Artificial Intelligence can help designers boost their creativity by providing them with resources and inspiration. AI design tools can also speed up workflow by taking care of tedious tasks that require a lot of time and effort. Wolvus Technology has come up with a handy list of AI tools that can generate color combinations, remove backgrounds from images, suggest font … [Read more...]
This Incredible App Lets You Copy-Paste Objects From The Real World Into Your Computer
Paris-based developers Cyril Diagne and Jonathan Blanchet have come up with a brilliant app called ClipDrop that lets you take pictures of objects in the real world and place them into programs on your desktop computer. Using augmented reality and artificial intelligence, ClipDrop can extract objects, people, drawings, and text, and place them into programs such as … [Read more...]
21 Powerful New Features In Photoshop 2021
Adobe has released the newest version of Photoshop CC (version 22.0.0) that comes with exciting new AI features for artists, designers, and photographers. The Smart Portrait Neural Filter lets you control facial expressions of the subject in the photograph. You can even change their head direction, light direction, gaze, and hair thickness. The Colorize Neural Filter can … [Read more...]
Top 8 AI Tools For Designers
Artificial Intelligence can help designers boost their creativity by providing them with material and inspiration. It can also speed up workflow by taking care of boring and tedious tasks that require a lot of time and effort. Albanian UI/UX designer Dorjan Vulaj has come up with a handy list of AI tools that can help you enhance images, create font combinations, generate … [Read more...]
Ranked: Top 7 Apps To Convert Low-Res Images To High-Res
If you need to convert a low-resolution image to a high-res one, there are plenty of online image upscalers that use artificial intelligence to enlarge photos with minimum loss of quality. But which of these online services is the best? In this handy tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect compares the top seven platforms for upscaling and enhancing … [Read more...]
New AI App Gives You 25000 Free Stock Photos, With The Option To Use Any Face On Any Body
Rosebud AI, a San Francisco-based synthetic media company, has come up with a brilliant resource called Generative Photos - a diverse library of 25,000 high-res stock photos that are free to use*. None of the people in the images are real. All faces have been generated by artificial intelligence. The best part? You can customize the images by selecting any face on any body, … [Read more...]
Top 20 New Features In Photoshop CC 2020
Adobe has released the newest version of Photoshop CC (version 21.0) that comes with exciting new features for artists, designers, and photographers. The new Object Selection Tool lets you make a quick selection of any item in an image by simply dragging a rectangle or a lasso around it. The Select Subject Tool is faster, and makes more accurate selections than the previous … [Read more...]
Photoshop’s New ‘Object Selection Tool’ Is A Dream Come True For Designers
Adobe Photoshop has a new tool called 'Object Selection Tool' that is designed to accelerate your selection workflow. It is available from Photoshop version 21.0 onwards, and is placed above the Quick Selection and Magic Wand tools in the tool bar. To use, just select the tool and click and drag over the object in your photo. Using Adobe Sensei machine learning, the tool … [Read more...]
AI Creates 100,000 Realistic Photos You Can Use For Free Without Copyright
For most design projects and presentations, you need quality portraits of people. Designers often spend a lot of time trying to find images that are free, diverse, and legal to use. To make life easier, Icons8 has come up with a brilliant free resource called Generated Photos - a diverse library of 100,000 realistic faces created by artificial intelligence. None of the … [Read more...]
MIT Creates AI That Can Cut-Out Any Object In An Image And Replace Backgrounds With Ease
MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has come up with a technology called "Semantic Soft Segmentation" that uses AI to automatically separate objects in an image. It allows for easy image editing such as changing the background or compositing the figure into an entirely new scene. The process starts with a neural network estimating the regions and … [Read more...]
Adobe Develops AI That Can Detect If Faces Were Manipulated In Photoshop
Researchers at Adobe and UC Berkeley have developed an AI method that can detect whether faces in photos were manipulated using Adobe Photoshop's Liquify Tool. The research team trained a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on thousands of portrait images on which Face Aware Liquify was applied using a Photoshop script. In a series of subsequent experiments, the AI was able … [Read more...]
Samsung’s Incredible New AI Technology Can Create A Video Of You From A Single Photo
Researchers at the Samsung Artificial Intelligence Center (SAIC) in Moscow have developed an AI system that can turn a single photograph or portrait into a talking head model. The neural network first undergoes meta learning on a huge data set of videos. Once the system is able to detect various landmarks on the face (like eyes, nose, mouth, etc.), it is able to generate … [Read more...]
Adobe After Effects Has A Powerful Tool That Can Remove Any Object From Your Video
Content-Aware Fill is a useful tool in Photoshop that lets you remove unwanted objects from your photos. But what if you want to remove objects from a video? You'll need to edit each frame individually and then stitch them back together. Well, all that has changed now in the latest release of After Effects (16.1), which includes a powerful new Content-Aware Fill feature that … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Develops Incredible AI That Can Turn Rough Sketches Into Landscape Images
Researchers at NVIDIA have developed a deep learning model that can turn rough doodles into photorealistic landscapes using generative adversarial networks, or GANs. The interactive app has been named GauGAN, after the post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. The deep learning model has been trained on a million images. When you draw the shapes of the objects you want, the … [Read more...]
Adobe ‘Good Bones’ Lets You Change Vector Shapes Easily By Adding A Skeleton Structure
When you create artwork in Adobe Illustrator, the underlying geometry of the vector graphics can be quite complex. If you need to change the appearance of your vector figure, you'll need to edit each anchor point individually, which can be quite a task. For example, if you want to open the mouth of a vector dinosaur that you've created, you'll need to tweak each anchor point … [Read more...]
