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Change to Adobe terms & conditions outrages many professionals
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/06/change-to-adobe-terms-amp-conditions
The terms say:
Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content. For example, we may sublicense our right to the Content to our service providers or to other users to allow the Services and Software to operate with others, such as enabling you to share photos
Designer Wetterschneider, who counts DC Comics and Nike among his clients, was one of the graphics pros to object to the terms.
Here it is. If you are a professional, if you are under NDA with your clients, if you are a creative, a lawyer, a doctor or anyone who works with proprietary files – it is time to cancel Adobe, delete all the apps and programs. Adobe can not be trusted.
Movie director Duncan Jones was equally blunt in his response.
Hey @Photoshop what the hell was that new agreement you forced us to sign this morning that locked our ap until we agree to it? We are working on a bloody movie here, and NO, you don’t suddenly have the right to any of the work we are doing on it because we pay you to use photoshop. What the f**k?!
Should you ditch Photoshop with immediate effect?
https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/should-you-ditch-photoshop-with-immediate-effect/
Adobe’s response
Adobe is not claiming ownership over the content you create in Photoshop. Likewise, it will not use customer content to train its Firefly generative AI model.
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Ashton Kutcher Says Soon ‘You’ll Be Able to Render a Whole Movie’ Using AI
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/ashton-kutcher-ai-movies-sora-hollywood-1236027196/
“I have a beta version of it and it’s pretty amazing,” Kutcher said of the platform in a recent conversation with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Berggruen Salon in Los Angeles.
“Why would you go out and shoot an establishing shot of a house in a television show when you could just create the establishing shot for $100? To go out and shoot it would cost you thousands of dollars,” Kutcher said. “Action scenes of me jumping off of this building, you don’t have to have a stunt person go do it, you could just go do it [with AI].
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Managing Motivation, as a Solo Developer
https://mbuffett.com/posts/maintaining-motivation
- External Triggers: Utilize notifications for new subscribers or feedback.
- Task Management: Leave tasks 90% complete to facilitate easy restarts.
- Product Use: Regularly use your own product to identify improvements.
- Pain Point Solutions: Continuously improve processes to address pain points.
- Breaks: Take regular breaks to prevent burnout.
- User Updates: Keep users informed about progress.
- Accountability Partners: Collaborate with someone to maintain accountability.
- Daily Productivity: Ensure no “zero days” of productivity.
- Flexible Work Hours: Work whenever motivation strikes, even at unconventional hours.
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Adobe scolded for selling ‘Ansel Adams-style’ images generated by AI
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170285/adobe-stock-ansel-adams-style-ai-generated-images
Adobe responded to the callout, saying it had removed the offending content and had privately messaged the Adams estate to get in touch directly in the future. The Adams estate, however, said it had contacted Adobe directly multiple times since August 2023.
“Assuming you want to be taken seriously re: your purported commitment to ethical, responsible AI, while demonstrating respect for the creative community, we invite you to become proactive about complaints like ours, & to stop putting the onus on individual artists/artists’ estates to continuously police our IP on your platform, on your terms,” said the Adams estate on Threads. “It’s past time to stop wasting resources that don’t belong to you.”
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Python – The Black code style formatting
https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/the_black_code_style/current_style.html
The Black code style guide emphasizes consistency, readability, and minimizing diffs in Python code. Key formatting rules include ignoring previous formatting, preferring double quotes, adding trailing commas, and wrapping lines to fit within 88 characters. Black standardizes whitespace usage, avoids unnecessary vertical space, and ensures uniform handling of parentheses, comments, and numeric literals. The formatter also aligns with PEP 8 and PEP 257 standards, and provides options to adjust line length and skip string normalization for specific projects.
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IPAdapter – Text Compatible Image Prompt Adapter for Text-to-Image Image-to-Image Diffusion Models and ComfyUI implementation
github.com/tencent-ailab/IP-Adapter
The IPAdapter are very powerful models for image-to-image conditioning. The subject or even just the style of the reference image(s) can be easily transferred to a generation. Think of it as a 1-image lora. They are an effective and lightweight adapter to achieve image prompt capability for the pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models. An IP-Adapter with only 22M parameters can achieve comparable or even better performance to a fine-tuned image prompt model.
Once the IP-Adapter is trained, it can be directly reusable on custom models fine-tuned from the same base model.The IP-Adapter is fully compatible with existing controllable tools, e.g., ControlNet and T2I-Adapter.
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The Public Domain Is Working Again — No Thanks To Disney
www.cartoonbrew.com/law/the-public-domain-is-working-again-no-thanks-to-disney-169658.html
The law protects new works from unauthorized copying while allowing artists free rein on older works.
The Copyright Act of 1909 used to govern copyrights. Under that law, a creator had a copyright on his creation for 28 years from “publication,” which could then be renewed for another 28 years. Thus, after 56 years, a work would enter the public domain.
However, the Congress passed the Copyright Act of 1976, extending copyright protection for works made for hire to 75 years from publication.
Then again, in 1998, Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (derided as the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act” by some observers due to the Walt Disney Company’s intensive lobbying efforts), which added another twenty years to the term of copyright.
it is because Snow White was in the public domain that it was chosen to be Disney’s first animated feature.
Ironically, much of Disney’s legislative lobbying over the last several decades has been focused on preventing this same opportunity to other artists and filmmakers.The battle in the coming years will be to prevent further extensions to copyright law that benefit corporations at the expense of creators and society as a whole.
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Free fonts
https://fontlibrary.org
https://fontsource.orgOpen-source fonts packaged into individual NPM packages for self-hosting in web applications. Self-hosting fonts can significantly improve website performance, remain version-locked, work offline, and offer more privacy.
https://www.awwwards.com/awwwards/collections/free-fonts
http://www.fontspace.com/popular/fonts
https://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm
http://www.1001fonts.com/poster-fonts.html
How to use @font-face in CSS
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@font-facerule allows custom fonts to be loaded on a webpage: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/using-font-face-in-css/
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GretagMacbeth Color Checker Numeric Values and Middle Gray
The human eye perceives half scene brightness not as the linear 50% of the present energy (linear nature values) but as 18% of the overall brightness. We are biased to perceive more information in the dark and contrast areas. A Macbeth chart helps with calibrating back into a photographic capture into this “human perspective” of the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_gray
In photography, painting, and other visual arts, middle gray or middle grey is a tone that is perceptually about halfway between black and white on a lightness scale in photography and printing, it is typically defined as 18% reflectance in visible light
Light meters, cameras, and pictures are often calibrated using an 18% gray card[4][5][6] or a color reference card such as a ColorChecker. On the assumption that 18% is similar to the average reflectance of a scene, a grey card can be used to estimate the required exposure of the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorChecker
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