'The Paper' Season 2 Finally Becomes 'The Office' Replacement Peacock Needed | Review

The Paper Season 2 steps out of The Office’s shadow with bigger laughs, a stronger ensemble, and some of its funniest ...
Family Destinations Guide

You’ll Want To Drop Everything And Visit This Extraordinary Picture Book Museum In Massachusetts

Somewhere in Amherst, Massachusetts, there’s a museum that will make a grown adult tear up over a collage made of tissue ...

Astropad Launches Rock Paper Pencil 4.0 With New Graphite Apple Pencil Tip

Astropad today launched Rock Paper Pencil 4.0, an updated version of its screen protector and Apple Pencil tip combo made for ...

Astropad’s new Rock Paper Pencil 4 adds a graphite feel to Apple Pencil and iPad

Want the nano-texture feel on your iPad display without the commitment? Astropad has an all-new version of its excellent ...
Creative Boom

How Chanida Areewatanasombat draws the feelings she can't say out loud

The Bangkok-based illustrator makes what she calls "visual diaries", recording her thoughts and feelings on paper and screen ...
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Illustration Practice 5: Drawing with Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop - Detailed Settings for 'Color Jitter Brush' and Basics of Camera RAW

This is the fifth installment of my practice drawings for finding my own (easy-to-draw) style. This time, I followed a straightforward workflow: digital watercolor painting (in Clip Studio Paint) ...
TechCrunch

Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator, and InDesign

Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io. The company has given the assistant new abilities to make brand kits, product videos, and ...
Cult of Mac

Is Apple’s nano-texture glass worth it on the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro?

Apple charges $100 to add nano-texture glass to the iPad Pro, and even more if you want to add the anti-glare tech to a MacBook Pro. The technology is undoubtedly impressive, but the real question is ...
Dark Side Of Gaming

New Dark Souls 2 Path Tracing Mod Update Released, Adding Directional Texture AO to Everything

Modder ‘Ganaboy’ has released a brand new beta version of DS2LightingEngine, which adds support for real-time Path Tracing in Dark Souls 2. This new version adds directional Texture AO to everything.
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Texture LoRA Laboratory | "Ura-zaishiki" — The technique of adding "textures" that AI cannot fully master

"They're pretty, but they feel a bit fake..." You've felt that way, haven't you? The lighting is correct. The composition isn't bad either. But, you don't feel like touching them. Something is just ...
GitHub

FFHQ-UV: Normalized Facial UV-Texture Dataset for 3D Face Reconstruction

FFHQ-UV is a large-scale facial UV-texture dataset that contains over 50,000 high-quality texture UV-maps with even illuminations, neutral expressions, and cleaned facial regions, which are desired ...
The Hill

Treasury Department to add Trump’s signature to US currency

The Treasury Department announced Thursday that it will add President Trump’s signature to paper currency to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S., marking the first time a sitting president’s ...