Keyword: AI

Autochrome Lumière photographs were among the earliest commercially successful forms of color photography. The process was patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and marketed in 1907. The process used a glass plate coated with microscopic grains of dyed potato starch that acted as a color screen. The resulting images were known for their delicate, luminous hues, gentle softness, muted contrast, and subtle pointillist texture, giving landscapes, portraits, and everyday scenes an almost dreamlik…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can serve as a creative partner that helps people turn personal photographs, ideas, and preferences into polished stationery, notecards, thank-you cards, and other paper goods. A person provides the meaning and direction: the photographs to use, the occasion, the desired mood, the wording, and the details that must remain unchanged. AI can then assist with composition, typography, color coordination, image fading, cropping, spacing, and print-safe placement. It can q…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing photography from a process centered mainly on capturing an image into one that also includes intelligent reconstruction, refinement, interpretation, and creative transformation. AI tools can reduce noise, restore damaged photographs, correct lighting, remove distractions, expand backgrounds, improve resolution, and combine images in ways that once required advanced technical skill. AI has expanded creative possibilities. These possibilities include pan…

Technological innovation occurs at the confluence of knowledge and imagination. Technology then shrinks, merges, and often reappears inside something more powerful. Devices that once dominated homes, offices, and studios fade when their functions are absorbed by smaller, cheaper, more capable systems. Television moved from bulky furniture built around broadcast programming to thin, networked screens connected to streaming, gaming, video calls, apps, and on-demand entertainment. Computers foll…

Now I’m retired, I’ve started thinking about where I spend my money, and with the current state of the world, how much of it I want to give to huge companies and their billionaire owners. I’ve been a paid member of Flickr since 2008, and with my annual renewal coming up I had a look round for alternatives.

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Seasons Greetings! With the coming change of season we are reminded that we are a global community. We are happy that here on our website we are able to enjoy, both the cold low winter light and the brightness of hot summer. What a pleasure to share these moments with each other. We are thankful for this community which shows us how varied our world is. Peace be with you. 1) Statement from our Club President about AI images. We've notice…