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![]() ![]() However you slice it, that sounds like AI image editing to me. Others, like Lensa's ability to detect whether you shot a portrait or a landscape, rely on far simpler image recognition algorithms.Įither way, at the core, these photo editors are relying on AI techniques like machine learning to create an intelligent and automated image editing experience. For example, Photoshop's new Generative Fill works the exact same way as DALL♾ 2 or Stable Diffusion. Some of these features rely heavily on AI. Selecting or masking your subject, so you can make hands-on edits. Repairing or colorizing old black-and-white photos. "Improving" faces by smoothing skin, brightening eyes, and making other tweaks. Replacing the sky with a different one, and matching the lighting in the rest of the image.Īutomatically making simple adjustments to light levels, colors, and contrast. Upscaling and sharpening low-resolution or blurry images.ĭetecting whether you took a portrait, a landscape, or some other kind of photo and suggesting appropriate edits or tools.Ĭutting your subject out from the background with a single click. So what kind of things can they do? Here are some of the major AI photo editing software features you'll see in these apps. Unlike AI art generators, which rely on some major recent advances, most AI image editing features are based on iterative updates to older technologies. Take Photoshop: Content Aware Fill was added in 2010, the first AI-powered "Neural Filters" were launched in 2020, and many of its most powerful features rely on some level of machine learning. Pixlr for an easy-to-use online AI editorĪI photo editing has been around for a long time. ![]() Luminar Neo for an AI-powered photo editor The best AI photo editorsĪdobe Photoshop for a full-featured photo editing and design app I've been testing and using AI photo editors (and AI features in standard photo editors) since they've been available.įor this article, I spent more time testing all the options out there, and based on that experience, these are the best AI photo editors. As a photographer, I've been shooting and editing images for nearly 15 years, and a huge amount of my writing career has actually been about photography. ![]()
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Battle of azeroth tanks rankings10/9/2023 ![]() Move it up or down to suit your own situation. If you are tanking heroic raids, you don’t need to leave the slider at the “heroic” marker. It should also make the toughness threshold slider behave a bit more predictably – as you slide it notch by notch, you should see a more gradual shift from one set of defense-oriented stats towards offense-oriented stats.Īlso note that the labels on the toughness slider are very rough suggestions. If they rank so close together… why not go with the more predictable result? We agree! So that is what this update attempts to do. That said, we think people would prefer if the optimizer tended towards solutions that match up with the suggested stats. Same goes for any of the secondary stats. If you drop 500 vers to get 500 mastery… you will have a hard time telling the difference in-game. This tends to happen more often with tanks – there is a lot more “fuzz” with stat combinations in general for tanks. ![]() This is because there are other combinations of stats that are just as good… it just so happens that more combinations are different than the solution it found. We show you the “stat suggestion” next to your Best in Bags solution that indicates which combinations of stats tend to score the best, and where you might want to go with your gear.īut sometimes… the optimizer picks something different than the suggestion. ![]() Our optimizer uses a lot of simulation data and a lot of statistical analysis to find combinations of special effects and stats that rank well. We posted an update today with some significant ranking updates for tanks. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Tiger Ace solo challenge revolves around strategic use of an early production Tiger Tank, while the Destroy Convoy challenge is just what the label says. The Voronezh scenario has you and another player coordinate infantry and vehicles to take over a Russian city. ![]() it contains two solo challenges, two AI battles, and one co-op scenario. Based off of the real-life German campaign on the Eastern Front, it documents the Wehrmacht’s attempts to capture the oil-rich Caucasus region. The “Case Blue” DLC focuses on single-player and co-op maps. Now, Relic’s helping make sure that the battles never have to end with a few free multiplayer maps and a DLC mini-pack. However, that was months ago, more than enough time to win a virtual war. We here at The Escapist liked Company of Heroes 2 a lot, even if Russia didn’t. ![]() The “Case Blue” Theater of War DLC mini-pack adds new maps, on top of the free ones recently added. ![]()
