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And Even More AI Goodies from Adobe - Lightroom Gets Even Smarter

Adobe has announced a series of updates to its Lightroom ecosystem, including expanded Adaptive Presets, new masking categories for Select People, Denoise, Curves within masking, and more. Denoise AI is a new feature that removes digital noise from images

Many New AI-Powered and Super Smart Features Are NOW Available to Lightroom Users A couple of hours ago I posted about many AI news from AI-dobe and there are already a lot of new tools. And no, none of them was mentioned in that post 😲. This is getting silly! It is very hard to keep up with so much news, so I will start providing a summary of my summaries to make it easier to – at least – have…

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Adobe Big AI News - Firefly and AI into Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Adobe Big AI News - Firefly flies high and AI into Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects. Is the life of a creator getting better or at risk?

Nowadays keeping up with the growth of AI tools is a Herculean multi-task that would get CHatGPT itself spinning, if you blink twice there will be already a new AI-powered solution. The number of tools that are being rapidly developed and implemented is staggering, and it also brings a discussion about their life-changing roles and actual necessity. I believe that many of these tools are aimed…

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ON1 Software New Release - ON1 Resize AI 2023.5

ON1 announced updates to its Resize AI software, which uses AI models to upscale photos while maintaining quality. The new version includes AI Face Recovery, enabling the software to detect and upscale small faces in photos and reduce artefacts.

ON1 Resize AI Update ON1 Resize AI 2023 ON1 has just announced updates to its ON1 Resize AI software, which uses AI models to upscale photos while maintaining quality. The new version includes AI Face Recovery, enabling the software to detect and upscale small faces in photos, reconstructing them with realistic features and textures. The update also includes a component from the company’s…

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Adobe Photoshop Has a New Magic Tool 🪄

Adobe Photoshop's Game-Changing Remove Tool: a groundbreaking addition to Adobe Photoshop, designed to replace areas of your image with realistic and relevant content. Whether it's a small blemish or a large, distracting object, this AI-powered tool effor

Adobe Photoshop’s Game-Changing Remove Tool An AI-Powered Revolution in Image Editing The Tool Even though many of us like to complain about the Creative Cloud Suite (subscription model anyone?), Adobe Photoshop has come back to its leading role at the forefront of image editing innovation, and with its latest beta release, it’s raising the bar once again. To a magical level! A blog post in…

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April Newsletter – Blossoming out of Hibernation.

This is a full-page with the contents of April's newsletter: - Sharing is Caring - Photography Industry News - Tips and Tricks -Latest Photo Walk -The Bluebox -Upcoming Events -April's Photo Walk -Webinar: Artificial Intelligence X Photography

Sunny and Creative Spring Vibes! Before we go any further, I would like to send a warm thank you to our amazing patrons, and those lovely folks who contribute to our Meetup group and meetings and help support our costs! The generosity of these precious few plants the seeds that keep our meetings free for everyone and makes our community thrive. Thank you! PixelPerspective After the longest…

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The Great AI Debate: Utopia or Dystopia?

A thought-provoking discussion about the future of AI and how it might (or will) change the way mankind lives and acts.

What is the future of AI? As the sun rises on a new age of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. It’s in our smartphones, our cars, and even our toasters (who doesn’t love a perfect slice of toast?). On one hand, we have dreamers and innovators pushing the boundaries of technology to create a world beyond our wildest imaginations. On the other hand, we have sceptics…

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A Picture-Perfect Evening: Photo Walk Extravaganza in Zurich's Niederdorf

Yesterday, we had the most incredible photo walk in the charming Niederdorf area of Zurich. The weather was on our side, providing us with the perfect light and ambiance to capture the essence of this historic district. Read and see more in this post.

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Great Photoshop Shortcuts and Tips in a short Video

Some great Photoshop tips in a video

This guy is amazing! I am not a beginner in the Adobe Photoshop world and I am obsessed with keyboard shortcuts for everything I do on a computer. That said… the insanely good Jesús Ramirez from the PTC #Youtube Channel just made me feel like a noob. Actually, he made me feel that again as I already watched this video a couple of times since its release last year. There are so many great #tips,…

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Vampire Date has its own GAME!

a brief summary of the Vampire Date saga and a link to the beta version of the vampire game soon to be released.

