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Another way to do it is to use the text selection as a layer mask to the adjustment layer. Areas of the image where the selection mask is white are affected by the adjustment. Areas where the selection mask is black are unaffected. Grey areas are adjusted but reduced in degree proportional to the darkness of the grey. And actually, if you were doing it the way I first suggested, with the text as a separate layer on top, you’d be better off duplicating the whole layer and using the selection to create a layer mask that makes everything other than the text transparent. The reason to do it like this is that it keeps the data for all the pixels around so that if you need to, say, expand the boundaries, it is easy to do so by modifying the layer mask to expose more of the image. Downside to all layers and layer masks is using more memory/storage, but on computers made within the last fifteen years it really don’t matter, especially on images this size.
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OK, this is all working great (especially the tip about multiple adjustment layers and a colour balance layer, thanks Prolonged Panorama) but I'm getting a bit of unwanted colours around the edges of the white text. No matter what I change the Feather value to, there's some nasty-looking orange around some of the edges.
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Try to Grow the selection a pixel or two before feathering it?
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Grow doesn't seem to do anything? It doesn't come up with a prompt like Feather or any of the other Modify options. It's not that big a deal, the colours look great (except i'm having a bit of trouble removing some cyan (the parts that were yellow in the original image), just gonna keep applying Adjustment Layers. The pixels around the text isn't that big a deal either, I don't think anyone's gonna notice. Thanks again folks!
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alnilam posted:Try to Grow the selection a pixel or two before feathering it? Shrink selection and/or use less feather to decrease the amount of colorful background picked up. You could also desaturate the layer holding the text. It’s not going to affect the text itself but will knock down any red fringing. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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Is there any truth to the claim that Amazon pays people who share affiliate links if someone clicks the link and buys anything within a certain time span even without the affiliate link? Trapick posted:What's the "normie" opinion on all the new AI stuff (GPT-4, Midjourney, stable diffusion)? I'm pretty online and in tech and so there's a lot of sky-is-falling, everything is about to change, possible skynet, super intense opinions, and then a lot of people clowning on the people with those opinions (I'm leaning more in the latter camp). But I don't have a good sense of what most people who aren't surrounded by it think. Last week's episode of The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe had a really interesting interview with the former Google engineer who claimed that the LAMDA AI was sentient, and while I disagree with him, it spurred a great discussion that shows why people in different scientific and engineering fields need to discuss things, listen to each other, and understand what they know and when they should defer to more qualified experts (they were receptive to what he was saying, but didn't go easy on him and smacked him down a few times when he said something that was objectively wrong). The general attitude is that he's just an idiot who got scared by a computer, but it's wasn't that simple; a much more fair representation is that we consider consciousness and sentience emergent behaviors, and we should take a closer philosophical look at why we consider those behaviors different when they emerge from silicon rather than meat. I'm also in tech, I've done a bit of AI stuff, and my takeaways are: -Quality of training data is every bit as important as how it's processed, and there's no way around Garbage In/Garbage Out. -Some amount of people will have blind faith in anything, and since computers are incredibly complex and hard to intuitively understand, both blind faith in them and fear of them are inevitable. -We crossed the line from post-truth to post-reality a long time ago and it was going to happen with or without AI. -People who are afraid of AI are overreacting, but because of genuine ignorance rather than stupidity. -Except Yudkowsky, the only legitimate question he raises is how someone who exists in three spatial dimensions is capable of sticking his head so far up his own rear end. Mister Speaker posted:Stupid Photoshop question: I have a simple image that I'm using as my thumbnail for YouTube videos. Is it possible to tweak some setting in PS that will change the red/yellow/orange hues to a different colour palette, while only minimally affecting the text? I want to put out a video this coming 4/20 and change the reddish hue of the image to a leafy green, but having a bunch of them in different tints would be nice for the future.
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I think normies are getting a sense of the image/video stuff? Particularly the videos, on Tiktok I see a lot of things that are clearly computer generated because they're in motion. There's also stuff like Obama, Trump and Biden playing Minecraft together, and I think there have also been news stories about AI-generated voices. I'm betting pretty soon there's going to be a huge scandal about Biden saying "we're going to nuke Russia," like actually talking completely realistically for several minutes or whatever, and the idea of low cost indistinguishable fake voice stuff will become mainstream. Probably within a year or two we'll get to the point where things people actually say will get commonly dismissed as fake news AI-generated audio and video.
