AI … Artfully Inaccurate
—————————————— 06 Mar 2024 ——————————————— Artomaton is now a bit beyond version 3 after almost 10 years in development and AI is no where in sight. Watercolor is totally off showing brush strokes and no pooling at all making it more like oil paint. No acrylics. Pencils (color & black) do not look real at all with ugly control of the length and multiple direction of cross hatching. Video speed is cool; but, it discloses just how inaccurate things like watercolor is. The app is a mess, simply put, with little intrinsic value due to how fake things look. The thing is, most “AI” proclaimed image painting apps are like this. They are more or less, image filters that have some control over a filter that bore or less produces a reprint in a specific style that is far from a real world image resulting from sketching, painting, pastel work, etc. No ink either. If you want an app that alters a picture to make it look different that it really is … this would be okay. But if you want a paint, sketch, ink, drawing program, this one really falls short because you are not drawing or painting. It is sad that the app is so un-AI, inaccurate, and unrealistic. Paying to be able to store presets is just a slap in the face.
