Idea File Fall 2023

Five Simple Ideas for Using AI | 15

2. Enhance Photography Photography plays a crucial role in yearbooks. AI tools available online can enhance photo quality and enable more artistic creations. Photoshop , known for its photo editing capabilities, now includes AI-powered tools for object removal, background-edge detection for cutouts, composition suggestions, color palette changes and now in beta testing – Generative Fill . The Adobe Express suite, free with an education email, allows users to create eye-catching cutouts, change color palettes and draft infographics based on images. Programs like HitPaw Photo Enhancer , Icons8 and Deep Image AI upscale images by increasing image resolution and correcting imperfections like blurry images and image noise to MQTVSZI %- -J ]SY WMKRMƼGERXP] 1. Edit and Transcribe Copy Efficiently Editing copy and transcribing interviews consume a lot of time in yearbook production. AI tools can greatly expedite and streamline this process. Well-known options like ChatGPT allow easy prompts for editing any pasted text. Additionally, programs such as Ryter , CopyAI , Anyword , CopySmith and SnazzyAI offer both free and paid versions that analyze text to suggest ways to shorten or combine sentences, save valuable time and IRWYVI E GSRGMWI ERH IRKEKMRK ƼREP product. Use tools like Otter.ai to record interviews and drastically shorten the tedious transcribing process.

Final Cut. This photo makes a great cutout, except for the bottle blocking part of the sleeve. Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop removed the bottle and replaced the background in seconds. AI-powered Picsart, now available in Yearbook 360 – Online Design, then easily removed the background in one click and saved directly to the photo library. Photo credit and photo illustration: Caroline Crump using Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill

change an image, label it as a photo illustration in your photo credit and consider listing the tool you used in your colophon. Just be up front about the

resources you employ. Walsworth now offers

customers the AI- based Picsart in Yearbook 360 – Online Design for one-click cutouts and more.

Photo credit and photo illustration: Caroline Crump cutout using Picsart in Yearbook 360 – Online Design