AI Workflow for Image Gen. Okay, when we talk about AI workflows, we wanna be careful about trying to one-shot things or when we don't know what we're looking for to let the machine do the thinking for us.

Okay, when we talk about AI workflows, we wanna be careful about trying to one-shot things or when we don't know what we're looking for to let the machine do the thinking for us. I'm gonna tell you what I think is the ideal AI workflow. First, you need to have a clear vision in your mind. Like, what is it that you want? Instead of just saying, "Hey, make me something..." Let it, uh, leave it on its own device. It'll give you something, and then what you have to do is you have to give it feedback, and then it gives you something else, and then you're like, "Why doesn't it give me what I want?" It's, well, because you started out too broad, not specific enough. So what you wanna do is like, "What is it I want?" Well, okay, if I want to typeset it a certain way, well, typeset it first. Design your type the way you want in the typeface that you want. So you have to give it stronger, clearer inputs. So instead of saying sans serif, typeset that thing. And then you can say like, um, "I want it to look like metal," and you could just tell it or you can show it a reference, so this plus a reference of some kind of metal type. Now, if you were just to take these two things and say, "You know what? Put these two together," like an art director. The way I would look at is like this. You're the art director. You're the person who's in charge here. That's you, right? You, you wanna be able to communicate something to a production artist or a finisher who's really good at mechanical things but isn't super creative. So I have the idea, but if you can't describe to that person and you just say, "Make me this," they can come back with a thousand solutions, and you'll be stuck. Once we have references and, and a vision in our mind, we can let the machine do what it needs to do. Now, sometimes the machine will use an engine that isn't appropriate, and you're like, "Why does this suck?" So not all engines are created equal. And then it's gonna give you an output. This is the important part here. Now it gives you an output, and you're gonna be so much closer to that initial concept that you had that then you can just make little tweaks. At some point, you have to decide, is it good enough or you know what? I'm gonna jump into Photoshop. I'm gonna tweak it myself. You can get caught in a really weird and vicious cycle that's a complete waste of time and devoid of humanity by just asking the machine to keep fixing it when you yourself can fix it. So when we talked earlier about doing a thumbnail where it's a photo composition, don't just say, "Make this thing." You can build these assets, whatever other things, and say, "Put all those things together, A, B, and C, and then give me what I want." Okay? Okay. So that's, that's usually how you use this so that you're using very few credits, you're, you're using very little time because you have a clear idea. Otherwise, the, the, the problem is if we rely on just having the machine make stuff, someone else is gonna write a robot that just makes it, and then you're out of a job. We don't wanna do that. So you have to have the ideas. You have to know what it's supposed to look like.