Voice Based Image Editing – PixelTone

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So - this is really cool. You have to ignore the actual editing that is shown in the video - it's pretty poor. In particular the 'retro' effect they show at the end. Technically though - it's amazing and brings to mind the sort of things we've been promised in sci-fi movies for decades.

Being developed jointly between Adobe - that little company who make Photoshop - and the University of Michigan as a research project. You can read more about it, and the research that went into it on the research website.

I'd certainly be interested in using something like this - it certainly beats Instagram and other apps like that.

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WordPress Query: Exclude Posts With No Featured Image

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So - I make WordPress themes - lots of them

Something that's bugged me for a while is that I can't easily use the WP_Query to select posts with featured images. This isn't functionality that's needed that often - but it can be desirable for things like image carousels where you need an image to make everything look good.

Today however - I finally found a solution - and it's surprisingly simple. All post data - including the featured image url - us stored in WordPress post meta, it's a shame I hadn't made the connection before. All I have to do to select posts that use featured images is check for the existence of a meta property that is typically hidden.

To do this the query would look something like this:

$args = array( 'meta_key' => '_thumbnail_id' );$query = new WP_Query( $args );For more information on the WP_Query I wrote this post with some WP_Query features you might not know.

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