Images are the pride and joy of the Apple Creative Studio experience. The Content Hub provides thousands images, graphics, and shapes to choose from without ever having to navigate to a browser or copy and paste. The flow here is simple and fast: You click on Content Hub, type what you want, click it, you blink, and it’s inserted into your slidedeck. The images are high quality, though generic. Searching “Lincoln” yields a single picture of the Lincoln Memorial, some pennies, and Mount Rushmore, among few others. A simple connection to public domain images through the National Archives would make a world of difference for this feature. For now, it is serviceable, and helps me quickly add representative photos in a pinch.
Now, instead of searching the Content Hub, you could generate any image your imagination can whip up to support a classroom. For my language learner classroom, this is superb for making illustrations alongside on-screen instructions for our activities. The time saving is negligible when compared to stitching together clip art I suppose, but it is a different way to make a slideshow more appealing and saves me the time and bandwidth from going to a site to generate an image in the off chance I need one.
By far my most beloved feature is Super Resolution. The ability to take a low-quality image and upscale it for a presentation has haunted me since the beginning of my career. Visuals in any ESL class are pivotal to connect concepts to language, and so it’s devastating as a teacher to find the perfect image, only to find a low quality version that is difficult to parse when blown up onto a projector. Paste in an image you found online, click the Super Resolution button, and within seconds you will see it in higher quality. And the best part? This is an entirely local process happening entirely on your computer. No internet connection necessary. This is AI at its best: clean, fast, local, and saves a ton of time. The limits of this feature are apparent. It works better with simple images without a lot of detail, and around words it gets that AI fuzz, but it works well, and I find myself using it a ton.
Apple Creative Studio can be a great addition to your digital tool belt. If any of these features sound useful, I'd definitely consider checking it out!
If you want to know more of my thoughts on Apple Creative Studio, you can read more here!
Clark Mayer, mugmarks.study
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