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Around The Horn
25 August 2016
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Andrew Paul Leonard's $1.6 million jury award, channel contrast, iPhone photo editing apps, and an MIT image algorithm to detect depression.
- In Two Million Dollars (With Interest) Confirmed, Greenberg and Reznicki report Andrew Paul Leonard's $1.6 million jury award for copyright infringement has been upheld. With interest, the award will hit $2 million, they said, proof you should "contact a lawyer, not your Facebook friends to get [legal] advice."
- How to Achieve Retro Instagram Effects with Levels or Tone Curves demonstrates creating (and analyzing) special effects by manipulating the contrast of each channel in an image:
- Kate Wesson lists The 10 Best Photo Editing Apps For iPhone. Snapseed is mentioned first but she left out Lightroom mobile, which should be on anyone's list.
- How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals by Studying Their Instagram Photos reports Andrew Reece of Harvard and Chris Danforth at the University of Vermont in Burlington have found significant correlations between the colors in photos posted to Instagram and an individual's mental health.
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