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🔗 Salt Fix

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Very good results with Caffenol + Salt fix. Takes crazy amount of time though (48 hours with random agitation others report 72 hours). Makes it possible to have zero specialised or harsh chemicals to develop b&w film.

From reading Reinhold's blog about his tests with using salt as a fixer I mixed up 225g of iodized table salt into 750ml of distilled water (equivalent to 300g salt in 1L). It takes a lot of stirring to get that much salt dissolved, that's why I used distilled water, I figured that may help it dissolve. After adding the salt solution to the film I agitated it every now and then for the next 48 hours. The agitation was not on a regular schedule, just whenever I happened by and …

🔗 The MENA Trans Archives

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Welcome to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Trans Archives! We are pleased to introduce the first and only open-access database dedicated to transgender rights in the MENA region. Please refer to the map below to explore a comprehensive collection of information on transgender rights in this area. Here, you will find valuable resources such as case law on legal gender recognition, laws on criminalization, healthcare laws and policies, Islamic religious edicts (Fatwas), and country profiles. This convenient hub provides all the information you need to know about the laws, policies, case law, and Fatwas that impact transgender rights in the region!

🔗 Here's how to create a super resolution photo with any camera

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Aka pixel shift stitching

Method

There are numerous tutorials providing instructions for creating a super resolution image in Photoshop – this one by Ian Norman on PetaPixel is among our favorites. Distilled down to its simplest terms, there are four easy steps:

Bring all images into Photoshop as a stack of layers Resize the image to 200% width and 200% height using 'Nearest Neighbor' Auto align all the layers Average the layers by setting each layer's opacity to 1/layer number (the 1st layer will be 1/1 so 100% opacity, the 2nd layer will be 1/2 so 50% opacity, and the 4th layer will be 1/4 or 25% opacity, and so on). Sharpen the image using a Radius setting of 2, and a suitable Amount setting …

🔗 منشورات قانونية - أرشيف رقمي

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أرشيفٌ رقميّ مجانيّ معنيٌّ بالمواد ذات الطبيعة القانونية في مصر. وهو مشروع خاص بوحدة أبحاث القانون والمجتمع، التابعة لكلية الشئون الدولية والسياسات العامة، بالجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة.

🔗 Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History

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What happens to the next generation of gullible idiots, when they ask their AI assistant to show them “william morris prints,” and those keywords have already been tainted by the sea of Etsy images? What about when more capable models can create even-more-convincing Morris prints, sans their telltale artefacts and slip-ups? When do the generated images become epistemologically indistinguishable from what Morris created?