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I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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Not sure if this will be considered off topic, my apologies if so. The article says that octopi is the plural of octopus, but it's actually octopuses. Octopus is originally Greek, not Latin and thus does not get the Latin plural -i, but instead would get the Greek plural -odes. Since it ends in a way English can deal with, the commonly accepted usage is octopuses (English) over octopodes (Greek) with octopi being the…

Actually the plural is "octopuppies."

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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post #83

This blog post proves that Dall-E 2 will not make human taste and design ability obsolete. The final image he ended up with is a lot uglier and more complicated than most of the intermediate steps. I think generative art AIs will have a similar effect on design as compilers have on software development, and will not put artists out of a job.

Disagree. Just allow one or two more iterations and it will supersede human abilities. Think ahead. Tech progress won't stop.

The tech will get better, but ultimately there still has to be a human who decides 'that's the one that looks good', which strongly depends on someone's taste and skill in identifying what a good image looks like.

There will probably be less need for designers of 'lower quality' simple images though.

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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I’m fascinated by how much this is exactly like working with a human artist who doesn’t really understand the domain that you are wanting to represent with an image. Iterate, iterate, iterate. It seems like the most valuable thing this could do is get some of that early exploration out of the way faster and easier than a human can do it, get to two or three concepts that feel like they’re in the neighborhood, and the…

I think this is more powerful than a simple exploration tool. It took the author a long time to find a query format that generated logo-like images. Once they had that part down, they were quickly able to iterate on their query to find an image they liked. They were even able to fix part of the logo using the fill-in tool. I'm not sure why you'd bring a human into the mix, especially if you're on a budget.

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could of also paid a human to carry your comment all the way over to me so I could read it and reply like I am doing so now.

What an intelligent and educating response. My comment may come as salty, but if you make an effort to visit the linked gallery, maybe you will have more "fresh perspective":)

If someone wants to pay a lot of money to a professional to create their brand identity that option is always there.

If someone else just needs something simple and passable there is Dalle.

And I’m sure there is every option in between where someone can use Dalle as a starting point and pass it to a pro, or a pro would even use Dalle as a way to brainstorm options.

Dalle is a tool that has empowered everyone. It shouldn’t be seen from a stereotypical luddite perspective as in your first post.

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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post #59

With all respect possible, you generated something that a professional will create for 20 minutes on a napkin (in the context of logo idea). Maybe your perception of "logo" needs more reference points. For example, this gallery of classics in Brand Identity will be a good starting point(use the triangles on top to navigate): https://www.joefino.com/logos_html/L01_Xpand.html There is no doubt in my mind that the next…

The real question is how soon will GPT-3(4?) replace commenters on websites like this one, and whether you will even be able to tell.

Sure, I am the secret GPT 5 experiment. Now you got me. Congrats:)

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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I had no idea that could you do the variations or the brush stuff. Maybe I’m just glossing right over it? But that seems to give the tool more utility. I just try a phrase and I either like it or I don’t. The fact that you can integrate on it seems to make it much more useful.

Yes! A really cool way to work with it is to generate a bunch of images, arrange them on a transparent canvas (i.e. in Affinity Designer), and then ask Dalle to fill in the gaps. For example see here[0], where I've combined a picture of a flying whale, a tardigrade in space, and a bunch of flying turtles. [0]: https://labs.openai.com/s/quqITCrFI7h0G1HKyfUrmJU0

That is neat. So are commas an official way to blend different schools of thought together for the image? Is there any documented way it’s supposed to work? Like [main subject], [art style], etc? Or is it something you picked up from trial and error?

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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ArtLebedev design studio was first (citation needed) to sell ML logo creation as a service: https://ironov.artlebedev.com/

And it seems LAION was the “first” to offer it up for free. https://replicate.com/laion-ai/erlich

It is not even close to what Ironov does. More like a tech demo. Ironov outputs a complete brand book and it's interface is set up for exploration and logo refinement.

Re: I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! A really cool way to work with it is to generate a bunch of images, arrange them on a transparent canvas (i.e. in Affinity Designer), and then ask Dalle to fill in the gaps. For example see here[0], where I've combined a picture of a flying whale, a tardigrade in space, and a bunch of flying turtles. [0]: https://labs.openai.com/s/quqITCrFI7h0G1HKyfUrmJU0

That is neat. So are commas an official way to blend different schools of thought together for the image? Is there any documented way it’s supposed to work? Like [main subject], [art style], etc? Or is it something you picked up from trial and error?

Here[0] is a very good presentation about it.

But overall, you have to think about the context Dalle has seen similar images in the training set. If it's seen them on an art sharing site, then it's probably good to mention such sites and tags it could hypothetically have there. Or if it's more like a photo in an article, think about what could be written about it in the article.

That's my intuition about it at least.

[0]: http://dallery.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-DALL%C...

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