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Legacy dredge 202010/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Some decks will run some other Dredge cards such as Darkblast, but the above 3 are the ones that are seen in every Dredge deck. Because Dredge only functions in the graveyard, you typically want cards that draw you cards, AND make you discard cards, so you can Dredge them again next turn. This is often achieved with cards that have a large Dredge N, and other cards that allow you to draw cards. ![]() And with Dredge, you want to mill as much cards as you can. “Dredge N” means “As long as you have at least N cards in your library, if you would draw a card, you may instead put N cards from the top of your library into your graveyard and return this card from your graveyard to your hand.” 702.50b A player with fewer cards in his or her library than the number required by a dredge ability can’t put any of them into his or her graveyard this way.īasically, what Dredge means is that “skip drawing a card, mill X cards”. Dredge 702.50a Dredge is a static ability that functions only while the card with dredge is in a player’s graveyard. Here are the relevant comprehensive rules for Dredge: 702.50. We’ll go over each element of Dredge individually. I will list some basic techniques with Dredge so you will be familiar with what they’re doing and why, but not detailed strategy to play this deck.ĭredge is a graveyard-based deck that focuses on the synergy between the Dredge mechanic and tons of other cards that do things while in the graveyard. One last note, this is more of just explaining WHAT Dredge does, not HOW to play Dredge this is more explanation than strategy. But if you saw his list and questioned what the deck even did, then here we go. This article is a primer on Dredge, of sorts - again if you already know why people were questioning Prosak’s list and his specific card choices, then this article isn’t for you. One minute the Dredge player lands a Putrid Imp, then they’re discarding their whole hand? And milling themselves? Wait what, now they’re attacking with 8 2/2s? What on earth just happened here? An odd choice for Prosak, and for newer players can be one of the most confusing decks to play against. The familiar Adam Prosak won the SCG Legacy Open: Cincinnati piloting none other than Dredge. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You'll choose your personality traits, gender (with a "classified" option with gender-neutral pronouns), and appearance. While we see the return of familiar characters and have a few new ones as allies, you will be playing as your own character that you create and customize. Now Playing: Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - Official Reveal Trailer It's a direct sequel to the original Black Ops, and the setup has Soviet Russia and the United States amid tensions of nuclear war playing dangerous spy games with each other through covert ops, which is what you'll be taking part in.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's As you can see in the trailer below, the game brings back familiar faces such as Mason, Woods, and Hudson for a globe-trotting story that's set in the 1980s with certain parts going back to 1968 during the Vietnam War. Its first trailer debuted early this morning during an in-game event in Warzone.Ĭold War is the Call of Duty: Black Ops subseries' return to a conspiracy-laden story in a single-player campaign. What we do know is Cold War is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in Holiday 2020, "depending on when consoles are available to consumers," according to Activision. The game is also coming to next-gen platforms, but the exact date is still up in the air. The Treyarch and Raven Software FPS will launch for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on November 13, 2020. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's release date has been confirmed as part of the game's big announcement event. ![]()
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Diablo 2 countess hell immune10/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Possibly Chaos Sanctuary runs, though this may be a bit slow.Do Countess runs in Act 1 to farm runes, transmute them, and make lower end runewords.Things I suggest you do if you take this route are: Although there's a large amount of monsters with lightning immunity in Hell, making it difficult to get very far without "super great items", this will help you easily do magic find runs on Nightmare mode until you get better gear. One thing you can try to do is to re-spec into a Trap Assassin, primarily using the Lightning sentries to kill monsters. You could probably do some sort of fun PvM build by making a bear sin (Beast runeword weapon with Pride helm and/or shield), though those pieces of equipment are quite expensive. In general, melee Assassin builds are better served for PvP rather than PvM. Pretty much all builds will struggle in Hell without some decent gear to put on your character. Hopefully, you have those Forgotten Tower waypoints activated because you’ll be using them a lot.Unfortunately, Diablo 2 is a very, very item dependent game, which is probably why you are struggling on Hell mode. Once you relaunch Diablo 2: Resurrected again entirely, then you can get back to farming The Countess. However, every time you kill her, you have to grab your loot, then save and close your game. Unlike some other grind-heavy games, you don’t have to wait a certain time period for her to respawn. Now, farming The Countess is a lot more annoying than it is time-consuming. ![]() If you don’t have escape skills like Teleport, be careful while fighting her, because she can get close and cause a lot more damage than you expect. Keep in mind that she’s no chump on the battlefield. She might not be a traditional, Prime Evil boss, but she is a Superunique monster, so she’ll always spawn and it will always be in the same place. Once you reach Cellar Level 5, she should be somewhere on the floor. The Forgotten Tower is an iconic part of The Black Marsh in Act 1. The Countess can be found at the bottom of The Forgotten Tower (ironic concept, yes). ![]()
