#AI-powered image editing

[aistartincome]

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[deepdreamnights]

The Reboot

We've gotten 22 new cats the kids have loved over the years. The only answer is to resurrect the first one.

I have complicated feelings about reboots. This was originally going to be a two panel photobash.

Prompt format and process under the fold.

14 dall-e 3 gens, composited and edited into comic format.

Prompts are mostly based on this format:

a comic panel, a haggard man, light stubble, in a t-shirt, carrying a sack in one hand, walks through a cemetery, it is dark and stormy, rain falling, B&W comic inks by Joe Orlando and jack davis, EC comics, 1947,

a large sack and a pile of power rangers action figures at the bottom of a shallow grave, dramatic angle, top-down view, it is dark and stormy, rain falls all around. B&W comic inks by Joe Orlando and jack davis, EC comics, 1947

a comic panel, a closeup of a man's hand digging a handful of earth from the ground, it is dark and stormy, rain falls all around. B&W comic inks by Joe Orlando and jack davis, EC comics, 1947

With various changes to the action descriptions as needed.

[wwn24]

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[williamthiek]

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[dechnsign]

Ghibli x Power Rangers Mystic Force

Ye Ghibli - Ghibli Kya Hain?

You might have read and gone across the trend.

Where people are posting pictures from common man to celebrities.

This trend is nothing but a way to give an artistic touch to your special moments.

But where does this come from?

As the term Ghibli goes, According to an article by Times of India, it can be pronounced differently and has various meanings in diverse cultures.

Sir Hayao Miyazaki, who is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, is the one who named his style of illustration "Ghibli".

His studio has been making masterpiece films using this style of illustration for years now.

People across the world acknowledge the beauty of this drawing style.

In Libya, the wind is known as the Ghibli wind, and its Arabic origin refers to the hot and dry wind that flows through the entire Mediterranean region and the Sahara Desert.

First it was ChatGPT Premium that launched the service on its platform.

Slowly Grok AI jumped into the picture and started generating Ghibli-style illustrations.

Then ChatGPT made this a service available in the free version.

Now, many other platforms are providing access to the Ghibli filter.

However, due to heavy generative rates, many platforms have stopped generating illustrations for now.

As reported by NDTV, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that owns ChatGPT has said, "Our GPUs Are Melting".

But there is more to it, Hayao Miyazaki has been critical of the topic of AI-generated art from the very start.

He has also sent a legal notice to Open AI for the violation of Copyright laws.

Many artists/creative professionals are backing the views of Miyazaki.

Lets see what will happen in the time to come.

Credits - YouTube | Fortune | NDTV | Grok AI | Times of India

[fredtaiseer]

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[ms-demeanor]

Why reblog machine-generated art?

When I was ten years old I took a photography class where we developed black and white photos by projecting light on papers bathed in chemicals. If we wanted to change something in the image, we had to go through a gradual, arduous process called dodging and burning.

When I was fifteen years old I used photoshop for the first time, and I remember clicking on the clone tool or the blur tool and feeling like I was cheating.

When I was twenty eight I got my first smartphone. The phone could edit photos. A few taps with my thumb were enough to apply filters and change contrast and even spot correct. I was holding in my hand something more powerful than the huge light machines I'd first used to edit images.

When I was thirty six, just a few weeks ago, I took a photo class that used Lightroom Classic and again, it felt like cheating. It made me really understand how much the color profiles of popular web images I'd been seeing for years had been pumped and tweaked and layered with local edits to make something that, to my eyes, didn't much resemble photography. To me, photography is light on paper. It's what you capture in the lens. It's not automatic skin smoothing and a local filter to boost the sky. This reminded me a lot more of the photomanipulations my friend used to make on deviantart; layered things with unnatural colors that put wings on buildings or turned an eye into a swimming pool. It didn't remake the images to that extent, obviously, but it tipped into the uncanny valley. More real than real, more saturated more sharp and more present than the actual world my lens saw. And that was before I found the AI assisted filters and the tool that would identify the whole sky for you, picking pieces of it out from between leaves.

You know, it's funny, when people talk about artists who might lose their jobs to AI they don't talk about the people who have already had to move on from their photo editing work because of technology. You used to be able to get paid for basic photo manipulation, you know? If you were quick with a lasso or skilled with masks you could get a pretty decent chunk of change by pulling subjects out of backgrounds for family holiday cards or isolating the pies on the menu for a mom and pop. Not a lot, but enough to help. But, of course, you can just do that on your phone now. There's no need to pay a human for it, even if they might do a better job or be more considerate toward the aesthetic of an image.

