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Trial and Erato
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Love, Thinking, Image, Poetry

Trial and Erato

Photo by Mona Eendra on Unsplash

Hold still for the picture, place your movement in the words, in the expression; I know. It was Starbucks, it was night, it was supposed to be you.

And I wait in the car, thinking what to say when I finally get to look in your eyes, when I am meeting you on my own. The rest of Kenaston Ave. becomes backdrop, becomes one of those time-delayed shots where you just see the trailing lines of red lights as people rush through the dark.

On the other side, black buildings testify to the geometric character of this part of the city: nothing that can’t hold a thousand people. A thousand bricks of fate.

But I am not going to say any of that. I don’t know. I just want to hold your hand. For a while.
AI Training Dataset Market Worth $4.8 Billion By 2027
By: Gaurav Shah
Tags: Vidéo, Audio, Image, Technology, Artificial Intelligence

The global AI training dataset market size is expected to reach USD 4.8 billion by 2027, expanding at a CAGR of 22.5%, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. The artificial intelligence technology is proliferating. As organizations are transitioning towards automation, the demand for technology is rising. The technology has provided unprecedented advances across various industry verticals, including marketing, healthcare, logistics, transportation, and many others. The benefits of integrating the technology across various operations of the organizations have outweighed its costs, thereby driving adoption.

Due to the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence technology, the need for training sets is rising exponentially. To make the technology more versatile and accurate with its predictions, a wide number of companies are entering the market space by releasing various datasets operating across various use cases to train the machine learning algorithm. Such factors are substantially contributing to market growth.

Factors such as cultivation of new high-quality datasets to speed up the development of AI technology and deliver accurate results are driving the market. For instance, in January 2019, IBM Corporation, a technology company, announced the release of a new dataset that comprises of 1.0 million images of faces. This dataset was released with an aim to help developers to train their face recognition systems supported by artificial intelligence technology with diverse dataset. In addition, it will help developers to increase the accuracy of face identification.

Click the link below:

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/ai-training-dataset-market

Further key findings from the study suggest:
Image editor tools for professionals.
By: Mohammed Abdul Nawaz
Tags: Tools For Design, Snipping Tool, Tools, Image, Image Tool

Image editor tools to sound more professionally.

Time to learn and upgrade ourselves periodically, I still noticed that professionals are using ‘SNIPPING TOOL’ in 2020.

to highlight their content or a specific word that is totally leading your work unnoticed, instead, sound like a pro with the tools.

This is how it looks like when you don’t utilize the technology or when you don’t live in technology. anyways, I’m here to let you know every simple life hacks that can take your career to the next level.

If you really want to sound like a pro, make a habit of using below tools that can help you a lot to prepare your work and projects, it will allow you to write and highlight your specific requirements in a professional way, this will make you stand in the audience.

How professional it is looking to highlight in the box and also add a text as well for better understanding. keep exploring the tools I’m damn sure, you all professionals will gonna love it.

https://lnkd.in/gFHABbv

https://getgreenshot.org/

Let me know if you’ve any questions or comment if you find it useful
Delivery
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Love, Talking, Image, Poetry

Delivery

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

As you open your lips to deliver this love injunction, I hunt around for the remote to shut off the TV. I want to focus. I want to be in on what’s you, on what’s going on inside you, tell me.

I will crack open my face, like a willing monk; I will hover around your voice, your crystal delivery, watch for nuance among the corners of your mouth and eyes; I will make my hands available to you, complete your gestures.

Yes, I am at work, here, in your world. I am talking now, and talking, and good gods I can talk when you let me go like this, like a table that always needs wiping; here’s the other thing: I can’t let anyone else in on this.

Oh, yes. You come raveled up in your testimony, your life before this moment; as your interlocutor, I expect all of that has changed now that it’s night, there’s a empty bed around here, and now that I’ve finally delivered the remote it’s own decision.
Mitigated Absurdity
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Madness, Image, Poetry

Mitigated Absurdity

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

Portrayals of action, you want to carry on humping the daylight, grounding your diffidence in the concrete before you, and laughter collides with the stern clouds

giving you the finger, as you keep hopping through the park, unparalleled in your naked disdain for the fragments of the sane that outlines this place, that captivates

against greyer horizons than these, starlit confusion, opening heads by way of the mouth to find out the inner talking that isn’t shared, translating as you speak, lexically intent on denouement

but hobbling now, tripped by a massive stone, leering at injury, now the noise of the iron bridge clack, the honking of an entitled jerk on Jubilee, and milkshakes tip back regardless

framing the instant I wanted to remember.
Culpable
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Imaginings, Image, Poetry, Desire

Culpable

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

I know you did it

switched out a few

lines

spun some virtue

into my web

when I was distracted

by vice

The sound of you

comes pressing through

this vision

I had for me

I watch the messages

line themselves up

take votes

surrender ante’s

fold

and then realign

to tell me

about the night

before last

Because if it wasn’t you

creeping through

my window

whispering down the dog

and curling back

the covers to join me

I don’t want to know
Cannot Conceal Anything
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Writing, Musing, Image, Poetry

