Fun new trick I learned — use TexTuring (a halftone generator that uses organic patterns) to create very convincing grain on compositions.

Here is one of the gradients I made if you wanna fiddle with it.

https://mitch.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/misc/Layer%201_TexTuring-5738.png

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If you work in Adobe Illustrator and aren't using Astute Graphics, you're missing out. I can hardly work anymore without these handy professional tools.

https://astutegraphics.com/

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Example of a workflow.

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Needed a stock image of driving rain for the background of a youtube thumbnail — #stablediffusion to the rescue! It can really come in clutch when you need a REALLY specific, otherwise non-unique image input for a composition.

For situations when you really just need an image that can pass a smell test, this is an invaluable tool.

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Which type face uses the most ink when written by hand?

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Source: https://flowingdata.com/2010/01/29/save-pens-use-garamond-font/

This halftone tool is really neat — and it outputs to an optimized #SVG! #designtips

https://ehufsted.itch.io/halftonepal

Just published a writeup + the model files for an AI-powered design tool I built mainly for myself, ‘LogoScale.’

Its purpose is upscale shitty, tiny, compressed raster logos up to 4x or 8x their size, to augment and increase the accuracy of bitmap tracing. This is how you go from ‘re-tracing client logos by hand’ to ‘I pulled a vector logo out of my ass’. Take a peek.

🌎 https://www.notion.so/msprout/LogoScale-A-Method-for-Vectorizing-Small-Crappy-Logos-dc0035b7473c44f8b94ffc4026d286c0

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Did you know that Adobe Illustrator accepts plaintext SVG input via the clipboard? It can save you a number of steps when you're trying to pull a logo off a site to use. Just open dev tools via right click-> inspect, copy the SVG element, and just paste into Illustrator.

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