Jan
18
If you’ve ever had a perfect vertical shot that needs to be a horizontal hero image, you know the pain of manually painting in edges. Today, you can skip the grunt work and use generative "outpainting" tools like Nano Banana Pro. You can use the Gemini web or mobile app and simply prompt "Extend the image to fill 16:9," which usually yields great results. However, the native app applies a watermark, which is a dealbreaker...
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Jan
17
You're about to see how to take a messy napkin sketch and turn it into a consistent, studio-quality character using a workflow that actually respects your creative intent, using Nano Banana (Google's amazing image model) and Weavy (node-based canvas app). And importantly, the character will stay consistent across scenes, poses and even styles (want to render it as a B&W cartoon? Not a problem). I'll show you the step-by-step breakdown of how we built the...
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Jan
16
We talk a lot about the big players in AI video—Runway, Kling, Sora, Veo—but there’s one tool that is quietly crushing it right now, and almost nobody is talking about it: Grok Imagine. Grok is developed by xAI, and while it’s often buried in headlines about tweets and tech politics, for creative pros, it’s a sleeper hit. Specifically, its image-to-video capability is arguably the best "quick fix" animation tool on the market. It's fast, it's...
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Jan
10
We’ve all been there: you wrap a shoot, you get into the edit, and you realize the perfect shot is the one you didn’t take. You need a bird’s eye view, or just a slight rotation to make the composition sing, but the moment is gone. Until recently, that was it. You lived with the shot you had. But we are living in a wild time for creative professionals. The new wave of AI tools...
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Jan
01
Many of us in the creative community, miss the grit of the darkroom, the unpredictability of a letterpress, the happy accidents of a photocopier running out of toner. We want that analog warmth, not digital perfection. The problem? Most "distressed typography / bad photocopy" filters and presets look fake and cheap - especially in AI. So today, we’re going to look at how to create authentic, grungy ink bleed and halftone effects using AI -...
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Dec
28
Today, I want to zero in on a specific technique that’s been blowing my mind recently: applying complex textures to logos using Nano Banana Pro for style transfer. But more importantly, I want to talk about how we do it. Because as creative pros, we don't just need "magic buttons." We need control. We need replicable workflows. We need to understand the variables. Here's how: The Toolset: Weavy + Nano Banana For this workflow, I’m using...
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Dec
27
Replicating analog imperfections in a digital space has always been the holy grail. And let’s be honest: most "VHS effects" out there are bad. You know the ones—they just slap a scanline overlay and some chromatic aberration on a perfectly sharp image. It looks like a filter. It doesn't look real. Today, I’m going to walk you through a workflow that nailed this effect so perfectly it actually surprised me, The goal here isn’t just to...
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Dec
21
You've probably heard about how amazing Google's Nano Banana Pro image generator is. I've talked about it, other people have, and it's the real deal: it's legitimately one of the most powerful creative tools I've used since Photoshop. It’s fast, the reasoning capabilities are wild, and the image fidelity is finally hitting that "studio-quality" mark we’ve been waiting for. And best of all, you can use it for free via the official app. But there’s...
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Dec
20
If you’ve been following the explosion of generative AI, you’ve probably hit the same wall I have. You spend an hour tweaking a prompt in Midjourney, rolling the dice over and over. You finally get the perfect lighting, the perfect film grain, and that intangible vibe you were chasing—but the specific details are wrong. The text is gibberish. The branding is off. The prop in the subject’s hand looks like an alien artifact. So you...
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Dec
09
If you’ve spent any time with the latest wave of AI video generators - specifically Veo 3- you’ve likely hit the wall. You know the one. You type in a prompt for something totally benign, like “a person walking down the sidewalk in late afternoon sun,” and bam: "Sensitive Content" warning. It’s frustrating. It kills your creative flow. And frankly, it’s confusing. You aren’t trying to make anything controversial; you’re just trying to get a...
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