Cannot Conceal Anything

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

An architecture that is full up

on disappointment

trembling in my own legs

and hands

just trying to leave some of this

behind

as if the world was going

to edit my head

This is pure frailty

and I know I should have bought

the disguise you saw

in the window

while I played with my heart

in front of you

Tasked with envy

I began to talk and talk

covering my face with tiny

hands

children’s fingers

the teeth of certain birds

Caressed into models

the clay that just sticks

in your nostrils

because the water required

to liquefy just doesn’t exist

So I wrote you something

or many somethings

torn up every time

a book leaves my house

I want to be ready for you

and I thought this was sane

but lover

what is this?

What is it supposed to be?

Certain teachers keep going on

about the way the pen

is connecting to the page

riddled with red ink

and changed into recognizable

shapes

Getting off this train

has never been so hard

since I don’t have any substance

to use for a brace

Diving into opacity

conflicted by the scarce memory

of idling vehicles

the planet’s great suck

the balls on the horse’s back

bringing legs into vision

before trending towards

the death of something new

Come on, Kroetsch

Don’t leave me hanging, man

just tell me how to uncover

something else

something wicked and right

that Dionysus alone

might be willing to understand

I have no levity for you

no peace no awards

I have no patience

left

and don’t really give a fuck

anyway

But here’s the deal we’re crafting

you get out of your car

start walking

and revealing all the other dust

you left behind

before I turn the hose on

Before

I turn the tap on
Elements
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Fragments, Image, Poetry, Illumination Curated

Elements

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

A fabled undoing

reduces one character to an element

the other to a complex

You hate those complexes

shrieking grief like rotten vegetables

at a fire escape

Pitching the crayons off the roof

you wanted to draw

attention to nobody

Indifference is beginning

to shade your face like a tattoo

and I doubt you want a mirror for that

Talking side by side

on our new recycled lawn chairs

made of grass clippings and discontinued tent poles

Now the story’s been broken up

the apartment has been sublet

and the counting down to bedtime has commenced
Old Emotions
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Feelings, Poem, Love, Image, Memories

Old Emotions

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

Seeing how you came

to my front stairs like that

wrapped up in your anger

and softness

All the old emotions

rush forward then, come shooting

to the top

as if they were told to do this

Your previous messages

wouldn’t allow them the space

to wander like that

But up on your hill

I hope you’re sleeping

I hope you’ll read this

and know that I was

the one

thinking about you
The Oracular Disease
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Plague, Watching, Image, Poetry

Before we named all the poisons

traveling in your blood

we had to know, really know

the circumstances of our deaths

Our loves came by the street

sometimes out of a broken wall

climbing through the portico

and always, sometimes lying on the grass

Our ink had to melt together

so we couldn’t be accused of wishful

thinking, regimes of static places

every man and woman ignored alone

Tabulations of the scriptures

that scroll through this newer screen

an osseus dust that shivers

in tiny silver rays of sun

Forced up through holes in the edges

of her mind

the dominating trick goes cold

as the fever becomes the vision

Our death was right in front of us

getting into the taxi first though I’d

have sworn we’d been there first

and first of all you kiss me

This finger delves into this scar

making a flag out of the rest of the hand

waving down borders and councils

leaving them to a disease
Honestly, No
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poem, Musing, Rant, Prose Poem, Image

Honestly, No

Photo by Peter Olexa on Unsplash

I like how you’ve taken a little time to dribble some insight down the inside of your neck, how you swirl it around in your mouth as if each one has a flavor; or you confess your surreal intentions by garnering such a massive pile of books on helping

a recovery of the lost art of being at home in yourself; and, honestly, no one is going to tell you otherwise, but to get over that heap you’ve got to jump, to sling yourself through golden lines distended from the ceiling, lights you never put there, and didn’t imagine would fail you just when you needed to climb

and talk about all the things troubling you; I can reach you, I can, and I drape the cold phone fingers over your discomfort, pulling out the threads you can do without; I didn’t come to challenge you, but to burn the noise that is causing your grief

if that’s the name you’ll put to it; I can figure these things out, but I am not you, and I don’t see quite the same way, as we pale against each other, and look into the fitness and fitting of things; and, truly, I am always distracted by your mouth; it happened again
Encrypted Skin
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Love, Image, Poetry, Desire, Touch

Encrypted Skin

Photo by Robert Zunikoff on Unsplash

Your skin screams at mine

in code

and wants the cells to come back

to their original collision

Your encrypted skin

the messages fired and delayed

explosions along

a potential minefield of an arm

the upper thigh

The briefest glance

turns into a close-up

and now lips are enjoined to

take part in the play of the front

in the discussions before

and after

in the tasting of the wine

brought to the side of the bed now

and

the skin has demanded all of this

has made all interaction

surreptitious
แก้ปัญหา Image ไม่สามารถดึงภาพมาจาก Url ใน Xamarin.Forms ด้วย FFImageLoading
By: Pranart Dechpokket
Tags: Tutorial, Essentials, Xamarin, Image, Xamarin Forms

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Adding Images to Firebase Storage and Cloud Firestore In Flutter
By: Sanjeepan Sivapiran
Tags: Flutter, Firebase Storage, Firestore, Image, Firebase

List down the Images

After defining the Storage rules, we need to list down all images which we are going to add to Firebase Storage. So let’s create a list, that consists of image path strings.

