AI is taking over the world and photo editing

Saturday 27 May 2023, 14:41 by Dick Holtman | 4,605 views | 1 comment

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, is taking over the world. ChatGPT is making world news, but Adobe is also fully embracing AI in its products, as shown at the latest Adobe MAXX.

An example within the Lightroom domain is Impossible Things , a new, advanced Lightroom AI editor that works entirely within Lightroom. The adjustments are applied directly in the "Develop" module.

Impossible Things AI Photo Editor

DVLOP and SLR Lounge have created Impossible Things together, a new, advanced AI Photo Editor. This new AI-powered solution offers an intuitive, powerful editing tool that improves photos with speed, accuracy and artistry.

The aim is not only to save photographers hundreds of hours per year, but also to improve the quality and consistency of their edits. Let's take a closer look.

Key features

This AI Photo Editor was designed by working photographers with a deep understanding of the editing process and its pain points.

We want speed, but not at the expense of quality. We want convenience, but not at the expense of artistry, creativity and personalisation. With this in mind, we designed these key features:

Never leave Lightroom - Impossible Things is 100% Lightroom Native, so you never have to leave the programme or waste time exporting and importing catalogues or waiting for email confirmations. Edit one image or thousands with our easy and simple workflow.

Edit better, with more consistency, Impossible Things intelligently adjusts 38+ individual slider predictions to edit your raw files.

Use your Lightroom presets, Impossible Things is also the only AI editing solution that works natively with Lightroom presets, including Visual Flow presets, DVLOP presets, presets you bought elsewhere and even presets you created yourself.

For photographers who do not own presets, Impossible Things includes a growing library of “ cloud styles” that give photographers instant access to a variety of popular looks.

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Edit with Artist Presets, The system is designed and tuned for the DVLOP artists, such as Jose Villa, India Earl, Shortstache, Nirav Patel, Two Mann Studios and more.

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If you have bought their presets, you can apply their presets directly to your RAW images or adapt them to your personal style. We will also continue to add more incredible artists to expand your creative toolkit with Impossible Things.

No training required, get started straight away! The AI has been trained with more than one million DNGs, more than 200 unique camera models and 300 different lenses.

It includes not just camera profiles, it is the only AI solution with a "Lighting Condition Based Development" system, for which a patent is pending, that adjusts image colour based on specific lighting conditions.

The result is a model that recognises and correctly edits every common scenario a photographer encounters, including difficult mixed lighting, low-light conditions, high dynamic range scenes and more.

Custom Tuning, For even more control, you can use Custom Tuning to adjust a wide range of sliders, such as exposure, temperature, tint, saturation and more, to your exact specifications and taste.

All changes you make are synchronised with the cloud and are accessible on any computer you log in to.

Advanced magic, Other unique features include:

The Intelligence Slider, which lets users determine exactly how much influence they want the predictive model to have on their images. (more information)
Adaptive noise reduction, which applies the perfect amount of luminance noise reduction to high-ISO photos. (more information)
Adaptive lens correction, which accurately corrects lens vignetting, and even includes "AI Masking Preconditioning", allowing users to retouch selectively in Lightroom. (more information)
AI Masking Preconditioning, For users of Lightroom Classic 12 or higher: use masking preconditioning to highlight the subject of the photo or perform certain targeted retouching.

We call it preconditioning because the final rendering is only applied when you are ready for it, so it does not interfere with the speed of your workflow. These masks are subtle and designed to be used often and on everything. (more information)

More to come! We even have a future roadmap with inspired features, styles and tools. Impossible Things was created by and for innovation, and this is only the very beginning of our journey.

Find out more about Impossible Things at Impossible Things. Read more about the "benefits of Impossible Things" here or read more about what is under the hood.

Getting started

The system was designed with your workflow in mind. Simply start with an account or log in to your existing DVLOP account, run the installer and launch Lightroom Classic to get started.

You get 500 free editing credits to experiment with. From there, simply select your images, select your preset and see your RAW files edited directly in Lightroom within seconds.

Here is a short introduction to guide you through the steps: Getting started

Personal note

I was able to experience the development of this fantastic solution at close quarters, because DVLOP and SLR Lounge asked me to develop the Lightroom plug-in.

References

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About the author

Dick Holtman is getrouwd met een enthousiaste fotografe en een ervaren Lightroom post-processing specialist. Hij werkt al ruim 30 jaar in de IT. Uit deze interesses is het bedrijf LightroomStatistics.com ontstaan. Dick maakte al 11 Lightroom plug-ins die te vinden zijn op de Photographers-Toolbox.com. Ook geeft hij IT en workflow adviezen aan fotografen.

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1 comment

Donald Willemsen wrote on Tuesday 30 May 2023 at 11:56 | reply
Adobe hobbelt , naar mijn mening, behoorlijk achter de feiten aan met het gebruik van AI in de fotografie. Bedrijven zoals bijvoorbeeld Skylum zijn met hun fotobewerkingsprogramma Luminar Neo al veel verder gevorderd met het gebruik van AI.
Ik vind het gebruik van AI in de fotografie geen slechte zaak wanneer het wordt gebruikt om de kwaliteit van eigen foto's te verhogen.
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