SaaD – Software as a Disservice.  I like this new term. Hits on so many levels for creative production. Dozens of disconnected tools wasting time, duplicating work, inflating costs, slowing production. Once I led a team using a redundant project management tool. It provided some organization, yet mostly added work instead of being integrated into their process. That way, it could have automated task-recording and hand-offs more efficiently. Worst yet, none of the PM analytics were ever...

If you use an iPhone, you might be interested in Adobe's Indigo app, promising to deliver higher-quality images. Adobe Indigo, now officially called Project Indigo, is a free, experimental camera app for iPhones that uses computational photography to produce natural-looking photos with more manual control than the native camera app.  It's designed to provide SLR-like image quality and offers features like manual controls, a live histogram, zebra striping, and the ability to save DNG RAW files...

Many AI updates this week. Adobe launching a foundry service to build GenAI models for enterprises. Anthropic launching a browser-based version of Claude Code. OpenAI introducing ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser. Google Meet even launching an AI-powered makeup feature. Powerful tools coming our way, but I have a thought.  Can AI replace the unexpected shot? How many times have you been on a shoot, planned the scene the best you could, then captured something unforeseen and wonderful?...