After doing the above step, here is my listOfImage:

Getting Image Name & Path

After completing above steps we are finished setup. In the next step, we have to loop through a defined list of images from the Firebase Storage as I mentioned in the last section. You can get the particular image path and name of the image by adding below code into the loop.

Loading Image File

In this next step, we are going to get the temporary system directory of our assets folder. A temporary directory is a directory that stores our app data on our devices for one session. For loading an image, we will use a predefined tool called rootBudle . The rootBundle contains the resources that were packaged with the application when it was built. By using the rootbundle , load an image as indicated in lines 3 and 4. After loading images, let’s convert images into bytes using the writeAsBytes method as indicated in lines 6 and 7.

Write to Firebase Storage

Now we have our images in bytes format. By using the putFile method in Firebase API, we can upload our images to Firebase Storage as indicated below. please note that it takes more time as images tend to be large files.

After adding images to Firebase Storage your directory structure look like this:

Inside images folder

Note that when uploading images( > 1MB), it takes more time.

while uploading, debug console output

Get download URL and Add it to Cloud Firestore

Now we have our images in the cloud. But how do we display in our app. we can’t just retrieve and use images as other data. To use images, we want relevant image URLs, so that we can use them to retrieve images. In this step, we are going to save our URLs to Cloud Firestore. Since we get the relative path of the image, we can add URLs the same as our local assets directory structure. The first line gets the image URL from Firebase Storage and the second and next lines write the URL to Cloud Firestore.

Creating ‘NewScreen.dart’ .

Now let’s work on our Flutter app. Our goal is to add images when we press the floatingActionButtonbutton. For this purpose, we will create a simple screen with a floating action button as below. When we press the button, _addImages() method gets called and images will be added to Firebase Storage.

Full Code

Here is the full code that loop through listOfImage and get images and write to Firebase Storage and Cloud Firestore.

After doing the above steps, you can get image URLs from the images collection like any Other data. Hopefully, you enjoyed reading this guide on Adding Images to Firebase Storage and Cloud Firestore In Flutter. Further, we would love to answer your questions and welcome your comments below!

References
What if Icarus never fell
By: Daniel A. Teo
Tags: Poem, Paper Poetry, Prose, Image, Icarus

What if Icarus never fell

Image and words by the writer

Flap your feathers

and let the stale air around you

circulate

till you transcend towards

the bright lamp in the sky.

Don't give up in the tempest of altitude

simply follow the silhouette of Daedalus,

and approach the expanse

where your fingers point to.

Flap.

Flap the wings,

till slowly you surpass the bed of clouds blanketing

that you came from.

Mesmerized by the scenery,

fly harder and ignore

the monotonous voice of Dad

telling you not to fly too close to the sun.

The sun cant be so hot

if you can endure the heat of the sun below

what's there to endure

just a little bit closer.

Close your eyes

and let the heat embrace your wings

till it melts the beeswax

keeping your wings attached.

Ignore ivory feather

dropping back down to

stick back into the clouds.

Let heaven light coruscate the dome of galaxies,

and even on earth

feel sun transpierce right through bone,

into soul.

Breathe and when you finally open your eyes,

let all below crumble in the fire.

The scent of smoke rested on the nose,

be intoxicated by the warmth of that

keeps you afloat; even without wings.

Look down again,

see earth implode into a ball of flame.

Let it ALL shatter through hallways and rooms you cant see,

only feel and hear the echoes.

Taste it all,

the heat of the sun and it's battle

with the numbness of blizzards

all but you to crumble into pieces.

Rehearse the way of the debris and

make them dance around you.

And once you run away with your footsteps,

your back with two cracks of that your wings used to be

faced towards the

earth pulverized into its components

see in destruction,

a modicum of beauty and

magnificence.
Ritual Moods
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poem, Musing, Image, Poetry, Missing You

Ritual Moods

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

You bring your satisfaction

out of a little dark grey satchel

expectation

dancing on your features

I hold my alarm clock close

but it isn’t

time yet for that routine

I do a bit of dusting

but there’s nothing else to do

before the vacuum cleaner

roars through my inner grip

The heart designates a few

sanctuaries in this way

marking territories

of piss and vinegar with

fragments of blood

Once you have climbed back

into your car

and slammed the door

the mood becomes nothing

but reverie
Quietus
By: Daniel A. Teo
Tags: Life, Prose, Poetry On Medium, Image, Poetry

Quietus

Photo by Joel Filipe on Unsplash

In the entirety of a lifespan cupped in hand and shut tight

count the number of seconds that go by

waited what seemed like perpetuity, an era

but still, don't grow impatient

because when the mind grows wearisome

let grief wake the sleeping mind

why’d people fear the gunshot, when triggers pull

bullets of thought pierce the mind,

so forceful it caresses skin, blood spill and reprieve

fall in an emphatic thud,

incomparable to biting bullets

taste of affliction bold on bud

lingers so strong, diffuses through unseen barriers in mind.

