying that there is currently no way that you can copyright AI art unless it is transformed in a substantial way manually. Also, unless you are paying the higher price for privacy on Midjourney (not sure about others) your works go to the public feed where anyone can take your "creation" and do whatever they want to do with it, including sell it.
Isn't AI art already just flooding the market with stuff that people immediately go "oh, that's AI, why would I buy that when I can just prompt it?". The over saturation is going to get ridiculous, and it already is to a large extent. Pardon my negativity on this, I'm so torn about it. Not trying to diminish whatever success you are having.
Well if you are paying for a subscription there is the private generations like you said at the same time there are so many people on the public feed and it it is being addd to so often that the chances of them finding yours are pretty low. There is a better chance that someone will pick the same clipart from Creative Fabrica than find your unique graphic on a public feed.
Just be witty and creative, don't leave that to AI.
Also, pay for private generations...
I can resize images for print quality 20 for $5
I don't need that.... thanks for the offer
This is a pet peeve of mine with Etsy. They require disclosing use of AI but not use of clip art. But AI is so much more work than clip art
True... I think it's the beginning stages. POD sites are still trying to figure out what to do with AI. I predict it will be come more and more normal to use AI art in the future and POD sites with relax on requirements
How do they determine that it's AI, though?
First one😁
Thank you!! You get the trophy 🏆
5th comment
Hmm ....I will give you a star ⭐
AI art is also great to get rough ideas out quick to see what you like BUT most of them have become trash. Ideogram has changed into something unusable. They reduce the credits , increase the time and increase the cost per generation.
AI is always changing
But the quality has improved, right?
Getting a $20/mo subscription for Pro seems worth it to me.
Or is Midjourney still better? (+50% more expensive)