Open Q&A with Scott Kelby and Erik Kuna | The Grid Ep 561
Open Q&A with Scott Kelby and Erik Kuna | The Grid Ep 561
This week on The Grid, Scott Kelby and Erik Kuna answer your questions! Topics covered include everything from the new Apple Vision Pro, to generative fill in Photoshop, to photography and other retouching questions. Tune in for another fun filled episode!
New KelbyOne Course: Travel Photography – A Photographer’s Guide to Lisbon with Scott Kelby
Lisbon is the second oldest capital city in Europe, full of stunning locations, palaces, trams, restaurants, museums, and more! Join Scott Kelby and Larry Becker as Scott takes you through his guide to photographing this iconic city. In each lesson Scott shares all the details you need to know to photograph each location from the right angles and optimal time of day. There’s even a PDF you can download to get the list of locations and where to find them. Scott wraps up the class with a list of highly recommended places to eat while you are there. After watching this class you’ll definitely want to add Lisbon, Portugal to your list of places to photograph!
Guest Blog: Portrait & Headshot Photographer Peter Hurley
Editor’s Note: As someone who is not ambifacial, I was recently reminded of this 2019 post from the headshot master, Peter Hurley, when looking through some photos of myself. Are you one of the rare people who is ambifacial? Check out this video and find out!
Are You Ambifacial?
As humans, we all know that we are quite unique with each of us having traits like no other. As portrait photographers, it’s our duty to bring the best out of whomever steps foot in front of our lens.
Our brains should be assessing their features while actively directing them toward what we deem as the most photogenic angle of their face. Each and every one one of us has a sweet spot, and it’s your job to find it for your subject’s.
Although a rare few may be ambifacial, most are not, and being able to figure this out correctly is imperative to make the most out of any portrait session. Here are some of my favorite tips to help you implement that process not only in your own work, but to figure out your own best side as well.
You can see more of Peter’s work at PeterHurley.com, and keep up with him on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. You can also join the Headshot Crew and learn from him and his ever growing group of associates!
The state of reality
It’s #TravelTuesday and I, Dave Williams, am here as always with a little something from the world of photography. This week I’d like to share some little bits and pieces about Adobe Photoshop’s new Generative Fill.
If you have no clue what I’m taking about already, I can only imagine you’ve been living under a rock. Check out this video to get fully up to speed with what 2023 is giving us right now.
OK, here are some of the top tips on Generative Fill that are rolling around the internet now we’ve all had a chance to play around it all the buttons and try our hardest to break it.
Top of the list is fingers and thumbs. Just like earlier iterations of other AI models and platforms, hands are a problem. Have you ever tried to google, “AI handshake”? If not, do it right now. Hands are complicated and whilst the Firefly model is training, it’s not giving us great hands. The same also goes for eyes, faces, words, even things like airplanes. When you type in your command, be aware that the AI is building your image by sticking pixels together in an abstract way, refining the overall look of the object until it meets with what you typed. That doesn’t help when you don’t get the result you want, but it goes a long way to explaining why you see an abstract mess now and then. In short, avoid hands!
Next up – nouns and adjectives. Try not to be too smart with the command text box. Keep it simple and use nouns. For example, don’t say ‘make it bigger.’ Instead, use a noun. Use an adjective. For example, “red car.” Perfect. Firefly will give you various versions of a red car. Keep it simple.
Selections are up next. If you get a poor result, maybe you made a poor selection. Your AI component will not go outside of your selected area, and every single pixel inside your selected area is in play to be transformed into something else. Remember this and be careful when you make a selection to ensure you have selected wisely. Your selection will define the object or edit, and hint at the size and shape.
Finally, typing nothing is often the best idea. When it comes to expanding images in particular, leaving the box blank and allowing Firefly to work things out by itself can give us great results.
This was originally a landscape orientation photo. The top and bottom have been filled in with Generative AI, leaving the text box blank to allow Firefly to figure things out for itself.
I hope you’re having a great time with Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop! Times are changing and the future is approaching fast!
Much love
Dave
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