Today I'm going to be showing you how to use AI to massively
improve your designs and stay on the cutting edge of the design industry.
I'm going to show you this with a poster design to give you a clear example.
But you can do this with logo design, packaging design,
nearly any form.
I'm going to create a new document here and I'm going to
go to, I'm going to keep it as a Print A4 300 PPI.
And this is in photoshop.
Now, I want to design a sort of minimalistic poster but
let's say, I haven't got time to, you know, go on my sketch pad and
come up with some cool layouts.
And I don't want to go online and search for layouts because
that's kind of like copying.
So what do we do?
Let's go to Midjourney.
In Midjourney, you can prompt AI to give you images, and
it will give you four, to which you can select one to up scale
to make it look better.
So I typed in minimalism, typographic poster, optimistic
and this is what it turned out for me.
These four here and I like them all.
This one up here seemed the best.
You can see that the writing, it's got letters in there but
it doesn't make any sense.
However, I really like this layout.
So let's go for this kind of layout, I'm going to go into Photoshop and
I'm going to create some guides.
I've created them 10 by 8.
This just gives us nice even squares or as much as possible.
You could even go more than this to have it even more
squared in there.
And that's good for graphic elements.
It's not always good for typography.
Okay, let's bring some text in.
Okay, I don't like that font.
We're going to choose one that looks similar to the one that
we saw on the poster.
We can play around with it later.
And I'm going to just do this, like, line by line instead of
using the whole word.
Changed a text to a black.
I kind of like black.
Okay.
I kind of like the look of it.
It looks similar to the one on Midjourney that we got
inspiration from for our layout.
Now, to change this up a little bit, I'm going to make some
cool effects on the typeface to make it look a bit more dystopian.
I'm going to right click and convert to smart object.
I'm going to go to Filter and we're going to go to Liquify.
This is the most fun tool ever.
And we're going to just move this around slightly.
Now, the trick with this is you don't want to change all the elements.
The more subtle you are in some areas, the better.
And if we start warping this area up here, it becomes harder
for people to know what the word is.
So we've got to do this kind of tastefully.
And if you don't like what you've just done, you can just
go to the Rebuild function.
So press R to go to Reconstruct and it will reconstruct it for you.
Now, when we press OK, you'll see it looks a bit crazy and a bit flat.
So we're going to add some blur to give the are sort of three dimensions.
Again, go to Filter.
Go down to Blur Gallery.
We're going to go to Field Blur.
This is a crazy cool tool because what we can do is
select points of where we want it to be blurred and it creates
this sort of mesh.
So you see, I'm selecting these two points.
I'm asking this point here to be very blurry, but over here,
I don't want any blur.
And you can play around with this as much as you want and
just press OK.
If you ever want to edit this or change it, all you have to
do in your smart object is just double click on where it is in
the layers and you can just go ahead and edit that.
Now that we've got the base of our poster done, we've got the
information, we can start adding creative elements in there.
But let's say that you can't just go to a stock website.
Maybe you want to create something completely unique.
Well, that's where Midjourney or other AI programs come in.
I'm going to use Midjourney.
Now, I asked Midjourney to create a sphere.
I wanted to know what a glowing sphere would look like.
So I asked it to create a 3D realistic glowing sphere on a
dark black background, minimalism.
Minimalism being there so it doesn't have
unnecessary details that I don't want.
And this is what it turned out.
It turned out quite a few different ones.
I ended up choosing this one here because I've got the paid
version of Midjourney.
I can use these in some of my works.
So what I'm going to do is take this image and bring it into my poster.
But we can use any image that you like.
You can come up with abstract forms such as the ones that
I've created down here.
So I'm going to bring in that orb into here.
I'm going to change some of the blend modes as well because
I feel like we can create some cool things in here.
I'm going to change blend mode to colour dodge.
That's just a really simple way.
And I'm going to scale this up.
And then I'm actually going to bring in another image as well.
I'm going to save this one.
I'm going to create it and just put it into the background here.
And we can create some cool patterns out of this.
I'm going to just bring the layer style functions and get
rid of some of this black.
Make it a bit more into the background there so it doesn't
look just purely black.
I'm going to create a new layer.
I'm going to choose a colour of just like kind of this grayish
and just make some noise out of this, I'm going to press overlay
and you can see what we're doing.
We're just creating some crazy, crazy looking work just here.
What I will do, in fact, reduce some of that contrast.
So the great thing about AI is that you can create some
amazing looking work or create ideas for logos or for posters using it.
Whether that's for creating assets for posters or creating
a layout or even ideating the layout, it does it faster,
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I also used AI to create another poster, which was just
a bit more of a fun thing, but I thought I'd show you.
I used AI to create the layout or to give me ideas for it, and
it came up with this really cool one where I put the grids
in place to do it.
But this sphere is in the back as well, as you can see.
However, we can add even more into this.
This image of the boat looks like it's from a stock website.
It looks crazy unique, and you can use it inside of your work
so you can see how Midjourney and other AI programs can
really help in creating assets for you.
This is just a very basic way of using AI in graphic design
to help you become even more creative.
There's a quote that I love, and I saw it on Instagram the
other day and it is, AI will not replace humans.
Humans using AI will replace humans.
And I think that is so true when it comes to creativity and
where we're at right now.
You may look at this video and think that you've just taken
basically stock images.
But if you were to scale this up and to really spend time
inside of Midjourney or these other programs, use AI for your
client work, then you can start to see some of the power that
you have to create images and to create ideas.
So instead of sketching, maybe the future is all about
prompting, prompting AI to come up with different perspectives
for us creative professionals.
So if you've done any design work where you've used Dali or
Midjourney, let me know in the comments and post it on our
subreddit, which is linked in the description.
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