Filmmakers used AI to combine Anya Taylor-Joy’s face (left) with child actor Alyla Browne’s face (right) in ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ The filmmakers behind Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga used AI to make a child actor look like the lead actress Anya Taylor-Joy and blend their faces together. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is … Read more
Real headshot, left, AI headshot, right. The creative behind an AI photo booth says that it is still best to get a headshot taken by a real photographer. Generation Z are said to love AI-generated headshots; after all, they are much cheaper and take less time than the traditional method. But Nicholas Rhodes, who founded … Read more
A new study from researchers at Yale University helps demystify why some images stick out in people’s memories more than others. It’s said that “man bites dog” makes the news while “dog bites man” does not. The latter is unfortunate but not surprising, but the former is very surprising. The same principle seems to apply … Read more
Retouch4Me has announced its latest photo-editing software ‘Adams,’ which serves as a centralized interface for batch retouching with Retouch4Me AI-Based plugins and honors two legendary innovators: Ansel Adams and Harry LeRoy Adams. “Retouch4me Adams bridges the rich history of photo editing with the limitless capabilities of AI,” says Oleg Sharonov, founder and board member of … Read more
Skylum has announced Project “Barcelona,” a new desktop application designed specifically for professional portrait retouching built in collaboration with portrait photographer Julia Trotti. According to the company, the new software that is set to release in September of 2024 is designed to “empower photographers by automating routine face retouching processes through an efficient, AI-optimized workflow … Read more
A U.S. man has been charged by the FBI for allegedly producing 13,000 sexually explicit and abusive AI images of children on the popular Stable Diffusion model. According to a press release published by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday, 42-year-old Steven Anderegg, who is based in Holmen, Wisconsin is accused of creating … Read more
Continuing its push for commercial and enterprise customers, Adobe has announced Express for Enterprise, promising to deliver automated content creation, AI tools, and ease of use. Adobe Express for Enterprise features the latest Firefly Image Model 3, which, like Firefly Image 1, is designed to be commercially safe. Thanks to Image Model 3, Express for … Read more
Adobe is bringing even more Firefly-powered artificial intelligence (AI) tools to Adobe Lightroom, including Generative Remove and AI-powered Lens Blur. Not to be lost in the shuffle, the company is also expanding tethering support in Lightroom to Sony cameras. Generative Remove Uses AI to Clean Up Your Photos Adobe has worked its Firefly AI technology … Read more
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has been in charge of Adobe for nearly two decades and in that time has rarely done interviews. However, he has been making the rounds lately to pump up AI’s tires, including an interview published this week with The Verge‘s Nilay Patel for the publication’s Decoder podcast. There, Narayen said some … Read more
In a new study, researchers were able to improve the low-quality images produced by a metalens. These types of ultra-thin cameras have the advantage of being small, but typically have poor image quality. That may be changing. AI enhancement of photos is not new, but using them to improve the low quality of metalenses is. … Read more