In the spin of the world before me,

espy constellations in vision

heave dirtied air through corrupted lungs

ash stained respiratory systems

where relief resides in between the gap of gasps

stomach looked so small yet packing a bottomless pit

agonizingly wish in lodged flesh

tears cascading down the rivers of countenance

down emotional creeks of anguish

relish the purity in tragedy; the semicolon of viability

hope for the means to an end,

that I was actually dead so you could resurrect me.
Inconvenienced
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poem, Plague, Image, Poetry, Tragedy

Inconvenienced

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

Tragic figures lean on the walls

spit and break a few pictures

Myth is not in recovery here

but neither is reality

Under every door

there are notices for arrest

No one can decipher

the poems that have been ignored

Presented with the scapegoats

a howling crowd flies the other way

The doors do not open at your convenience

driven to keeping everything out

The theater is now closed to you

the stage tilted, moving away in the distance

And you thought you saw what you saw

but your eyesight can be inconvenient
Make Browsing a Pleasurable Experience with Image Optimization
By: Pixelphant Blog
Tags: Image Optimization Tips, Image Optimization, Image, Search Engine Optimizati

Image optimization is a process of decreasing the size of an image without compromising with quality.

Not optimizing the images can cause a severe impact on the website. Using the smallest size of the image without getting an impact on its visibility can be termed as image optimization.

Image optimization helps us in a lot of ways.

It reduces the file size and also the quality is maintained. The download time of a website is reduced to a great extent. Image optimization also improvises user experience and engaging the users becomes easier. Helps in Search Engine Optimization. Image optimization has the ability to convert casual browsers into buyers of your online store. Optimized images can be saved in different formats. New formats such as WebP and JPG XR can be used to save optimized images.

By optimizing the images, you can improvise the website loading time and can create a pleasurable browsing experience for browsers. You can also Top 10 Image Optimization Benefits to Improve your Ranking.
Chile
By: Kevin E. Pittack Jr.
Tags: Blue Insights, Love, Chile, Image, Poetry

Chile

Photo by Peter Olexa on Pexels

Her skin, I remember it —

the shade of the sand that

dusted the coastline,

framed by obsidian locks,

her eyes —

those that enthralled me with child-like wonderment —

so dark, with an airy mist,

vapors that seeped through

the forests.

Those eyes could have been my

sunrise each morning,

and her voice; confident, ethereal,

dripping like paradisiacal dew,

the first hushed whisper,

and the final, soft lullaby.

She is the orange mountaintops at dusk,

fading and receding from my mind.
Varnished Muse
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Imagination, Image, Poetry

Varnished Muse

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

The little night light

you always bring with you

the one in the shape of the city

it flickers and doesn’t

seem to like any one glow

But you were silent about it

not deigning to speak

from the depth of your wooden coffin

the feet so tired of being called on

to walk between strife

and the dropping of erratic balls

Carried from place to place

in dying hands

from the lit nucleus of the water tower

to old Nellie’s house at the entrance

I’d given up

I thought, being able to wrest

you away from your little remnant

of a town

but you reached out after all

and shut it off
12 Amazing Images in White Color of Fashion, Architecture, Nature, Animal
By: Regia Marinho
Tags: Colors, Inspiration, Image, Art, Architecture

Why dress white on January 1? Wearing white from one year to the next represents the desire for a harmonious year with peace and love.

White is the lightest color and is achromatic.

It’s a positive color. It’s connected with purity, virginity, innocence, light, goodness, heaven, safety, brilliance, illumination, understanding, cleanliness, faith, beginnings, spirituality, possibility, humility, sincerity, protection, softness, and perfection.

It’s where all my art begins.

A blank canvas, a sheet of paper, an iPad screen… and a black line moving without stop to make something happen.

Octopus. Painting 24"x24" 2016. ©Regia Marinho.

“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”

― Coco Chanel , Chanel.

In Fashion.

Mary Stuart wore white in mourning for her husband, King Francis II of France. He died in 1560.

Mary Stuart. 1560

Michigan, United States. Photo for an intro lighting class. Model Clarissa.

Photo by Audrey M Jackson on Unsplash

In Architecture.

Prague Castle, Czechia. A peaceful and calm place found it in the castle in the city.

“If European cities were a necklace, Prague would be a diamond among the pearls.”

Photo by Robin Schreiner on Unsplash

Giant white pillars.

