Like the majestic Canada Goose, I escaped a particularly brutal winter by flying south. As temperatures back home plummeted to a balmy -40 degrees, my plane landed in San Jose, California. San Jose is the West Coast convention center capital of the tech world, and Samsung was there for the brand new Galaxy S24 series of smartphones.
A new tool created by a team at the University of Chicago can add undetectable pixels to images to help creatives protect their work from AI image generators by effectively poisoning (corrupting) the AI's training data.
VSCO is rolling out Spaces, its social network-like community feature, to all users starting today. The company positions Spaces as a new way to connect with other creators through shared galleries and visual conversations.
VSCO has announced that it is relaunching to enable it to better focus on a core creator audience and, in its words, "return to its roots." The relaunch includes a new leadership team and product updates designed to appeal to more serious creatives.
An unofficial anthem for creative professionals has resurfaced as a playful and passive-aggressive way to explain why projects cost what they do and can't be paid for in exposure. (Warning: This song and article contain profanity).
When I speak to artistic photographers, those who are truly passionate about their work, I often begin by talking about the roller-coaster ride of all creatives. I say that on a roller coaster, the highs are high and the lows are low, but that roller-coaster ride is much more interesting than being on a merry-go-round.
Intel has finally unveiled its much-leaked lineup of 10th-generation "S-series" desktop CPUs headlined by the flagship 10-core Core i9-10900K—a beastly 5.3GHz chip that Intel is calling the "world’s fastest gaming processor."
HP has revealed its latest batch of NVIDIA RTX Studio laptops targeted at creative professionals who want the ultimate combination of performance and battery life. With the latest CPUs, GPUs, display tech and more, PC users should definitely take note.
Whether you're a photographer, a filmmaker, a YouTuber, or a painter, this latest video by Kaiwan Shaban will probably hit home on some level. It's an honest, candid message for artists of all stripes who struggle with the fact that they are never quite satisfied with the work they are creating.
Photographers have been speaking out in recent years about getting asked to do work for little or no money. A new research study is now suggesting that one of the reasons photographers get lowballed is because they love their jobs.
Don't let the Photoshopped facades fool you, creatives of all stripes deal with depression. That's the topic of this short-but-important video by Rob of Rob & Jonas' Filmmaking Tips. Rob is a filmmaker, but many photographers will instantly relate to the thoughts he shares in this video.
In this short Q&A exchange, filmmaker Kevin Smith delivers an important message to all creative people—be they photographers, filmmakers, writers, or anything else. The message is this: create work for yourself, not everyone else. (Warning: Video contains some NSFW language).
Warning: This comic contains some explicit language.
Cartoonist Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal struck a chord with photographers and other creatives a couple of days ago by published a new comic titled "You're Doing it for the Exposure."
How does your daily schedule compare to the 24-hour routines of some of the most famous creative individuals throughout …
Neil Gaiman is an author, a writer whose work you have probably read at some point or another, but the advice he offers in this 20-minute commencement address is as applicable to photographers as it is to any other creative who is embarking on (or currently in the middle of living) a life whose goal might be best summed up by the phrase 'make good art.'
Last November, photographer Jeremy Cowart revealed OKDOTHIS, a two-and-a-half year collaboration between himself and the development team at Aloompa to create an app that inspired creatives to be... well... more creative.
And now, in the name of continuing to keep the creative community on their toes, OKDOTHIS has announced a 2.0 revamp of what is essentially its entire platform. The app, website and overall structure of the platform is much more streamlined now, featuring a more unified and easy-to-use design across the board.
We've all been there. Anybody who has ever done any work in the creative industry has had to deal with clients who have no understanding of basic business practices, or photography, or a little thing called payment. The above video was put together by the website Clients From Hell, where creatives can go and upload their most entertaining horror stories anonymously.
It's worth noting that the video is from the perspective of a graphic designer (as are many of the stories on the website) but many a photographer has dealt with similar problems.