The future of work is being shaped by AI, and the creative industries are no exception. From streamlining workflows to sparking new ideas, AI is transforming how creatives bring their visions to life. I’ve compiled five AI tools that I think will be essential for creatives in 2025.
Suno AI
Looking for the perfect custom intro music for your podcast? Suno makes it easy. This AI-powered song maker lets you create original tunes, whether you write the lyrics yourself or use ChatGPT to generate them based on any theme. Just tell Suno what instruments or overall tone you’re looking for, and it will compose a unique track in your desired genre.
I used ChatGPT to write a song about freelancing, business, and my website, cheptiony.com. Afterward, I pasted the lyrics into Suno AI, which quickly composed a beautiful melody with drums and flute. The results were impressive! You can listen to the song here. I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments!
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Microsoft Clipchamp
Microsoft Clipchamp has taken the place of the traditional Windows Video Editor, and while it might be overlooked by some, this app packs a surprising number of powerful features. Beyond basic video editing, Clipchamp allows you to create screencast tutorials with a picture-in-picture view of yourself, and even offers a text-to-speech function with a wide selection of high-quality voiceovers.
Text to speech is my favourite feature. I use it to generate voice overs for any video project that I am working on. Here is the voice over I generated from this app for an ad video.Â
Aside from this, Microsoft clipchamp has several templates that you can use in your video. One downside of Microsoft clipchamp is that it only works when you have your internet connection on.
Adobe Express
Adobe Express empowers you to create stunning visuals and videos from text or images. Beyond that, it simplifies the creation of consistent characters, avatars, and animations. From graphic design and slideshow presentations to video animations, audio generation, text-to-speech conversion, and social media publishing, Adobe Express handles it all.
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, this tool makes content creation accessible. It’s available for free, with a premium version offering additional features.
Gemini AI for Text editing
Struggling with grammar or clarity in your writing? Gemini can help. It offers writers quick fixes and enriches text with helpful context, providing different versions of your work, sometimes even adding details for improved understanding.
I use Gemini to polish the grammar and improve the clarity of my blog posts. My process is simple: after drafting a post, I copy each paragraph, paste it into Gemini, and ask it to rewrite the text. The results are always excellent. I then copy the revised paragraph and replace the original version on my blog.
ElevenLabs is well-known for its impressive text-to-speech capabilities, but they’ve been busy adding even more powerful tools. Beyond just generating speech, they now offer a voice changer feature, allowing you to record your own voice and then transform it to sound like someone else.
In addition, ElevenLabs now offers voice dubbing, voice cloning, and text-to-SFX. I encourage you to visit their website and explore these exciting new additions.
And that is it from me here. I hope you have found this article helpful.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our world, revolutionizing numerous industries. One sector particularly impacted by this technological advancement is the creative industry. This vast domain, encompassing writing, graphic design, animation, motion graphics, video editing, videography, video directing, and photography, has witnessed a significant shift due to AI’s increasing capabilities.
As AI tools become more sophisticated, they are automating tasks traditionally performed by human creatives, leading to concerns about job displacement and economic hardship within the industry.
Today, claiming the title of “writer” can be a risky endeavor. Those who dare to do so often face skepticism and challenges from those who leverage AI to gain an unfair advantage.
With the right prompts, AI can generate remarkably well-written content, blurring the lines between human and machine-generated work.
To what extent has AI negatively impacted the creative industry?
Conversely, what positive contributions has it made? Ultimately, do the benefits outweigh the drawbacks?
Pros
Creatives Can Work on Budget
Many AI tools, such as Gemini, Copilot, and ChatGPT, are freely available to individual users. These powerful tools can help you generate a wide range of content, including blog posts, video scripts, and website copy. By leveraging information from numerous sources, AI can spark creativity and provide a wealth of new ideas.
AI tools can be a cost-effective and time-saving solution for editing and improving your writing. Instead of hiring someone to proofread, edit, and enhance your blog posts, AI can efficiently handle these tasks.
These tools can identify and correct spelling and grammar errors, suggest alternative phrasings, and even add relevant details to strengthen your content.
AI tools have the potential to revolutionize the scriptwriting process. By generating visual representations of scenes, these tools can help writers envision their stories more clearly.
This not only streamlines the creative process but also reduces the need for additional staff, such as storyboard artists, to create visual aids.
There is Growth in Content Volumes Shared
AI tools have empowered even those who didn’t consider themselves creative to easily produce content. For example, 3D character modeling, once a time-consuming process, is now significantly streamlined with AI assistance.
The game has changed. With a few simple prompts, you can now generate 3D models on demand. Tools like Kling AI take this a step further, creating 5-15 second 3D videos of real-life characters in action, all based on your instructions.
With AI tools, you can supercharge your content creation process, generating high-quality content in a fraction of the time.
Access to Professional AI Voice Over Characters
Voiceover narration is a crucial element in documentary or faceless video presentations. It provides essential context and explanation, guiding viewers through the visual content. Although voiceovers are traditionally produced in studios with professional voice actors, AI text-to-speech tools are rapidly gaining ground in this industry. These advanced tools can transform written scripts into highly realistic audio, making it easier than ever to generate voiceovers without the need for human intervention. Simply input your script, and let the AI handle the rest.
This has empowered individuals, particularly those with limited budgets, to access professional voiceovers.
Anyone Can Create Anywhere And Earn
These tools are perfect for both freelancers and content creators looking to enhance their workflow. If you’re a skilled video editor, you can utilize this toolset to bring your creative visions to life and generate income.
AI tools can supercharge your content creation. You can create engaging posts for social media and even monetize them. The best part? You don’t need a big budget to get started.
