Hacker News with Generative AI: Image Editing

Show HN: MagicQuill – An Intelligent Interactive Image Editing System (magicquill.art)
Open-source Photoshop alternative GIMP enters RC testing after 20 yrs (tomshardware.com)
Gimp 3.0 RC1 Released for Testing (phoronix.com)
The long elusive GIMP 3.0 image editor that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop has finally reached the release candidate phase of development.
Shaderblocks: Block-based image editing (thejenkinscomic.net)
Apple Is Acquiring Pixelmator (theverge.com)
Apple has agreed to acquire Pixelmator, a popular image editing app available on Mac and iOS.
Apple acquires Pixelmator (pixelmator.com)
Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple.
Apple is 'concerned' about AI turning real photos into 'fantasy' (theverge.com)
The upcoming release of Apple Intelligence has spurred the iPhone maker’s own “what is a photo?” moment. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple software chief Craig Federighi said the company is aiming to provide AI-powered image editing tools that preserve photo authenticity.
Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen (creativebloq.com)
Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera (sievedata.com)
Sieve's Eye Contact Correction API is a fast and high-quality eye contact correction API built for developers.
Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting (unite.ai)
A new  collaboration between researchers in Poland and the UK proposes the prospect of using Gaussian Splatting to edit images, by temporarily interpreting a selected part of the image into 3D space, allowing the user to modify and manipulate the 3D representation of the image, and then applying the transformation.
Gimp Is No Longer a Viable Photoshop Alternative (medium.com)
Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image (2014) (theguardian.com)
Two Oxford Minds Are Redefining Photoshop: Turn Any Photo into a Meme (techcrunch.com)
Halide embraces photo purists with new anti-AI processing mode (9to5mac.com)
Show HN: AI assisted image editing with audio instructions (github.com/ShaShekhar)
Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI' (techcrunch.com)
SVG Viewer – View, edit, and optimize SVGs (svgviewer.dev)
Add Depth of Field to Screenshots (blurmatic.com)