Mashable Tuesday January 2, 2024
An expansive trend has emerged on TikTok: Users are expanding their images with AI. The social media platform recently released a new “AI Expand” filter, and now it’s a big thing. “It's reminiscent of the Photoshop AI tool that fills in parts of images or expands them entirely, which some AI-focused accounts on Twitter used to make centuries-old paintings look worse.” notes Mashable. To use the filter, you have to download a second app, CapCut, the video-editing tool owned by TikTok’s parent company ByteDance. See also: PetaPixel.
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The Guardian Tuesday January 2, 2024
It’s been a year of war in Gaza and Ukraine and protests around the world. But there have been moments of joy, too, notes The Guardian, which has a portfolio of the photos that defined 2023, along with the stories behind the images, as told by the photographers who shot them. “This is the only thing I can do: take pictures and send them to the media to show what is going on in Ukraine. For me, it’s always a difficult moral situation,” notes Wojciech Grzedzinski, who documented a Russian rocket attack Dnipro, Ukraine, in January.
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ADWEEK Tuesday January 2, 2024
This year artificial intelligence is on everyone’s minds, notes Adweek, which has surveyed ad agency leaders around the globe for their opinions as to where AI will take the advertising industry in the future. “AI was front and center in 2023 because of the novelty. In 2024, fewer ideas will be about AI but more of them will actually be made possible by AI. It will become the tool, not the point,” says Stevie Archer, chief creative officer of SS+K.
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David Schonauer Tuesday January 2, 2024
Larry Fink. Mikala Jones. Kwame Brathwaite. Marilyn Stafford. Tony Vaccaro. Elliott Erwitt. Those were some of the notable names in photography who died in 2022. Today we remember them, along with
others whose passings we reported on at Pro Photo Daily over the past year, including Paul Ickovic. Tatjana Patitz, Henry Grossman, Lisl Steiner, Carl Fischer, Marie-Laure de Decker. Erwin Olaf, Amos
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