Giant white pillars. Photo by Chris Brignola.

Building in France.

Photo by Pierre Châtel-Innocenti on Unsplash.

White Winter.

Photo by Ernesta Vala on Unsplash

Snow is composed of ice and air. It reflects the sunlight without absorbing other colors of the spectrum. You may need to use sun glasses to go outside.

Photo taken by Muu-karhu

White Animals.

White color bird flock on snow.

Bird flock on snow. Photo by Matt Nelson on Unsplash

The Beluga whale lives in Arctic and sub-arctic waters. Its white color is an effective camouflage.

Photo by Steve Snodgrass — Flickr:Beluga

Airplane.

An airbus Beluga.

Airbus Industrie Airbus A300B4–608ST F-GSTF

What more about the Color White.
Showcase — fast, accessible, minimal image slider & grid
By: Alex Florisca
Tags: Product, JavaScript, Image Slider, CSS, Image

The idea is simple: display a bunch of images in the best way on all devices.

What is the “best way”? Surely it’s different for everyone?

Well not really. If you take 10 of the most successful e-commerce stores online, you’ll find they show their products in very similar ways. Probably based on lots of expensive user testing and UX work. So why not take advantage of that?

You don’t just want an image slider. You want to show a potential customer how awesome your product/service/puppy is, with minimal clicks, swipes or backflips required from them.

This is the best way.

Image slider on small devices. Simple dot thumbnails give you visual feedback about how many images there are and how far along you are. You have a small amount of screen real estate here so it makes sense to hide some of the images so they can be shown in full glory.

Simple image slider on small devices

Upgrade those thumbnails to image previews on bigger devices, so users can get a better idea about your product/service/thing without clicking anything.

Image thumbnails on bigger screens. They can be positioned left, right or bottom

And show a grid of images on the biggest screens. Because why hide your images if you don’t have to? People are there to see what you have to offer. It’s much better to show and tell than to make people click. Always.

Grid of images for the largest screens

Cool, how do I use it?

Like this.

That’s it. Go play. Tell me what you think in the comments. Raise any issues here
Depix AI Recovers Pixelized Passwords, Earns 10K GitHub Stars
Tags: Github, Tools, Image, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision

If you think pixelizing a password or other text data will protect it from prying eyes, think again — your information may not be as safe as you’d imagine.

Pixelization (also known as mosaic) is a common coding method used to conceal information by dramatically reducing the resolution of sensitive areas in an image. For years, the technique has had broad applications in security and censorship — but its days may be numbered. “Depix” is a new AI-powered tool that can easily undo pixelization to enable recovery of the information therein. Uploaded this week, the project has already received nearly 10,000 stars on GitHub.

“I’ve seen companies pixelize passwords in internal documents. No tools were available for recovering a password from such an image, so I created one,” writes the Depix developer, Netherlands-based information security consultant Sipke Mellema. The tool works on images pixelized with a linear box filter, which overwrites a box of pixels with the average value of all pixels in the box. Says Mellema, “my algorithm attacks the common linear box filter.”

Mellema explains that because linear box filters are deterministic algorithms, pixelizing the same values will result in the same pixelated block, and pixelizing the same text using the same block locations will result in the same block values. Every block, or combination of blocks, can be considered a sub-problem.

To prepare a pixelated text sequence for Depix processing, first cut the relevant pixelated blocks from a screenshot image in a single rectangle format, then paste a De Bruijn sequence with expected characters into an editor with the same font settings (text size, font, colour, hsl). Next, take a screenshot of the sequence, preferably with the same screenshot tool previously used to capture the pixelized image.

Finally, simply run python depix.py -p [pixelated rectangle image] -s [search sequence image] -o output.png

Since the original information under the pixels is lost, it is impossible to directly reverse the filter. For most pixelized images, the tool tends to find single-match results for blocks, which it assumes are correct. Matches of surrounding multi-match blocks at the same geometrical distance as in the pixelized image are also treated as correct. When the correct blocks have no more geometrical matches, they are output, while the average of all matches is output for multi-match blocks.

The developer says the Depix technique "beautifully links to vulnerable patterns in cryptography. It's similar to hash cracking, exploiting the use of ECB, and the utilization of known-plaintext attacks." He advises people to avoid obfuscation techniques on sensitive data, warning the "assumption that a schema can't be broken, just because the implementer doesn't know how, is a common pitfall in information security."

The Depix project is on GitHub.
How to add a simple watermark to all of you images using ImageMagick on Ubuntu 20.04
By: Md Islam
Tags: Ubuntu, Image, Programming, Editing, Photography

ImageMagick is a free but powerful image editing tool that has dozens of features. It also gives us the ability to “annotate” images so that we can add text on top of an image to create a watermark effect.

