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Instagram isn’t just for square photos anymore
Instagram now supports photos that have a 3:4 aspect ratio, meaning that when you upload a photo with that ratio, “it’ll now appear just exactly as you shot it,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri says in a Threads post. He also notes that “almost every phone camera defaults to” that format. An image from Instagram’s broadcast channel shows how the change…
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Leica can now style your iPhone photos to mimic a pro photographer
Leica is bringing a new kind of filter effect called “Artist Looks” to its Lux camera app for iPhones, with the first one adjusting your photos to resemble the style and body of work of celebrity photographer Greg Williams. Artist Looks, like the other color and black-and-white looks in Leica’s app, are essentially one-click filter presets for easy photo editing.…
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Leaked photos: DJI Osmo 360 is the dronemaker’s first 360-degree camera
DJI hasn’t even announced a 360-degree camera yet, but the DJI Osmo 360 has now spilled its guts all over the web. Leakers Hakasushi and Igor Bogdanov have published over a dozen pictures of a prototype dual-lens camera, including both external and internal photos and images of its Quick Start Guide. And it appears that DJI may have chosen quite…
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How to exclude OneDrive and iCloud from the Photos app on Windows
In Windows 11 and Windows 10, the Photos app can display your entire collection of images and videos, including those stored locally on your computer or device, as well as those in your OneDrive or iCloud storage. If you’re a Windows and iPhone user, and you open Photos on your laptop or computer, you may see pictures and videos from…
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Take Great Photos With Your Phone
For the most visually compelling shots, experts say not to center your subject. Instead, hold the camera so that the person or animal you’re photographing is off to one side, in the outer third of the frame. Similarly, when capturing a landscape, avoid putting the horizon in the exact middle. To make it easier to line things up, you can…
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Google Messages Will Now Blur Nude Photos You Didn’t Ask For
Sensitive content, especially nudity, is a huge and alarming issue in the digital space, and big tech has taken various steps to reduce its impact, especially on teens. From safety checks to monitoring images using AI, a lot of ways are already being used on our smartphones. Announced last year, the default Google Messages app is now rolling out a…
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How to hide contact photos and turn off Group by Sender in iOS 18.5 Mail
With iOS 18, Mail gets a makeover in which your inbox is broken up into different categories. It’s not a universally loved look, so Apple includes the option to change Mail back to a list view. And iOS 18.5 adds even more tools for customizing the look of your inbox to precisely the way you want it. iOS 18.5, currently…
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People Are Reverse Location Searching Photos on ChatGPT, and It Actually Works
This week, OpenAI announced its latest models: o3 and o4-mini. These are reasoning models, which break down a prompt into multiple parts that are then addressed one at a time. The goal is for the bot to “think” through a request more deeply than other models might, and arrive at a deeper, more accurate result. While there are many possible…
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Google rolls out Google Photos extension for Gemini — here’s what it can do
Google has started the rollout of the Google Photos extension to Google Gemini, giving the AI access to your images. As reported by 9to5 Google, allowing Gemini to access Google Photos offers a few new and interesting features, some of which were shown when the feature was originally previewed last month. Users can use Gemini to quickly find backed-up images…
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How to turn picture into artwork with Restyle Image in Photos app for Windows 11
In the Photos app for Windows 11, Restyle Image is an AI feature that allows you to transform your pictures into various artistic styles with a single click, and in this guide, I’ll show you how to complete this task. This tool is part of the AI-powered suite available on Copilot+ PCs, enhancing the photo editing experience directly within the…
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