Made by hand, by a model, or both? Ask people who make images.
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Book cover process: hand sketch, AI color studies, final paint
Sharing my first full book cover for a friend's self-published fantasy novel, with the process, since I think the mix worked better than doing it all one way...
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Content Credentials disappeared after I exported from Lightroom
My working conclusion after a weekend of testing: the credentials did not disappear on export, they were never written in the first place. As far as I can tell...
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Is there an AI image detector that actually works?
Is there an AI image detector that actually works, or are they all guesswork? I run social media for a small nonprofit, and last week a dramatic photo of a...
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Do AI image detectors still work on screenshots and reposted images?
Not reliably, in my experience so far. I run the nonprofit's social accounts and check viral images before we share them. When I feed a detector the original...
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Does an invisible AI watermark like SynthID survive cropping and compression?
Usually yes for ordinary edits, but not always. Google says SynthID is designed to survive cropping, filters and lossy compression, and its help page says the...
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Do I have to tell a client I used Generative Fill on their photo?
My conclusion so far: yes, tell them, in plain words and before delivery. Not because I have found a rule that forces every photographer to, but because...
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My hand-drawn illustration got labeled AI on a print site. Why?
Most likely an automated check flagged it, and it was wrong. I cannot say which check the site ran, because they will not tell me, but I drew every line of...
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What happens on stock sites if you forget to label an image as AI?
Short version from my own contributor habits: do not forget, because the downside is not a polite email. On the stock sites I submit to, the AI label is a rule...
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What are Content Credentials and how do you check them on an image?
Content Credentials are a signed record of where an image came from and what was done to it, attached to the file using the open C2PA standard. To check one...
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Using AI for moodboards without copying living artists: where is the line?
My own rule, for what it is worth: AI output is fine on an internal moodboard as long as it never leaves the room as a deliverable, and I never put a living...
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Midjourney or Firefly for client work: which one can you actually license?
Neither tool gives you a clean "licensed, no questions" stamp, but they carry different kinds of risk. Reading both sets of public terms last week, my working...
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How to check if an image is AI generated: start here
No single check proves an image is AI generated or real. Work in layers: find the earliest copy, look for Content Credentials, run a provider watermark check...
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How to make AI-generated copy read naturally for client deliverables
Short answer from our last few months: treat the AI draft as raw material and edit it until it sounds like the client, not like a model. Three things moved the...
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A student turned in an AI image for a drawing assignment. How do you handle it?
My current answer: start with a conversation about the process, not with an accusation, and do not treat any detector's output as proof. I have not settled the...
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