Don’t be surprised if the LG new logo winks back at you. 

A more dynamic LG

Say hello to the new LG, literally. The company is debuting an updated animated version of its logo that can interact with its customers. 

At first look, it just seems like the same logo—with a brighter background and a flatter, 2D look. But don’t look down on the LG new logo, because it’s in the animations where the rebrand truly shines.

According to the brand, the new logo can do eight types of movement, including the ability to nod, spin, and even wink. These new functionalities can greet customers with a smile and even jive along to music when it’s presented on a digital platform. 

It’s part of their new initiative to connect and engage with a younger market. 

With this, they’ve also chosen to upgrade their branding direction–adding a new typeface for their Life’s Good brand slogan.

In a company memo, LG reaffirms its commitment to ‘Uncompromising Customer Experience,’ ‘Human-centered Innovation’ and ‘Warmth to Power a Smile.’  

Their solution? A new logo that we think perfectly captures the young and vibrant branding the company is going for. 

Apart from that, the Korean corporation also reveals that it will use a secondary color–the LG Active Red–in more packaging and communication efforts. 

Bouncing logo courtesy of LG

In a statement, CEO William Cho said, “Implementing the new brand strategy, LG aims to become an iconic brand that resonates with consumers transcending generations and locations.”  

We’re always down to see corporations add small tweaks to their logos. And we think this one’s ingenious for the logo’s interactivity and friendliness. 

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This time, it’s everyone’s favorite orange-flavored soda, Fanta. 

The direction of the rebrand was led by Coca-Cola’s in-house design team, with design input from the following designers: 

• JKR for packaging and imagery
• Lucas Wakamatsu for illustrations
• Gretel for motion identity
• Colophon for typography
• Tim Marsella for lifestyle photography 
• Martin Wonnacott for product photography

Here’s how Coca-Cola gave its second-oldest brand a facelift. 

Bye-bye, orange

Photo from The Coca-Cola Company

After years of the iconic orange symbol, Fanta is bidding the citrus fruit icon goodbye. Gone is the iconic orange and green leaf, instead, they have updated it into a simplified version of the wordmark.

The typography was also slightly updated, replaced with a lighter hue of blue and a more trendy, 2D typeface.

Like other rebrands, Fanta has adopted more flexible brand colors. Its background color changes depending on the flavors that they present. The result is a rich palette of colors ranging from orange (OG orange flavor) to purple (grape flavor)

Along with the change in background, the wordmark is accompanied by an illustration of the fruits, as well as a water drop-shaped splash that changes color depending on the flavor. 

A more playful Fanta

Photo from The Coca-Cola Company

‘Spontaneous play’ is at the heart of Fanta’s 2023 rebrand. With bright colors and an almost funky feel, it’s hard not to look at it and not be reminded of your favorite Cartoon Network show in the early aughts.

It’s a small and subtle nod to the GenZ nostalgia craze, perfectly capturing the brand’s young and fun brand message. 

Product photography and brand illustrations also emphasize the young and refreshing vibe. 

Overall, the new Fanta is bold and vibrant, with striking color combinations and bold visual imagery that celebrates its dedication to playfulness. 

Branding for a global market

Photo from The Coca-Cola Company

In a press release,  Lisa Smith, the global executive creative director of JFK, said their team was “inspired by the idea of bringing playfulness to consumers of all ages when we started to ideate around how to bring the brand’s purpose to the masses.”

Fanta has always adopted multiple flavors depending on the country it’s distributed in. For instance, Fanta drinks outside the US have real orange juice, while the American version has none. They also add regional tweaks to their flavors, depending on the area. 

Fanta is a sub-brand of The Coca-Cola Company, home to other consumer goods brands like Minute Maid, Sprite, and Powerade, to name a few.  

And that’s the whole Fanta rebrand explained. We love how legacy brands are embracing a more playful and young brand direction. 

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Coming at the heels of major rebrands from Nokia, Wise, and Burberry, the new Pepsi look is an ode to its past versions in the 60s. 

The logo was announced ahead of the company’s 125th anniversary this August. The new look will debut in the United States and Canada this fall, while the global distribution is set to start in 2024. We’ve only seen visuals for the new cans, but so far, we love it.

Here’s why. 

