If you like the “faded film” look, this latest video tutorial from Mathieu Stern is for you. You can create this washed out, dreamy look in a few seconds, you only need a few simple adjustments in Photoshop. I tried it out on some of my images, too. I didn’t really expect to like it, but I was surprised by the result. It kinda grew on me. As a matter of fact, I even made a Lightroom preset....
Turning speech into text has become so common that i’s a part of almost every smartphone. But have you ever thought about turning your speech into a portrait? Researchers have, and they’ve even made it possible. Artificial intelligence scientists at MIT’S Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created AI that turns short snippets of audio speech recording into a human face. As if this weren’t both stunning and creepy enough, the results are actually fairly accurate, too!...
Italian artist and activist aleXsandro Palombo has launched a street art campaign to raise awareness of domestic violence using heavily photoshopped images of famous women such as Kamala Harris, Duchess of Kent Kate Middleton, President of Europe Ursula Von de Leyen, and Princess Letizia of Spain. The women appear against a stark dark background, front-facing the camera, with their faces showing an agonising array of cuts, bruises, black eyes and bloody noses....
This Sunday, a drone crash landed in the audience during a Major League baseball game. Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres played a game at Petco, when someone decided to fly a drone above the stadium. The aircraft hovered above the venue, and eventually ended up in the audience. It smashed against an empty seat, nearly hurting one of the spectators. I’m surprised by the lucky coincidence of the drone crashing into the empty seat between two people....
A user posted a picture to Reddit showing the setup screen on a Pixel 6 Pro. It shows the screen where you choose your lock screen security type. On the bottom where it shows you the biometrics, one of the options says “face” as in face unlock. As far as we know, this person wasn’t running a beta or developer preview of any sort; they were using a stable build of Android....