Adobe ‘Fast Mask’ Lets You Quickly Select And Mask Any Moving Object In A Video
In After Effects, if you want to add text or an effect behind an object in a video, you can use the Roto Brush to select the object, and then apply a mask. However, the current Roto Brush is not a very intuitive tool and in most cases the mask breaks after the first frame, specially if the object is fast-moving (like a dancer or a person running). You can spend hours manually … [Read more...]
Top 20 New Features In Photoshop CC 2019
Adobe has released the newest version of Photoshop CC (version 20.0) that comes with exciting new features for designers, photographers, and illustrators. The new Frame Tool lets you easily mask images into placeholders. There's a new Content-Aware Fill workspace that provides you an interactive editing experience with plenty of customizations. There's a Color Wheel that … [Read more...]
Adobe ‘Moving Stills’ Turns Static Images Into 3D Animated Photos And Videos
When you're browsing through old photos do you sometimes wish you could view a video or a 3D animation of the same scene? Although companies like Apple and Samsung let you capture Live Photos or Motion Photos with their mobile devices, those are just flat video recordings taken a few seconds before you click a picture. The images don’t really give you a 3D perspective – … [Read more...]
Adobe Fontphoria Can Capture Text In Images And Convert Them To Fonts
How many times have you wanted to know the name of a font used in a particular design or artwork? In some cases, the letters have been hand-drawn and the font doesn't actually exist. But imagine if there was a technology that could scan the text in an image and create an entire font out of it. Well, Adobe is working on a brilliant new tool called Fontphoria – a glyph … [Read more...]
Incredible Video Shows Artificial Intelligence Creating A Website Just By Looking At The Wireframe
Artificial Intelligence is now being used to create front-end designs from wireframe to HTML code. TeleportHQ, a platform of open-source tools for UI professionals, has released a video demonstrating real-time code generation using TensorFlow machine learning and computer vision image recognition. … [Read more...]
Photoshop’s New, More Powerful ‘Content-Aware Fill’ Can Realistically Remove Any Object From Your Photos
Adobe Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill is a useful tool to remove unwanted objects from your photos, but sometimes the results can fall short and there are no options to customize the results. Well, all that has changed in the latest version of Photoshop CC (20.0). Content-Aware Fill has received a powerful new upgrade that gives the tool its own workspace and additional … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Develops AI That Can Remove Noise, Grain, And Even Watermarks From Photos
Researchers from NVIDIA, Aalto University, and MIT have developed an AI that can remove noise from grainy photos and automatically enhance them. This technology can be beneficial in several real-world situations where it is difficult to obtain clear image data like MRI scans, astronomical imaging, and more. Existing noise-reduction AI systems require both noisy and clean … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Develops A.I. That Can Fix Damaged Photos And Remove Unwanted Objects With Amazing Accuracy
Researchers from American technology company NVIDIA have developed a deep learning method that can reconstruct damaged, corrupted, or partially-erased photos with realistic results. The method performs a process called "image inpainting" that can also be used in photo editing software to remove unwanted objects and fill those areas with realistic computer-generated … [Read more...]
Testing Photoshop’s New ‘Select Subject’ Tool That Lets You Select Objects In Just One Click
To make selections in an image in Photoshop, designers use either the Pen Tool, the Lasso tool, the Quick Select tool, or the Magic Wand. All of these require a certain level of effort. To make life easier for users, Adobe has released a new feature called 'Select Subject' in Photoshop CC 2018 that lets you select objects from plain and complex backgrounds, in just one … [Read more...]
Photoshop’s New ‘Select Subject’ Tool Lets You Select People And Objects In Just One Click
To select people or objects from an image in Photoshop, designers use either the Pen Tool, the Quick Select tool, the Magic Wand, or the Lasso tool. All of these require a certain level of effort. To simplify workflow for users, Adobe has released a new tool called 'Select Subject' in Photoshop CC 2018 that lets you select people or objects from plain or complex backgrounds, … [Read more...]
Adobe Scribbler Is A Powerful Tool That Can Colorize Any Black & White Image Within Seconds
Have you ever wanted to colorize old black and white photos of yourself or your loved ones? The conventional process involves meticulous preliminary research followed by hours and hours of work in Photoshop. Hundreds of layers of color are added and blended together with precision. The physics of how light works also needs to be taken into account. … [Read more...]
Adobe Cloak Is A Powerful Tool That Can Remove Any Object From Your Video
Have you ever wanted to remove unwanted objects or people from a video? The conventional process involves editing each frame individually and then stitching them back together. This process is time-consuming and doesn't generate the required results in most cases. To make life easier for everyone, Adobe is working on a tool called 'Cloak', an Adobe Sensei-driven feature for … [Read more...]
This Artificial Intelligence Can Review Your Logo Design And Provide Feedback For Free
Vancouver-based designer and engineer Jack Qiao has come up with an A.I. system called Logo Rank that critiques your logo design and provides feedback for free. It reviews the logo on a number of parameters such as uniqueness, legibility, color, contrast, and offers tips and ideas to improve your design. … [Read more...]
Google AutoDraw Turns Your Rough Scribbles Into Beautiful Icons For Free
Google's latest A.I. experiment is a web-based drawing tool called AutoDraw that converts your rough scribbles and doodles into beautiful, symmetrical icons/clipart that you can download for free. It works on your phone, computer or tablet and uses artificial intelligence to guess and suggest a more polished icon or symbol to replace your drawing. … [Read more...]
