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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Plans to display artworks alongside the Los Angeles River and to educate the public about water conservation and the drought have received a significant boost thanks to a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable organization of New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A controversial plan to increase Sunday retail openings is going through French parliament in a wide-ranging economic bill that aims to boost growth and foreign investment. The bill proposes to increase from five to 12 the number of Sundays retailers can trade at the local mayor’s discretion,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New abstractions from Mark Bradford. An artist who remixes literature with pop culture. A street art temple inspired by Indian graphics. Plus: the story of two men connected in death, a performance about the end of men, and a panel about keeping L.A. creative. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paul Bacon's name may be unfamiliar, but anyone who has browsed the bestseller racks over the last 60 years knows his work. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ello's mobile app will hit the Apple App store Thursday, about eight months after the ad-free social network launched as an invite-only alternative to Facebook. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google is bringing a clearer picture of advertising to the mobile world with three tech advancements it announced at a company conference in the Florida Keys today. With Neal Mohan still at the helm of the display ad business, Google unveiled new services that help advertisers more effectively... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MONTREAL — If a “death of newspapers” narrative still mires the industry, then here might be a Lazarus story. It’s hard to avoid such hyperbolic comparisons when talking about La Presse, a 131-year ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital comics often arrive in comic book archive files, with extensions like cbz, cbr, cbt, cb7 or cba. These aren’t commonly used outside the comic world and it may not be immediately obvious how to view them. Fortunately, it’s quite easy, and you might be able to do it right away. These are... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones stores across the country will host midnight openings to celebrate the release of Harper Lee’s forthcoming novel Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann), while the company’s flagship Piccadilly shop will host a festival. M.d. James Daunt has called the launch a "thrilling"... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On Toronto’s Queen Street West, there is a nine-year-old independent bookstore that has taken the art of window displays to a whole new level. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into the way Amazon distributes ebooks and its relationship with publishers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The European Commission announced that it has opened a formal investigation into some of the ebook practices of Amazon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The organisers of the 2015 Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) today (10th June) opened its fellowship programme, which pays for international children’s publishing representatives to attend the fair. 2015 Shanghai Visiting International Publishers programme runs from 10-14th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bloody Scotland festival is to offer free tickets to unemployed people or those on low incomes as part of a scheme to reach new audiences. The festival, which takes place in Stirling from 11th to 13th September, will give away standby tickets on the day of events if there is good... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reuters, citing "the unprecedented shift to digital publishing and online news consumption," is making some of its original news content—text, pictures, video and multimedia packages—available for free to publishers, the c ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After purchasing Inkwood Books in Tampa, Fla., a little over two years ago, Stefani Beddingfield is getting her family into the bookselling business. Her sister Julie, who is based in the Northeast, will be opening a second location of the store in New Jersey. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The displaced owners of Syria's Bright Fingers Publishing House are opening Pages, a new Arabic and multilingual bookstore in Istanbul, this week. The post Syrians Open New Arabic and Multilingual Bookshop in Istanbul appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Read Forward, a Romanian startup which developed the first digital textbook in the Romanian market, launched its first international office in London. The post Romania’s Ebook Developer Read Forward Opens in London appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kensal Rise Library is set to open for the first time in five years this weekend, with a community open day. The library was closed by Brent Council in 2011 and denied permission for a community library in the space, becoming a flashpoint for library campaigners, with authors such as Alan... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tennessee marketing startup BookGrabbr directs readers to free ebooks in exchange for their sharing the titles through social media services. The post BookGrabbr Offers Free Ebooks for Social Media “Shares” appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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