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Google’s New AI Removes Watermarks

If you create content online—whether you’re a food blogger, photographer, or small business owner—you’ve probably relied on watermarks to protect your images from being stolen. Google released a new AI model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (a ChatGPT and Grok competitor), and it has an unsettling ability: it can remove even complex watermarks from images.

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From Overload to Action: Simplifying Copy for Successful Client Redesigns

This week, I’ve been focused on several client projects. One involves reviewing all the website copy for a company. They drafted the content themselves, drawing from their in-house knowledge, reworking existing material, and incorporating recent marketing content. This is the kind of hard, foundational work that makes a redesign successful.

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Overwhelmed by Onboarding? Me too.

I recently spent some time researching different project management software options. We’ve been using Basecamp for our cre8d design projects since forever, but I wondered if there might be a more modern tool better suited to running my new food blog, Friday’s Pizza, behind the scenes.

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