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Captura is the new name for volume photography leader ImageQuix, Fotomerchant, and more Marketing News 

Captura is the new name for volume photography leader ImageQuix, Fotomerchant, and more

The company formerly known as ImageQuix – which through years of various acquisitions acquired numerous brands under the ImageQuix, PhotoLynx, Skylab, Fotomerchant, and Simplephoto labels – has consolidated under a unified brand: Captura. In a press release, the company said this “new name reflects our unified commitment to empowering our customers to Make more—more revenue, more impact, more time—by bringing... Read More
Lightricks’ LTX Studio, the AI visual storytelling platform, now open to all Updates 

Lightricks’ LTX Studio, the AI visual storytelling platform, now open to all

Lightricks, the creators of Facetune and Photoleap, launched LTX Studio, an AI-driven storyboarding and prototyping platform for film and marketing professionals. The platform offers real-time generative and editing solutions, enhanced collaboration tools, and advanced control over character and frame creation. LTX Studio aims to revolutionize visual storytelling with AI, supporting diverse creative needs. Read More
Retouch4me Photoshop Panel automates photo editing in the cloud New Products Updates 

Retouch4me Photoshop Panel automates photo editing in the cloud

Retouch4me announced an upgrade for its Photoshop Panel, offering an interface to select between two retouching options. The first enables image editing using the installed Retouch4me plugins on the user’s device and the second option allows for retouching with all the plugins available in the cloud. The latter method sends back the AI processing to the user in layers. This... Read More
Freepik announces Freepik Reimagine AI image-to-image solution New Products 

Freepik announces Freepik Reimagine AI image-to-image solution

Freepik launched Freepik Reimagine, an AI image-to-image solution. Freepik’s offering lets users upload a picture and instantly receive a unique and exclusive prompt, based on the image content. With this prompt, users can easily interact with the image and make changes. Freepik Reimagine has real-time functionality, with infinite prompt scroll-down capabilities, and predefined styles to accelerate the creative process. Freepik... Read More
Adobe adds generative AI to Adobe Premiere News Updates 

Adobe adds generative AI to Adobe Premiere

Adobe previewed generative AI innovations within Adobe Premiere Pro, at NAB 2024. The company said these new editing workflows will be powered by a new video model that will join the family of Firefly models including Image, Vector, Design, and Text Effects. Adobe is continuing to develop Firefly AI models in the categories where it has deep domain expertise, such... Read More
Marissa Meyer’s Sunshine company launches Shine, an AI photo sharing app New Products 

Marissa Meyer’s Sunshine company launches Shine, an AI photo sharing app

Sunshine Products Inc, the startup begun by Yahoo alums Marissa Meyer and Enrique Muñoz Torres to automate “mundane” tasks, has launched an IOS photo-sharing app called Shine. The app is designed to make easy the process of sharing group photos from events. Shine creates shared albums, to which users and others can add photos in their original resolution. When “Manual Mode” is... Read More
Mixbook’s Photobook Evolution and AI Journey, with Andrew Laffoon Podcasts 

Mixbook’s Photobook Evolution and AI Journey, with Andrew Laffoon

Join the celebration as we hit 150 episodes! This time, Gary Pageau talks with long-time Dead Pixels Society member Andrew Laffoon, CEO and co-founder of Mixbook. Listen to the story of Mixbook’s transformation from a simple yearbook concept to a pioneering force in photobook storytelling. Laffoon shares the story of how the company continually adapted to the seismic shifts in photo printing technology, from the boom... Read More
Adobe previews AI-powered object-aware editing New Products 

Adobe previews AI-powered object-aware editing

At Adobe Max, Adobe Inc. unveiled Project Stardust, a new object-aware editing engine using generative AI to edit images, and its latest early-stage innovations, highlighting exciting new uses of generative AI and 3D technologies across multiple creative domains, including photo, video, audio, 3D, design and fashion applications. The 11 inventions are featured in Adobe’s annual “Sneaks” showcase, where Adobe engineers... Read More
The Impact of Generative AI on the Imaging Industry with Hans Hartman, Visual1st Events Podcasts 

The Impact of Generative AI on the Imaging Industry with Hans Hartman, Visual1st

Want to unravel the mysteries of Generative AI and its impact on the imaging industry? In this episode of the Dead Pixels Society podcast, Gary Pageau interviews expert, Hans Hartman, the chairman of Visual1st. Discover the transformative difference between Generative AI and traditional AI, and how AI can generate media from simple prompts. Hartman also ventures into the complex arena... Read More
Court upholds AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted News 

Court upholds AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted

Reuters reports a U.S. court judge in Washington, D.C. ruled a work of art created by artificial intelligence without any human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law. Only works with human authors can receive copyrights, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said, affirming the Copyright Office’s rejection of an application filed by computer scientist Stephen Thaler on behalf of his DABUS... Read More
Artificial Intelligence and its Impact Across Industries: A Talk with Manuj Aggarwal Podcasts 

Artificial Intelligence and its Impact Across Industries: A Talk with Manuj Aggarwal

If you’ve ever pondered the meeting point of artificial intelligence and human creativity, this podcast episode is a feast for your thoughts. Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society is joined by Manuj Aggarwal, the inspiring founder of TetraNoodle Technologies, whose journey from a small Indian town to the forefront of Canadian tech entrepreneurship is remarkable. Aggarwal’s fascination with computers and technology,... Read More
Masterpiece AI from Printbox adds text-to-image art generation tech New Products 

Masterpiece AI from Printbox adds text-to-image art generation tech

Printbox launched Masterpiece AI, which seamlessly connects text-to-image generation with creating new revenue streams for printing, e-commerce, and retail businesses. Masterpiece AI is a specialized tool utilizing AI text-to-image generation to produce images. What sets it apart from other products on the market is its outstanding UX and the adaptation of the generated art pieces to all printing requirements, the... Read More
Expanding AI technology in photo apps, with Timur Khabirov, Prequel News Podcasts 

Expanding AI technology in photo apps, with Timur Khabirov, Prequel

Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talked with Timur Khabirov, co-founder and CEO of Prequel, the mobile photo and video editing platform. In this interview, Khabirov talked about the history of the popular app, the philosophy that is driving its growth, and the potential for AI-driven photo and video content. Founded in 2018 by Khabirov and Serge Aliseenko, Prequel has... Read More
AI-powered video-editing startup Capsule raises $4.75 million seed Investments 

AI-powered video-editing startup Capsule raises $4.75 million seed

AI-powered video-editing startup Capsule announced it raised $4.75 million in a seed round, brining the total funding to $6.75 million. The round comes on the heels of the recent beta launch of the generative AI-powered video editor. The company will use the investment to make key hires in engineering, product design, marketing, and to rapidly commercialize the product. Investing in this round... Read More