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![]() This feature is still quite rare to see on switch. This is definitely doable on 7th gen consoles (Remember Me and some cross-gen CoD titles?), but I feel most materials are not well authored as the artists were not very familiar with the concept? It might also be the limitation of bandwidth if they want to squeeze all the PBR parameters into the GBuffer if using deferred rendering, and the texture fetching cost due due to the high quality IBL. Mario Odyssey (improved a lot from 3d World), Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (XCX was still non-PBR), Mario Kart/Party/Sports Games. Nintendo's 1st/2nd party games are really good at authoring high quality PBR materials, e.g. ![]() Doesn't require too much more performance, but makes the materials' surface properties look closer to real world. ![]() This kinda means any graphic improvements we seen on switch games mainly come from the advance of rendering technologies, and I'm wondering what are some techs that are not commonly seen in PS3/360 era?ĭefinitely the source of the biggest visual improvement (and quite frankly, modern mobile games benefit a lot from it as well). Yet the hardware feature level is roughly on-par with 8th gen consoles (dx12 level gpu features). ![]() Usually say the portable performance is slightly higher than ps3 and the docked performance roughly doubles (not super accurate as we know the memory bandwidth is not improved as much). Limited by the handheld form, switch has a quite weaker power compared to the others. It's always interesting for me to check out Switch games, especially exclusives or the ones treating NS as the primary platform for development. ![]()
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Call of duty: black ops cold war steam10/8/2023 ![]() Leading the coalition was the United States of America. 1991, the Gulf War is officially understood to be an armed campaign carried out by a 39-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Beginning on Augand running until February 28. Not clear if this means the game is safe to play, but the person who was exploiting the IP hack/crashing the game has shut down their hack tool. In other words, they have some type of access to information and media coming out of Activision and the various studios that work on the first-person shooter series.Įchoing previous rumors, the leaker claims the game will take place during the Gulf War, a conflict not many are familiar with compared to more prominent, and heavily featured, conflicts like the Vietnam War and both World Wars. Activision Blizzard has sent a cease & desist to lergware, the person behind the attacks on Black Ops Cold War. And the reason people listen to this leaker is because they leaked our first images of this year's game, a reboot of Modern Warfare 3. The new rumor comes the way of a leaker that goes by the name " CoD_Perseus" on Twitter. ![]() And if you've been paying attention to the Call of Duty 2024 rumor mill, the rumored setting will not surprise you. ![]() A new Call of Duty 2024 rumor has surfaced online, potentially revealing the setting of next year's COD game. ![]()
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Adobe photoshop pro cs6 free download10/7/2023 ![]() Adobe has also added a Camera RAW sub-application that provides the user with better control over their RAW images. The software's algorithm will do all of the work, effectively moving the object and filling in the empty space with a believable background based on the surround areas.Īn extension of the content-aware mode called extend (no pun intended) allows you to lengthen an object in the scene by grabbing and stretching it. Content-aware allows the user to select an object and move it to a different location in the photo. Last month Adobe demonstrated a couple of impressive new features known as content-aware move and the extend tool, both of which are included in CS6. ![]() ![]() The latest installment of the popular photo editing software for PC and Mac is said to have 60 percent more features than CS5 including around 65 user-requested features. Adobe has released a beta version of Photoshop CS6 that is free to download and try. ![]()
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Modern fish tank design10/7/2023 ![]() The fresh water fishes endemic to Gujarat will be given prominence among the indigenous varieties. The fresh water section will be comprises of indigenous & exotic varities. it has envisaged the idea to establish a bigger & modern facility at Jagdish Chandra Bose Udhyan to captivate & display Marine, Brakish & Fresh water fishes along with other aquatic flora & fauna for the purpose of conservation, education, research & recreation. MULTIDISCIPLINARY AQUARIUM PROJECT The New ConceptĪs old aquarium does not fulfill the criteria of national & international standard & not scientifically competent to display wide variety of aqua life. ![]() This aquarium was damaged severly during dreades flood-2006, which has again been up dated by the efforts of zoo & aquarium staff with the valuable guidence of the superiors and support of competent authority. ![]() ![]() It contains 36 nos.of beautiful aquarium boxes, in which 36 varities of fresh water ornamental fishes have been displayed in simulated, safe & secured environment. The exiting Aquarium is an integral unit & aqua part of Dr.Shyamprasad Mukerjee Zoological Garden & is situated at Kasturba Gandhi Bal Udhyan, popularly known as Pakshighar (old mini zoo, Chowk Bazar.Being located in the heart of the Surat City, it attracts more & more children from the walled city area of Surat. ![]() |