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☆ Adobe's misfortune may be a windfall for these 2 up-and-coming art apps
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementLinearity, a vector-based app similar to Adobe's Illustrator, did not disguise its intention to get customers to switch apps. Inkscape, a free, open-source software similar in function to Illustrator, took a subtle swipe at Adobe in a June 9 X post. And some users seem desperate to make the switch, with creatives on TikTok and X sharing extensive lists of alternatives to Adobe's apps. Representatives for Adobe, Linearity and Affinity didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: —, — Jessica Plowman Organizations: Service, Federal Trade Commission, Adobe, Business, Canva, MRC, Photoshop

☆ 30-year-old works ‘2 hours a day’ on her side hustle and makes $22,000/month in passive income—here’s her typical week
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Domonique Brown | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

I make $22,000 a month in passive income from online sales through my website, Etsy, Society6, and retailers like Target and Home Goods. The best part is that I spend an average of just two hours a day on DomoINK. On Wednesdays, I typically work on a new art piece and film the entire process to post online. Photo: Domonique BrownMy work was featured in Target's 2023 Black History Month collection. My artwork will also be featured on stationary for Walmart's Black History Month collection.

Persons: I've, Martens, Domonique Brown, Domonique, I'm, Goody, Fleur Organizations: Target, Goods, Disney, Samsung, Lowe's, Adobe, Santa, NASCAR, Walmart, Broad Museum, Angeles County Museum of Art Locations: Santa Monica , California

☆ AI won't replace creative jobs just as the invention of the camera didn't make paintings obsolete, Adobe exec says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Adobe executive Ashley Still said AI advancements won't kill creative jobs in an interview with Fortune. Still compared AI to the invention of the camera and its impact on paintings. Companies across industries are rushing to incorporate AI into their businesses, alarming workers. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdobe introduced new AI features across its various Creative Cloud tools including Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator Tuesday. Companies across various industries are rushing to incorporate AI into their businesses.

Persons: Ashley Still, Fortune, —, Adobe's, Taco Bell Organizations: Service, . Companies, Gallup

☆ Superconductor Scientist Faces Investigation as a Paper Is Retracted
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Kenneth Chang | More About Kenneth Chang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Many other scientists greeted the announcement with skepticism because an earlier Nature paper by Dr. Dias describing a different and less practical superconducting material had already been retracted. The university had previously conducted three preliminary inquiries into Dr. Dias’s research and decided the concerns did not warrant further scrutiny. On Tuesday, Dr. Hamlin said he was pleased that the journal had taken his concerns seriously. He said there were two additional instances of apparent data duplication in Dr. Dias’s work that he hoped would also be reviewed. One involves another Nature paper; the other is what Dr. Hamlin describes as a duplication of data in Dr. Dias’s thesis.

Persons: . Dias, James Hamlin, Dias, ”, Hamlin, Salamat, Keith V, Lawler, University of Rochester “, Dias’s Organizations: University of Florida, Adobe Illustrator, University of Rochester, University of Nevada, UNLV Locations: South Korea, Las Vegas

☆ An Artist Whose Language Is Painting
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Kin Woo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

(Her paternal grandmother, Norma Quarles, was one of the first Black TV journalists.) On her canvases, polymorphous, shape-shifting figures collide and intertwine; heads multiply; limbs get entangled with each other. Then using vinyl stencils, she applies the digital patterns onto the canvas. For her, using Illustrator is “a way of bringing a sketching process halfway through the painting” and a means to direct and focus the composition of the work. It’s this tension between the digital and the analogue, the way her figures oscillate between ecstasy and pain, confinement and freedom that gives her work its power.

Persons: Christina Quarles, ”, Norma Quarles, “, ‘, you’re, Jordan Casteel, Quarles, — Organizations: Black, Yale Locations: Los Angeles

☆ Christina Quarles, the multiracial queer painter transforming the art of the nude
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Victoria Woodcock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Isla del Rey, Menorca CNN —On the tiny Menorcan island of Isla del Rey, Christina Quarles is sitting under a canopy of olive trees. “Coming in on a boat is like a moment of meditation to prepare yourself to see art,” she added. Christina Quarles' show 'Come In From An Endless Place,' is on at the Hauser & Wirth gallery on the Spanish island of Menorca until October 29, 2023. The new Menorca Hauser & Wirth gallery was once a dilapidated 18th century naval hospital. I’ve found it to be a very beautiful parallel.”“With Christina, it’s difficult to separate the artist from the work,” said Bardaouil.