Pepsi Logo History

Pepsi is a staple in every department store and in most fast-food chains. And that’s why we’re all familiar with Pepsi’s iconic blue and red color scheme. The familiarity may be due in part because its last rebrand was waaay back in 2008. 

Credit to Pepsi.Co

The old logo featured a minimalistic bottle cap logo with the iconic swirl, as well as a simple sans serif typeface and a muted color palette. Want to find the brand’s favorite typefaces? Read about the top font trends here.

Meanwhile, the new logo leans heavily into a darker color story. According to Pepsi, they added the “electric blue and black to bring contrast, vibrancy, and a contemporary edge to the classic Pepsi color scheme.” Apart from that, the new logo features a custom typeface that calls back to Pepsi’s signature bold and black lettering.

The integration of black also highlights Pepsi’s commitment to promoting Pepsi Zero Sugar. 

Todd Kaplan, the Chief Marketing Officer of Pepsi remarked, “A lot of people don’t even notice the black is there.”

He added “It’s an intentional color we added in with Zero Sugar, which will be the lead brand we use marketing. It can act as a master brand statement.

Old-school Pepsi is back

With the hype around nostalgia marketing, it’s no surprise that the company is taking the retro route. In fact, the current logo draws heavy inspiration from the Pepsi logo in the 60s. 

Since its establishment in 1898, the Pepsi logo has gone through several changes. It was only in 1950, that the iconic bottle cap was introduced. Sometime later, they added in the iconic black Pepsi typeface that we love today. 

Pepsi’s old logo in the 50s

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Legacies and beyond

Apart from its focus on Zero Sugar, the new logo also showcases Pepsi’s legacy in pop culture.

A significant feature of the new look is a Pepsi background display with a pulse. This signature ‘Pepsi pulse’ is an homage to the connection between the brand and music. Case in point: it sponsored the Super Bowl Halftime show for 10 years until Apple Music took over last year. 

Over the years, it has also stayed consistent–often using artists in its largest ad campaigns. In 2021, the company founded the Pepsi Music Lab to help train and give opportunities to aspiring pop stars.

Besides that, the logo is also meant to be used in both print and digital ads.

Mauro Porcini, the company’s Chief Design Officer, said, “It looks like a badge that you can wear or put on equipment (but) is very aligned to the latest trends in terms of visual communications.”

And there you have it—a brief Pepsi logo explanation for the logo geeks out there.

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Following the footsteps of DALLE-2, Midjourney, and other art generators, Adobe recently announced its own version of the innovative art model. Meet Adobe Firefly.

Launched last March 21, this generative AI art tool allows Adobe users to generate images and text effects for their design projects. This beta version can be fully integrated with other Adobe worksites. For now, you might be able to see it in Adobe Express, Adobe Experience Manager, Photoshop and Illustrator.  

While the current version is focused on images and texts, Adobe will soon enable a content creation feature with plenty of customizable options, which makes it a great tool for graphic artists and small businesses.  

Read more: How Generative Design Can Enhance Custom Design Work

What is Adobe Firefly 

It’s important to note that this is just the beginning of Adobe’s ventures in AI technology. Firefly is the first in a series of new Adobe Sensei services. After all, this isn’t the first time Adobe is dipping its feet into AI capabilities. 

In fact, they have used this tech to create the following Creative Cloud features:

• Photoshop (Neural Filters)
• After Effects (Content Aware Fill)
• Adobe Experience Platform (Attribution AI)
• Acrobat (Liquid Mode)

Furthermore, in a press statement, David Wadhani, president of the Digital Media Business at Adobe said, “With Firefly, Adobe will bring generative AI-powered ‘creative ingredients’ directly into customers’ workflows, increasing productivity and creative expression for all creators from high-end creative professionals to the long tail of the creator economy.”

Like any other generative AI tool, you input instructions and give the machine a few seconds. Firefly seamlessly integrates into your current workflows, making it an ideal assistant to your design work. 

Current capabilities

The beta version released two days ago is capable of generating high-quality images and dynamic text effects. Once an image is produced, users will be able to tweak the aspect ratio, choose a content type (photo, graphic, art), and even apply a design style. 

According to Adobe, the current Firefly version is “trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and public domain content where copyright has expired”. The company said that the professional-grade and licensed images will help ensure that Adobe Firefly won’t create content based on other people’s intellectual property.

