The undeniable rise of AI image generators has compelled all of us to debate: who does it better, AI or human graphic designers? Is it worth hiring a graphic designer in today’s time, or should you instead go with a premium version of AI image generators? In today’s blog, we at WebiDesigners are going to discuss the advantages of both sides and come to a conclusion to end this debate for a while.
AI image generators, such as DALL-E, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, Lexica, Leonardo, and many others, are showing us that impressive and good-looking images can be generated in no time by writing just a few prompts. Let us discuss the advantages of AI image generators:
- Time Taken: AI image generators, especially the premium ones, have the ability to generate images in absolutely no time by reading just a few accurate prompts. The speed of generating images can be as fast as your prompt-writing speed, which is just unbelievable. Everyone at Webidesigners is fond of generating AI images through prompts, and we even compete to see who on the team can generate the best images!
- Cost-Effective: While the average cost of decent premium AI generators is anywhere between 1000-2000 INR/Month, it is evident that AI generators are very cost-effective when it comes to the cost-to-image generation ratio.
- Accuracy: The accuracy of AI image generators depends highly upon the prompts entered. AI has the ability to generate absolutely anything that you type about. Most of the time, it will generate exactly what is fed through prompts.
- Easy Access: Even someone with no knowledge of design can generate amazing high-quality images by using prompts. In fact, even prompts can be generated through AI by providing requirements to “AIs” like ChatGPT.
After knowing the advantages of AI image generators, it is also important to know how much value WebiDesigners graphic designers add and how they still hold relevance in today’s design realm.
- Authenticity: WebiDesigners’ Graphic designers are creative because of their extensive research in their domain. They can generate graphics that have never been made or seen before. From designing minimalist logos to billboards, they know what kind of designs will stay in people’s minds for long. While they consider references for their work, they will mostly try to make designs that are authentic.
- Personalization: A WebiDesigner graphic designer can make changes exactly as per requirement. They can take customization much closer to expectations.
- Human Creativity: Technologies will come and go, but one thing that will drive all of us humans is emotions. WebiDesigners’ Graphic designers can connect well with audiences with their design and create a personal connection between the brand and them. And as we know, human creativity is boundless, it’s always going to give an edge to humans over AI.
- Complex Problem Solving: WebiDesigners’ Graphic Designers can tackle projects better with complex branding, marketing, and user experience.
A Better Future?
Being humans, it is very normal to draw comparisons between graphic designers and AI image generators to see what benefits us the most. But in reality, the only way we can benefit the most is not by comparing but by leveraging artificial intelligence along with human intelligence. Let us read the points below to know how we can benefit more from both:
- Creativity: With designers having boundless creativity, AI can be used to automate routine tasks, allowing graphic designers to focus more on complex and strategic tasks.
- Productivity: By including AI into their routine, graphic designers can increase their productivity by using images generated by AI and applying their design skills to them. This way, high-quality work and more efficiency can be achieved.
- Increasing Skill Sets: Graphic designers can add the skill set of writing accurate prompts into AI image generators and get precise output from them. After all, AI is always going to improve with time, so staying updated with AI image generation can serve as an added benefit to graphic designers.
- Ethical Grounds: AI image generators make designs out of prompts and the information that has been fed to them. Sometimes, they may generate images that are influenced by existing data in the market. WebiDesigners’ Graphic designers can use their expertise and knowledge to eliminate plagiarized parts from the design and overall create a better design by working together.
Conclusion by WebiDesigners:
While AI image generators are revolutionizing the field of design, they are not going to replace graphic designers any time soon. Instead, AI can be used to complement the work of graphic designers while increasing the overall efficiency of designs and helping them finish projects faster. By using AI, graphic designers can push the boundaries of creativity and efficiency. It’ll be important for graphic designers to adapt to the changing landscape of technology, stay relevant to the evolving times, and keep making more and more impactful designs while taking help of AI Image generators.