Cons
Creative Skills Value Price Has Dropped
The rise of AI writing tools has challenged the traditional value of writing skills. As these tools become more sophisticated, they can generate high-quality content with minimal human intervention, potentially diminishing the perceived importance of human writers.
Historically, professional writers charged a minimum of $5 per 100 words. Today, rates have declined, except for niche fields requiring on-the-ground research.
The market for graphic design services has become increasingly competitive, with demand waning and prices falling. Clients with limited budgets often opt for free design tools like Canva, bypassing professional designers altogether. For example, a client with a $30 budget for a poster might choose a free Canva template rather than pay a designer $100.
To maintain their relevance in the evolving creative landscape, creatives must proactively adapt and reassert their value. Video editors, for example, can position themselves as strategic partners who leverage AI to significantly increase production volume and efficiency for clients, ultimately delivering more value for a given budget.
Transparency is key when using AI in client interactions. By openly discussing your use of AI tools, you can build trust and alleviate any concerns your clients may have. This honest approach can strengthen your professional relationships and enhance client satisfaction.
There is More Duplicate Content All Over
Some shares everything that AI gives them on prompt. They do not take any step to make any changes on the information that the tool provides. At the end, if someone else in another part of the world with the same idea uses AI the same way, they will get the same results.
The overreliance on AI tools has stifled creativity, leaving many young people unable to produce original content.
Content duplication poses a significant challenge. By making minor alterations, individuals can easily claim original work as their own, potentially undermining the efforts of the true creator.
Loose of Human Touch
While AI can generate remarkably realistic human videos, these creations often lack genuine human emotion. Additionally, AI-generated storylines tend to be repetitive and predictable, making prolonged consumption of such content tedious.
Substantial background research and development are essential for maximizing the output’s potential.
Conclusion
The advent of AI has posed significant challenges for many trained professionals in the creative industry. While some may question the future of their creative careers, the answer is clear: creatives should not abandon their passions and turn to alternative livelihoods.
Rather than resisting AI, creatives should embrace these tools and integrate them into their daily workflows. Clients are more likely to hire a skilled creative who leverages AI to gain a competitive edge than one who lacks both technical proficiency and ethical understanding.
And that is it from me here. What are your thoughts on the effects AI tools to the creatives? Has it affected demand for creative services? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
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When people hear Artificial Intelligence(AI), what comes to everyone’s mind is ChatGPT by OpenAI because many people are currently using it. From college and university students using it to do their homework, to bloggers using it to write blog content. AI is the new goldmine and is here to stay.
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But lets shift our focus today a little bit and look at free AI tools that we have with us on our phones and computers. Many people just see them on their phone or computer but they don’t know how powerful they are.
That’s what I am going to share with you on this blogpost.
Google lens is an app that comes preinstalled on every android phone. Many people don’t know how utilize it for productivity. When you open Google Lens on phone, it just start the camera and displays images from your gallery below.
On top just below the camera, you can see the menu tittles. These are things you can do with google lens.
You can translate text from an image, you can search online using images, you can take photos of your homework questions and google will answer it for you, you can take a photo of a product and google will show you the price of the product on different outlets that sell it and with location setting enabled, you can take a picture of a signboard in the place you are in and google lens will tell you where you are.
In this review, I will demonstrate to you how to simply copy text from an image using google lens without typing it. It doesn’t matter if the text was written by hand or typed; google lens will do the job of copying and converting it to typed text that you can edit.
I have some notes hand written on my book here. Instead of typing them, we will use google lens to type it. So I will point the lens on the page where the text is, and google lens will highlight the text and prompt me to choose the action I want with the text selected.
In this case, I will select ‘text’ menu then select copy text on the new window. The text will copied to clipboard. Open google docs or a word processing app on phone and paste it there.
As you can see here the text is copied and pasted. From here I can easily edit.
Another way you can copy text is from an image on your phone. Select the image with text that you want to copy. Google lens will select the text. Tap on copy and it will be copied to clipboard. From there, you can paste it where you want e.g. on google docs, on e-mail e.t.c.
Google lens has a total of six things you can do with it and will safe you a lot of time.
When you install Microsoft Edge browser on your computer, it comes with Bing Chat. Bing is an AI-powered search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. Bing chat is an AI feature within the browser that works like ChatGPT but its free. No login is required.
Bing chat appears at the far top right corner on the Edge browser. Click on it to open.
Bing chat has three features; chat, compose and insights. This a a very powerful tool for anyone in the communications business.
You can use this to write various communication messages like website landing page content, social media posts, cover letters e.t.c. To remain unique, always know which feature to use when.
Since most people are familiar with the chat feature based on their past experience with chatGPT, I will explore the compose feature in order to give an idea of how AI can positively change the tone in which you communicate for good.
When you open this feature, you will realize that it gives you 3 choices that you need to pick after keying in your idea on what you want it to write. Among these choices include tone, format and length.
With compose feature you can write basically anything. Just type in the keywords of what you want it to write and chose the tone, format and length and Bing chat will give you the results.
So far, from my experience, the compose feature does a perfect job. Just think of anything, and ask it to compose it for you. It will phrase it so well that you will be happy to post and share.
Conclusion
AI is a powerful tool that can help you create, communicate and collaborate. But it also comes with some challenges and responsibilities. You need to be aware of how AI works, what it can and cannot do, and how it might affect your audience.
You need to use AI wisely and ethically, and make sure that what it presents to you reflects your intended message. Don’t rely on AI blindly. Always check, edit and improve its output.
AI is not a substitute for your own creativity and critical thinking, but a partner that can enhance them.
And that is it.
Have you embraced AI in your communications? If not, what is preventing you from taking advantage of it. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
And if you need professional help in building vibrant digital media and communication channels for your business that you can rely on, don’t hesitate to reach out to me here. I will be glad to help.
