A classy form of fake that requires skill to perform
Showerthoughts
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
Even worse, tangible mediums (paint, canvas, paper, pen,…) almost seem like some primitive long lost art.
I really think we need to not consider everything AI. Like auto selection tools have existed for so long and its the same sorta algorithm but computer generated. Thats where you know it was low skill. Computers dont have skills they have efficiency. Computer generated is low skill and super efficient, like the tools we make from them.
Puritan gatekeepers have always existed. It's just the goalposts that keep moving.
its largely been replaced by AI. PS requires some "skill" to use, and certain instiution heavily discourages like in labs that use microscopy.
Same with “I solved this with a calculator”.
and "here's the wikipedia article that backs up my claim"
Man, I want artisan bullshit, not machine-generated slop.
It's become somewhat grey, too. Someone might have spent hours skillfully putting something together in PS, to spending five minutes applying the right tools to an existing piece, or doing little more than clicking a couple times to apply a complex filter, completely transforming a piece.
I’m definitely in the second category for all my art in general. Minimal, decisive, meaningful.
There's tons of ai tools in Photoshop though
last time i checked (2024) there was only content aware replace/stretch, and a bunch of those face filters
has that changed?
Yep, you can select an area and make a generative edit
ew :(
yeah except that PS is chocked full of AI bullshit now