I know this AI stuff is incredible, But as surface pattern designer my self, I feel so humiliated... We are the real designer, make a pattern from strach and hand drawing it our self and there will be non-surface pattern maker making this stuff and called them self as designer... Making pattern not just type some word in it... Every pattern have their own story and journey... It's put effort in it and creativity to make it beautiful.
This is the wrong way to think about it, sure midjourney can great some great stuff but think about someone with less artistic ability generating art with ai compared to you or real designers using it, not only will it make people with no artistic ability better at creating art but it will also grant people with artistic ability the ability to make much much better art with ai then someone with no artistic ability. Use it to make your art better and generated faster
@@Cluster0 thank you for your opinion❤... And for designer, art not just generate stuff faster, there is process and story behind it... Pretty sure that person who use AI to generate "art" want instant result without working hard on it... Not blame them, because who doesn't want to make "instant" And "easy" Money from it... But it's still feels so wrong and humiliated designer who learn and passionate about art that they are making... And the fact that AI copying real artist style to generate new image... Isn't it sound great for non-designer, that they can make something without even think about it... Okay, that to harsh, of course that non-designer still think what "word" to type to generate an image...
This definately sucks, its not fair that artists have to study years to master their craft and then any one can just make art now with words, but if im being honest life isnt fair, you have to ride with it and take advantage yourself get ahead or you will be left behind, i myself am an artist and technology is taking over handmade... we have to adapt to survive
I'm an aspiring writer, and I know it's really only a matter of months before people start generating their own AI fiction. I can only hope that in the end, people will get sick of the novelty of AI and start seeking out human artists again.
@@_kmCarter oh believe me Ai could never beat an actual writer. I tried it before, it lucks feelings and it's not as enjoyable as reading from a human writer
@@MS-qt1co image generation went from terrible to photorealistic in less than a year. Relying on the shortcomings of AI won't last very long, it will be perfectly capable of writing novels.
I love your videos. I am a 74 yo grandmother who believes you should never stop learning. Midjourney is awesome. I love to make stickers. If I can sell them, that's great, if not, I still enjoy making them. I also have purchased many papers for cards, so to create my own now is unbelievable. I would love more information on the saving them at the correct pixel sizes to make the papers print nicely. I don't know what everyone is complaining about, they aren't required to watch your videos, they apparently clicked on them, they aren't being charged for the information and you haven't guaranteed anything. Sounds like a win-win to me. So, thank you Alek.
@@PrashantGijareI had this exact thought - no offense whatsoever, but if you have a successful YT channel, posting roughly weekly, I'm always wondering how you have the time if you're business is so successful...wouldn't you be too busy to be teaching us?😋
One thing you should tell these people asking about listings and file sizes and resizing images and low quality detail and file sizes being too large is that you actually need to know how to use photoshop , possibly be a painter yourself, understand compression, file packaging, zipping and exporting into different file types. It’s not just as easy as you make it out to be. Even so, once a shop is set up, there is absolutely 000% guarantee anyone will buy from your shop.
Seriously! These images are not print-ready by any means! A few touch ups are def not going to cut it, this is some pie in the sky bs. But lots of ppl fell for it.
Definitely the MJ images need work beyond the upscaling! They will only be 72 or 96 dpi depending if you're running normal or x2 quality, so you still need some knowledge on printing and how to process images.
The AI can tell you exactly how to do every single one of those processes, with detailed instructions. It can even provide multiple alternative methods for doing so. And in a few weeks it will probably be able to do so itself with a simple command prompt.
As an artist who is familiar with programming, I think it is important for people to remember that AI is pulling from a database of information. Which means that everything an AI creates, while being unique in its own way is pulling from actual artists and the work they have posted online/has been used to program the AI. It is borderline art theft to take AI images and resell them to people, and should be more used as a tool to help creatives pull ideas for complicated concepts or get a quick visual filler for a larger project.
At best it's a form of art piracy and even then the final product is transformative; not a direct copy. Fundamentally, the AI uses it's memory to create a stylized product which is a Frankenstein piece. This is more or less how many artists have traditionally made art using previous art they've seen as they remember it for their inspiration.
