On Friday, Apple announced the acquisition of Pixelmator, a news that has garnered widespread attention. As a company that develops several popular photo editing applications, this acquisition may bring new changes to the Apple platform. While some are skeptical about the deal, there are optimists who believe it could address a major issue users encounter while using their iPads—software inadequacy, especially when trying to use Adobe's Photoshop for i.

Recently, a research team from the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence launched a new image generation model called OmniGen. Unlike previous tools such as Stable Diffusion, which focused on a single task, OmniGen's biggest highlight is its multi-capability: it can handle a variety of image generation tasks within a unified framework, including text-to-image generation and image editing, making it a versatile player. This means that users only need to provide simple prompts.

As a newcomer curious about image processing, I have tried various image editing tools multiple times, but I was always overwhelmed by complex settings and tedious operations. It wasn't until I encountered RF-Inversion that I truly realized how simple and enjoyable image editing could be. Say goodbye to complexity and easily achieve image editing. In the past, transforming an ordinary image into a uniquely styled artwork often required professional drawing or image processing knowledge. RF-Inversion completely overturns this traditional notion. It utilizes stochastic differential equations.

Tencent Zhi Ying has launched a new feature called 'AI Online Sensation Helper', aimed at simplifying the photo editing process and enhancing efficiency through artificial intelligence technology. This feature, using a cloud-based smart video creation tool, allows users to upload photos and have them automatically beautified and optimized by AI, including portrait beautification and background enhancement, to meet users' pursuit of trendiness and personalization.

After WeChat officially supported Live photos, Meitu's video editing app - Wink quickly became popular, achieving the third spot in the App Store in China. Wink meets the growing user demand for Live photo editing with its powerful AI video beautification feature, as well as the 'Convert to Live' and 'AI Animation' functions that allow one-click transformation of images and videos into Live photos. It's reported that Wink's 'Video Beautification' feature enables users to easily edit Live photos just like static images.

Recently, Meta announced that it will adjust the way it labels AI-edited content on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. This change means that the 'AI Information' label indicating whether content has been edited by AI tools will be moved from below the username to the post menu. Previously, users could easily see this label below the username, but now they will need to click the menu to find it. However, Meta also stated that content generated entirely by AI will still be labeled.

Adobe has introduced a new AI creation tool, Firefly Video Model, designed to generate high-quality video content. This tool is based on ethical training, using the company's proprietary or licensed data, and supports text-to-video generation, image-to-video conversion, and video editing, with each generated segment lasting up to 5 seconds. The videos generated during the demonstration were impressive, following text prompts and showcasing scenes from the natural world. Features include filling in video gaps, creating seamless transitions, and achieving perfect perspectives. Through Firefly, Adobe is empowering creators.

The research team at Alibaba Group has released a new framework called UniPortrait, which focuses on personalized processing of portrait images, including single-character consistency, multi-character consistency, and style reference. UniPortrait is specifically designed with two modules: ID embedding and ID routing, which maintain a high level of realism in facial features, support a broad range of facial editing capabilities, and even allow users to generate images using free-form text descriptions without a fixed layout. Through a two-phase training scheme, UniPo

Clapper is an AI generation and video editing tool developed independently by an individual developer, integrating various AI technologies including image generation, video creation, and audio. It offers APIs for image, audio, music, and video generation, allowing users to complete the entire process from creative conception to final production on a single platform. Clapper features a timeline function that supports content generation and editing orchestration, providing both a traditional interface and an infinite canvas mode to meet the needs of divergent thinking and precision editing. As an open-source tool, Clapper...

Clapper is an open-source video editing tool that integrates advanced technologies like StabilityAI, ElevenLabs, Real-ESRGAN, and ChatGPT. Key features include AI-driven story visualization for quick video story generation, flexible combination of elements like characters and scenes, an interactive editing process with an intuitive interface, and an upcoming director mode for comprehensive control over video production. A major advantage is its o....

Baidu Wangpan's AI creative generation tool, 'Super Canvas', has launched a Pro version aimed at providing efficient and customized creative generation services for studios. Users can simply upload images and choose from over 70 styles to easily generate photoshoots with different makeup, clothing, and scenes. Its 'Background Redraw' feature intelligently identifies and extracts the subject, allowing users to switch backgrounds with one click, reducing setup costs. The Pro version is specifically designed for studios, supporting batch generation of entire style sets and enabling online collaboration across multiple devices, greatly enhancing work efficiency. It offers customized creative services to assist studios.

In August 2024, Baidu Cloud Drive launched a solution tailored for the photography industry, integrating storage backup, AI photo editing, and efficient delivery. The aim is to help photography studios improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance business growth. Through research conducted with hundreds of photography studios, Baidu Cloud Drive identified common issues such as management difficulties, low efficiency, and high costs, and developed this targeted solution.

Recently, the 'Diting' seismic wave large model, jointly developed by the National Supercomputing Center in Chengdu, the Institute of Geophysics of the China Earthquake Administration, and Tsinghua University, was officially released in Chengdu, Sichuan. This model is the first seismic wave large model in the country to reach 100 million parameters, marking a significant breakthrough in the integration of seismology research and artificial intelligence technology in China.

Xiaomi recently announced that its intelligent assistant Xiao Ai's new large model version is undergoing a comprehensive upgrade, which will cover major product lines including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, smart speakers, and vehicles. The new version of Xiao Ai will introduce a series of innovative features, such as AI image editing and outdoor wake-up defense.

The Google research team has released a groundbreaking technology called Alchemist, allowing users to precisely edit material properties of objects in images, such as color, gloss, and transparency, without the need for professional software or skills. The core of the technology is a 'Text-to-Image' generation model that learns to change specified material properties while keeping the shape and lighting unchanged by fine-tuning and creating synthetic datasets (including 3D models, various materials, camera angles, and lighting conditions). Experiments show that this technology improves the photorealism of images.

The AI image processing technology "Diffree" has gained attention for its ability to seamlessly add new objects, like cushions and decorations, to images based on text descriptions. It is particularly useful in indoor design and advertising. Its core features include a "text-guided" function and a "text-to-image" (T2I) model, utilizing the Stable Diffusion diffusion model along with an additional mask prediction module for precise image editing w....