The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday August 6, 2025
The media company formerly known as Dotdash Meredith — one of the largest media publishers in the world, with brands that includes People, Travel & Leisure, Brides, Better Homes & Gardens, Entertainment Weekly, and Food & Wine, is now People Inc. ”[I]n this age of everything being synthetic and artificial and amalgamated and mashed up, we are people making content for people,” Neil Vogel, the company’s CEO, tells The Hollywood Reporter, explaining the rationale behind the name change.
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THE VERGE Wednesday August 6, 2025
Adobe is launching new generative AI features for Photoshop that make it easier than ever to convincingly add or remove people and objects in photographs, notes The Verge. An update introduces AI image upscaling, improved object removal, and an automatic composition tool that can seamlessly blend new elements into images in just a few clicks. The new “Harmonize” compositing feature automatically adjusts the color, lighting, shadows, and visual tone of objects added to images to match the original photo.
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PetaPixel Wednesday August 6, 2025
The United States Senate is hiring a photographer, with applications open until this Friday, August 8. The position, officially called Photographer #508, has been listed by the Senate Sergeant at Arms, the highest-ranking federal law enforcement officer of the Senate of the United States, notes PetaPixel. The position is open to all United States citizens, nationals, and “those who owe allegiance to the U.S.” The photographer will have numerous duties, including planning, shooting, and editing images for various projects.
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David Schonauer Wednesday August 6, 2025
People with cameras have been pushing creative limits since the invention of photography, explains author Anika Burgess in her book "Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It
Transformed Art, Science, and History." Burgess "takes us back to the 19th century to showcase the artists and innovators who developed this revolutionary technology and the profound cultural changes
that followed," noted The … Read the full Story >>
