Boosting Creativity with Artificial Intelligence - Aaron Hockley

We hear companies talk about artificial intelligence features, filters, and tools. You can't read a photography website lately without hearing about how AI is changing our capabilities. The topic of AI-powered image generation extends across industries, with issues around copyright and ethics reaching mainstream audiences.

Let's move from the abstract to the practical and look at how we can use artificial intelligence to add creativity to our images. We'll take a look at some of the Neural Filters in Adobe Photoshop. We will look at using AI image-generation tools to create images that can be incorporated as part of our own photographic art in conjunction with images we made with our camera. We'll consider how AI-powered rapid masking capabilities make it practical to perform more partial-image adjustments in less time, and how that can make it easier to give our work that extra "oomph" that may have taken much longer in the past.

My previous talk with SEAPUG was at a high level on how AI intersects with photography. This will be more in-depth and in-app as we look at several examples of putting artificial intelligence to work, with a focus on creative exploration.
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Aaron Hockley is a photographer, author, and speaker who merges his expertise in photography and technology to help others find success. He’s a PPA Master Photographer and Photographic Craftsman and has represented Team USA in the World Photographic Cup. He writes and speaks about technical aspects of photography, photo businesses, and the industry as a whole and has spoken to audiences of photographers, marketers, and media professionals on stages of all sizes nationwide. Aaron’s recent ventures have focused on how Artificial Intelligence impacts how photographers capture, edit, and manage their images with an eye toward the shifting future of the industry.

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