Adobe Photoshop has been infused with A.I.

Today’s Breakdown

• Adobe Firefly is now infused even more into photo shop

• A new tool has arrived that wants to use A.I. to produce your horror film

• William Shatner and A.I?

• Prompt of the day: How to get the True Detective look through a single prompt

• AI Training: A brand new free course from Nvidia

• AI Tools including one that helps you remember everything

• Creator Quinn Halleck shows off A.I. Tools as part of the traditional filmmaking and commercial pipeline

• AI Job Board

• Featured Event

I have been thinking a lot about how to approach A.I. and what is going on with it in the world. The best way that I can describe it is that it shouldn’t be overhauling the world and industries as we know it BUT infusing it with tools that help give everyone the superpowers to focus on what their specialty is.

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AI and Photoshop

• Adobe has introduced Firefly Image 3, available today in beta in Photoshop and the Firefly web app. Firefly Image 3 brings significant advancements in photorealistic quality, better understanding of prompts, new levels of detail and variety, and faster creative expression and ideation.

  Key features of Firefly Image 3 include:

  • Higher-quality image generations with better lighting, positioning, attention to detail, and advancements to text display

  • Structure Reference and Style Reference capabilities in the Text to Image module, allowing users to reference images to influence the generated output

  • A new Generative Expand feature in the Generative Fill module, enabling users to change the aspect ratio or size of an original image

  • Better understanding of text prompts and scenes, enabling richer details and accurate text in images

  • Adobe built Firefly for direct integration into workflows customers use every day. Since its initial beta release in March 2023, Firefly has been used to generate over 7 billion images worldwide.

AI and Film Finance

• Unknown Nightmare is a new AI-powered horror film development platform that aims to discover new screenwriters and fund their films through equity crowdfunding. The platform uses patent-pending screenplay analysis software called ProducerScore to evaluate film pitches, but it does not use AI to replace writers, directors, or producers, nor does it generate screenplays.

• The process works as follows:

  • Filmmakers submit a pitch package for an original horror film

  • Unknown Nightmare aims to equity crowdfund $250,000 from industry investors and producers

  • If a package is selected to be produced, the submitting filmmaker retains equity in the film

  • If a package is not selected, the submitting filmmaker still has equity in the film that does get produced

  Unknown Nightmare is an innovative investment production strategy that distinguishes itself from contest-based models by focusing on feature films, where filmmakers have more skin in the game.

AI and Tech News

• Perplexity AI reaches unicorn status with $63m investment and launches secure AI Enterprise search

• William Shatner used AI art cover on new music album

• Meta’s Horizon OS will power VR hardware from Asus, Lenovo and Microsoft

• Google’s DeepMind creates ‘Gecko”, a new standard for testing AI image generators

• GitHub previews Copilot Workspace to turn ideas into software

• Synthesia takes the step into creating ‘expressive avatars’

MidJourney Prompt of the day

A.I. Training

• Nvidia has launched a free self-paced course called GENERATIVE AI EXPLAINED

  • Here you will learn Gen AI concepts and applications, as well as the challenges and opportunities in this field

5 A.I. Tools to keep you ahead of the curve

• Strut combines your notes, docs and writing projects together in collaborative workspaces supported by AI

• Secbrain Harness the power of AI to boost productivity. Save your ideas, videos, journeys, meetings and everything in between

• PlayPlay Create studio-quality videos in minutes for all your global communications needs.

• Interview with AI Create a personalized interview preparation roadmap for the job description you pasted.

• CSM 3D world generation with Common Sense

Featured Creator - Quinn Halleck

• Quinn is a rising creator who is embracing AI as part of his workflow. He crafted this short to experiment with storytelling, an AI pipeline and traditional filmmaking. This video seamlessly blends AI and traditional filmmaking workflows. The narrative highlights cutting-edge AI tools focusing on style transfers and unconventional visuals.

• Cultural Connections

• Behind the Scenes

A.I. and Tech Job Board

• AE.Studio: Product Designer

• Dotdash Meredity: Director AI Sales Strategy

• Meta: Brand Strategist, Augmented Reality

Featured Events

The premier summit where Hollywood's creative minds meet the innovators of AI technology. This event is set to revolutionize how we think about filmmaking and storytelling and demystify Gen AI filmmaking as not just button-pushing but a legitimate production process.

• Thursday, May 16

• 9:00 AM - 10:00 PM

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