TechCrunch Thursday February 8, 2024
Commerce platform Shopify is releasing new features for its Winter Edition rollout, including an AI-powered media editor to enhance product images, reports TechCrunch. Merchants can prompt the image editor to change photo backgrounds without Photoshop experience to match whatever theme they have in mind, explains The Verge. Shopify’s AI editor can also suggest backgrounds and styles that match existing product images in the merchant’s library once it rolls out this spring.
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The Guardian Thursday February 8, 2024
At the core of the PhotoBrussels 2024 festival is the story of Ukraine, told both conceptually and literally through the eyes of three generations of photographers, notes The Guardian. The exhibition “Generations of Resilience—22 Ukrainian Photographers” (through March 23) “emphasizes the spiral nature of the struggle for Ukraine’s independence and democratic development,” adds the festival—a history of struggle for the future in which photography and art “become one of the main methods to record and archive changes.”
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Digital Camera World Thursday February 8, 2024
Analog photography is back, and getting cheaper: Kodak has reduced the price of its famed Tri-X 400 black-and-white film by up to 30%, depending on your region, notes Digital Camera World. “Our expectation is that this lower price will be passed on by retailers to photographers worldwide as inventories turn,” Kodak Professional wrote in an announcement in an Instagram story on the Kodak Professional page. The move could see a 36-exposure roll of the film drop to as little as $6.99 (from $9.99).
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David Schonauer Wednesday February 7, 2024
Last Dec. 7, at a pep rally before a state semifinal game, the Franklin (Texas) High football team held up a sign that said "Thank you, Nash! Our MVP," and then presented 17-year-old Nash Pils with a
$2,000 camera lens--a gift crowdfunded by residents of the small town about 65 miles southeast of Waco. A junior with Downs syndrome, Pils is a naturally gifted … Read the full Story >>
