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[chauncey]

Take a look-see...https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/03/30...#.tnw_uYG6IPB6

[James G]

Interesting, and rather disturbing at the same time.
I'm no great artist, and I don't subscribe to the 'blood sweat and tears' school that looks to create images from scratch... can't quite envisage creating my own papers and pigments etc, but I am a bit fearful of making things too easy.
Potentially it stifles creativity, but more to the point, it could result in image ennui.

But I'm a perverse sort of person, and if I was given a 'mimic' tool right now, I'd probably give it a try....

[chauncey]

I fell this way...what is the purpose of this silly hobby in which we are engaged?

Is our goal simply to fill our hard drive with meaningless trivia that we sometimes share on social media,
or might it be to create an object d'art worthy of hanging in our living room.
My own goals are the latter and I will cross any bridge necessary to achieve those ends.

[Mike Buckley]

This provides another explanation of the technology.

[Mike Buckley]

This piece about a futuristic masking technology is a lot more exciting to me.

[Manfred M]

This piece about a futuristic masking technology is a lot more exciting to me.

Photoshop's selection tools keep getting better, but I look forward to the day where they implement an algorithm that lets you extract hair or animal fur from a busy background.

[chauncey]

Thanks for the links Mike.

[Polar01]

Hear, hear Manfred it is getting better but still a very hard job, try to practice doing that a couple of times a week.

Cheers: Allan

[Manfred M]

Hear, hear Manfred it is getting better but still a very hard job, try to practice doing that a couple of times a week.

Cheers: Allan

Agreed Alan - I can be doable, especially if the background is not too busy, but building the luminosity masks and tuning them to get the hair right and then going back and cleaning up is a very labour intensive exercise.

[Tony M]

Photographic nirvana will be achieved when I can imagine an image (ooh, how similar are those words) and a brain-scanning device reproduces it on the media of my choice. No need for a camera, eyes, hands, legs, brain (apart from doing the imagining bit), time at a computer doing PP with the obligatory wine glass at hand. I could even take up another hobby ... maybe clicking on a button of a computer program that automatically writes best-sellers.

Sorry about the sarcasm. Cameras and software are getting so good that today's best cameras will pale in comparison to those a few years in the future. I love technology - in fact, it's my job - but at some point I can see myself wanting to freeze-frame and work with the limitations of the gear and tools I have, because the human element in the creative process will have reduced to the point that it will cease to become a creative hobby.

[rpcrowe]

This is a very interesting concept! However, I suspect that I would react to this just the same as I did when I found the Photoshop Oil Paint Tool. I used it and used it but, quickly grew tired of it and have seldom used it since

[xpatUSA]

Interesting, and rather disturbing at the same time.
I'm no great artist, and I don't subscribe to the 'blood sweat and tears' school that looks to create images from scratch... can't quite envisage creating my own papers and pigments etc, but I am a bit fearful of making things too easy.
Potentially it stifles creativity, but more to the point, it could result in image ennui.

+1, my man. I think I'm becoming a Luddite . . .

But I'm a perverse sort of person, and if I was given a 'mimic' tool right now, I'd probably give it a try....

Please don't . .

[Mike Buckley]

No need for...the obligatory wine glass at hand.

I completely understand everything else you mentioned, but not THAT!

[Tony M]

I completely understand everything else you mentioned, but not THAT!

I did go too far. Of course the wine glass can stay in the new order. It might even help with the imagining...

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[Didace]

I love technology - in fact, it's my job - but at some point I can see myself wanting to freeze-frame and work with the limitations of the gear and tools I have.

It's a function of getting older. At some point, most everyone reaches a technological limit. Things have come so far since they were young it seems pointless to add anything else. Meanwhile, the "kids" are starting at a new baseline and will zoom right past without a thought. This happens to every generation.

[kazuyar]

its certainly getting a hell of a lot easier to get photographs that 30 years ago would have taken a lot of work to produce, now with just a few clicks, but lets not forget people have always doctored their photos, from the early glass negatives where they added colour by hand to dodging and burning in the darkroom, a process i found very hard to master.
i look at any advancements that make my end results better as a good thing, although there might be a point at which the photo becomes so unrecognizable from the original that you could probably no longer call it your own

[IzzieK]

It's a function of getting older. At some point, most everyone reaches a technological limit. Things have come so far since they were young it seems pointless to add anything else. Meanwhile, the "kids" are starting at a new baseline and will zoom right past without a thought. This happens to every generation.

I agree ... Last year when I was visiting, my one and only grandchild was playing with her Nexus next to me. I was trying to get to the internet via hubby's iPad. Anyway, I was moaning a bit because I was trying to get into Jetnet to book my flight home and Miss 3 (she turned 4 recently) asked if she can help me. I tried to amuse her and said I needed help. She punched a few button that made me look stupid. I dread the day she will sit down beside me in my little vintage two seater and ask where I want to go...

[chauncey]

I'm with you Izzie...makes me envious.

The new technique does make me curious.

[chauncey]

Maybe it'll produce something like this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVAv0Xx6Un8

[Mike Buckley]

More new stuff coming from Adobe. It's designed for use on a cell phone but surely they'll add it to Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC. See this.