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Makes me want to edit photos for no reason

I'm not a photographer by any stretch, but seeing this new feature--which is an upcoming release for Adobe Photoshop--makes me want to get it just to mess around with pictures and see how much I can change them. Hooray for technology!

Check out the video of the new Content-Aware fill feature. Trusting our eyes has now become even more impossible. The video starts of a bit basic, so skip ahead a bit to see the really impressive editing.

Featured on WEbook

A fun side note this week. I've posted a bit about WEbook, an online writing community with tools to help writers submit queries to agents, and also their ongoing Page-to-Fame contest, where readers rate manuscript pages and chapters to advance them through each stage.

WEbook's March newsletter has a sidebar for a featured member, and I got picked to show up there this month. I'm enjoying my experience with WEbook and the P2F contest has been fun as well. My first pages are being moved to the second round where I will post a first chapter to be rated. Let's see how far this all goes.

Author Peter Watts found guilty

The verdict is in, and it isn't a happy one. Canadian science fiction author Peter Watts, who was beaten and arrested by border guards when traveling back home from the US, was found guilty in the charge of having assaulted those border guards.

Further info on the case and people's responses on my Speculative Fiction Examiner page.