@@dezmodium great reason, but not answering the main problem. The major problem is the art theft. I read that several AI-generated pictures are still have the original's artist signature or watermark. Become inspired of one style and blatantly copy-paste image and modified them are two different things, imho.
@@ditalistdiary That's still piracy, not theft, and even then it doesn't fit piracy entirely because the art produced isn't really a copy of the art it is derived from. Furthermore, you dance around the point, what difference does it make if the art I use for inspiration has a watermark or not? Is it immoral for me to create a derivative peice from art I remember that was watermarked? No, of course not. So the watermark point here is a complete red herring. It makes no difference at all.
@@dezmodium I think that they are implying that the presence of a watermark proves that it's a "copy" of the original, not just inspired by it. I've seen this exact example given a lot. Except, based on my understanding of how AI works, I don't think it's the own that they think it is. Having a signature doesn't mean that it's a copy of the image, but rather the AI has learned that a signature (or at least some dark squiggles) are associated with certain types of styles. Sometimes when I generated images based on a classic painting it would just randomly put painting frames on the borders of the images. Not even the same frame for each image, just random frames. Because the AI learned that painting frames were associated with these works, probably because it learned from photos of the artworks hanging in museums.
In my opinion these are all mid compared to dropshipping. If you can't get good winning products from the start, I would use some kind of a product searching tool to make it faster and easier. That way you always know what products are selling currently. At least that's what I have been using, and I am now making about 5k per month. Of course, at the beginning it won't be easy, and you will need some luck as well.
Hey bro, yes I can do it but it's a paid service so I don't know if you would like it. But you could get your money back with two or three sales and they have some demo products for you to try it out.
Years ago a professional freelance graphic artist told me to learn CS engineering because just as the internet made everything obsolete so well it be with AI to the digital media all front end industries
A listing video would be awesome! Im about to dive into Etsy and have several ideas BUT this one is very appealing so I might open my first shop with this :)
Alek, I would love to see a video detailing how you use Photopea to do common tasks such as removing text from MidJourney pics and other common tasks you use for creating digital downloads for Etsy. Thanks in advance.
Thank you Alek, this is exactly what i need. I have been searching for something less time consuming as I been creating designs, completing the ads and all that it takes for SEO on Etsy, Pintrest and IG. I am literally working myself to death. This would be so much easier to do some of these as well.
In my opinion, the most important characteristic about art is how the artist expresses themselves in their own work. Even if an artist isnt the most technically skilled or the most creative with their ideas, one could view the art and appreciate how an artist approaches their subjects. You could see in what areas an artist excells at and you could see where they struggle. Part of the fun of being a fan of an artist is seeing how they develop their skills and how they convey their ideals to the viewer (and they dont all need to be profound ideas, a deeply contemplative piece can be just as compelling as a cool looking character) With Ai art you don't get a personal expression, instead what you have is an amalgamation of other peoples works put together with no real consideration of how to convey its ideals beyond a bunch of tags put together in a sequence. Regardless of the technical quality of the art, what an ai artist creates will always be hollow because what they make is not truly theirs. Even the most shoddy sketch made by someone who has never held a pen in their life has more value then Ai art, because that shoddy sketch expresses a genuine attempt to create from scratch.
I actually agree with you, I notice that all of the AI images seem to have some of the same basic foundations. if you scroll through enough images they all start to look alike. I am not an artist by any stretch but i do love to see real art by real people.
Yes, AI is not real art, but most of us ordinary folks don't have real art anywhere in our homes or lives. 🙂 It's unaffordable. I actually have two original watercolors by a professional artist on my walls, but only because I used to clean house for the artist's wife and when he passed away 40 years ago, she eventually gave me the artwork that was left after the kids had their pick. Yes, most of us can afford reproductions of real art, and that's what I normally have hanging, but I don't want any shoddy sketches...I'd rather have an image I enjoy, even if a computer made it up by cheating. ☺ I'm a big believer in hanging whatever you like on your walls...ANYTHING that makes you happy, whether others like it or not.
Why would someone buy this from you instead of just using the same AI-generator themselves? How long before people realize they can just make it themselves very easily?
