We started Cory’s Fish Fry Face-Off on Froggy today, and to say I was excited to unveil this graphic would be an understatement.

A lot of you have probably read about the impending doom coming from the rise of AI, and while there are a lot of nefarious uses that will undoubtedly arise from its development (as there has been with all technology throughout human history), I’ve found it to be yet another tool that enhances my productivity. And it lets me create scenarios that otherwise would be much more difficult to create. But at this point, it’s definitely not a standalone tool. For graphic design, I’ve had to pair it with – in this case – Photoshop to get exactly what I want.

With Cory’s Fish Fry, I used Adobe Firefly’s Remix feature to get the base image using stock images from Adobe Stock of a fish, lake, plate of fried fish, and of course, a picture of Cory. I think it helped to get a picture of Cory with the expression and pose I wanted Firefly to generate. And I definitely wanted to capture this dude’s goofiness (and yeah, we could have gotten a better backdrop, but at that point, I was kind of just playing around).

From there, I had AI generate the American flag shirt onto Cory using the Contextual Task Bar in Photoshop (which was actually utilizing Google Gemini 3 (with Nana Banana Pro)), and then used Photoshop to add the bald eagle, text, and logos (along with a few color adjustments).

I actually did this graphic first, but we unveiled Munch Madness on KLIN 1400 AM before Cory’s Fish Fry Face-Off, and so it helped me with that project, which also utilized AI.

For Munch Madness XVII, we created all kinds of creatives: posters, feature rotators for the website, table toppers for the restaurants, and a video previewing the Selection Show. We got all of the KLIN staff involved, plus our business’ general and promotions managers. With this graphic, Firefly sort of allowed me to have a “photo shoot” without really having to stage one.

I also created a lot of graphics for the live-streamed Selection Show.

I’ve also used ChatGPT to help figure out a lot of stuff on the backend of the websites I manage, but again, it’s not necessarily a standalone tool, as it does sometimes get code wrong. All in all though, I’m excited to see what we’re able to accomplish in 2026 and beyond!