When editing photos, one of the first things you'll want to do is "fix" the skin of your subjects. I've fumbled around with this for years. I use almost exclusively open source tools like GIMP for my work, which while extremely powerful, often lack most of those automatic tools and niceties present in paid products like Photoshop. So I'll share my method, which I adopted from this YouTube video.
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In the spirit of full disclosure, the content of this post is heavily cribbed from this post on Reddit. However, as we've seen, the Internet…
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We're living through a weird moment. AI is the new "thing." And not in just one industry, in pretty much every industry. AI has been percolating in the background for years at the periphery of public consciousness, and suddenly, well... ChatGPT set the record for the fastest growing user base. Diffusion models are also having a moment. And like with all things that have their moment, there are those that don't quite understand just what they're looking at. And this might not be the take you're expecting.
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I've been running some version of this blog/website since I was in college when I first bought the jordanwages.com domain name. I recently changed how I host it, so it is probably closer in structure to its original conception than for most of its life to this point.
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Note: This post is taken from my reddit post. You might find the comments there helpful if this post isn't. I recently noticed that a…
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Blender is one of the coolest pieces of open source software available because it puts a professional full production workflow in your hands for 3D…
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