Installation

Run the following command to install the latest version of ImageMagick on Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt install imagemagick

Verify that the installation as completed successfully:

$ convert -version

Copyright: © 1999-2019 ImageMagick Studio LLC

License:

Features: Cipher DPC Modules OpenMP

Delegates (built-in): bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype jbig jng jpeg lcms lqr ltdl lzma openexr pangocairo png tiff webp wmf x xml zlib Version: ImageMagick 6.9.10-23 Q16 x86_64 20190101 https://imagemagick.org Copyright: © 1999-2019 ImageMagick Studio LLCLicense: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php Features: Cipher DPC Modules OpenMPDelegates (built-in): bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype jbig jng jpeg lcms lqr ltdl lzma openexr pangocairo png tiff webp wmf x xml zlib

Adding the Watermark

Once you have ImageMagick installed adding a watermark to your image is as simple as running the following command:

convert <image_to_watermark> -gravity center -stroke '#fff' -pointsize 12 -annot

ate 0 '<watermark_label>' <output_image>

To watermark all the images in a directory,

For example running the following command:



ate 0 ' convert sample.jpg -gravity center -stroke '#fff' -pointsize 12 -annotate 0 ' @mdnahian ' sample-out.jpg

Will provide the following results:

Original Image
Situational Greed
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Relationships, Poetry, Image, Talking To Oneself

Situational Greed

Photo by Josep Martins on Unsplash

I said, Hungry for experience; then I laughed, having lost the ear of the cat who came to shit in my garden.

But I caved in on myself, placing myself in relation to powerlines and garden sheds, trees and old well covers (concrete with rebar for handles), then began to feel this was a sinking, spinning

catastrophic world which was reducing me to tiny shreds. I tried a louder laugh, expansive, I thought

the virtue of which was lost on my crowd of invisible woodland creatures. Of course the woods here, at the top of the hill, are sparse and mostly for appearance. Trees ushered in as aesthetic individuals but also to clean our air of carbon dioxide.

But in this situation, I shivered now (it’s December, after all), and was still withdrawing. It was past time to go inside.
Mengambil dan menyimpan gambar pada aplikasi iOS
By: Auriga Aristo
Tags: File System, Swift, Camera Settings, Image, iOS

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Infused
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Leonard Cohen, Image, Poetry, Reading

Infused

Oh, Leonard; that pale old

ball is holding your head

and your desire is getting mixed up

with all your favourite

clothes

I was young when I started

reading you, still working hard

in the sandbox to make up

for the growing up I did in bed

Leonard. The ground has hold

on your fingers, all your patterns now

or maybe it is just a gentile ash

that fills the ravine where we laid

your last book

I am older now, infused by the

girls I met myself; you would have

loved them too

Leonard, I am writing now

as well, and I want you to take a look
Closing Up
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Want To Go Home, End Of The Day, Time, Image, Poetry

Closing Up

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

Policing the sideline with more than one look, the door, the clock, back to the door

The escape just isn’t coming as quickly as you’d like, the snow building more forts on your sidewalk

Pressed against the world’s gears, trained for this repetition, the acknowledgment of a chained ideality, and the scorn of feet on the ground; you want to be in the air

And not just closing this room, emptied so long before, and none of your sacrificial gesticulations make the clock go faster
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By: Dr. Preeti Singh
Tags: Image

I need to understand the issue better. Can you describe the difficulty in more detail?

I need to understand the issue better. Can you describe the difficulty in more detail?
Used To
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Memory, Change, Image, Poetry

I used to articulate better

the argument between me

and the furnace

I was sent outside

one day when it was particularly

selfish

I used to climb trees

carefully, hating to have to show

the long red scratches on my knees

and palms

I used to think that arrogance

was actually

a medication for keeping one’s

head above water

I used to say that poetry

was nothing

but the search for the best one liner.

I have given up

on the things I used to do

I close up that envelope

and seal it in a drawer
Modified Scene
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Writing, Madness, Image, Poetry, Editing

Modified Scene

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

Sometimes, when I put on my sunglasses, the words disappear; then I know it is night, and when it is night everything must be licked to show its message.

Inserted into a kind of panicked oblivion, I become enamoured of the opposite situation; I mean, I become other to myself, I am the fluid and the vessel that holds it.

The sense of where the stage ends up is never written down; there will be, I know, empty seats at some point, and perhaps many points.

After new cinnamon buns and a carafe or two of coffee, the whole scene slid into the garbage, reinvented itself, and carried on with its dance.

I groaned at the mountain of edits before me. Yes, I spiraled into a kind of red-inked reverie but didn’t play the right music for it: I miss Nine Inch Nails sometimes.

