Microsoft is taking its superb AI art / visual designer tool, Microsoft Designer, and opening it up to the general public today. The company is also publicizing its intelligent features: AI-generated captions and hashtags, new image formatting for social media, and AI-powered editing tools. We called Microsoft Designer nearly an AI masterpiece when we went hands-on with the tool several months ago, and now you have a chance to try it out for yourself, too. While Designer doesn’t fall into the category of the best AI art generator tools, it stands nearly alone with Canva and Adobe’s design tools as a way to develop a holistic design from the ground up. You can try Microsoft Designer here. Designer starts with an image, either one you supply or one it can generate via the AI art tools found within Bing Image Creator. The magic is that it either can generate the image from your description of the image or the event: you can ask it to generate a baseball for a meetup at an Oakland A’s game, but Microsoft Designer is intelligent enough to take “Let’s meet up at the A’s game” and generate layouts that involve baseball imagery. You can then work with the text, changing the font and so on, to create the final design. Starting out with Microsoft Designer begins with a text prompt.Mark Hachman / IDG What Designer has lacked, though, are some of the more advanced design tools that competitors offer. Designer includes templates, but nothing specific to the end... Continue reading at 'PC World'
[ PC World | 2023-04-27 17:06:28 UTC ]
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Publishers looking to give readers more control and information about their articles have discovered the article progress bar. The feature, which lets readers know how much of an article they've read, is a preferred tactic for the likes of Bloomberg and The Daily Beast but divisive among... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones Piccadilly will later this month host a midnight opening to mark the publication of Terry Pratchett’s final Discworld novel, The Shepherd’s Crown (Penguin Random House). During the event, which will take place on the evening of 26th August (leading into publication on the 27th) fans... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The government has launched a consultation today (5th August) on plans to give local areas the power to allow large shops to open for longer on Sundays to help compete with online retailers. The government’s department for Business, Innovation and Skills said the reforms would give metro mayors... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The University of East Anglia is publishing archived private correspondence from novelists such as Doris Lessing, JD Salinger and WG Sebald to inspire today’s students of creative writing“Don’t,” a young Doris Lessing is advised as she tries to find a publisher for her first novel, The Grass is... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Users of Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud on Tuesday gained easier access to Instagram’s roughly 300 million users thanks to an integration made possible by a new API.Marketers can now use Salesforce’s cloud software to buy and manage Instagram advertising, publish content and offer customer service... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The German Book Office New York is hiring an assistant to the director. This position offers the opportunity to learn about international book publishing. The post Job Opening: Assistant, German Book Office New York appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The London-based literary agency expects the new location to open up shop on September 1. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The author and illustrator is much revered for his own weird and wonderful books, yet his 200-plus jacket designs are virtually ignored. Steven Heller celebrates his contribution to a unique era of publishingDeliciously and subversively cryptic, Edward St John Gorey’s books, plays, postcards,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrew Nurnberg Associates will open a new office in Warsaw, to be run by Marcin Biegaj, currently senior agent and sales director at the Graal Literary Agency. The opening follows a decision by Andrew Nurnberg Associates and Warsaw's BookLab Literary Agency to part company. BookLab – run... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers will get “quicker and wider access” to book proofs from across the publishing industry through a partnership with the Booksellers Association and NetGalley. UK booksellers will get access to digital proofs from over 50 publishers – including Bonnier, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jet Blue, Random House and Mary Pope Osborne are giving away free kids books through a program that places book vending machines in underprivileged neighborhoods. The post Vending Machines to Dispense Free Kids Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We’re building tools to help video publishers grow their businesses on Facebook, and we’re excited to announce two new updates that give publishers more control over how their videos are organized and shared. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee’s retro-facing sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, hit bookshelves this week. The story of its discovery—it was actually Lee’s first draft of Mockingbird—and publication reads like a novel of its own, and the whole affair has been mired in controversy. But now it’s... Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2015-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Retired font designer Paul Veres is enjoying the fact that, unexpectedly, his font, Caterina, was licensed and used on the cover of Harper Lee's new book, 'Go Set a Watchman.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following the debate over whether authors should be paid to appear at festivals, children’s writers have warned that fewer schools are now offering to pay for author visits. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Birkbeck, part of the University of London, has been awarded a grant of $741,000 (£476,372) to “cement and expand a new model for open-access publishing in the humanities disciplines”. The grant, from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, will go towards the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) platform... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones is set to open a store in Welwyn Garden City next month after being “petitioned” by the town’s residents. The chain will open a branch in Howardsgate on 25th July, with a special Peter Rabbit family fun day. The shop will include a cafe as well as a stock of close to 20,000... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google and its lobbyists have had more meetings with European Commission officials than any other company, according to figures published by Transparency International on Wednesday.With 32 meetings logged between December and June, Google’s lobbying is topped only by that of BusinessEurope,... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We asked some of the world's top design schools to share their favorite books. Here's what they recommend for your summer reading list.It doesn't matter if you're a student of design, or just someone who hears the term "design thinking" and stays quiet at meetings while noting to Google it... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London's Pushkin Press has become one of the founding partners of Picturehouse Central cinema and will have a pop-up shop in the theater to sell books. The post Pushkin Press Opens Pop-up Shop in New Cinema appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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