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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Chatto & Windus has won an eight-publisher auction for a book which will give readers “... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is launching a new digital-first crime and thriller list, which will begin... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In reviews of previous versions of InDesign, the looming question was always, “Is this version worth the cost of the upgrade or can I skip it?” But with Adobe’s switch to the Creative Cloud subscription model, this question is meaningless. Every subscriber receives the latest version as soon as... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Giacomo D'Angelo, product manager at Narcissus.me describes how BackTypo promises to help authors build beautiful books simply and easily. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The newer, flatter design puts Kindle, Fire, and Prime categories front and center.Amazon has unveiled a new homepage design to select users, placing a new emphasis on the retail giant's biggest brands: the Kindle ebook platform, its Fire lineup of tablets and smartphones, and the Prime... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Amazon purchased Comixology, it was a herald of change: iOS users lost the ability to purchase comics in-app, Android users were gifted with a new purchasing system and, now,the digital book seller is going DRM-free. Sort of. Comixology CEO... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comixology's new DRM-free backup program is available to any publisher or self-publisher that chooses to make their books available in the program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster has entered into a sales and distribution agreement with Regan Arts, the new publishing and multimedia unit at Phaidon headed by Judith Regan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The big publishers lock down their ebooks to their own detriment, according to a new study. Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nosy Crow has created a new board book, published by Unicef, that will be given to new parents in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Press at Toad Hall, an independent publisher of classics based out of Philadelphia, will be opening its first retail location, a pop-up store that will feature new editions of classic works, later this summer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nobrow Press continues its strong of notable releases with 'Art Schooled', the vivid debut graphic novel of English cartoonist Jamie Coe. Please note this preview is for mature readers and NSFW. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Frankfurt Book Fair's new Business Club is making available the new "Global Trends in Publishing" report compiled by Rüdiger Wischenbart for free. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The pay-what-you-wish digital bundle includes sci-fi autbors Greg Bear, Barbara Hambly and, to mark the 45th anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing, a novel by astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a short reply brief filed on July 2, HarperCollins attorneys urged the court to uphold their request for an injunction and more than $1.1 million in damages and attorneys fees. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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J.K. Rowling recently released a short story about the futures of such characters as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, while the new section of Universal Studios titled The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley just opened to the public. J.K. Rowling also recently... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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J.K. Rowling recently released a short story about the futures of such characters as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, while the new section of Universal Studios titled The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley just opened to the public. J.K. Rowling also recently... Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On June 25, SheKnows introduced its Explorer platform, which it has been testing since early this year. In addition to the SheKnows network of verticals, 40 other publishers (including Time Inc. and ESPN) have integrated the content curation widget onto their sites, at no charge. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eric Ligman, Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager, has released a whole new batch of free ebooks, covering topics such as Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows 7, Office 2013 and Office 365, Azure, Lync 2013, and SQL Server. There are ebooks and resource guides for all things Microsoft. For the past... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two weeks ago bestselling author Douglas Preston began quietly circulating a letter to other writers that encourages readers to write to Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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