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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Why AI Changes Facial Features and How to Get the Likeness Back
The mechanics: what the model actually reads from your source, where averaging and symmetry come from, which fixes restore recognisability and which are useless.
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Five Seconds or Ten: Choosing the Length of a Clip
Duration affects more than cost: the longer the clip, the more drift accumulates. A breakdown by platform and scenario.
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How to Get Photorealism Instead of the AI Look
The tells that give a generated frame away instantly, and the techniques that remove them — from imperfect light to giving up flawless skin.
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Changing a Photo Background With AI: What Works Better Than Cutting Out
The difference between cutting a subject out and generating a new scene, why edges and light give a composite away, and how to get a frame that looks shot as one.
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Why "Without X" Doesn't Work: Negations in Prompts
The mechanics of how a negation enters the description, what to use instead, and the cases where exclusion can be specified after all.
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Duration, Frame Rate and File Size: The Technical Parameters of Video
What the technical specs of a generated clip mean, which of them affect perception, and how to prepare a file for a platform.
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Background and Setting in Photos: What They Say About a Person
Background is a second layer of information read involuntarily. What a setting communicates, and how to use it deliberately.
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Clothing for a Business Portrait: What Enters the Frame and How
Only a narrow band of shoulders and collar makes it into frame. What works there, and what causes technical problems.
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Avatars and Recognisability: How a Visual Marker Works for You
An avatar is the most repeated element of your presence. How it builds recognition, and what happens when you change it.
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What Happens to a Photograph You Upload
An image's path from upload to deletion, what questions to ask a service, and what to look for in its terms.
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