Tips For Using AI-Generated Images In Your Slides
I gave a talk on Tropical.rb and, while writing it, I had a goal of not using bullet points in my slides. That made me create a lot more slides, and many of them contained images. I used AI to generate the illustrations for my presentation, but it required some work to get them to look how I wanted. Here’s what I learned along the way.
As for the tools, I’ve used DALL·E 3 via ChatGPT Plus and Microsoft Edge’s Copilot. GIMP was my image editor of choice.
The first step when generating images is figuring out what you actually want. We might get stuck on analysis paralysis, so try to get something on the screen as soon as possible.
I think that was one of the best parts of using AI. Sometimes, I had to illustrate some abstract concepts like “HTTP requests”, so I didn’t know what image I wanted in the first place. With AI, I could just give it a basic prompt like A drawing representing an HTTP request, and it would at least get something on the screen. Once I see it, I can get inspired and iterate on that idea.
Some things were very easy to generate, while others were impossible. For example, I wanted a cartoon version of “The Thinker” statue, so I just prompted The Thinker statue, cartoon style and got exactly what I wanted on the first try.
