The Photoshop master James Fridman strikes again — How many of you are familiar with James Fridman? He’s a Photoshop master who takes requests for photo edits quite literally. A graphic designer from England, Fridman is well-known for responding to photo modification requests and sharing on Twitter his hilariously unique way of interpreting the brief. You have to see them, to believe them. He’s a bit like…

So you’re off to pastures new… — I’ve seen so many stories lately about how people are leaving, kind of leaving, one foot out the door, you name it. Most are blaming the algorithm, but I think that the readers on the platform are changing. They’re done with the same stuff being rehashed by the same writers…

My handy list of shortcuts to publications guidelines. Bookmark this page. — With so many publications and so many different guidelines it’s impossible to remember them all. Even in a list on Medium I still find I’m hunting for them. So here is a hyperlinked index of my favourites. I’m adding to it all the time, so save this to your own…

A revelation from my daughter that made me think “Oh Fuck”. — I was chatting with my daughter as we are both going through a really rough time. I won’t go into details but I will tell you that she had an accident and broke her back which will take at least a year to recover from, if she ever does. On…

The future is not far away. Even this baby version of Dall-E can generate some incredible images! — Humans are visual creatures. And while computers are excellent at processing data, they’re terrible at understanding context. So, if you ask a computer to generate an image of something that doesn’t exist (or exists but has never been seen before), you’ll almost invariably get something strange. But AI is getting…

Don’t get caught on this little beauty — I’m sitting here in my lunch hour busy editing and publishing your lovely stories on Coffee Times when suddenly my phone rings. I answer… “Hello.” Nothing but some strange rustling to be heard. “Hello, Gran is that you?” I thought this because sometimes she drops the phone or takes a…

July 29th is International Tiger Day. — 1. There are now only around 3,200 wild tigers in the whole world across 13 different countries. Tiger numbers have reduced by 97% in the past 100 years. I am shocked to read this statistic — what can we do to turn this around? We are doing what we can to help — more on that later. 2. Tiger cubs are born blind and only around 50% survive. They have to follow their mother’s scent and many get…