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zachol posted:Probably within a year or two we'll get to the point where things people actually say will get commonly dismissed as fake news AI-generated audio and video. That's been happening for about four years now.
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GWBBQ posted:Is there any truth to the claim that Amazon pays people who share affiliate links if someone clicks the link and buys anything within a certain time span even without the affiliate link? Yes. When you click a link you get tracked, and anything you buy within 24 hours earns the linker a commission. If you click a link and add a product to cart but don't buy it, if you then buy it any time in the next 90 days they get the commission, but not on anything else you buy. Many years ago I had some family blacklisted from counting for my links because I would just tell them to click my link and then do their Christmas shopping. Amazon caught it and made their purchases not earn me commissions (which, better than just banning me!) And when I asked they said something like "Amazon Associates is a marketing program not a friend and family discount scheme". This also means that the linker can see the weird poo poo you buy, though obviously not who you are that bought it, unless you're the only one using the link and they know that.
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zachol posted:I think normies are getting a sense of the image/video stuff? Particularly the videos, on Tiktok I see a lot of things that are clearly computer generated because they're in motion. there was another thread here where people were messing around with that stuff and i heard/saw ai imitations of people like ben shapiro and joe biden. the shapiro one needed some work and wasn't very convincing one but the biden one was pretty close and if it had been talking about some boring policy poo poo instead of about taking bonghits i might not have been able to tell. i think we are close to getting to the point where this stuff won't fool an expert or someone intimately familiar with the person's voice but it will fool strangers or the general public. i suspect there will be a growing field of "voice experts" who can (or claim to be able to) tell which voices are real and which are fake. in the same way that handwriting experts can be called to testify today in cases of counterfeit signatures etc. and there will likely be a similar thing for facial/bodily features. mllaneza posted:That's been happening for about four years now. there's been a conspiracy theory that "Joe Biden is CGI" since his election but i dont know to what degree "normies" think this stuff. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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For the record, celebrity and custom porn will be a huge thing with AI in the coming years, and it's gonna get super duper uncomfortable. Like, you're gonna be able to write "Joe Biden footjob from Reagan" and get something that looks every bit like it was filmed for real. And you know it's not gonna stop at adult public persons 
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BonHair posted:For the record, celebrity and custom porn will be a huge thing with AI in the coming years, and it's gonna get super duper uncomfortable. Like, you're gonna be able to write "Joe Biden footjob from Reagan" and get something that looks every bit like it was filmed for real. And you know it's not gonna stop at adult public persons You can already get anyone unfortunately https://twitter.com/MoiraDonegan/status/1640434164531904513?t=FbmBSicKHlZjcAJd5-_YgA&s=19
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Earwicker posted:there's been a conspiracy theory that "Joe Biden is CGI" since his election but i dont know to what degree "normies" think this stuff. i don't know why they'd generate a video of him cheerfully yammering about ice cream right before a press conference about a school shooting, but sure
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What are considered the best current social media platforms for marketing a small business to adults? We’ve been using FB and Twitter forever, plus Instagram for the past few years. We’re all old here, so we don’t know what the gently caress. We post about once a day, and the posts are industry-interest/news stuff that also mentions or highlights our brand. The posts themselves are our “ads,” and while we often spend extra to promote the posts, we have never purchased straight-up traditional advertising on social media. I imagine we’re not going to change that.
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Lincoln posted:What are considered the best current social media platforms for marketing a small business to adults? We’ve been using FB and Twitter forever, plus Instagram for the past few years. We’re all old here, so we don’t know what the gently caress. If you're a business trying to get customers to walk in off the street: Facebook. If you're trying to market to other businesses and need to trick some middle managers into buying whatever you're selling: LinkedIn
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Any recommendations on how to dust an entire house? I usually use a swiffer dust pad for spot dusting, but that seems uneconomical for the whole house. I'm also considering a wet rag in a bowl of warm soapy water that gets swapped out every room or so.
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Vacuum hose with a dust attachment (the one with bristles around the edge.)