In the future, Adobe sees Firefly as a content creation tool. One where users can train Firefly with their own brand collateral, so it can generate content in line with their brand story. 

Here are some other generative AI capabilities that will explore:

• Rendering 3D compositions into images
• Creating variations of 3D objects
• Generating branded content templates for social media
• Exploring text-based video edits 
• Generating vectors, brushes, and elements from text and sketches
• Creating context-aware image editing tools

Accountability and protection guidelines

Generative art has come under fire for some questionable design applications. However, Adobe has some solutions to provide an accountable and transparent creative environment.  

In line with this, Adobe is also advocating for open industry standards through its Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). To promote proper content attribution, Adobe will introduce a “Do Not Train” tag for artists who do not want their style to be used for model training. 

This is following an intense backlash from artists who have accused AI of generative art tools to promote the proliferation of plagiarised content. 

Once Firefly is out of the beta stage, Adobe said that it will also introduce a compensation model for its creators. 

The verdict

Adobe Firefly is a great tool for beginners, small marketing teams, and students who want quick turnarounds. It’s also suitable for pro artists to assist them on their art journey. Unlike some AI art generators, Adobe Firefly’s friendly UI helps you navigate and tweak your concepts with ease.

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The Australian startup announced last Thursday that it is launching a new ‘Magic’ suite of features to the Canva platform. The new capabilities are smart and will be powered by AI technology to bring an easier design experience. Here’s how they are planning to shake up the design industry.

Along with the announcement, the startup reported that it also reached $1.6 billion in revenue.

Canva brings ‘magic’ to AI

The ten-year-old startup has been a mainstay in the graphic design conversation. Since it innovated its signature drag-and-drop visual design model, it has garnered 

In a Sydney event, the company introduced a range of AI features under the collective name ‘Magic”. Here’s a quick rundown of the site’s most exciting new capabilities.

• • Magic Design: creates personalized design templates from an image
  • Magic Presentation: creates slideshow presentations from an instruction prompt
  • Magic Write: generates blog, captions, and content ideas

Aside from this, users can also use AI capabilities to translate texts in 100 languages, polish up illustrations with an AI drawing assistant, and easily replace or remove elements from an image. It also has the tried and true tested text-to-image generator feature that’s similar to Midjourney and DALL-E 2.

It’s important to note that Canva is familiar with working with AI technology. Since 2019, it has worked with the Austrian startup Kaleido AI to implement its drag-and-drop background removal feature. 

How to use the new ‘Magic’ tools

The new tools are introduced on the get-go, once you are inside Canva’s home page. The tools are Here are some tips to make your designs really meet you where you want them.

1. Magic Design

Magic Design operates as any other AI image-generating tool. Simply input a detailed and specific prompt to get to the image you want. The more detailed your instruction is, the better. This isn’t the best alternative when you’re looking for a top-quality image, but it’s good enough if you want a simple illustration fast.

Product template generated by Magic Design

2. Magic Presentation

Canva does already have an existing feature where it lets users create their own brand book. However, Magic Presentation makes it easier for teams to create custom decks that fit their brand guide.  Apart from that, the Magic tool also curates its presentation designs depending on your topic. 

Here’s an example we tried where using the prompt, “graphic design trends presentation with a y2k aesthetic’. Since the instruction box has a maximum of 100 characters, it’s best to max out your prompt to really give the tool the chance to understand your design needs.

Presentation template generated by Magic Design

Presentation template generated by Magic Design

3. Magic Write

This is Canva’s answer to current writing tools in the market. To make a copy that fits your standards, make sure to add specific details such as what tone you prefer, and don’t be afraid to ask for more examples. Apart from that, this AI text generator is also a great way to assist your brain when you’re tired from all the brainstorming.

Here’s what the tool came up with when we asked it to create a “list of social media ad campaign ideas on a new line of lipstick products for a Y2K brand.”

The verdict

Canva AI tools are the future. Specifically, it’s made with the future of brand content creation in mind. As the demand for more visual content grows, it’s crucial for companies to adapt to the changing global market.

That means more content tailor-fit for a wider and more diverse audience.

With these new features, designers can have more free time to engage in creative pursuits, rather than be locked in menial works of editing images, changing brand colors manually, or creating client presentations from scratch.

Commenting about the new AI tools, CEO Melanie Perkins said, “I think brands are going to start asking different things from agencies, and different things from a graphic designer.”

