Make it Pop: Elevate Your Photos, Thumbnails, and Visual Content with AI
In this session, the City of Maplewood's Kevin Schmitz will:
Go beyond the basics of photo grading, showing how AI can enhance average photos into award winning images
Demonstrate how to create eye-catching thumbnails for YouTube and social media posts
Show how to use "live photos" to expand videos or enhance social media posts
Send us your photo...and Kevin will do a live step-by-step demo enhancing it. Submit your photos by April 23 for a chance to be featured. Send photos to: joe.sheeran@maplewoodMN.gov.
This workshop will be recorded. The recording will be shared via email with attendees after the event.
Before: Sometimes the environment and scheduling doesn't cooperate and you need to take the shot, or the equipment isn't ideal and you're stuck with a photo that needs work.
After: You can overcome those challenges with AI tools.
About the presenter: Kevin Schmitz has more than 20 years of digital media experience, including AI workflows, advanced photography and videography. His work has been recognized multiple times by MAGC, Upper Midwest Chapter of the Emmy Awards, and MACTA, among others.