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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AI Photoshoots for Couples and Families: What Works and What Doesn't Yet
Group generation is a fundamentally harder task than a portrait. The limits, the workarounds, and the scenarios where a joint frame genuinely comes out.
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Animating Photos of People Who Have Died: How to Approach It Carefully
Technically it is ordinary animation. In its effects it is not. What to discuss with family, which motion is appropriate, and why restraint works better than expressiveness here.
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How to Build a Series of Frames in One Style
Consistency across a series is its own problem, and generation handles it worse than a single frame. Techniques that hold a set together — from fixed wording to the order of selection.
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Detail Refinement: When It Improves a Frame and When It Ruins It
Refinement works on top of a finished image. What it actually adds, where the gain is real, and why applying it twice to a portrait is a bad idea.
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Stylisation Without Copying: Asking for an Aesthetic, Not a Name
Why describing attributes works better than naming an author — technically and ethically. A practical breakdown of several aesthetics.
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Platform Requirements for Video: Formats, Limits and What Happens on Upload
Every platform recompresses uploads its own way. How to prepare a file so it still looks as intended afterwards.
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Photographs and Profile Text: How They Work Together
Frames and description are read as one statement. What happens when they disagree, and how to build coherence.
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A Photograph on a CV: Whether and Which
Practice differs by country and industry. The arguments each way, and the requirements for the frame if a photograph is included.
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The Circular Crop: Composing So Nothing Is Lost
A circle removes a fifth of a square's area, and it does so at the corners. Practical composition for that crop.
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Storing and Deleting Generated Results: Practical Hygiene
How to organise your own archive, what to keep, what to delete, and why a service is not a place for long-term storage.
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