AI: An Artist’s Friend or Foe? | Dan Jeffries, CIO of Stability.ai (Stable Diffusion)
By School of Motion
Published: Jan 04, 2023“
AI has finally come to the world of art, but what does that really mean for artists? Will it be the friend we’ve always wanted by eliminating monotonous tasks and speeding up workflows? Or will it turn out to be a foe and make digital artists obsolete? Joey sits down with Daniel Jeffries, CIO of Stability.ai, to discuss the real-world use cases of artificial intelligence and the moral, ethical, and philosophical ramifications of AI art.
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[#AfterEffects #Video] How To Make A Progress Bar In After Effects | Easy Tutorial
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By Learnin5
Published: May 22, 2017“
Quick and easy tutorial on how to create a basic progress bar with counting numbers in After Effects.
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[#AfterEffects #Video] How To Make Flat Shadows in After Effects | Easy Tutorial
How To Make Flat Shadows in After Effects | Easy Tutorial
By Learnin5
Published: Apr 13, 2017“
Quick and easy tutorial on how to create long shadows in after effects. It’s a great 2d long shadow effect for motion graphics and you can apply to any shape layer without plugins or presets!
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[#Photoshop #Tutorial] Keep One Color in Photoshop [No Masks Needed!]
Keep One Color in Photoshop [No Masks Needed!]
By Photoshop Training Channel
Published: Jun 01, 2022“
In this video, you will learn an easy trick to make an image black and white and keep one color.
With the Hue and Saturation adjustment layer, you can flip a selected range of colors to desaturate them. But if you “flip” the selected colors, you will instead be able to leave only one color and make the rest black and white.
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[#Script #Coding] Stack Data Structure Tutorial – Solve Coding Challenges
Stack Data Structure Tutorial – Solve Coding Challenges
By freeCodeCamp.org
Published: Oct 05, 2022“
Questions on the stack data structure are very common in technical interviews. Learn how to master the data structure, starting from the easiest problems on LeetCode and InterviewBit and slowly building up intuitions so that the hard problems seem easy. All the questions are popular interview questions from Google, Meta, Microsoft and more!
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Course Contents
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- (1:02:08) Minimum Remove to Make Valid Parentheses | LeetCode
- (1:12:58) Longest Valid Parentheses | LeetCode
SECTION 2 – Calculator
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- (1:22:51) Convert Infix to Postfix
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- (1:47:18) Basic Calculator I, II, III | LeetCode
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[#Script #Coding] Python Game Development Project Using OOP – Minesweeper Tutorial (w/ Tkinter)
Python Game Development Project Using OOP – Minesweeper Tutorial (w/ Tkinter)
By freeCodeCamp.org
Published: Apr 18, 2022“
In this course, you will improve your Python skills by coding a Minesweeper game using the tkinter library. The game is fully implemented using Object Oriented Programming.
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- (0:49:40) Minesweeper Algorithms
- (1:36:29) Display Game data
- (2:00:28) Finishing touches and playing the game
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By Cinecom.net
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