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Social apps are nothing new for the very terminally online community. For the most part, people are quick to throw themselves into an app with a new setup. See BeReal. 

Bondee is a bit different. It blends cute cartoon graphics and customized avatars so you can hang out in a virtual space with your friends. 

Bondee: A quick glance

The primary allure of the app is its avatar-based game design. Users can customize their avatar’s appearance and clothing. You can choose from various hairstyles, pick your hair color, and even change your facial features. 

To amp up your individuality, you’re also given the ability to choose your outfits. The clothing choices are a bit bare bones–but with a few accessories, you can create your own unique look. The app also has limited edition clothes and hair options you can try out. 

In this virtual space, you’re free to socialize with your friends as you wish. 

The basic game elements–explained

Bondee isn’t exactly something you play. It’s more of a virtual world where you can mimic a more personal connection with your friends. Here’s some photos from Bondee to explain how things work. 

• Status update. Want to see an avatar cuddle a cat,  get a coffee drip, or simply float in the air? You can update your avatar’s status to reflect what you’re feeling.  You can also type in a text bubble or upload a photo of what you’re doing to let your friends know 
• Rooms. Players also get to design their own rooms and have friends visit them. You’re given a selection of furniture and other items to design with. You can even add your own photos and elements if you wish. 
• Floating. Want some serious me time? Then head out in a rowboat and take a quick trip to nowhere. The farther out you row, the more items you can pick up along the way. 
• Viewing experience. Everything in Bondee is viewable from a 360-degree perspective. On your home page, you can view your and your friend’s avatars. You can even switch to a room view and watch them hang out in their rooms. 
• Chat feature. Aside from having conversations, the chat feature allows you to control your avatars’ interactions and customize your background, and just chill.

Currently, Bondee only allows you to add 50 friends. And all of the graphics are made to match the Bondee aesthetic. If you don’t get it yet, Bondee’s 3D art style is heavily Y2K inspired. 

Why Bondee’s 3D art style is trending 

The secret is in its 3D cartoon graphics. It’s reminiscent of other cute cozy games like Animal Crossing. And let’s be real, we all love good bubble-shaped graphics. The avatars’ round shape and bounciness are a serious serotonin boost. 

Moreover, the pastel color story of the game also lends another cutesy factor. The logo and loading elements come in colorful little blobs with minimal facial features. Suffice it to say, the in-game graphics are something that industry watchdogs aren’t surprised to see. After all, 3D animations and graphics are set to be one of 2023’s most popular trends. 

Read more: The 10 Most Famous Graphic Design Trends in 2023

The Instagram invite template also has a retro style, calling back the Y2K aesthetic. All of these work together to create a cohesive visual identity that’s perfect for the new generation. 

More than the graphics though, it’s the game design that makes it so friendly. When you acquire a number of friends in the app, it’s quite satisfying to see your small community thrive online. Whether it’s just in idle mode or when you see your friends update their statuses, it’s just another layer of connectedness that keeps you happy. 

Overall, the only con of this app is that it can take a toll on old smartphones because of its advanced graphics. 

How brands are using Bondee

If there’s one thing that people will do in social apps, it’s to make memes out of it. You can see random people turning their rooms into storefronts with government certificates to boot. Other individuals are using Bondee to create different room concepts. In short, it’s endless creativity and meme potential. 

Even brands are joining in on the fun. They are customizing their own avatars and rooms to reflect their own branding. Take Meralco, an energy giant in the Philippines. Their marketing team cleverly used the Bondee hype to spread awareness about the current electricity bills in the country. 

Meralco

Mr. BoySpecialTea

An intro to the metaverse

Nobody fully understands how the metaverse works yet, but Bondee’s  3D art style may be a sweet introduction to the kind of reality tech giants are trying to create. Bondee was developed by a Singapore-based firm called Metadream.  

On its official website, the company describes Bondee as a game meant for you to “live with your friends” in a “brand new digital world”. Sounds familiar right? 

The app is also supposed to be able to manage NFTs, though it’s unclear how that element ties into their current game design. Whatever it is, one thing is for sure. The game is simple, approachable, and fun–it’s a type of thing that anyone can try out. 

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They described their new tool as

“based on a sequence-to-sequence network which takes source spectrograms as input and generates spectrograms of the translated content in the target language.”