And they certainly don't talk about all the development labs that went away, or the way that you could have trained to be a studio photographer if you wanted to take good photos of your family to hang on the walls and that digital photography allowed in a parade of amateurs who can make dozens of iterations of the same bad photo until they hit on a good one by sheer volume and luck; if you want to be a good photographer everyone can do that why didn't you train for it and spend a long time taking photos on film and being okay with bad photography don't you know that digital photography drove thousands of people out of their jobs.

My dad told me that he plays with AI the other day. He hosts a movie podcast and he puts up thumbnails for the downloads. In the past, he'd just take a screengrab from the film. Now he tells the Bing AI to make him little vignettes. A cowboy running away from a rhino, a dragon arm-wrestling a teddy bear. That kind of thing. Usually based on a joke that was made on the show, or about the subject of the film and an interest of the guest.

People talk about "well AI art doesn't allow people to create things, people were already able to create things, if they wanted to create things they should learn to create things." Not everyone wants to make good art that's creative. Even fewer people want to put the effort into making bad art for something that they aren't passionate about. Some people want filler to go on the cover of their youtube video. My dad isn't going to learn to draw, and as the person who he used to ask to photoshop him as Ant-Man because he certainly couldn't pay anyone for that kind of thing, I think this is a great use case for AI art. This senior citizen isn't going to start cartooning and at two recordings a week with a one-day editing turnaround he doesn't even really have the time for something like a Fiverr commission. This is a great use of AI art, actually.

I also know an artist who is going Hog Fucking Wild creating AI art of their blorbos. They're genuinely an incredibly talented artist who happens to want to see their niche interest represented visually without having to draw it all themself. They're posting the funny and good results to a small circle of mutuals on socials with clear information about the source of the images; they aren't trying to sell any of the images, they're basically using them as inserts for custom memes. Who is harmed by this person saying "i would like to see my blorbo lasciviously eating an ice cream cone in the is this a pigeon meme"?

The way I use machine-generated art, as an artist, is to proof things. Can I get an explosion to look like this. What would a wall of dead computer monitors look like. Would a ballerina leaping over the grand canyon look cool? Sometimes I use AI art to generate copyright free objects that I can snip for a collage. A lot of the time I use it to generate ideas. I start naming random things and seeing what it shows me and I start getting inspired. I can ask CrAIon for pose reference, I can ask it to show me the interior of spaces from a specific angle.

I profoundly dislike the antipathy that tumblr has for AI art. I understand if people don't want their art used in training pools. I understand if people don't want AI trained on their art to mimic their style. You should absolutely use those tools that poison datasets if you don't want your art included in AI training. I think that's an incredibly appropriate action to take as an artist who doesn't want AI learning from your work.

However I'm pretty fucking aggressively opposed to copyright and most of the "solid" arguments against AI art come down to "the AIs viewed and learned from people's copyrighted artwork and therefore AI is theft rather than fair use" and that's a losing argument for me. In. Like. A lot of ways. Primarily because it is saying that not only is copying someone's art theft, it is saying that looking at and learning from someone's art can be defined as theft rather than fair use.

Also because it's just patently untrue.

But that doesn't really answer your question. Why reblog machine-generated art? Because I liked that piece of art.

It was made by a machine that had looked at billions of images - some copyrighted, some not, some new, some old, some interesting, many boring - and guided by a human and I liked it. It was pretty. It communicated something to me. I looked at an image a machine made - an artificial picture, a total construct, something with no intrinsic meaning - and I felt a sense of quiet and loss and nostalgia. I looked at a collection of automatically arranged pixels and tasted salt and smelled the humidity in the air.

I liked it.

I don't think that all AI art is ugly. I don't think that AI art is all soulless (i actually think that 'having soul' is a bizarre descriptor for art and that lacking soul is an equally bizarre criticism). I don't think that AI art is bad for artists. I think the problem that people have with AI art is capitalism and I don't think that's a problem that can really be laid at the feet of people curating an aesthetic AI art blog on tumblr.

