Don Sutherland's articles with the keyword: artificial intelligence

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 rapidly becoming a creative partner in magazine design and graphic art, giving more people access to capabilities once limited to professional studios. A well-constructed prompt can guide the system through the same early decisions a designer would make: gathering the title, article, pull quote, and photographs; establishing a visual hierarchy; and defining the intended tone. In the example prompt, the AI is not simply told to “make a page.” It is given a discipli…

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…