Removing shadows from faces with AI

Wednesday 26 August 2020, 16:32 by Elja Trum | 6,788 views | 2 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Removing hard shadows from a photo can be quite a hassle. A good reason to shoot portraits in the shade, but that's not always possible. In this video, you can see how researchers solve the problem with artificial intelligence.

What is particularly interesting is that they remove 'strange' shadows, while preserving the shadows that come from the face itself.

It seems like a useful update for a future version of Photoshop. Situations like this still occur fairly regularly. And we will probably soon see this built into smartphones as well.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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2 comments

guest wrote on Tuesday 1 September 2020 at 14:24 | reply
in the example it now only seems as though the light is coming from the left.
Translated from Dutch.

guest wrote on Tuesday 1 September 2020 at 16:37 | reply
Well, if that could be built into PS or LR or Luminar, that would be a very welcome update!!
Translated from Dutch.

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