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Spent 2 months running AI art through a sharpening filter and the difference is wild
I started applying a 0.5 radius unsharp mask to every piece of AI art I made, and after 50 images the textures look way more like real oil paint. The details in leaves and hair went from blurry smudges to having actual edges you can see. Has anyone else tried post-processing tricks to make their AI work feel more like traditional art?
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grant_palmer1d ago
Try adding a slight texture layer on top, really sells the canvas look.
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Grant's got a point about texture layers, they can help. But honestly I think we're overcomplicating this whole thing. All these filters and sharpening tricks are just putting makeup on a pig. The real issue is that AI art has this weird plastic look because of how the models smooth everything out, and no amount of unsharp mask is gonna fix that fundamental problem. It's like trying to make a digital photo look like a painting by cranking up the contrast, you can tell it's fake. If you really want it to look like traditional art, you're better off just painting it yourself or at least using the AI output as a base to paint over manually. All these post-processing hacks are just bandaids.
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