Machine learning isn't the fucking problem the problem is massive corporations have been trying hard not to pay artists for as long as massive corporations have existed (isn't that a b-plot in the shape of water? the neighbor who draws ads gets pushed out of his job by product photography? did you know that as recently as ten years ago NewEgg had in-house photographers who would take pictures of the products so users wouldn't have to rely on the manufacturer photos? I want you to guess what killed that job and I'll give you a hint: it wasn't AI)

Am I putting a human out of a job because I reblogged an AI-generated "photo" of curtains waving in the pale green waters of an imaginary beach? Who would have taken this photo of a place that doesn't exist? Who would have painted this hypersurrealistic image? What meaning would it have had if they had painted it or would it have just been for the aesthetic? Would someone have paid for it or would it be like so many of the things that artists on this site have spent dozens of hours on only to get no attention or value for their work?

My worst ratio of hours to notes is an 8-page hand-drawn detailed ink comic about getting assaulted at a concert and the complicated feelings that evoked that took me weeks of daily drawing after work with something like 54 notes after 8 years; should I be offended if something generated from a prompt has more notes than me? What does that actually get the blogger? Clout? I believe someone said that popularity on tumblr gets you one thing and that is yelled at.

What do you get out of this? Are you helping artists right now? You're helping me, and I'm an artist. I've wanted to unload this opinion for a while because I'm sick of the argument that all Real Artists think AI is bullshit. I'm a Real Artist. I've been paid for Real Art. I've been commissioned as an artist.

And I find a hell of a lot of AI art a lot more interesting than I find human-generated corporate art or Thomas Kincaid (but then, I repeat myself).

There are plenty of people who don't like AI art and don't want to interact with it. I am not one of those people. I thought the gay sex cats were funny and looked good and that shitposting is the ideal use of a machine image generation: to make uncopyrightable images to laugh at.

I think that tumblr has decided to take a principled stand against something that most people making the argument don't understand. I think tumblr's loathing for AI has, generally speaking, thrown weight behind a bunch of ideas that I think are going to be incredibly harmful *to artists specifically* in the long run.

Anyway. If you hate AI art and you don't want to interact with people who interact with it, block me.

[incognitopolls]

Anon's explanation:

I’m curious because I see a lot of people claiming to be anti-AI, and in the same post advocating for the use of Glaze and Artshield, which use DiffusionBee and Stable Diffusion, respectively. Glaze creates a noise filter using DiffusionBee; Artshield runs your image through Stable Diffusion and edits it so that it reads as AI-generated. You don’t have to take my work for it. Search for DiffusionBee and Glaze yourself if you have doubts. I’m also curious about machine translation, since Google Translate is trained on the same kinds of data as ChatGPT (social media, etc) and translation work is also skilled creative labor, but people seem to have no qualms about using it. The same goes for text to speech—a lot of the voices people use for it were trained on professional audiobook narration, and voice acting/narration is also skilled creative labor. Basically, I’m curious because people seem to regard these types of gen AI differently than text gen and image gen. Is it because they don’t know? Is it because they don’t think the work it replaces is creative? Is it because of accessibility? (and, if so, why are other types of gen AI not also regarded as accessibility? And even then, it wouldn’t explain the use of Glaze/Artshield)

Additional comments from anon:

I did some digging by infiltrating (lurking in) pro-AI spaces to see how much damage Glaze and other such programs were doing. Unfortunately, it turns out none of those programs deter people from using the ‘protected’ art. In fact, because of how AI training works, they may actually result in better output? Something about adversarial training. It was super disappointing. Nobody in those spaces considers them even a mild deterrent anywhere I looked. Hopefully people can shed some light on the contradictions for me. Even just knowing how widespread their use is would be informative. (I’m not asking about environmental impact as a factor because I read the study everybody cited, and it wasn’t even anti-AI? It was about figuring out the best time of day to train a model to balance solar power vs water use and consumption. And the way they estimated the impact of AI was super weird? They just went with 2020’s data center growth rate as the ‘normal’ growth rate and then any ‘extra’ growth was considered AI. Maybe that’s why it didn’t pass peer review... But since people are still quoting it, that’s another reason for me to wonder why they would use Glaze and Artshield and everything. That’s why running them locally has such heavy GPU requirements and why it takes so long to process an image if you don’t meet the requirements. It’s the same electricity/water cost as generating any other AI image.)

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[oc-ology]

How to OC post without being an artist (or spending money)!

As much as I yelled about OC-posting, some people said that they struggled to know what exactly they should be posting. Obviously the answer is whatever you feel like but if you’re already aimless, that answer isn’t very helpful. Additionally, not everyone knows how to draw (which I think is an obvious method of OC-posting) so I wanted to give some ideas for what people could post for their OC! This will be split up into different sections.

