ars technica Friday February 24, 2023
“To look at Jos Avery‘s Instagram account is to be greeted by a sea of beautiful portrait photographs staring right back at you,” notes DP Review. But all is not what it seems: Avery, who has amassed nearly 30,000 followers since he began posting his impressive work last October, recently confessed that his images were created using the AI image generator Midjourney. “Avery emphasizes that while his images are not actual photographs (except two, he says), they still require a great deal of artistry and retouching on his part to pass as photorealistic,” notes Ars Technica.
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David Schonauer Friday February 24, 2023
This week we took note of a number of Instagram rollouts, including a new broadcast channel that lets creators share public, one-to-many messages directly with their followers. There is also expanded
access to a monetization feature called Gifts, which lets fans provide a favorite creator with direct monetary support. But the new feature getting the most attention is a subscription service that
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Glyn Dewis Thursday February 23, 2023
Using Lightroom on a tablet device with a screen can be a real pain for lefties, who have to reach over the image to make adjustments. Thankfully, notes YouTuber Glyn Dewis, this is no longer the case in Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Mobile on devices like the iPad, thanks to new updates from Adobe.
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RIZZOLI Thursday February 23, 2023
Since the 1960s, photographer Frank Stewart has captured African American culture in many forms, including art, food, dance, and music—but especially jazz (he is best known as the senior photographer for Jazz at Lincoln Center.) The new Rizzoli book Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer's Journey, 1960s to the Presentis the first complete monograph and retrospective of Stewart’s long career. “The intimate and subtle relations between and among people are at the heart of Stewart’s art,” notes the publisher.
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