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> As mentioned, what is better, MS Paint or photoshop? Metaphor is useful, but this feels overly-reductive. The gap between the amount of effort it takes to ma
by HelloMcFly 3y ago
> As mentioned, what is better, MS Paint or photoshop?
Metaphor is useful, but this feels overly-reductive. The gap between the amount of effort it takes to make something great or approaching the vision you had is massive between MS Paint and Photoshop. Not so for SD and MJ.
However, I am appreciating that SD seems to be clearly better if you need something more specific / precise. I don't think I'm convinced (yet) that because it can get more precise inherently makes it a better tool.
- syntheweave 3y agoIt's the old consumer/professional distinction at play: "If it's a professional tool, it's a job to know how to use it." There are definitely some professionalized paradigms emerging in the use of SD: one video tutorial I saw this morning covering basic photobash + img2img and use of controlnet had a commenter saying that they preferred using the lineart function in controlnet to get more control and leverage their drawing skills. When you see that kind of thing it's a huge signal for professionalization, because someone suggesting the optimal first step is "learn how to draw" deviates so completely from the original context of prompt-based image generation: "just type some words and the image magically appears".