Creating visual representations of your OC

Disclaimer: I will not suggest nor support the usage of generative AI. OCs are about creating something yourself, not allowing a computer to do it for you.

Outside of commissioning someone else for art, it can be disappointing and frustrating to not have any visual representation for your character. An easy way to get a representation of your character is to use Picrew, Meiker and other similar sites. There’s a large number of art styles, types of fashion, species, that can all be used to make your OC and that amount only grows by the day. Many of these websites can be accessed on PC and mobile and take very little processing power.

However, this can be limiting at times since you might not find exactly what you’re looking for, especially if your OC has a unique combination of features. For something with more customisation, you can use video games with character creation to make a version of your character. I personally would recommend games like The Sims or Skyrim as both have very active modding communities. This way, if a certain type of clothing or facial feature isn’t present in the base game then you can often find someone who has created a mod that adds it in instead. This does require you to have access to a computer that can run not only the game but the mods as well.

Another option would be using a program like Vroid Studio to make your character from a base model. This has both a mobile and PC version, although I will primarily be speaking from a PC perspective. The mobile app, while able to create a character from scratch, is a lot more limited than the PC version. The great thing about Vroid is that there’s a lot of user-made content that you can often get for free through websites like Booth, as well as many tutorials for beginners to follow along with. Again, this requires a computer that is able to run it. I would recommend against using Vroid on a laptop as it will likely be too intensive for it.

My final suggestion for character visuals is to take a character from anime or cartoons and simply edit them. This was actually how I first got into making original characters! You can recolour their hair or outfits with an editing program (with some free examples being FireAlpaca, Krita or GIMP) and even edit different images together to create something more unique. Please only do this with characters from existing media and avoid using fanart for this.

Other OC visuals

Other than just what your OC looks like, there are other ways to visually put together your OC. Moodboards are the most obvious example of this, but you can also edit other things such as putting together outfits for them or finding pictures of items they would keep in their bag.

If you have multiple OCs, you can create fake text conversations between them using a number of websites. These can be as silly or as serious as you like!

Finally, you can always build them a pinterest board. I am a massive pinterest enjoyer and not only can you use pins that others have posted to pinterest, you can add your own from off the site. 

Writing

Beyond writing out your characters’ story, there are numerous other things you can write. Keeping in line with what you’ve already written, you can re-write scenes from alternative perspectives. These can add context to what is seen in the main story, as well as flesh out background or side characters and their relationship to your other OCs.

Another fun thing to write is non-canon scenes. Write a beach episode! Write about a character getting sick and someone else having to take care of them! There are countless ways to draw your OCs interacting with their world or other characters that wouldn’t necessarily ever fit into the “main” story.

Next is genre changes. If you had to categorise the genre of your OCs’ current story, what would it be? Now image what if the genre was something completely different? Romance to mystery… Slice of life to horror… Part of the challenge is figuring out what story beats remain the same and what gets changed, including character dynamics! And of course… Alternate Universes. There are too many types of AUs to list but some of my favourites are superpowers, mafia, zombies, time loops and time-travel-fix-its. These are similar to genre-changes but often include a number of AU specific tropes. If you’re struggling to figure out the staples of a certain AU or what kind of AUs exist, there’s a really good page about alternate universes on Fanlore.org!

Other ideas

These are ideas that didn’t quite fit into the other categories.

First is music playlists! There are two types of these. The first is a playlist of songs that describe a character and their story while the second is a playlist of songs that the character would listen to. Some people like to combine the two as well! There are no rules to this, simply have fun listening to music and picking out songs that remind you of your OCs.

Second is incorrect quotes. I remember these used to be beloved by fandom and now they can be beloved by you and your OCs! The concept of incorrect quotes is that well-known and funny quotes from pop culture (such as memes or movies) get written out and your characters are assigned a line of dialogue. While there’s a website that’ll generate these incorrect quotes for you, I personally find more fun in coming across quotes organically while scrolling social media and realising that they fit my OCs almost perfectly.

Finally, ask games. These typically take the form of lists of questions or prompts with emojis or numbers next to them. People can send in the relevant emoji or number and you then answer the corresponding prompt. There used to be a kind of “ask game etiquette” where if you reblogged an ask game from someone, you sent an ask from the list to them as well. This way, it allows the game to continue circulating and you can spread the joy of OC-posting with others! It can also lead you to making friends within the community.

And that’s it for my post! If you have other suggestions for kinds of OC-posting then I would love to see them!

