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Let’s be honest. AI has totally changed how people make and tweak visuals. Stuff that used to need serious photo-editing skills? More and more, plain-language instructions can handle it.
No manually selecting objects. No fiddling with layers. No rebuilding backgrounds piece by piece. You just describe the change you want. Then the AI creates or edits the image for you. Pretty wild, right? [Read more…]
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Folks often ask me what they need to look for when they go shopping for a new computer.
In a nutshell, they want to buy the best machine they can get without spending any more than they have to.
In some ways trying to find the right computer is a lot like shopping for a new car. There are always dozens of “current models” to choose from, and they tend to look a whole lot alike.
Introduction
Image editing’s changed a lot over the past decade. It used to mean getting comfortable with layers, masks, selections, color adjustments, and a whole pile of other technical controls.
Those tools still matter for professional designers, but AI’s making a lot of editing tasks far more approachable — you can describe a change in plain language or use simpler controls instead. [Read more…]