I couldn’t be completely given over to dismay; I tossed the sunglasses and picked up the paper. Everything I looked at was modified by now.
On Occasion
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Illumination Curated, Image, Poetry

On Occasion

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

On occasion, the sunlight has gone white

but the raindrops hold other colours, too

like wine, they run the whole gamut

of shades and addictions

These days, holding the shell to my ear

just doesn’t work at all, like my pulse

refuses to cooperate with magic

of any sort

The house is turning into

a living mausoleum, where I preserve

my little bits of flesh for as long as they

will hold the tattoos

Later, I might hold them up to the

window, see what colour affixes to them

on occasions like these
Fallen Feelings
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Emotions, Image, Poetry, Creative Writing

Fallen Feelings

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

I had laid my finger on it

before it vanished

leaving me searching behind

the rum and rye

the categories that divide

the medicine cabinet

It must have crashed

from above the attic

finding starlight too daunting

too much in need of courage

and then whistled through

ceiling and floor

to the concrete of the basement

where I banish

all my fallen feelings

before dusting them off a bit

to see how they might go in

the frame

and if they need any help

I might lend them

a dollar or two
Under the Hood of BetterImage
By: Isaac Kittila
Tags: React, Webp, Web Development, Image, Open Source

Under the Hood of BetterImage

Images are a necessary part of most applications and websites, and yet most websites do not currently use the most browser-friendly formats or styles. This slows down sites and frustrates users. BetterImage is a new React tool that enhances the image optimization and editing experience by providing a single component that unifies format conversion and in-line CSS styling techniques, making it simple and easy to get the best look and performance from images in a React application. The format conversion is to WebP, which is a newer format developed specifically for images on the internet. WebP files are 30% smaller than JPEG files with no discernible quality loss.

Google Lighthouse results for a standard <img> tag (left) vs the BetterImage component (right)

Google Lighthouse tests show that the BetterImage component was able to improve the performance of loading an image from an overall score of 53 to 63 over using a standard img-tag. The inclusion of a fallback image and CSS height and width specifications also helped improve the Accessibility and SEO scores, and minimize Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS).

Other frameworks like Next.JS provide great image optimization, and our team wanted to take those advantages and mimic them in React, without the need for another framework. We created the “BetterImage” component, an open-source solution which allows the developer to input styling directly into the React code, in string format. The styling is all optional and can be removed if not needed.

BetterImage component

What happens underneath the hood? Those props are being passed down to the BetterImage component, which will abstract the information to manipulate the image. There is no need to import the image in the React component, just pass the relative path as the source and BetterImage will dynamically import the converted image as the new source. BetterImage converts the source file to WebP with an API call to an external NPM package, and stores the newly converted image to a local folder. This will help to render the image even faster after the first manipulation. All the other features are applied to the image as needed and are always flexible to use.

To get started with our BetterImage component, we invite you to use our code on Github, which is currently in Beta status. If you’d like to check it out, have questions, or would like to contribute to this open source project, please visit our Github and our website!

Contributors: Anderson Koh, Christelle Desire, Isaac Kittila, and Shirin Davis.
Intermediate Impression
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Relationships, Beauty, Love, Image, Poetry

Intermediate Impression

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

It was only after a while

you were perched

on the red bench

yellowed cherry trees

coming out of your hair

that I changed the focus

came out

then back in

I peeled back your pages

like the skin

of a poem

let some light on those

legs of yours

that back of yours

that mouth that presses out

such lovely syllables

such as who I am and

who you are

and how long we could

stay here

and not get old

or get old and not stay here

but help each other

to the next place over

where we can make some more

impressions
Skirmish
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poem, Lockdown, Restrictions, Image, Fight

Skirmish

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

Hungry, with fever-bright eyes

dark eyelids enforcing contrast

hurling the discarded building blocks

at the tiny version of the town

Hard-up behind the gates here

tired of being kept off the streets

while the disease carries on

and the initial skirmish

failed to open up enemy lines

Recalcitrant breaths, the isolation

finally getting its place in the sun

constant calculation

as to whether to step outside

And still the disintegration

comes as a surprise

the crushed cards of commiseration

landing on abandoned sidewalks
Irrefutable
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Conversations, Creativity, Madness, Image, Poetry

Irrefutable

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

I got down on my knees

to lay this project out for you

I wanted my sketches

to make an irrefutable connection

But you said, then

mouth deep in peppermint

and other oils

that you couldn’t read any of it

Then I said

that the project had been

to make something up

and what could you make of it now

The hairs on your hand

began to wave you away

like dialogue, like this could make

one ill without breathing too much in

I rearranged my floor

made the papers into tattoos

then looked up again

as recognition fled your face

till all you could

do was reach for the door
Marble Gestures
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Love, Image, Poetry, Art

Marble Gestures

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

Yes, I know you thought

that the statue was awake

noting down all the scenes

you wish would remain

concealed in something

like a marble sarcophagus

Not the half-ruined

sepulchre of some long

ago idea that couldn’t

be spoken aloud

A finger to the sky

elbow articulating

complex circles and a geometry

of liars

the false gratitude of an open

smile that twists

the other models into fits

about the skin on their knees

You talk about going away

from the condemnation

we’ve had to endure so far

disappear beyond the arctic

find new homes in snow

with an absence of dirt

and we’ll grow food by bright

lights that will soak up

the moonlight for magnetism

and then we’ll hammer

the permafrost into paper

and scan the marble gestures

for mistakes or mixed messages
Old and Wasted
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poem, Writing, Image, Reading, Editing