Persons: Menorca, Isla del Rey, Christina Quarles, Hauser & Wirth Menorca, “ It’s, ”, Quarles, Piet Oudolf, Damian Griffiths, Wirth, “, ” Quarles, givens, ‘, Menorca Hauser, Wirth “ She’s, Sam Bardaouil, Bardaouil, Quarles ’, Mar Rescalvo Pons, Fredrik Nilsen, Wirth Quarles ’, I’ve, there’s, Christina, it’s Organizations: del, Menorca CNN, Hauser &, Hauser, Wirth, ”, Venice Biennale, Sotheby’s, CNN, Hamburger Bahnhof, Hauser & Wirth Locations: Isla del, Los Angeles, Swiss, London, New York, Hong Kong, Menorca, Chicago, Venice, York, Berlin, gesturally

Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) unveiled its own service, known as "Picasso," that uses AI to generate images, videos and 3D applications from text descriptions. Nvidia trained the technology on images licensed from Getty Images, Shutterstock Inc (SSTK.N), and Adobe, and plans to pay royalties. Image-generation technology is "trained" on billions of images, but whether that use is legally permitted is not always clear. Because the AI has been trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and older content where copyright has expired, the resulting creations are safe for commercial use, it said. "We're very interested in making this creator friendly," Ely Greenfield, chief technology officer for digital media at Adobe, told Reuters.

☆ This creative skill for freelancers is in ‘giant’ demand—and can pay as much as $145 per hour
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

As far as creative skills go, graphic design is in high demand. Topping the list of in-demand creative skills was graphic design. Here's what graphic design entails and how much freelancers and side hustlers stand to make. Many graphic designers have a bachelor's degree in the field but if you're keen to dive in, you won't necessarily need one. These can be tailored to specific needs, like user experience design, or more general courses which cover the basics of design software.

☆ I've made $126,000 in sales so far in 2023 on Etsy. Here's how I set up this mostly passive income stream that takes 3 hours a week.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Emma Larocque set up her Etsy shop, Quartz Design Studio, to make a passive income on the side. I created a Printful account and linked to an Etsy shop I'd started in November 2021. Once an order is placed through Etsy, Printful automatically embroiders the sweatshirt with my design and sends it to the customer. My revenue for last year from the Etsy shop was about $71,000, after Etsy's 9.5% transaction and processing fee. I pay more to have my items made and shipped by Printful, but that's what keeps my shop passive.

☆ I've made $408,000 in 5 years running online courses on Teachable and Skillshare. Here's how I found my niche and landed clients.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I started getting requests from customers to design fabric for them, for everything from handbags to backpacks to children's clothing. The website also gets a cut, but the amount depends on whether the design is for commercial or personal use. Clients would see my designs on these websites, search my name, and come to my website I'd created to show my portfolio. Having an ongoing income from clients buying my existing designs meant I could take a break when I needed to. When I felt better, I could create new artwork to upload to a website to sell more prints.

☆ This one side hustle for introverts can bring in thousands of dollars in passive income per month
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

These are pretty social hustles, though, and if you're more of an introvert, spending your off-time interacting with others can be draining. Rachel Jiminez opened her Etsy store in 2019 and sells hundreds of printables ranging from Christmas scavenger hunts to digital planners. February might be a good time for Valentine's ideas, April might be a good month for Easter-based ideas, and so on. Jiminez perfected her Etsy-selling skills after taking Julie Berninger's course about opening an Etsy store for printables. She herself brings in about $1,000 per month in passive income from the site.

