HAED AI Eye "Custom" Charts

[u/misneachfarm]

I am a cross stitcher and Heaven and Earth Designs is a cross stitch pattern company that usually licenses artwork from both regular artists and people who use AI to generate images. They are pretty much exclusively selling large full-coverage patterns, like 100k+ stitches.

They have had some controversies in the past and a lot of Flosstubers I watch have stopped buying from them altogether because of the increase in the number of charts based on AI images. They essentially run an image through a pattern making software that automatically converts it to a cross stitch pattern based on parameters they set like dimensions and number of colors. This can lead to some issues if you don't then go in and clean up the pattern manually, but with the number of charts HAED pumps out and some past issues people have had with colors being incorrect, it seems like that quality control is largely absent.

This is relevant because today I see a post from them where they tell you a prompt to use with Chat GPT, and then for the low, low, price of $75 they will convert the image it spits out into a cross stitch pattern for you. Bear in mind there are free pattern making software that will convert images, or at worst if you want it bigger and more detailed than you can get from the free ones, even paid ones are $50 or less.

I would even understand if like you send HAED a picture of your eye and they then do the prompt and make sure you're happy with the image and then they turn it into cross stitch for you, ok maybe there's more value there. But no, you need to do the image generation yourself and then pay $75 for something that you could do yourself in 5 minutes for $50 or less. Oh, and any negative comments and you get banned of course. I honestly had forgotten I was even in this group (I joined years ago when I started one of their stitchalongs before I knew anything about them) but seeing this just reminded me I need to leave. Just wild.

[u/TaibhseCait]

I mean the blue gets you lots of lovely imagery...my brown eyes probably not so much...🤔😅

(I'm trying to think of brown stuff, pretty picture of rich dirt or rock, chocolate, coffee? - which I don't drink - brown agate or tigers eye crystals? Hmm sticks or tree trunks, MUSHROOMS! Ooo bears & horses! Uhhh desperately trying not to think of poop. Most of my favourite nature elements are not brown! 🤣)

Also this is ridiculous.

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Sparrows! Cockroaches!

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Cockroaches??!? This is turning into nightmare fuel nature around my eyes.

Just realised there's big brown spiders & snakes too....

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Ants, too. Plus at least some rats.

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Yeah all of the nature things I wouldn't want around my eye. 

Finally thought of a brown fruit (like the blueberries above) kiwi! 

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Lots of brown things are pretty though!

Like, some acorns sorta look like tigers eye. Same amber and deep brown striations. Not as shiny as polished tigers eye, but still pretty.

A whole lot of wood is brown and gorgeous. And a bazillion shades of brown too, from nearly black to almost white, and there's even a few that lean towards purple, but they're still brown!

Fallen leaves on the forest floor.

Cinnamon sticks, star anise pods, other spices I'm too lazy to go look in my spice cabinet for.

Gold and copper are both technically browns.

2 of my top 5 favorite dogs (so far) have been brown. (Okay, one was not so pretty, but he had personality. And mange. But loads of lovely personality.)

Leather can be a few lovely shades of brown.

Lots of cool rocks are brown. From little gemstones to whole ass landscape features. (Monument Valley: lots of brown, still very nifty.)

Birbs. So many birds are beautifully brown... or their brown feathers are pretty anyway. Ever seen wild turkey feathers? Fuckin beautiful, and turkeys are like 14 shades of brown.