And while the reception has been overwhelming, the new speech translator is in its early days as not much is known about it.

Google has an iffy reputation with speech translations. Google Translate may have advanced since its launch but is often described as rough, broken, and sometimes useless. Awkward language translations have often become a joke on the internet.

Not to mention, other translators exists often to counter Google Translate’s inability to produce good grammar. Which makes us question: “How would Google’s Translatotron fare against speech translations?” It’s interesting considering how the process of translation works.

The Humanity in AI Translation

Previously, we have reported on the rise of voice search marketing and how it’s changing digital marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The current SEO practice uses chopped-up words that would never make sense in a sentence (often a joke among us copywriters).

That’s because we use Google Search in a quirky way. When we type whatever we’re searching for, we don’t type whole sentences. It takes too much time and even if we type loose fragments, a search comes up anyway.

With voice search, whether it’s Alexa, Siri, Bixby, or Cortana, we use full sentences. “Siri, what’s the weather forecast today?” “Alex, play Despacito”. These sentences have a different tone and grammar compared to Google Search. Voice search can lead to different intent depending on how words were said. Because humanity in the language is present when we speak.

Google Translate, Google’s text AI translator has been criticized for often making incomplete or wrong translations between languages. The resulting language often ends up requiring a native speaker to correct the grammar and word usage. That’s because when we talk like how we talk to Alexa, we talk like humans. The humanity in AI translation is often missing.

AI Translation on Lost Languages

Recently, AI researchers tried to translate a language from 3500 years ago. The hypothesis was if AI could translate modern languages, it could translate previous languages used by ancient civilizations. The tests concluded that the AI performed better when less data was placed on the progenitor compared to the initial thought the AI translation was at its maximum potential by having more data. They called this technique the ‘minimum-cost flow’.

While this applies to AI speech translations, it speaks volumes about the idea that AI can replicate humans by having more data on its progenitor, something humans are biologically capable of doing. This could mean that AI translation works best when used for a specific purpose, rather than hoping one tool could fix everything.

What the Translatotron Promises

According to Google’s official page, the translation from end-to-end for the Translatotron follows this system:

1. automatic speech recognition – to transcribe the source speech as text
2. machine translation – to translate the transcribed text into the target language, and
3. text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) – to generate speech in the target language from the translated text.

It promises the ability to communicate across different languages, translating one speech into another speech. What’s interesting is that the Translatotron uses a spectrogram, a visual representation of the spectrum of sound frequencies. They use these frequencies as the basis for their translations. And that the new AI also “bypasses intermediary text” to allow the translation to become more straightforward.

The goal of AI is to allow people to talk in different languages without difficulty. Although Google has been ambitious and adamant with its AI translation tools, the result often ends up rough on the edges.

The Future of AI Translation

The research for better AI has not ended. Though we have not received any updates about the Translatotron since its announcement, there was significant interest among people since then. The future of AI translation is unclear but surely isn’t bleak. The Translatotron opens up opportunities for Google’s AI translation and who knows, maybe in the future, we can finally communicate in perfect harmony—machine and human.

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The up-and-coming Adobe prototypes and works in progress were revealed at Adobe Max in LA this year which included an unexpected feature of animated brushes that were able to showcase the weather in real-time.

There was a big mix of exclusive news, massive concerts, and well-known people that comprise Adobe MAX. MAX Sneaks are still one of the most awaited and get people the most excited and that proved to be true again this year.

The visitors were surprised with a variety of Adobe’s latest developments that were revealed to us by the famous US comedian Tiffany Hadish as the theme of the night was the 90s Back to School feel. The features presented are only ‘sneak previews’ and are still in the works so don’t expect these apps and tools to be part of the recently released CC 2019 which was also announced during the event.

Despite that, there are some of these that will most likely make it by next year like Project Puppetron from last year’s event actually made it as a part of Character Animator this year in Beta Form. As of the moment, let us all just enjoy a sneak peek of these mind-boggling features along with videos for a full experience.

BRUSH BOUNTY

Brush Bounty. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9GUnQvkQOc

First up we have this amazing tool that just blew our minds. You can imagine this in a setting wherein you are creating a cityscape or a landscape and you want to be able to add animated rain falling. This would usually mean that would animate this movement frame by frame which takes a long time. This tool will allow you to immediately apply the rain on a static scene. It also has other features like snow, and stars twinkling in the night sky among others that were featured in the demo.