☆ This 29-year-old makes $22,000 a month from her art side hustle: 'I work less than 2 hours a day on it'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Domonique Brown | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards "Black Hair is Dope": I created this portrait to challenge stereotypes about Black people wearing durags. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards I created this piece for Bath & Body Works to commemorate Juneteenth. Artwork: Domonique BrownI never limit myself when it comes to experimenting with ideas. After I log off from my day job, I switch gears and create artwork. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards "Reflection" is one of my highest-selling pieces.

☆ If you want to land a job or get a raise in the tech industry, you have to past a test — and pretty much everyone is cheating on the exams
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

It was one in a long line of tech certifications that Bill freely acknowledges he earned, at least in part, by cheating. And he's far from alone: In the tech industry, it's an open secret that there are thousands, if not millions, of cheaters just like Bill. The rise of exam dumps for tech certifications could have devastating consequences. But the cheating is clearly having a corrosive effect on the tech industry, particularly the hiring process. But the perception that workers from poorer countries are more likely to be cheaters can also fuel racism against foreign-born tech workers.

☆ Adobe, Figma Deal Signals New Era in Collaboration, Productivity
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Steven Rosenbush | Isabelle Bousquette | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +7 min

The purchase of Figma, whose tools are used by designers and developers, is Adobe’s largest-ever acquisition and extends its reach into new areas. The rising popularity of social networks helped fuel interest in an earlier wave of collaboration technology companies, including Jive Software and workplace chat company Yammer, later acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2012 for $1.2 billion. Startups that employ concepts of collaboration, including digital work-space company Notion, document company Coda and app platform Airtable, took off among software, design and product teams. Adobe is best-known by consumers for software programs—including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat—used for graphic design, video editing and more. The fact that Adobe was willing to pay so much for Figma reflects that belief that its software was fundamentally different, according to Mr. Saper.

We outlined the 22 best online courses and free tutorials to learn Adobe Suite software. From Photoshop and Premiere Pro to Illustrator and After Effects, Adobe Suite programs are used to create everything from email newsletters and magazine layouts to professional videos and animated art. Whether you've never downloaded Adobe software or are already experienced in graphic design, we collected some of the best 22 online courses and tutorials to learn Adobe Suite programs. Some, like Adobe's tutorials and select LinkedIn Learning courses, are completely free, while courses on Udemy and Domestika are often on sale. The 22 best online courses to learn Adobe Suite:Adobe Photoshop online coursesAdobe Illustrator online coursesAdobe Premiere Pro online coursesAdobe InDesign online coursesAdobe After Effects online coursesAdobe Lightroom online courses

Persons: you've, Coursera Organizations: Adobe, Service, Suite Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Concurs repetat | Asociația Promo-LEX angajează Comunicator/Comunicatoare (Specialist relații publice)
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-02 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +7 min

REF: 5 din 17.06.2021Denumirea postului: Comunicator/ComunicatoareScopul postului: Comunicatorul/Comunicatoarea va fi responsabil/ă de comunicarea externă și va asigura vizibilitatea activității și produselor Asociației Promo-LEX. );Participă la elaborarea materialelor de vizibilitate și promoționale ale Asociației, inclusiv per activități și campanii (postări, infografice, pliante, broșuri, bannere, spoturi video, produse multimedia etc. );Contribuie la dezvoltarea website-ului Asociației și a paginilor existente din rețelele sociale ale Asociației (Facebook, Instagram etc. ); Cunoștințe și abilități de gestionare a paginilor web și a rețelelor sociale;Cerințe specifice pentru această poziție:Neafiliere politică și non-partizanat politic;Bună înțelegere a specificului activității în cadrul unei organizații neguvernamentale;Integritate și discreție profesională;Responsabilitate și punctualitate;Persoană dinamică și cu inițiativă;Flexibilitate și mobilitate. *Promo-LEX încurajează aplicațiile timpurii și își rezervă dreptul de a invita candidații pre-selectați la interviu înainte de expirarea termenului de depunere a dosarelor de aplicare.

