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Tech NewsThis AI-Powered Sky Replacement Tool Is Smart Enough to Change Reflections Too
There are lots of valid reasons to raise concerns over the capabilities of AI-powered image editing tools, but if you’re a professional pixel pusher, there are just as many reasons to be excited about them too, as Skylum Software demonstrates with its new image editing software, Luminar AI that does automated sky replacements so thorough … Continued
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Tech NewsAdobe Now Lets You Easily Adjust Where Everyone in a Photo is Looking
The larger the group (or the younger the subjects) the harder it is to ensure that everyone in a photo is looking in the right direction. Should they all be looking at the photographer? The camera lens? At someone else in the shot? With Photoshop Elements 2021, Adobe will let users fix it in post … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsZeiss’ $6,000 Full-Frame ZX1 Is An Intriguing Little Camera with a Ridiculous Price Tag
Putting full-frame sensors into smaller and smaller compact bodies is all the rage nowadays. Nikon did it with the Z5, Panasonic did it with the S5, and just last month Sony joined the crowd with the new A7C. After announcing its compact full-frame camera more than two years ago, Zeiss’ $6,000 ZX1 has finally become … Continued
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Tech NewsAdobe Wants to Make Photoshop a Tool For Spotting Fake Photos
For 30 years, savvy pixel-pushers have been using Photoshop to manipulate and edit imagery, but now that computers can create doctored photos all on their own using advanced AI, Adobe wants to leverage its image-editing tools to help verify the authenticity of photographs. As Wired reports, Adobe partnered with a handful of companies last year … Continued
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Tech NewsRepublican Senator’s Campaign ‘Accidentally’ Photoshops Jewish Opponent With Larger Nose
Republican Senator David Perdue of Georgia has been called out for running a Facebook ad campaign that featured a digitally manipulated photo of his opponent, Democrat Jon Ossoff, with a bigger nose. Ossoff is Jewish and depictions of cartoonishly large noses have been a staple of anti-Semitic propaganda for over a century. Senator Perdue’s re-election … Continued
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Tech NewsOne of the Lead Engineers Behind the Pixel Camera Just Surfaced at Adobe
After quietly leaving Google in March of this year, one of the lead engineers behind the development of the Pixel Camera—Marc Levoy—has just surfaced at Adobe. First reported by David Imel before being confirmed by Levoy’s LinkedIn bio, Levoy will serve as a vice president and fellow at Adobe, where he will continue his work with … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Grotesque Viral Photo of President Trump Is Actually Fake
A particularly disturbing photo of President Donald Trump has been making the rounds on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit recently. But is the image authentic? No, the photo is totally fake. But it’s close enough to the very real (and quite grotesque) look of the president that people could be forgiven for thinking it’s an … Continued
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Tech NewsFox News Edits Trump Out of Photo With Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago
Fox News broadcast a segment on Sunday about Ghislane Maxwell, the 58-year-old British socialite who was arrested by the FBI in New Hampshire last week and charged with the sex trafficking of children in the 1990s. Maxwell was a close friend of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Fox aired a photo of Maxwell that should … Continued
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Tech NewsPhotoshop’s New Camera App Makes Instagram’s Filters Look Hopelessly Outdated
Now that posting photos of yourself to social media has become a career for many, Adobe has put some of the powerful photo-editing capabilities of its Photoshop software into a new camera app that uses AI to do all the hard work for you. But the app doesn’t just apply filters you can preview before … Continued
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Tech NewsGuy Whose Photo Broke Android Phones Just Wanted to Capture a Beautiful Sunset
During a trip to Glacier National Park in Montana last year, scientist and amateur photographer Gaurav Agrawal simply wanted to capture a beautiful sunset. Unfortunately, after sharing his pic on Flickr, people discovered that Agrawal’s lovely work was crashing certain Android 10 phones. Unbeknownst to Agrawal, even though his gorgeous photo appeared just fine on … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsHow to Use Your Extra Time at Home to Finally Learn Photoshop
A mastery of Adobe Photoshop can help streamline your workflow in all kinds of fields, from web design and online publishing to digital art and photography. The software dominates the image-editing space (though alternatives are available), and no matter what your level—from beginner to expert—there’s always more to learn about using the program on Windows … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsTiny Keyboard Clones Photoshop’s Toolbar for Your Desk
If you spend a lot of time in Photoshop—we’re talking all of your working hours pushing pixels—you’ve undoubtedly mastered countless shortcuts to streamline your workflow, and are always on the hunt for more. If you can spare a little room on your desk, this tiny keyboard puts some of the most oft-used tools on Photoshop’s … Continued
