Audimee, Colour Grading, and the Myth of the Button

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This week is all about voice, tone, and the craft behind the scenes. We’re featuring Audimee, a new tool that lets you sing in your own voice, with AI elevating the tone, not replacing it. There’s a clever color grading trick with Nano Banana, a spotlight on creative producer Olga Baranova, and a timely trend breakdown on why “pressing a button” is never the full story. Wrap it all in the ambient layers of Tabal Radio and you’ve got a full creative toolkit waiting to be explored. Let’s get into it!

Feature of the Week: Audimee

Audimee stands out for one simple reason. You can use your own voice. Record or upload vocals in your natural voice and Audimee transforms them into polished performances while keeping your timing, emotion, and phrasing intact. You stay the singer. The AI handles tone, texture, and style.

It is ideal for artists refining demos, producers testing toplines, and creators who want speed without losing identity. Audimee turns your voice into a flexible creative instrument.

Creative Hack: Nano Banana Colour Grading

Using Nano Banana, you can change lighting using images instead of words.

• Upload your base image

• Upload the hex numbers of your selected colour palette

• Prompt Nano Banana to apply the palette’s lighting to the scene

The model reads the palette visually and maps its tones onto the image. It is a fast way to shift mood, time of day, or cinematic style without re-generating the image.

Community Spotlight: Olga Baranova

Olga Baranova is an AI-first creative producer who creates generative visuals for brands, music artists, and short-form narrative projects. Blending creative direction with hands-on execution, she works across images, video, and sound. Guiding ideas from concept through post-production and reflecting a new kind of creative role where strategy and experimentation happen in the same workflow.

This Week’s Flow State: Tabal Radio

Settle into the warm, rhythmic flow of Tabal Radio on Spotify. With its blend of mellow beats, deep electronic textures, and subtle atmospheric touches, this playlist creates a smooth and inviting backdrop for focused work or relaxed moments. It stays unobtrusive while gently carrying your attention, making it ideal for creative sessions, study, or quiet reflection. Press play and let the sound guide your flow.

AI Trend: We Press Buttons

This week, we’re featuring a standout video on the perceptions around AI-driven filmmaking. Created in collaboration with internationally renowned AI director Simon Meyer and the newly founded company PROMPTR, the piece cleverly toys with the perception of how “simple” AI videos are to make. Through humour that mocks the press-a-button myth, the film reveals the actual craft behind the work.

AI vs. Reality: Can You Tell the Difference?

This week, we’ve got a brand-new pair of images to test your perception again. Think you can tell which is AI-made and which is the real deal? Take your guess and we’ll reveal the answer in the next issue!

Last week, we kicked off our AI vs. Reality face-off with shadow structures, and now for the moment of truth, if you guessed the right one was the real deal, you got it right. The left image was created with Midjourney showing off the program’s impressive ability to generate visually compelling images.

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Stay curious,
David and Ross