A video on selling on etsy would be amazing and kinda go over the fees and all that. I'm a photographer/artist and been wanting to dive into selling on etsy I just don't even know where or how to start and I'm nervous! More info would be amazing thanks, totally dug this video and found it useful thanks so much
@@alekSheffy could you possibly do a video on the different AI generators or programs/sites you can use to do stuff like this ? I'm not as familiar with AI generators !
I will be trying this, I'll let you all know how it goes. Update 1. I've been working on this for about a half hour maybe and do far, it's been extremely simple. The hardest part of this so far just seems like waiting for people to notice my product. I'll keep the updates coming.
the only downside to that now is the boom of sellers doing this, which means huge competition. This leads to a simple thing if you just look at others and what they do and replicate you most likely going to fail as they have a reputation on Etsy while you have non with huge competition. So this still can work out but I would rather try to focus on something unique that no one or very few people has. This is the same as the boom on such tutorials which almost every RU-vidr is now doing.
2 videos I think would be very helpful are a listing tutorial on Etsy, and a prompt tutorial for midjourney. I cannot seem to replicate the mountain style you had in the end of your video and I would love to see what techniques you used to get it.
The whole prompt is literally there at 6:46….. Don’t forget to set the MJ version to 5 because the default is 4. Also, you will not get the EXACT image he obtained even using the same prompt.
This is real foreign territory for me but is there any risk of copyright violations? What if multiple people type in the same exact prompts which I’m sure is common for such a large population. Does the software spit out something different every single instance & how much different where it doesn’t violate copyrights? Do these digital patterns even have copyrights?
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you need to learn more about the world. this channel makes money from embellishing the truth about getting rich fast while he gets rich on views. people often lose money selling on sites like this if they don't know about marketing. so no bro it's not good info or advice. just an ambitious money hungry dude and many naive teens.
Great video bro! Please do another video where you try this for a week/month and show results after that, because it's hard to determine if affiliate marketing is profitable or if you just got lucky on your first day.
@@malachihabib9068 where do you think they get the algorithm to "create" the art? From analyzing artist's original work. There's currently a legal case pending about this very issue.
@@hannahmoren4161 It analyzes styles. It doesn't replicate a piece of art. That's not quite stealing. Many artists are influenced by another artist's style. I grew up analyzing other people's art. Most do for study. Listen, I've been doing traditional art most of my life...but these are the times we're living in. A case pending doesn't mean much. Artificial intelligence is not going away, it's only going to keep expanding. Why not take advantage of it? I mean personally I use it sometimes for ideas.
Besides that I agree all of this AI art/design stuff is at least grey area moral zone and people are substituting artists and designers with machines, I have one question about this business model. What if the pattern created by midjourney will look exactly or almost the same as someone's work done by hand lets say several years ago? What happens if one is not aware of that and they decide to sue you in court? Like you can be sure,that this patterns are gonna have lots of similarities with things that already exist, I would be a bit afraid about ownership right tbh
People just don’t care I guess. The majority just want to make easy money by skipping the creative process, it seems like Ai allows to use “distorted” work and you can put it out there as “yours”. 🤣
@@rossellaleonardi2908 It seems true unfortunately. It is a bit daunting to see how little awareness there is to how much effort is involved in creating something and also, that so many don't seem to at least view it as a subject of debate that we should have. The copyright problems with all of this are kinda obvious. As a designer myself, I think creative process is not something we can dispense with too, lots of projects need much more behind them, some 'why', than to just 'look good' and it looks like a long way before AI will able to at least propose something coherent on that level
Hey Alek! Great content... been binge-watching the episodes! Question for you on the business side of things: Do you create an LLC for each store or do you run one/all as a sole-proprietorship?
Thanks so much for this video. Really, really helpful. Just wondering about upscaling for print, though. Correct me if I'm wrong, but MidJourney outputs really small files (512px?), and at 72dpi, so that's not high enough quality for print. Any tiled pattern upscaled for a t-shirt or blanket would look blurry and pixelated. Any favourite AI upscaling methods? Thanks again!