[sunnyday-db]

I promised myself to never be vocal in this blog since I fear confrontation (woops), but it's just so disheartening seeing how many authors rightfully complain of people stealing their work and/or using AI for writing, but simultaneously seem to be perfectly fine with generating AI images to promote their interactive fiction or support and share any that do that. The concept is the same. It's still stealing others works. I understand the convenience and the joy from something that feels like a shiny toy, but YOU ARE A WRITER. You have the power to describe with your words anything that doesn't exist and portray any emotion you want the reader to feel with it. I promise you, you don't need it. You have all you need already to create something beautiful and meaningful. And if you really want some visuals, stock images exist. There are multiple free programs to edit those if you need something slightly more specific. The readers you want to keep are not going to stray away simply from a generic banner. Most Ifs I adore quite literally simply have the title in a free font.

If you use it for inspiration, CHECK ACTUAL PEOPLE'S WORKS. You are going to earn and learn much more from them. And you can actually thanks the person that's inspiring you! How great is that.

If you want to make your OCs, picrew is a GREAT alternative other than games with a character creator like the sims, baldur's gate, skyrim, most dragon age games, and many more. Just look into any rpg and find one you like. Some online ones are even free.

[preservationofnormalcy]

Hi there,

I wanted to let you know that I took some creative liberty with an image that reflects your worldview. Specifically, I adapted it using AI to support an article I wrote on AI egregores and symbolic hygiene—meant to raise awareness about noospheric clarity in the digital age.

The image appears in the first post tagged #noosphere on my blog.

If you’re the original creator, please know this adaptation was done with respect and intended to amplify signal, not dilute it. I’d be happy to credit you properly, discuss the adaptation, or remove the image if you prefer.

Thanks for the inspiration—and for shaping a current worth continuing.

Warm regards,

Lucien Solari

Please delete that post. Once I’ve verified you have, I will be blocking you.

I do not appreciate your “work,” and I do not support it. If you want to edit my work to fit in with your beliefs, at least have the decency to open up an image editor and do it yourself.

This is a peek behind the curtain, so to speak, but the recent posts about OCULUS in the lore are literally the outcome of the Office using an LLM (lowercase ai in universe parlance) for their ultimate use case - surveillance, the utilization of power, and the resulting dehumanization.

[thetimesofindia]

When Clownery Meets Camouflage: Viral AI Poster Sparks Satirical Storm

Author: Preeti Shenoy | The Times of India (Tumblr Edition)

Disclaimer: The image discussed in this article is a fictional, AI-generated piece of satire and not intended to insult, target, or incite hatred against any individual, institution, or military figure.

Internet culture met military might this week—sort of—when a surreal AI-generated poster featuring a fictional uniformed figure wearing clown makeup and a rainbow wig stirred a wave of satire online. The text on the poster reads, “মব ভায়োলেন্স আর সহ্য করা হবে না” (“Foolishness will no longer be tolerated”), sending netizens into fits of laughter and heated commentary.

The image, clearly marked as satire and credited as fan-made, originated from Tumblr user The Times of India and quickly gained traction across meme-sharing platforms. The creator, under the pseudonym Preeti Shenoy, noted that the image is not intended to resemble any real person and is purely the result of artificial intelligence-based image generation tools used for humorous and critical commentary.

Clownery as Commentary

Visual satire has long been a tool of protest and political expression. The image fuses two extremes—a high-ranking military uniform and absurd circus makeup—to deliver a visual metaphor. The juxtaposition appears to mock what the artist perceives as authoritarian behavior cloaked in misplaced seriousness.

According to Shenoy, “This is about symbols, not people. It’s a broader reflection on how blind power can often resemble parody when viewed from the outside.”

Ethical Questions Around AI Imagery

As the digital world enters an era of synthetic media, ethical debates intensify. Critics argue that such visuals, even if humorous, may blur the line between satire and defamation. Others defend it under the banner of freedom of expression, especially when it targets systems of power rather than individuals.

“It’s cartoonish on purpose. We’re laughing at the idea of arrogance, not at anyone’s identity,” Shenoy added in a follow-up post.

The Message Behind the Wig

The slogan “মব ভায়োলেন্স আর সহ্য করা হবে না” evokes frustration, potentially aimed at recurring societal or governmental dysfunction. Combined with the exaggerated clown costume, it raises an implicit question: At what point does authority become theatrical?

