[Leica] I came over to the dark side

[reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

Impressive.

I wonder whether a gigapixel pass over the picture with low-resolution 
sections would improve anything.

On 2025-03-02 13:55, Aram Langhans via LUG wrote:
> Yep.? I actually purchased the Adobe Photographer subscription a while
> back before the prices went up.? I have not done much with it yet
> preferring to stick with Lightroom 6 and CS6, but I? have gotten
> curious about the AI abilities in removing objects.? I have to say I
> am mostly impressed.? Here are a few examples from a recent trip to
> Leavenworth.? They are doing a lot of construction along the main drag
> so there was lots of equipment interfering with the usual nice views,
> so I took some shots anyway specifically to try the AI removal tools
> in LR and Photoshop. Here are the results.
> 
> Original Image with some offending outhouses: Leavenworth WA-1004237
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237.jpg.html>
> 
> A little AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004237-Edit
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237-Edit.jpg.html>
> 
> Another original image with trucks and structures: Leavenworth
> WA-1004234
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234.jpg.html>
> 
> And AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004234-Edit
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234-Edit.jpg.html>
> 
> 
> If you were to blow them up and look carefully I am sure you could see
> they were worked on.? For one thing, the AI synthisized image is much
> lower resolution than the Q3 original image.? I think it is 1 or 2 K
> resolution.? And of course there would be a few artifacts that if I
> was really industrious I would have to work on.? But by and large they
> took a totally unacceptable image and made it into a pretty good
> mediocre image in my unskilled hands.? Maybe you are an old hand at
> this so these seem pretty amateurish to you.? Maybe I will work on it
> or maybe I will just take more time to line shots up that do not
> require the use of this tool.? Be a real photographer rather than a
> technician.
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> Aram