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...]
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...]
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...]
This Brilliant Free Tool Can Remove The Background From Your Photo In Five Seconds
AI photo filter maker Kaleido has come up with a powerful online tool called Remove.bg that erases the background from any image in five seconds or less, and gives you a transparent PNG of the person/people in the image. It works 100% automatically, you don't have to mark the person or select the background and foreground layers manually. Just upload your image or enter its … [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...]
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...]
This Brilliant Free Tool Is Like Google Search For Colors
Swedish digital studio Future Memories has launched an excellent tool called Picular that lets you search for colors by keyword and displays a range of colors based on the top 20 Google Image search results for that keyword. For example, if you search for ‘ocean’, Picular analyzes the top 20 Google Images for ‘ocean’ and displays the most prominent color in each image and … [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...]
Cheap A.I. Removes Superman’s Moustache Better Than Warner Bros’ $25 Million Job
If you've watched the Justice League movie, you'll remember how Superman's face looked like a potato sack in some scenes. That's because Warner Bros. did a shoddy job of removing Henry Cavill's moustache digitally and they reportedly spent $25 million on the CGI. Cavill couldn't shave it off due to contract obligations with Paramount's Mission Impossible: 6. Now, the Deep … [Read more...]
Telecom Company Transforms Human Voices Into Unique Chocolates For Loved Ones
In the last 15 years, voice communication traffic has fallen by approximately 50%, primarily due to the impact of messaging apps. NTT Docomo, Japan's largest mobile phone operator, wanted to remind people of the emotional importance of voice communication in any relationship. … [Read more...]
Designer Turns Popular Gadgets Into Letters Of The Alphabet, And They’re Pure Awesome
Brazilian designer Vinicius Araújo has come up with an exceptional typography project which showcases the letters of the alphabet in the shape of well-known gadgets, based on their initials. For example, the letter 'J' has been designed to look like a JBL speaker. The letter 'C' is based on the industrial design of a Canon Camera. The letter ‘L’ has been created using an LG … [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. The A.I. system is trained on a million+ logo images and can also be … [Read more...]
Google Creates Algorithm That Removes Watermarks From Stock Photos
Watermarks are used to mark and protect the copyright of millions of images on the web. They are extensively used by stock image services in their image previews and are usually added with low opacity so that the image content is still visible. Removing a watermark from a single image can be extremely challenging specially if the background is complex. … [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...]
What Is SSL And Why Every Website Will Need It In 2017
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser to avoid interception by hackers. Encryption means to convert information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorized access. A website that uses SSL encryption has a padlock next to their domain name in the browser's address bar (like … [Read more...]
Funny Posters Dedicated To Our Friendship With Our Favourite Software
Good friends know each other inside out and make life easier for each other. With Friendship Day around the corner, Mumbai-based digital agency Pixel Fox Studios thought of paying tribute to the work buddy we all have - software. They've created a series of posters dedicated to the friendship between different types of professionals and their most used softwares. What's also … [Read more...]
This Incredible Drawing Pen Transmits Electricity On Paper With Its Special Silver Ink
Tokyo-based startup AgIC has invented a marker pen that transmits electricity on paper using a conductive silver ink. Place an LED light and a battery on glossy photo paper and draw a line of any shape to connect the two. The light comes on as the silver ink conducts electricity between the LED and the battery. … [Read more...]
Beautiful 3D Animations Of ’90s Gadgets Made With Cinema 4D, After Effects And Photoshop
Step into nostalgia with these gorgeous isometric animations of '90s electronic items from French illustrator and animator Guillaume Kurkdjian. Made using Cinema 4D, V-Ray, After Effects and Photoshop, Kurkdjian has managed to replicate every tiny detail of these technological milestones including the 'bounce' of their open/close mechanisms. The use of material design and … [Read more...]
This Guy Has Invented A Scarf That Can Make You Invisible In Photos
28-year-old London-based fashion entrepreneur Saif Siddiqui has invented a scarf that makes it impossible for photographers to take a picture of the wearer with the flash on. Called ISHU, the scarf is made of a special fabric that contains thousands of nano-spherical crystals that reflect the flash light back into the camera, resulting in pictures and videos where the wearer … [Read more...]
Cool Magazine Ad From Porsche Brings Their Car To Life As A 3D Hologram
To promote the new 911, Porsche has come up with a cool print + digital integration in about 50,000 copies of Fast Company's April issue. Targeted primarily at affluent subscribers, the four-page spread includes an acetate prism with instructions for using it. Once assembled, users need to log on to 911hologram.com and place the prism upon the tablet. The 911 comes to life in a … [Read more...]
Reebok Billboard Gives You A Free Pair Of Sneakers If You Can Run Past it Fast Enough
How fast can you run? Last weekend, Reebok set up a cool billboard in Stockholm with a built-in speed camera that measured how fast pedestrians jogged (or ran) past it. Anyone who ran faster than 17 kilometres per hour (10.56 miles per hour) unlocked a pair of Reebok ZPumps. Watch the stunt in action below. … [Read more...]