Persons: Mariana Novac Organizations: Facebook, Adobe, Civile Locations: Chișinău, Republica Moldova, Tel, Republicii Moldova

☆ Asociația Promo-LEX angajează Comunicator/Comunicatoare (Specialist relații publice)
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-18 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +7 min

Persons: Mariana Novac Organizations: Facebook, Adobe, Civile Locations: Chișinău, Republica Moldova, Tel, Republicii Moldova

Competiția „Tekwill Junior Ambassadors” și-a desemnat câștigătorii. Fie că au ales să creeze coperte pentru cărți și semne de carte, identitatea turistică vizuală a unei localități sau identitatea vizuală a unei companii autohtone, echipele învingătoare au fost premiate cu diferite gadgeturi digitale și materiale promoționale. Câștigătorii locului I la categoria „Identitatea turistică vizuală pentru localitățile din Republica Moldova” au fost desemnați:# liceu – echipa „Galateea”, Liceul Teoretic „Mihail Sadoveanu”, Călărași;# gimnaziu – echipa „Inari Team”, Liceul Teoretic „Măgdăcești” raionul Criuleni. La categoria „Identitatea vizuală a unei companii autohtone micro, mici și mijlocii (IMM)”, locul I au câștigat:# liceu – echipa „Inițiatorii”, Liceul Teoretic „Mihai Eminescu”, Căușeni;# gimnaziu – echipa „Real Design”, Liceul Teoretic „Mihai Sadoveanu”, Călărași. Competiția a fost disponibilă pentru elevii și profesorii de la instituțiile de învățământ care fac parte din proiectul „Tekwill în fiecare școală” și studiază disciplina obțională de „Design Grafic”, în anul academic 2020-2021.

Persons: Mihail Sadoveanu, Aristotel, Mihai Eminescu, Mihai Sadoveanu Organizations: Adobe, câștigătoare, Galateea, Inari, Real, Agenția Statelor Unite, Guvernul, PNUD, Ministerul Educației, Culturii, Cercetării, RM, Ministerului Educației Locations: Republica Moldova, Călărași, Criuleni, Chișinău, Căușeni, Guvernul Suediei, EU4Moldova, PNUD Moldova, Moldova, Suedia, Republicii Moldova

☆ Cerere de ofertă: Servicii de machetare și/sau design grafic
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +4 min

„Terre des hommes” Moldova (Tdh Moldova) solicită oferte pentru contractarea serviciilor de machetare și/sau design grafic. În cadrul activitățlor Tdh Moldova realizează diverse evenimente publice, campanii de informare și sensibilizare și publicații în domeniul drepturilor copilului. În acest context Tdh Moldova solicită oferte de prețuri pentru servicii de design grafic și machetare pentru un spectru larg de materiale de vizibilitate, informare, de campanie, precum și pentru diverse publicații. În cazul în care nu sunteți de acord ca Tdh Moldova să verifice informația, vă rugăm să menționați expres acest fapt. Terre des hommes Moldova va încheia Contracte de Prestări Servicii cu persoane fizice sau juridice care vor presta servicii de design grafic și machetare la solicitare, reieșind din necesitățile organizației.

Organizations: Adobe Locations: Moldova

☆ How to set up an Etsy store that instantly draws in customers and makes you big money, from people who did it
▼ + stars: | 2020-06-29 | by ( Jenny Powers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Etsy is the perfect platform for sellers looking to attract customers to their shops. Insider asked several key members of the Etsy community to share everything you need to know to run a successful Etsy shop. While she still manages her own virtual storefront, today she's an Etsy employee, serving as a community education specialist for the platform. 1 tip to set yourself up for success is learning how to optimize your shop and product listings for the platform's internal search engine. Scale shot: This shot is meant to properly convey size, dimensions, and the proportions of your product.

Persons: Etsy, Sellers, —, Isabella Diaz, Diaz, it's, there's, Jill Foreman, Jill Makes, Mother's, Lindsey Delacerda, Jahje Ives, Baby Jives, what's, Ives, Jasmine Balgobin Ives, Foreman, Jives, Cayla Carapezza Diaz, Yvonne Leung, Leung, She's, Jill, Jill Foreman Foreman, Toms, Leung's Organizations: Service Locations: Lafayette , Louisiana, California

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