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Can Adobe lead a new era of image transparency? Their latest 'Content Credentials' feature aims to do just that. Uncover more below!

In today's rundown:

• 🔎 Adobe's Image Transparency Era

• 📱 The Smartphone-Camera Triumph

• 🚗 Ford's Photo-assistant Vehicles

• 🎯 Crafting a Photo Mission Statement

• 🎥 DaVinci's AI Editing Evolution

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🔎 Adobe's New Era of Image Transparency

In a significant step towards content authenticity, Adobe, renowned for its creative software, has introduced a 'Content Credentials' feature across its platforms. Unveiled at Adobe Max 2023, this feature manifests as a 'Cr' icon on images, providing users with comprehensive information about the image's history. On hovering over the icon, users can view details about the image creator, the use of AI tools, the image caption, and the software used in its production. Interestingly, this technology, likened to a nutrition label for images, is open source, enabling non-Adobe users to also authenticate their images.

As the era of generative AI blurs the line between real and deepfake content, Adobe's initiative aims not to detect fake images, but to certify the authentic ones. This method, while enhancing transparency about content creation, offers a significant tool for industries prone to content faking, such as news media, fashion, and politics, among others. As Adobe's 'Content Credentials' aims to establish consumer trust through provenance, it is set to inspire a new wave of transparency in visual storytelling.

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The results from yesterday's poll are below 👇

📱Smartphone vs Camera: A Visual Triumph

In the ongoing debate, "Smartphone vs Camera: The Best Camera is the One You Have With You", the enduring convenience of smartphone cameras is highlighted. While they may lack the lens variety and image quality of mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras (MILCs), their omnipresence, high-quality screens, and ability to shoot discrete, silent photos make them a handy tool especially for street photography. Modern smartphones even offer digital blur backgrounds to mimic shallow depth-of-field lenses, improving each year to deliver dramatic-looking portraits. Furthermore, smartphones are ideal for vlogging due to their compact nature, excellent image stabilization, and connectivity. Despite having smaller sensors, smartphones' ability to merge multiple exposures allows them to deliver excellent dynamic range in certain scenarios.

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🚗 Ford's New Venture: Cars as Photo Aides

Ford Global Technologies has filed a patent to transform Ford vehicles into photography assistants. The system focuses on aiding photo capture operations, with the vehicle executing maneuvers to capture optimal photographs. The technology can slow down the car at photogenic locations and utilize a mounted camera to capture images. Addressing the difficulties of capturing images from a moving vehicle, Ford aims to enhance the role of automobiles in photographers' kits.

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🎯 Crafting Your Photography Mission

Every photography business needs a mission statement to define their brand, focus, offerings, and target audience. It serves as a reflection of values, purpose, and aims, helping others understand what you stand for. A well-crafted mission statement should clearly indicate what you offer, identify your target market, and highlight your unique benefits. Once created, it can be displayed anywhere, from your website to your email signature, reinforcing your business's goals, vision, and mission.

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🎥 DaVinci Resolve 18.6: AI Revolutionizes Editing

DaVinci Resolve 18.6 introduces a slew of AI features designed to simplify complex tasks and streamline visual editing. Using the Neural Engine, these tools include Face Recognition, which sorts footage by identifying individuals, and Object Removal that easily erases unwanted elements. The Smart Reframe feature automatically keeps subjects in frame for both horizontal and vertical videos. Other features like Voice Isolation, Scene Cut Detection, Depth Map, and Face Refinement enhance audio-visual editing, offering noise removal, automatic cut detection, scene depth analysis, and facial feature refinement respectively.

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THAT’S A WRAP

Results from yesterday’s poll

The question: Is Nikon Z8 a game-changer in the world of visual production?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Indeed 📸 (33.3%)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not really ❌ (33.3%)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Undecided 🤔 (33.3%)