Short, practical reads about generating and editing images with AI.
Twelve edits an AI photo editor makes in one pass each — background, sky, objects, colour, restoration — with the instruction that works.
An AI photo editor is not a filter stack. You upload a picture, brush over the part you want changed, write what should be there, and only the marked area is rebuilt — the rest of the frame is untouched, pixel for pixel. That one mechanic covers most of what…
Read moreHow AI upscaling differs from resizing, what it can genuinely restore, and when to regenerate at 2K instead.
Upscaling means making a picture bigger without it turning to mush. Ordinary resizing stretches the pixels you have and the result is soft, because there is no extra information in the file to stretch. An AI upscaler does something different: it predicts the…
Read moreThe tells that still hold up, the ones that no longer do, and why AI image detectors should not be trusted on their own.
Detection is now a practical skill rather than a curiosity, and the honest starting point is that no single test is reliable. What works is a stack of weak signals plus the context the picture arrives in.
Read moreWhat a design tool with a built-in generator does best, what it caps, and when a dedicated generator is the better fit.
A generator built into a design tool is the shortest path from idea to finished layout: the picture appears inside the document it belongs to, next to the fonts, the logo and the guides. If the image only ever lives inside one design, that is genuinely hard…
Read moreThirty concrete prompts and jobs — for a business, a blog, a shop or a wall — each with the ratio to generate it at.
The hardest part of an image generator is not the prompt, it is the blank box. Here are thirty jobs worth doing, grouped by what they are for, each with the ratio that fits. Steal any of them literally; changing one noun makes it yours.
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