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2022 - 10 - 7

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Can This Software Really Edit Thousands of Images Better Than a ... (Fstoppers)

All of us have spent hours editing a shoot or if you're like me, procrastinating editing that shoot. Spending less time editing and more time shooting is ...

Not only was it able to accurately edit images, but also replicate the individual style of each photographer. They were created from tens, if not hundreds of thousands of images edited by some of the most known photographers in the industry. But a preset is “dumb.” It will simply apply a look to your image, and it won’t consider the contents of that image. [Imagen](https://www.imagen-ai.com/?utm_source=FStoppers&utm_campaign=Article_Oct22&utm_content=BetterEdit), however, this is no longer an issue, as it can replicate whatever your style is and fix the image for you. Knowing that I already edited it myself, I was very interested in seeing how different it would be from what I did. Imagen is AI-enabled software that allows you to edit images with never-seen-before speed and reliability. To do this, I first took 5,000 images that I already edited and put them into one Lightroom catalog. This comes through in how I compose images, how I light, and ultimately, how I edit my work. The cost of such endeavors would simply be hard to justify. This is great if your images don’t change, but if you’re editing a wedding or an event where the setting changes all the time, a preset won’t be too helpful. The only preset you need to have to be a great photographer is your style. Spending less time editing and more time shooting is what most of us ultimately want.

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Images: Partners Come Together at ScanSource Channel Connect (Channel Futures)

ScanSource resellers, Intelisys agents and hybrid partners galore gathered in Nashville this week at the Channel Connect conference.

For a more heady discussion of the topics ScanSource executives and partners presented this week, check out our The company engaged partners on its vision for a sales model that meet no customer technology needs unmet. ScanSource, the distributor that is pushing to converge the agent/cloud and VAR/hardware worlds, treated partners and suppliers to a week of education, training and networking.

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Image courtesy of "Vinography"

Vinography Images: Lines of Light : Vinography (Vinography)

Photographer George Rose captures lines of light at Gallo's Two Rock vineyard in Cotati, Sonoma County.

These images are not to be reposted on any website or blog without the express permission of the photographer Mac users can also just click the image to open the full-size view and drag that to their desktops. Gallo owns more than 20,000 acres of vineyards in California, and many recent additions to their portfolio have been more premium coastal vineyards.

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Artist's AI images of much-missed icons are surprisingly moving (Creative Bloq)

From Freddie Mercury to Amy Winehouse, this is how late celebs might look today.

And on the image of River Phoenix with his brother Joaquín, one person wrote: "This one hits hard. One person commented on the image of Amy Winehouse: "It’s done so well she’s like not aged at all. He uses a multi-stage process employing several software programs to do it, including the AI-driven photo enhancer Remini and the popular photo editing tool Many people are amazed at the results of his process, but some question how realistically he's captured how old each star would look today. Not even worth it anymore to die young," someone else suggested. We've seen all kinds of incredible creative content produced using AI image generation in recent months, from photo-realistic portraits of people who don't exist to surreal genre mashups.

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Google Distroless Images Achieve SLSA Level 2 (InfoQ.com)

Google announced that their distroless builds meet level 2 of the Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA). Level 2 requires that the build process ...

[Tekton Pipelines](https://github.com/tektoncd/) and [Tekton Chains](https://github.com/tektoncd/chains) in a [Google Kubernetes Engine](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine) (GKE) cluster to automate the building of images and provenance generation. [Aqua Security report](https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/01/aqua-security-supply-chain) found a 300% increase in supply chain attacks from 2020 to 2021. The recent [Google 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps report](https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/google-devops-2022/?itm_source=presentations_about_software-supply-chain&itm_medium=link&itm_campaign=software-supply-chain) focused its analysis on how organizations are securing their software supply chain. [Chainguard](https://www.chainguard.dev/) recently moved their undistro image, Wolfi, into [general availability](https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/09/wolfi-supply-chain/?itm_source=presentations_about_software-supply-chain&itm_medium=link&itm_campaign=software-supply-chain). A record of the provenance is also stored in the [rekor](https://github.com/sigstore/rekor) transparency log. Each time a PR is merged to the distroless [GitHub repo](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless), the Tekton Pipeline is triggered building the image. Google previously released a [proof of concept GitHub Action](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/slsa-build-provenance-action-demo) that demonstrates producing provenance in compliance with SLSA level 1. Verifying the attestation for a distroless image can be done with cosign and the distroless public key: [busybox shell](https://busybox.net/)for debugging purposes. To achieve SLSA level 2 the team implemented a number of improvements related to the build pipeline for these distroless images. This improves on their [previous release](https://security.googleblog.com/2021/05/making-internet-more-secure-one-signed.html) which saw all images being signed with [cosign](https://github.com/sigstore/cosign). The smallest of the distroless images is less than 50% of the equivalent

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Hateful Images, Messages Sent To Westwood Regional Students ... (Pascack Valley Daily Voice)

An underage saboteur used the online account of a Westwood Regional High School student to email hateful messages to most of the victim's classmates – among ...