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does anyone know the name of the youtube channel that fairly recently bought an SA banner ad for its hour(s?) long deep dive into climate change and how it's already here and we're in for some bad poo poo e: or, failing that, a better thread to ask this question in lol
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Lincoln posted:What are considered the best current social media platforms for marketing a small business to adults? We’ve been using FB and Twitter forever, plus Instagram for the past few years. We’re all old here, so we don’t know what the gently caress. depends a lot on what type of business you are talking about (i.e. do you run a service or do you make a product that you want to show off visually), how old are the customers you are trying to reach, where do you live, etc?
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OMGVBFLOL posted:does anyone know the name of the youtube channel that fairly recently bought an SA banner ad for its hour(s?) long deep dive into climate change and how it's already here and we're in for some bad poo poo nevermind, i found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNjWOCdony4
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Poldarn posted:Any recommendations on how to dust an entire house? I usually use a swiffer dust pad for spot dusting, but that seems uneconomical for the whole house. I'm also considering a wet rag in a bowl of warm soapy water that gets swapped out every room or so. My wife does all the dusting in our house. She uses Pledge multi-surface wipes for all the flat surfaces, and a swiffer dry duster for knick-knacks/blinds.
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Lincoln posted:What are considered the best current social media platforms for marketing a small business to adults? We’ve been using FB and Twitter forever, plus Instagram for the past few years. We’re all old here, so we don’t know what the gently caress. For small business trying to target local people you could try nextdoor. I'm not sure there's anyone on there under 40, haha.
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Anyone have any heated mugs besides Ember? I love my Ember mug, but it's broken down three times in the past 2 years because the collapsible prongs in the base are just a flawed design. Anyone used any of the alternatives?
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I just have a candle warmer by my desk that I set my mug on to keep it warm. Much cheaper alternative and I haven't had to replace it in 3+ years.
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Or just get a Yeti or equivalent tumbler that keeps your drink warm for hours and hours.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Anyone have any heated mugs besides Ember? I love my Ember mug, but it's broken down three times in the past 2 years because the collapsible prongs in the base are just a flawed design. Anyone used any of the alternatives? I've got a few Built brand tumblers that I found at Meijer. They're really nice, and keeps my drinks cold for a long time. I can put ice in them at night and still have solid cubes (and ice cold water) twelve hours later. And I've forgotten it outside, in subzero temperatures, for over an hour and had my hot drink still be hot, even though the tumbler itself was cold as hell.
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regulargonzalez posted:Or just get a Yeti or equivalent tumbler that keeps your drink warm for hours and hours. This option is great. After getting vacuum mugs for home there is no way going back to regular mugs is going to happen. There is also no electronics to break.
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I went that way for my new coffee maker. Coffee stays hot for hours, and I never have to worry if I left the pot on.
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Beerchat in the Schad Thread had me curious:. Is there truth to the rumour that Czechvar is 'the original recipe for Budweiser'? Dunno where I heard that one.
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Mister Speaker posted:Beerchat in the Schad Thread had me curious:. you're misremembering or heard it from someone who misremembered that there's a trademark dispute for the name Budweiser between two companies, one in the US and one in the Czech republic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_trademark_dispute
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Boba Pearl posted:Vacuum hose with a dust attachment (the one with bristles around the edge.) This worked great.
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My tour guide in Prague told me the same, that Budvar was the first Budweiser. Looks like the Czech version was invented first and Budweiser is an anglicization. The two beers are also totally different, although I think the American one has gone through some major changes in the past century. It might originally have tasted and been made similar to the Czech version. Wikipedia: quote:The name Budweiser is a German derivative adjective, meaning "of Budweis". Beer has been brewed in Budweis, Bohemia (now České Budějovice, Czech Republic) since it was founded in 1265.[4] In 1876, Adolphus Busch and his friend Carl Conrad developed a "Bohemian-style" lager in the United States, inspired after a trip to Bohemia, and produced it in their brewery in St. Louis, Missouri. There might be some contention because the original was merely a specific type of beer brewed in a region. But that describes basically every beer in existence until the 1800s, branding wasn’t always a huge thing. Similar to how Champagne is a bubbly wine from the Champagne region in France. Edit: not anglicization. Germanicization? Is that a thing? Edit 2: Going down the rabbit hole here, pilsner stems from a style of light lager brewed in the Czech city Pilsen. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Apr 12, 2023 |
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Is there a goon-endoresed way/product to insulate windows? I tried one of the flimsy ones that, supposedly, shrinks with a hairdrier and I couldn't get it to work. Despite doing everything super perfectly and flawlessly, obviously. Also, it could be great in the winter but would it cause me trouble during a hot summer? My appartment is cool as it is in hot summers. Thanks in advance.
