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Great idea. I would focus on tweaking the layout to fit the content better. For example, the first image has clumsy arrow lines that intersect the text when they should smoothly curve around. The visual spacing on the SpaceX Overview infographic doesn't make it clear which paragraphs, images, or headers belong together. The footer should also read "Generated by graphicinfo.cc", not "Generate by..."

I would suggest checking out the book "Before and After: Page Design" by John McWade to help see where focus could be applied [1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/beforeafterpaged0000mcwa

Hope to see more in the future

Thanks for the feedback! I totally see what you mean about the layout and those pesky arrow lines. Your suggestion for the book sounds interesting. I'll definitely check it out .

Cool idea. A few thoughts - the icon and fonts in my opinion are not great. Maybe train you models on some of these more modern looking ppt libraries (can’t recall the name).

Else: I always liked infographics with also some more data viz/graphics - optimally it could get it from some opendata/publication incl source?!

Thank you for your suggestions. I agree that the choice of font and icons is significant. I will improve upon these elements. Additionally, I plan to integrate a data chart into the graphics to enhance the visual presentation.

Like the idea, I once did marketing for a startup and creating infographics was as useful as it was laborious....

Feedback: The fact that two of the examples on the page use the exact same format (the paperclip) and all of them also follow the "top to bottom" reading pattern (no landscape mode) gives the impression that it's just a handful of templates and rules not really AI. Not sure if that's correct but that's the first impression it made on me.

AI can summarize text from provided URLs, select icons, choose pictures from websites, and yes, I will try to use AI more extensively.

when I bookmark the site, it would be good if it auto-added "Infographic Creation" in the page title or what not so I can find it later..

If I had a magic wand to make this for me for this week, it would ingest the bar charts from https://backlinko.com/google-ctr-stats

understand them.. and offer to make new things.

Will be looking to use this for things..

If you are going to have a limit of 40 things per month for $4.77 per month, then give an option to buy 50 use credits for $8 - I really disdain monthly or yearly renewal things, but I would throw 8 dollars at it and probably only use 4 credits the next three months to be honest..

Thank you for your feedback. I've now fixed the page title. understand your preference for a one-time payment option over a recurring subscription model, and will consider adding this option in the future.

Looking at your examples I am struggling to find any connection between text and graphic in any of them. What on earth is the AI doing?

The AI selects the most fitting icons for summarized content text. I am currently enhancing its capabilities by amassing an extensive collection of icons for the AI to select. Additionally, the system now facilitates the incorporation of images sourced from provided website URLs into infographics.

No matter what URL entered, I get an "Internal server error" message.

It should be working now.

It looks like all of the templates are basically listing steps or showing a list of facts.

Most of my favorite infographics involve some sort of graph or chart that visualizes data, for example https://xkcd.com/radiation/

Ah, it looks quite complex. I'll start with simple graphics first and then attempt more complex graphics later.

for complex graphic , let AI write some data visualization code may help.

I am a big fan of xkcd and this is one of my favorite creation of his.

With this said, this chart is good to compare things that are close to each other but does not work that week IMO when comparing items that are really different.

It is more the path between, say, a dental x-ray and the yearly background dose that tells us "they are really different"

Again, the chart is great but I would maybe have preferred something visually closer to a sankey (but I did not give much thought about that).

OTOH fitting all this information and having a readable graph is a miracle Randall is a master of.

Needs a way to delete an account after creating one

Okay, will provide a delete account feature in the future

feedback is welcome

There's no information in the graphic.

It's a neat concept and execution, unfortunately the current iteration is sort of a flyer or cut sheet creator.

I'm not sure if image generation is good enough to actually visualize information, but it's worth experimenting, since Microsoft PowerPoint and Figma haven't figured this out yet either.

Consider https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/ which shows good and bad examples of infographics along with plenty digital flyers or chartjunk.

Thank you for the feedback! An issue occurred, but I have restarted the service, and it should now be functioning properly. Additionally, I have increased the computational resources. The infographics community is a great place to explore.

cool

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