“We are sensitive to the impact this painful event has had on our student body and the WWRSD community as a whole,” Mortimer wrote. “Once we are given clearance by the [p]olice [d]epartment, we will conduct an investigation to determine whether any violations of WWRSD policies occurred. Jill Mortimer wrote in a message to parents and staff members.

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Why Silicon Valley is so excited about awkward drawings done by ... (CNBC)

Why Silicon Valley is so excited about awkward drawings done by artificial intelligence ... Computer programs can now create never-before-seen images in seconds.

[Guides have popped up on Reddit and Discord](https://strikingloo.github.io/stable-diffusion-vs-dalle-2) describing tricks that people have discovered to dial in the kind of picture they want. Still, he warns that this moment in generative AI might end up being a "curiosity phase" closer to the peak of a hype cycle. [Lexica](https://lexica.art/?q=cdb52321-1abd-4809-8317-6ba971436401) catalogs Stable Diffusion images and the exact string of words that can be used to generate them. Some images generated by Stable Diffusion seem to have watermarks, suggesting that a part of the original datasets were copyrighted. Some investors are looking at generative AI as a potentially transformative platform shift, like the smartphone or the early days of the web. That has inspired users to tweak the program's code for their own purposes, or build on top of it. Artists tell him they use it in myriad ways that he couldn't have anticipated, such as animating Godzilla or creating pictures of Spider-Man in any pose the artist could imagine. "The impressive part, even for me, is that it's able to compose new stuff," said Boris Dayma, creator of the Craiyon generative AI. They usually have two main parts, one that processes the initial phrase, and the second that turns that data into an image. Deep learning uses models trained on large sets of data until the program understands relationships in that data. The VC firm predicts that generative AI could change every industry that requires humans to create original work, from gaming to advertising to law. [extra fingers](https://twitter.com/weirddalle/status/1566709350344835072) or digits that bend and curve unnaturally.

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The dogs of October in images (Yahoo Sports)

The weather is starting to change, which comes as a treat for the four-legged friends— dogs love the cooler weather! Yep, they will be having fun in the autumn ...

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How To Resize Images in GIMP (Tom's Hardware)

From holiday photos, to billboard sized posters, GIMP has the power to make your art as small or as large as you require.

As you increase the size of an image the number of pixels in any given area becomes less as they spread out, this means that if you drastically increase the size of an image you will see the quality of the image decline. You’ll notice that if you have the lock icon selected in the scale tool dialogue that you maintain the aspect ratio of the image and that the new dimensions of the image are updated in the relevant input boxes. Left click and drag on the handles around the image to interactively scale the image. These are just the tip of the iceberg of GIMP capabilities but they are a good set of tools to learn increasing your confidence as you explore this excellent application. This will automatically reduce the canvas to fit your reduced size image. Use X and Y resolution and click Scale to set the image resolution. The scale tool selects the currently active layer, or any area you have selected and scales it in a similar manner to Scale Image. The scale tool is particularly of use when scaling an image on a separate layer. Using Scale Image we can precisely set the image size in a number of units (percentage, pixels, mm, inches etc) and set the image resolution, essential for images set to be rendered on screen or print. Change the size of the image by setting the width and height. It’s useful therefore if you have worked on a larger design image and then need to scale it to a specific size for a web application or other size critical use. It’s an incredibly fully featured image editor with powerful tools to make the best of your graphics and photographs.

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How To Resize GIMP Images Resize Images! - Game News 24 (Game News 24)

GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP is an amazing software that was created and maintained by a dedicated volunteer group. This tool is full of useful.

This method allows you to control the size and resolution of your images and designs, by having the above techniques. To change the size of the canvas, click on Image and choose Add Crop to Content. Right click and drag on the handles of the image in order to scale the image to one’s fullest. As the size of an image increases, the number of pixels in any given area increases, but the quality of the image becomes diminished when the pixels spread out. If you used the scale tool to increase your image size, it will show that it’s partially obscured – it doesn’t fit onto the original canvas. Youll notice that the relevant input boxes have updated the full dimensions of the image while you have the lock icon selected in the scale tool dialog. Set the size you want and turn the scale on. Use X and Y resolutions and click ‘Screen’ to set the resolution of your image. The easiest way to resize an image in GIMP is to use the scale function. The scale tool is particularly useful when it comes to scaling an image in a separate layer. The scale tool finds the currently active layer, or any area you have chosen and scales it in the same way as the scale image. The GIMPs Scale Image feature fits all of the images in the canvas, no matter which layer is more dimensional, so your image layer and your logos on layers above the background are very different, and all these layers will be scaled accordingly.

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