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Dancer in black and white seen from behind, lifting her skirt in front of a passerby in the courtyard of the Palais Royal

French Cancan at the Palais Royal in Paris

When the French Cancan comes to the courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris, the rebellious French spirit is on full display.

Photo montage turning one tower into an eraser and another into a pencil

In Lyon, France, an eraser-shaped tower erases a pencil-shaped one!

In Lyon, France, 5 towers exceed 100 meters in height in the skyline of the Part-Dieu business district.

Close-up of the pipes on the rear façade of the Centre Pompidou in Paris

Centre Pompidou: an architectural panorama in the pipes

Photographer Thierry Allard gives you all the tips you need to create an architectural panorama from a variety of viewpoints.

Rodingoth, illustrated character with Midjourney

Creating recurring illustration characters with Midjourney

We’ve tested the creation of illustration and comic strip characters that can be reused in Midjourney thanks to the “character reference” images.

Street photo of a woman with a mask linked to a photo of a rope on a store poster

Metoo Paris: fishing for girls

How a fun street photo idea suddenly made sense and could illustrate male doubts post #metoo

Ultra-wide angle puts real estate photography to the test

How to make the most of an ultra-wide angle in architectural and still photography

Graphic illustration of musical notes generated by Midjourney

AI-assisted illustration for a concert poster

When asked to create a poster for an association, our Lyon-based design studio tested 3 text-to-image artificial intelligences to transform a few ideas into illustrations.

Straightening verticals in architectural photography

How to give your architectural photographs a more professional look by straightening your images?

A portrait photo session for an album cover

For an independent artist releasing his tracks on streaming audio platforms, the record sleeve is a communication tool not to be neglected.

A virtual studio portrait session with Midjourney

We tested Midjourney 5.2, the most famous AI for generating images from text, to create a virtual photo shoot.

Close-up portrait created with IA Stable Diffusion

A virtual studio portrait session with IA Stable Diffusion

We tested Stable Diffusion 1.5, a text-to-image artificial intelligence model that generates photorealistic images from natural language descriptions.

B&W portrait of Japanese woman created with DALL-E artificial intelligence

Studio photo portraits with OpenAI’s DALL-E 3

We tested OpenAi’s DALL-E 3 image generator (ChatGPT) to create virtual studio portraits