7-3-2024: Confusion: we are getting more and more but it's getting more complex !
Confusion
At this point, artgraphic-db introduced some views about digital art, so, talked about softwares and ways to produce or issue some art, or at least some amateur art.
Software editors and tools let us elaborate techniques to issue some visuals, sophisticated or not, realistic, hyper realistic, or colourful impressions.
After getting in and growing with informatics some frustration still remains. Still what we make is far from a textured real painting, and not as much nuanced and what about the format, and so on.
So, the computer user has probably to think about why and how a computer is used. And, perhaps what we want on a computer has to be more beautiful and more relaxing, and what we see on the internet more cute or more appealing.
This is all about electronics, bits, screens and computers. And this world (computer world) needs more of what Art has already proven to stimulate including: Creativity; Education, inspiration, and purpose; Social interactions; Stress relief; Confidence boost; Mindfulness; Memory; Problem-solving; … (How art will benefit us).
Algorithmics and Auctioning
Let’s start the topic.
If you want to buy a digital picture, how much is it worth to pay? Is it related to its diffusion (the less it is seen, the less it is worth), Is it related to how it is made? Is it enough to use a software better or more smartly than the other.
In the real world, at the time of mass diffusion of HowTo draw skills, is it about the technique used, but, isn’t it true that the left to discover terrain has become small, if not tiny.
Just mentioning that some artists are now inspired by computers and technology to introduce or use in their real Artworks. Also, they are inevitably exposed to the Tech world, like all of us.
Do you see the influence of this tech world, photography and filters effects in this painting of Stev’nn Hall?
WHITE LOTUS NO. 3, Stev’nn Hall
Photography, Oil, Ink and Pastel with Textured Matte Surface on Birch Panel
32 x 48 in; 81.28 x 121.92 cm
Year: 2024
Artgraphic-db and, now, all the amateur artists encounters following our blog would like to know how to value this Artwork, including the initial photograph, its handling and retouching, eventually by adding some special filter effect, specifically programmed, the paper issue or the printing, the additional effort to enhance the original picture, the special care to consider to a unique artwork… and so on. It would not be surprising to value a year of work. Considering the fact that this artist is also pioneering the technique and making his own identity.
This is an example of digital exploited in the real art milieu.
On our side, we are just interested in the digital side and how art hobbyists can use softwares.
With involvement of machine learning and AI algorithms, a new aspect of auctioning is also emerging by considering the art of making algorithms, without saying if it is about their visual digital representation, or the products of these algorithms, or only the aesthetics of the code lines.
Some of us like codes; (c) is from the motion picture The Matrix.
Algorithmics
Digital artworking, as artgraphic-db has presented the topic, can be composed of many toolkits for many purpose, painting, retouching, filtering, creating, and it is true that systematic automation of using the tools is a trend that has led to more abstract ways of working, now, pulling amateurs that are not skilled as artists.
Machine learning and AI has got profit from algorithmics workers, initially intending to improve repetitive work (like doing the same thing on each frame of an anime) and productivity.
So, software designers have started to allow the use of their softwares, conceptually, skipping the comfort of the user interface (picking up a brush in a list of pictograms, to apply on a canvas, imitating the way it is done in real).
The modern digital artist will cope with the conceptual approach and will have to get in touch with algorithms and codes.
Whom interested in programming languages, and the comer from the fine arts community might be surprised of it, does not look necessarily to simplify or standardize the ecosystem.
Like them, fine artists, or more generally, in the purchase and sale trade economics world, all of us, they would meet needs and requirements and would have to invent.
Thus, let us take a look at a picture of a list of existing programming languages: look.
What would be the more artistic language? What would be more able to produce art? If not any, what would be considered “artistic”, the syntax, the usage, the functions and capabilities?
How to create a bijection art ⇔ programming language?
Perhaps, it is not the relevant question and how such or such programming language to handle conceptually images.
And, algorithmics would probably be the creative part of the programming task. The question remains, though, if such or such programming language would be more relevant such or such algorithmic job.
So far, and further, encountering of some softwares capabilities have made meet:
Parameter files: sets or presets of controls that the software methods need to apply, and that can be used in batch mode (a mode that makes run the software without user interface); (like in rawtherapee)
Scripts: groups of code lines stored in a file, that help to perform repetitive tasks, and that sometimes can be ran in batch mode; (like in gimp or inkscape)
Command lines: used to avoid the clicking and the clicking duty, always possible and allowing to “command” executing a program:
Example: rawtherapee command line:
rawtherapee-cli -o /tmp/foo.tif -s -t -Y -c /tmp/photo.raw
[artgraphic-db] there is something more here, in the command of converting photo.raw into foo.tif; rawtherapee needs the default profile, supposed to be provided as a “sidecar” (so, the command needs an additional parameters profile files photo.raw.pp3 going along with photo.raw)
Example: besides the Markup Language features (that allow to open the SVG file in a text editor, as an XML file), inkscape can also be run in batch for certain tasks
inkscape --export-type="png" my_file.svg
This is an export of my_file.svg to png
See for gimp 2.10 and above
¡ I need a prompt to my command line !
Windows prompt:
It’s getting more complex !
It’s getting more complex because software editors have implemented a lot of dashes toward other environments.
For example the gimp has the following pedestrian bridges:
Script-fu: script functionality implemented with SCHEME;
Python-fu: script functionality implemented with PYTHON;
Plug-ins: functionality allowing to converse with another third-party (like rawtherapee for instance), in PYTHON (look)
Other languages plug-ins;
Adobe illustrator batch mode (helpcenter) to get howto interface to gimp and create python plug-ins.
Adobe Photoshop batch mode (helpcenter) to get howto automate actions.
Adobe Photoshop Generative AI common questions: here
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