Articles
Articles on AI models and working with photos
Breakdowns, checklists and practice: how to get a faithful likeness, what drives generation quality, and where the models hit their limits.
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An Acceptance Checklist: Telling a Good Generated Frame From an Almost-Good One
Seven zones to check in order and the typical defects in each. Why an overall impression misleads, and how to judge the frame at the size it will actually be seen.
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Vertical Video From Photos for Stories: Cropping, Margins and Composition
Turning a horizontal shot into a vertical clip without cropped heads or bars, where to place the face, and which screen zones the interface covers.
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How to Judge a Generative Model: What to Look at When Comparing
Pretty demos say nothing about how a model behaves on your task. Five checks that give a meaningful answer within a few runs.
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Height and Weight in Generation: Why the Model Asks
A portrait needs no build data; a full-length frame does. What happens when the fields are left empty, and when they are worth filling in.
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Iterative Prompt Refinement: A Cycle That Saves Runs
Successive approximation instead of trial and error. How to identify the single main problem, what to change first, and when to stop.
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Generated Video on a Website and in Presentations: Technical and Editorial Requirements
Background loops, slide inserts and hero sections: where motion aids perception and where it hurts loading speed and reading.
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One Person, Different Platforms: Adapting Your Photographs
A frame that works in a dating profile fails in a business one. Requirements by platform, and a method for adapting a single set.
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When to Update a Business Portrait, and How Without a Shoot
The signs of a dated portrait, how to replace it everywhere at once, and options when a shoot is impossible.
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Changing an Avatar Without Losing Recognition: A Practical Order
Every change resets accumulated recognition. How to reduce the loss, what to change gradually, and in what order to update platforms.
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Where Image Generation Is Heading: What Has Changed and What Comes Next
The directions of development without prophecy: what improved in recent years, which limits remain fundamental, and what that means in practice.
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