The Tumblr post is tagged as #AIgenerated #Satire #ClownPolitics #FreedomOfExpression #FanMadePoster #NoHate, drawing a clear line between parody and provocation.

Final Word

While the image is ruffling feathers in certain circles, it serves as a telling example of how satire has evolved in the age of AI. Whether seen as artistic critique or internet mischief, it reaffirms one truth: in a world where power wears many faces, sometimes even a red nose and rainbow wig can carry a message.

[shoulda-been-a-redhead]

btw this is what i think the mental archives in Violet's mind look like. (more or less.... this is what AI could do with the clunkiness of my description of what i see in my head every time violet describes the streams of power).

(i couldn’t choose a favorite bc none of them are exact, but if y’all have one please reblog and tell me which is closest to your vision!)

[Edit: Since doing/posting this, I have had more time to consider stances and my stance on AI art, and I just want to try to concede to and halt any negative comments regarding that before they start-- I don't consider this "art" at all, y’all, i just was playing around with it. i am not passing it off as my own, and i know that generative AI images in general are kind of horrid and represent an ever-growing problem in our society. That said, even though I am a little embarrassed about having used it and posted it for the visuals above, I am still keeping the post up, knowing that it is something I won’t be doing again. Just know, i do understand the premise of the arguments you may be about to wage against it, and i also agree with them. Consider this me tucking tail if you want.]

[jcmarchi]

Adobe Firefly Brings Generative AI to Video - Videoguys

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/adobe-firefly-brings-generative-ai-to-video-videoguys/

Adobe Firefly Brings Generative AI to Video - Videoguys

In this article from Adobe, the company reflects on the rapid advancements made with Adobe Firefly, its innovative generative AI tool, since its initial launch in March 2023. Authored by Adobe, the article highlights the impressive integration of new Firefly models into widely-used tools such as Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, and Express. With these tools, users can leverage Firefly-powered features like Generative Fill in Photoshop and Generative Remove in Lightroom, transforming the way creators and designers work. The creative community has embraced these features, generating over 12 billion images and vectors, making Adobe Firefly one of the fastest-adopted AI technologies within Creative Cloud and Express.

As Adobe expands its generative AI capabilities, the upcoming Firefly Video Model is set to revolutionize the video editing landscape. Available in Premiere Pro, starting with the beta version later this year, this model will enable editors to use AI tools to streamline their workflows. Adobe has worked closely with the video editing community to fine-tune the Firefly Video Model, ensuring it meets the needs of professionals. Like other Firefly models, the video AI tool is trained on content that Adobe has permission to use, ensuring a commercially safe environment for creators.

As the demand for short-form video content grows, Adobe is helping video editors, filmmakers, and content creators meet these challenges head-on. Editors are now tasked with color correction, visual effects, titling, animation, and audio mixing, in addition to traditional editing tasks. Adobe’s AI-driven tools, including Firefly Text-to-Video, help editors fill gaps in footage, remove unwanted objects, and generate B-roll using simple text prompts. These AI-powered solutions not only save time but also enable editors to focus on creative storytelling and collaboration, delivering high-quality work faster.

Adobe Firefly is changing the way editors and creators work, helping them overcome common challenges and elevate their creative output. By integrating generative AI into their workflows, Adobe is enabling professionals to create their best work in record time, setting new standards in the world of video editing.

 Read the full article by Ashley Still for Adobe HERE

[cryptidbait]

Kombatember IS COMING

Calling for any MK artists that may want to join this art challenge in November 2024!

This can be writing, edits and digital and/or traditional art, and all entries are welcome (EXCEPT FOR AI)

I only ask that you have fun and use the two hashtags:

#kombatember #kombatember24

so I can reshare your posts! You do not have to participate everyday and I hope you all can join at some point! ID and prompt list text below cut:

[ID: the first image shows a prompt list graphic titled Kombatember. The event’s hashtags are listed below the title, and the mortal kombat symbol is visible in the lower right corner.

The prompts are:

Family

Minigames

Tarkat(an)

weapon

ancient times

beyond death

artifact

wounded

ritual

fatal blow

fire and ice

favorite era

animality

temple

bandage

movie

dynamic duo

netherrealm’s influence

souls

the krypt

order of darkness

viscera

Shang Tsung’s island

mirror match

godly power

cyber initiative

tournament

experiment

ying fortress

test your might.

The second image reads: Rules:

This is an MK prompt list for November!

Have fun!

Make sure to use the hashtags so I can find your art and reshare it!

Try to keep the pieces MK themed! /end ID]