Old and Wasted

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

The old and wasted words

flung past me

out of a catapulted paragraph

a few of them

slicing the skin on my cheek

I keep crying

these red tears for a while

picking up the meanings

I remember

but I forgot the fucking order

and a whole history

slides off the table to reform

into this grotesque

golem, an indictment of craft

or imagination, at any rate

I go hunting for the glue

or whatever it is

that keeps this from getting

entirely out of hand

but I haven’t got any more of that

either

stuck, punished, my back over

the table

and I think I’m going to be here

a while yet
Demands
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Love, Image, Poetry, Desire, Creative Writing

Demands

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

It hurts when I don’t get to

stroke your cheek, your thigh

or share your ceiling for a while

I guess I put demands on you

putting forward my letter

of various requests

Then I shrink a bit, love

I start to think I am being bad

for the both of us

Then I think I’m on my way

to being angelic

for the both of us

But sainthood was never

my strong suit

I have wasted so many days

trying to get to something permanent

sketch out the understanding

so I can relent

and just lay beside you
Torched Driftwood
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Love, Fire, Image, Poetry

Torched Driftwood

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

Crumpling the fliers

into large loose balls

finding some of the smaller

twigs lying near the sand

I swear I don’t care

what comes next: I just

want to lose myself in your legs

the white against

the deep green of the lake

Everything else is foreground

and I can only see those stems

rising out of the sand

demanding my touch

goosefleshed as they are

The wind isn’t speaking to me

the crackling driftwood

hasn’t mentioned anything worth

writing home about

but I lie there, uncomfortable

dreaming of touch

and I forget to keep talking

as I muse about

what plays out in my head
Troubling
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Isolation, Writing, Image, Poetry, Distance

Troubling

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

The brow returns to its

bubbled formation

darkness suddenly posed

in front

You curse at the unknown

for a while

till they stop answering back

Barking at 3 a.m.

just to get the neighbourhood

started

Writing at 1 a.m.

because you’d forgotten to do

anything before

No, that’s not the line

and I don’t want to get in trouble

for laying it out too flat

I see you swell into various follies

cursing at the things you know

now

Yes, it’s loneliness

all over again, but you’d think

I’d be used to it by now
In Tension
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Musing, Love, Image, Poetry, Touch

In Tension

Photo by Robert Zunikoff on Unsplash

Let me be the lover

of your skin

We’ll put your heart

in a bowl

we both drink from

The amur maples are finished

the elms are dead

or sleeping

The park is a monument

to dead black hands

The still-Autumn moon

winks away

half-startled in the daylight

Let me be the lover

of your skin

I’ll put the rest of these

thoughts

in a package for you
Motivational and Inspirational Quotes with Images
By: Sumit Ambekar
Tags: Best Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Image, Motivational Quotes, Quotes

Here is the collection of best Motivational & Inspirational Quotes with Images that might give you the boost you needed to get back in the game. You can also share them with your friends and family to inspire and motivate them.

1) “Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.” –Teddy Roosevelt
Receptive
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Isolation, Madness, Image, Poetry

Receptive

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

I tried to be receptive

to the coming madness

even inverting the vision

that came to pat me on the back

give me a few crumbs

for putting on my own shackles

drifting into the padded cell

I can’t cry emergency

every time I need a drink

I can’t stop my hands from still

wanting to move

The standard stories

crashed against my skull

and I pretended at senselessness

welcoming a slight pause

But the intensity of the view

the monochromatic shifting

of the breaking world

creaking hearts and morphine

starts the reception all over again

and I stand up to take the pill
Fixated
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Vision, Writing, Poetry, Obsession, Image

Fixated

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

For centuries the image haunted

me, counting me like driftwood

become thousands of pieces

after the fire

Now up on the soapbox

screaming at the world to stop

kicking up quite so much dust

to stop the obscuring of this replica

of life

There is this ideal meditation

that we slip through, that charges

the purposes we put up

like broken hands in a boxing ring

All the cups that we’ve knocked

off the counter accidentally

lining our sick room, shards for revenge

and then the silent porcelain witnesses

begin their own clamour for redemption

You must be able to put them back

together

While I lie in the closing sunshine

just a little bit longer

I confess my lack of wisdom

and sift through the remains of what

I thought I was after
Execution
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Writing, Image, Poetry

Execution

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

Failing at some

of the invented lines

reading through the material

one more time

I take in some

of the heat of the winter sun

grazing the top of my head

while I aim at something

that isn’t coming to me

Perched in the usual way

trying to access the heart

I close down the thump

of the demand for cigarettes

I’m just not doing that

anymore

But executing the failure

seems to be so

much easier, like a beer

brought up to the lips

already tilted back

I condemn the actions

before I even get through them

then twist in small circles

to get a different idea started

But I don’t have

a functioning gallows for the words

that I don’t need

so this all just takes some time