For the last couple of years, I have been commissioned to photograph the great guy and “weichei” Vampire, Roger Kolly. It was a long-time dream on his to-do list and I am glad I could help him achieve it. And we did accomplish quite a lot, from having multiple chapters to that (still not finished) story to being featured in some local news. Not bad at all! Besides discussing the possibilities…

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Experimenting with AI Image Creation

Short opinion about AI image creation and the beginning of a learning journey in that field.

AI-Generated cow in a Swiss city I recently started to learn how to program on new software and that lead to using AI to create code and images, I would like to share some bits now and then. I must confess that I am very impressed with how easy, fast and popular it is! There is a non-stop influx of newly created images and concepts, everything ranging from nonsense tests to company logos, with…

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AI Editing - Radiant, the New Contender?

a quick opinion about Radiant, a AI-powered photo editing software.

AI-created image to illustrate an article about AI editing photos. AI seems to have taken the news in every area, and the photo community has a lot on this front. Now yet another contender comes to spice up this discussion: Radiant. The concept, should you choose to accept it is quite simple: just a few clicks to optimize what you see, not to change the whole photo. In Radiant’s own…

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July 2022 Photo Walk - Viadukt Area

July 2022 Photowalk in Zurich: walking the Viadukt area and capturing amazing images

Ah, summer around the #Viadukt area lends always to an amazing #photowalk! July 2022 Photographers and Models There is something about this area that makes it a lot of fun, it is hard to tell exactly what it is. Maybe the urban-industrial-boheme vibes and the fact that #Kreis5 bubbles with life wherever you look this time of the year. This time we were quite a larger group, as the constant…

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March 2022 Photo Walk around Niederdorf, Zürich

March's Photo Walk was amazing! Read all about it in this post, and discover how to join the next online events and April's photo walk!

The Team On March 29 we had another great #PhotoWalk: models, people photographers, landscape and street photographers all met to have a wonderful stroll around the gorgeous alleys in the neighbourhood. Even though the weather seemed willing to turn on us, a brave group of 26 photographers and 5 models got together and enjoyed a still very pleasant spring evening. Our Gorgeous Group If you…

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November 2021 | Zürich HB Area Photo Walk

This November we had our #photowalk in #Zurich, and despite the pouring rain, we had a blast. A special huge thank you to our gorgeous and waterproof models: Aischa, Jelena and Stefanie.

It is official: our Photo Walks are so amazing even Santa wants to join them! he confessed that he wishes he could come the whole year 🙂 Intrepid and Amazing Group Even though the weather was – ahm – less than great, we had a group of warriors who could still have a lot of fun during the last Photo Walk of 2021. And it was a blast! Huge thanks to our gorgeous and waterproof…

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October Photowalk - Rote Fabrik

on October 2021 we had another amazing photo walk in Zurich's Rote Fabrik. In the links you can know more and learn how to join the next events

This October we were very fortunate to still enjoy some “good enough” weather and make the most of the latest Photo Walk! The location chosen for this month was Rote Fabrik, an amazing venue that transpires a trendy vibe, full of graffiti, colours and a city view to make it even more special. Unfortunately, I had injured my arm and could not photograph the event, but there are many amazing…

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Our 2021 Magazine

In 2021 we will follow up on last year's success and create a new version of our photo magazine. The goal is to have physical memories of amazing moments that happened during the year, regardless if they were captured in our meetings, on your own walks an

Background Information In 2020 Corona had us all grounded and we made the best we could during the lockdown, including meeting new amazing people on our online meetings and producing some great images together. As a memory of the craziest year in a generation (or some), we put together a magazine with the images we produced as a group, remotely or together, when it was allowed and safe. Well,…

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Halloween and Our Lovely Vampire Saga

On this Halloween I brought some new images and information about the shooting of our Lovely Vampire Saga

On this Halloween, I remembered this fun and beautiful project, DraKolly’s Vampire Date. It does not matter if you like the date or complain about the pagan festival, it is a curious time to play with scary and funny concepts, such as challenging make-up and acting. The first chapter was “The First Date”, commissioned by the fantastic Swiss actor Roger Kolly, who does not have an Instagram…