Using Ai to Make Graphics

Ai can help write emails and blogs, unlike this one, although I’m guilty of using it for this same purpose.  It can help you sort your thoughts because it is less emotional that us humans, write a race day outline, write a tailored training plan, help budget your race and more.  And yes, it could make a “decent” logo for your next 5k event (which is what we will look at in this article)

 Here are a few things Ai can’t do. It can’t time your races, it can’t make vector design files to accurately print large format signs and banners. And it definitely can’t run in your races…

 

…or can it? Well, we can safely bet humans will always have a desire to push their God-given bodies to the limit, be competitive and experience the fun of sold-out races. 

When does it go from AI slop to AI efficiency?

Remember when hands and spelling weren’t quite right? This is now widely dubbed as Ai Slop. 

Do you feel a little insincere when you send your ai written response littered with these big hyphens?  — Or when you’re on the receiving end; does it make you feel like an automated response?

For now, there are tell-tale signs when AI is being used and we all might get the ick. Consider it a tool to use wisely.  We are. And here is how, and how not. 

There’s no doubt Ai is helpful but its can it take a project all the way across the finish line? Let’s find out. 

Here is a fun little exercise to design and print a canopy for a make believe event.

We started with a simple prompt: “Make a logo for a 5K with an eagle”

This is the first crack at it, and it’s pretty awesome, right?  Here’s a tip, Ai chat bots do much better with simple prompts than detailed prompts.

 Unless I’m looking in the wrong Ai program, I doubt it could handle the next request of putting this logo on specific die lines and in vector form.  Unsurprisingly, Ai couldn’t do that … yet. Here is what I got. 

There are some orientation errors and missing details. I doubt these die lines would come out to anything a shop with real humans could put together. 

 

So I used this logo as inspiration and took 30 minutes of real human effort on a graphic design program to bring this idea across the finish line.

 

 What you see next would have taken an infinite number of prompts to complete but simple for us to make in house.

 

Now Ai is so much better than even a year ago and will only get better. Here at Finish Line KD, we embrace this change and aren’t scared to use it.  But the whole point is, there is still room for human judgment and using this technology with your frontal lobe. Don’t let it do alllll the thinking for you.  Use some of your originality.  Use it to inspire and pull ideas from all corners of the internet, but sometimes, it’s best to let the pros handle it.