This in itself is already wild and amazing but furthermore, you can actually have this rainfall reflect real-time rain. This shows what is happening anywhere in the world at that specific moment. When you pass a URL feed from a weather site, you can have it look as if it’s raining in London or New York. You may even adjust the detail of the density of the rain or the snow. You can also adjust the speed as it is falling in.

Another feature they added is automated sound effects that come with each brush. It even has a mobile version and this allows you to change the direction your character’s hair is blowing in. You can do this by simply moving your phone from left to right. It almost seems unreal but the applications of these are endless. You can make use of elements moving in the hands of your phone.

PROJECT FAST MASK

Project Fast Mask. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPVx4Tg9EZ0

The next app is one to be utilized by video creators and it also got great feedback at Sneaks. This is Fast Mask and it allows you to create a selection mask in real-time within any footage you have. You just have to set the boundary clicks on your moving figure in the video. From there the mask is instantly applied in every frame of your video so it’s a quick process that is a fast mask for sure.

PROJECT GOOD BONES

Good bones. Source: https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/creative-software/adobe-max-sneaks-2018/

This tool will be adored by animators. Why? It easily lets you create a skeleton for a figure with just a few additions of boundary clicks. If you want to make your dinosaur roar or a dog to bark, Good Bones will allow you to do that by simply creating this unseen ‘skeletal’ layer under the outer form and there you go! Feel free to animate movements away.

FANTASTIC FOLD

Fantastic Fold. Source: https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/creative-software/adobe-max-sneaks-2018/

You can always believe in Sneaks to be able to showcase tools that may be used by any creative. This creates a great and efficient solution for all those package designers. Fantastic Fold is able to show you a side by side comparison of both a 2D flat plan versus a 3D model. This will also show a preview of how your piece will look when you fold all the die-lines together. This is a sure way to utilize your logo and branding. If you need more help in designing a logo, you can check out an article here.

No need to get confused as to whether each part is facing right side up or if it folds together cohesively. This tool will easily let you get a preview of the whole package.

PROJECT SMOOTH OPERATOR

Smooth Operators. Source: https://youtu.be/DL-K4q0D0Ek

This is a great tool for all you social video makers. With the use of Sensei, this tool can actually track whatever you main subject is in the video to ensure that it won’t get ‘lost’ among the social app cropping parameters. This means the your subject is able to stay as the focal point of attention. This is because the border frame will follow the things you actually want the people to focus on without getting lost in the corner.

PROJECT WALTZ

Project Waltz. Source: https://fstoppers.com/news/adobe-sneaks-shows-amazing-tech-might-be-coming-soon-297550

Always wanted to be the ‘cameraman’ in your VR scape? Waltz allows that to happen as it is an amazing VR viewer that lets you control the views you want with simple gestures at the palm of your phone as it becomes the camera. This would be a fascinating phone app as it showcases your VR model from various angles like the rear or the side views.

FONTPHORIA

Fontphoria. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d2nyeOrHzc

For all you font enthusiasts, this is a creative way to play around with typography. You can edit just one character and this change is applied along with all the text in your design. This change is also tracked when you decide to add letter to what you’re creating so there’s no need to repeat the process.

At this point, it’s already super useful but of course, there’s more. Fontphrobia allows you to generate glyphs from an existing photo. If you see a great font while waiting for your bus or in the café near you. You can simply take a photo and the font can be used as the program actually generates the whole alphabet instantly.

Another amazing feature is the ability to edit the text while in a live video stream- this means you can stamp live video from the iPad with characters and be able to resize them and color it the way you want while recording.

MOVING STILLS

Moving Stills. Source: https://www.diyphotography.net/adobes-new-moving-stills-sneak-peek-lets-you-move-the-camera-after-youve-shot-the-photo/

This will give you the ability to animate any photo. This makes it seem like you’re zooming into the actual image. It creates a vibe of a video close-up as you can zoom towards your focal point. The photo then becomes a looping GIF which looks like actual video footage.

With all this, it’s easy to think that AI might really take over graphic design but there is a lot more to that and you can read here if you want to know more. This makes you think how close we are to moving photos like Harry Potter’s Daily Prophet newspaper so I’m sure you’re all just as excited to see these features for use at everyone’s fingertips.

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