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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Light in AI Photoshoots: How the Model Reads It and Why It Matters Most
The lighting setups a model reproduces reliably and those that produce artefacts. How the light of your source interacts with the light of the scene, and why their conflict is the most visible failure.
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Animating a Portrait and Animating a Scene: Two Different Tasks
What to move in the frame — the person or the environment. Both approaches, their risks, and the cases where moving the environment says more than moving the face.
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What AI Will Not Generate: Limits, Moderation and Common Sense
Three different kinds of limits — technical, service policy, and legal. Why a request is rejected, what to do about it, and where "cannot" ends and "will not" begins.
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Restoring Old Photographs: Where Recovery Ends and Invention Begins
The difference between removing damage and inventing what is lost. The order of work, honest expectations, and the question worth asking first.
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Prompting Product Photography: Light, Surface and Reflections
Objects need a different approach from portraits: geometry, material and the physics of highlights matter. A breakdown by surface type, plus the usual mistakes.
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A Video Profile Cover: Making a Loop That Doesn't Irritate
A cover plays endlessly, and that changes the requirements for motion. What works in a loop, where the seam hides, and why less movement wins here.
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Refreshing Your Photo Set: When and What to Change
Photographs age faster than expected. The signs it is time to change a set, and gradual replacement instead of a full redo.
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Photographs for a Company Website: People, Office and What to Show
The visual side of a site carries trust. Which frames work, where stock and generated images are acceptable, and where they do damage.
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Avatars for Gaming and Creative Platforms: Different Rules
Where identifying a specific person is not required, other criteria apply: expressiveness, character and legibility in a dense feed.
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Other People's Faces in Generation: Where the Line Runs
The technology can create an image of anyone. Why that is restricted, what the real harm is, and what responsible use looks like.
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