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Where can I find GOOD resources for chatgpt prompts? Someone in another thread posted about turning it into an older chatbot named Maximum and it blew my mind. I want it to write a story about Kirk Johnson devouring the universe and it won’t as it is. Failing that I’ll take the opportunity to just talk to Maximum for a while about throughly inappropriate things.
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Dawncloack posted:Is there a goon-endoresed way/product to insulate windows? I tried one of the flimsy ones that, supposedly, shrinks with a hairdrier and I couldn't get it to work. I'm going to assume here that your window actually closes and seals properly - if it doesn't, then fix that first. Anything that stops heat leaking out in the winter will also help slow heat leaking in during the summer, regardless of whether you actually want the heat or not. If your last sentence means that your apartment is generally cool during summer, then you want something that you can take down during summer - e.g. heavy, close-hung curtains (this only works if you don't need the light and are going to cost quite a bit), or removable window inserts (these only work if your window frames are straight and I have no idea how much they cost). If on the other hand you mean that it's cold in winter and hot in summer you probably have poo poo insulation in the walls and/or roof, or again you might have air leaks (bear in mind you DO need some air exchange with the outside or you'll CO2 yourself). A good, quick, cheap, and ugly test is to get some heavy-duty clear plastic dropcloth or vinyl shower curtain liner and tape or tack to the window frame - the goal here is that the air between the window and the ugly covering can't circulate with the air in the rest of the room - and that should give you about 1.5-1.8x better insulation than a single pane window. If your utility bills are high enough it might be worth dropping the money on a cheap IR camera to see where your issues are - the Aliexpress thread had a brief discussion and there's some links there for more enthusiast resources: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3806076&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=664#post528908595
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Anyone here ever signed up for Discovery+ free week trial, then cancelled? Do they make it ridiculously hard to get out of? I just want to watch exactly one show, which I've had no luck finding torrents for.
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thepopmonster posted:the goal here is that the air between the window and the ugly covering can't circulate with the air in the rest of the room - and that should give you about 1.5-1.8x better insulation than a single pane window. This is the idea behind double-paned windows as well. Expensive but would probably pay off in the long run if you live in Minnesota or the Canadian wasteland North of there.
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Dawncloack posted:Is there a goon-endoresed way/product to insulate windows? I tried one of the flimsy ones that, supposedly, shrinks with a hairdrier and I couldn't get it to work. The dropcloth thing that was posted about is basically the same as the stick-on shrink film you tried. The window frame has to be very clean and it has to be done very carefully to work right. Good luck. Apart from an IR camera, you can do a lot to check for heat loss with the back of your hand. Start with corners and edges of windows and feel for drafts. Fixing even small drafts will go a long way. Try to patch any up with stick-on weather stripping or a touch of caulk. If the pane itself is emanating cold, it's just a poorly insulating window and the shrink film thing will help somewhat; a much cheaper and easier but uglier solution is sticking bubble wrap to the glass - it will stick there pretty well with a spritz of water and leave no marks. But start with draft checking. Check any exterior doors too, drafts from those can be huge for heat loss, and can often be fixed with stick-on weather stripping, a new door sweep, or a draft snake. Or a little caulk if there are gaps around the door frame. If the door itself or the walls are emanating cold, there's not much you can do in a rental. Stick-on stuff is generally rental-friendly (though it may pull off a little paint if left on a long time). Caulk and a door sweep, I'll leave that for you to decide, but I've done touch-ups with caulk, a door sweep, and even a little Great Stuff with impunity in several rentals when the landlord dragged their feet on it. One even let me deduct the materials cost from my rent.
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I didnt mention that I own. Those are awesome suggestions,thanks!
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