That's what humans do as well. We observe reality (all of it, not just "art" but reality as a whole), and mix it up and create something new from the parts. Computers and other tools are there to help us make more of what excites us, and allows folks who were told that they weren't artists to make art. The real problem was in trying to monetize art. Art is self expression, and should be done by anyone who has emotions. Computers don't have emotions, so they don't make art, but can help us humans do so, just like cameras, paint brushes, clay, and pianos can.
Most of these ai programs terms of services don’t allow you to sell or market yourself with their art. So this is most likely illegal and could potentially bite you in the ass.
Hey this is an amazing idea! Is it possible to specify exact colors that midjourney will use based on, say, Pantone values or Sherman Williams paint colors?
Hey Alek, I just wanted to say I loved your video! I've been trying to find ways to make money with AI, but since I'm underage, it's not easy. I've tried a few things, but there's not much I can do right now. I'm determined to learn as much as I can before I turn 18, though, so I can hit the ground running. Do you have any opportunities for me to work with you or help with your projects? Your work is really cool, and I think I could learn a lot from you while also contributing something valuable. Thanks for your time, and keep up the awesome work! Best regards, Aran
One important issue. MidJourney was trained on 100m+ stolen artworks (google 'midjourney stolen art'). Whilst you're tweaking the output, it could still be similar enough to the original to land you with a copyright infringement lawsuit.
Omg I wish I’d seen this yesterday.. joined Midjourney and ended up in the most chaotic place! If you’ve never been on Discord this information is so helpful! What size file do you end up with once your pattern is done? Is it the same every-time?
everyone can steal it because it has no copyright. So take it and sell it even again. You can't have any registration in the USA, it has to be made by humans and not a machine. As a designer I am not happy at all about it, but gladly people work with people and I understand now that POD are changing their business model cause their customers are complaining about the quality. Dear people learn on top. AI isn't all
Once excellent prompting is evaluated and is used as training, prompting itself will be in the same position as artist. Art websites will sell direct, likely before 2005 by early adopters.
My first few pattern designs were riddled with watermarks - I added this to my prompt and it seemed to help (of course remove what you want to show up)... --no photorealistic, text, title, headline, typography, words, trees, buildings, people
I’m sorry, but you cannot be a 100% sure that you are not breaking any type of copyright infringement by using ai’s to do your work for you. They do not create new from scratch, they take already existing photos from around the internet. You can get some serious strikes on your Etsy shop, it can get closed or in worst case you can get a mother of a law suit on your hands. So stop trying to sell work that doesn’t belong to you, that you have no rights to sell.
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Ai steals from actual artists. Brian Froud just had ai steal art, many artists have. This only perpetuates theft of other artists designs. This is unconscionable. Yes. Make art. Sell art! Don’t use AI to make art for you, original artists get nothing for you stealing from them. This is gross.
Remember folks, people have already been tapping into this idea. It's not a get rich quick scheme. If it were that easy, this guy Alek would be doing it to make money instead of jumping on the AI bandwagon to "teach" you all how to do it and make money off of your RU-vid views. The Etsy shops that are doing well selling patterns have established themselves over a decent time frame and have done their research and curated an audience willing to pay for their items.
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Surface pattern designer here…this is scary stuff. My question is who owns the rights to these patterns? Isn’t it pulling from images on the internet? Is there copyright infringement involved in that? And if not, can one actually hold the copyright on these patterns being created by the AI?
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I added digital photos onto Redbubble however the photo didn't expand to take up the entire phone case like on the others selling? Is there something I missed saving the photos generated via AI?
why don't I just make videos on "how people can make ridiculous amounts of money on side hustles that don't really work" while I make all the money on views!
Thanks for your videos! I know you need to squeeze in a lot of info - - just wanted to mention that you speak a bit fast even for a native speaker like myself and I find that I have to rewind quite often to catch everything you say.
I have learned so much from you. Thank you... Do you have any videos that help with chat GPT prompts for art the way you do in midjourney with the reverse descriptions of the image or is midjourney just a whole different animal? I find myself using leonardo, midjourney, chatGPT with DALL E and I have all of the Adobe programs. My head is kinda spinning from all of my options. It seems each AI is better at one thing than the other. Thinking I may stick with midjourney mainly though if that is the only one that gives the ability to really customize - Hope I made sense. I guess I am mainly looking for those hacks with Chat GPT Dalle
