Tom Krcha

Pencil just crossed 100,000 users! Today we are introducing SWARM mode. A team of AI design agents working with you in parallel. Your autonomous design agency. Download now.

@gavinpurcell there will be signs

this is how it starts

Try "Let it cook" feature in @pencildev, it creates multiple variations from the same prompt and iterates on it. What we discovered is that further iterations tend to get more creative/informed vs first shot. Also select a style as a starting point or drop in an image, honestly could be a photo, color palette or whatever, we call it "vibe image" ;)

How do I make sure my Claude Design / pencil(dot)dev / etc has taste when it designs stuff. 1. Is there some design skill file I can use? 2. Should I always get it to create a design system first? Designers reading this tweet you can roll your eyes but then give me some tips :)

Is AI is making you a better author of your design work? @tomkrcha paused with that question. He was giving it some serious thought. He's been thinking about how to improve design work for decades: - Was the youngest Adobe Flash evangelist - Created Adobe XD - Founded @pencildev His thesis follows an emerging bet many design tool builders are making right now: AI agents will increasingly share the canvas with humans. We dig deep into what the future of design work might look like, and how he's building for it. Don't miss this one.

“Sophisticated models” is the missing part really, the rest is already possible. But makes you wonder, why isn’t there a massive incentive to create a state of the art local model from the leading labs. Possibly because they don’t sell hardware. But, Google could probably pull this off, they have a model, TPU and Google Home in millions of homes already.

imagine if apple basically let you set up a home “server” that ran inference on that device with sophisticated models & every apple ecosystem device is a node off of that central server. it’s complicated but if anyone can deploy hardware like this it would be them. this would allow zero marginal cost ai without any middle man with a super privacy first approach. it would create another product category entirely. anyone remember the airport extreme?

@reactorworld 🔥

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@yudDIDit @editframe Woohoo! Congrats on the release!

Today, @editframe emerges from stealth. Agents need video. Editframe Agent Skills: npm create @editframe@latest Just prompt Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex and get a working video or a full interactive GUI. This video was created just by prompting 👇

@DannPetty @stuffyokodraws 👌

Cleaner vectors from ChatGPT Image 2 icons. 30 seconds in Quiver ↓

@Ignaci0m_ you can use Illustrator or Figma, both work great, there are also some online tools

@tomkrcha What tool did you use to vectorize it?

One of the interesting use cases with ChatGPT Images 2 is that it can generate high-resolution logos that can be easily vectorized/traced into SVGs with reasonable quality.

@zan2434 @eddiejiao_obj @drewocarr Implicit web, so cool!

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see. @eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

@argostore_sk @petergyang why do all these online tools look like they are gonna rob you at daylight

@petergyang @tomkrcha This free vectorization tool works best with black-and-white images: vectorization.eu However, you need to upscale your bitmap image and convert it to JPG first. There are tools for that available on the website.

@rileybrown It totally has a transparent background, in fact, it's perhaps the only image model that has it. Also, another trick is to vectorize it x.com/tomkrcha/statu…

GPT-Image-2 Doesn't have transparent background. What is the best background remover API.

@petergyang @brycedriesenga @QuiverAI There are plenty options for the vectorization, all different qualities, resolutions, etc.

@tomkrcha @brycedriesenga @QuiverAI I know you worked there but I'm done with Adobe products :)

Also, shaders directly on vectors are so much fun.

@brycedriesenga @petergyang @QuiverAI for instance adobe.com/products/illus…

@petergyang @tomkrcha I'm also curious. Maybe @QuiverAI?

@petergyang there are models, but you can also use trace image in Adobe Illustrator or vectorize in Figma.

@tomkrcha how do you vectorize it?

@seflless voila, it's pretty clean.

@tomkrcha I'd love to see a screenshot with vertices displayed.

@joshpuckett 💥

Pica is a fully native app for managing your fonts on MacOS. Organize into collections, test color themes and logos, watch folders, manage what's installed, and much more. Available for free at pica.joshpuckett.me

@petergyang 🫡

I feel like Codex's gap in frontend design skills can be easily made up if you use an AI design tool. My favorite is @tomkrcha's Pencil