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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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Scene Referred vs Display Referred color workflows
Display Referred it is tied to the target hardware, as such it bakes color requirements into every type of media output request.
Scene Referred uses a common unified wide gamut and targeting audience through CDL and DI libraries instead.
So that color information stays untouched and only “transformed” as/when needed.
Sources:
– Victor Perez – Color Management Fundamentals & ACES Workflows in Nuke
– https://z-fx.nl/ColorspACES.pdf
– Wicus
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Pattern generators
http://qrohlf.com/trianglify-generator/
https://halftonepro.com/app/polygons#
https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/generative-art-with-nodejs-and-canvas
https://www.patterncooler.com/
http://permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
https://dribbble.com/shots/1847313-Kaleidoscope-Generator-PSD
http://eskimoblood.github.io/gerstnerizer/
http://www.stripegenerator.com/
http://btmills.github.io/geopattern/geopattern.html
http://fractalarchitect.net/FA4-Random-Generator.html
https://sciencevsmagic.net/fractal/#0605,0000,3,2,0,1,2
https://sites.google.com/site/mandelbulber/home
