From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Sun Mar 2 22:18:11 2025 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:18:11 -0800 Subject: [Leica] I came over to the dark side In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <783205f5177d9fd064cc7135a14d84eb@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> 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 > > > A little AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004237-Edit > > > Another original image with trucks and structures: Leavenworth > WA-1004234 > > > And AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004234-Edit > > > > 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 From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Sun Mar 2 22:57:56 2025 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:57:56 -0800 Subject: [Leica] I came over to the dark side In-Reply-To: <0556df20-5775-45ea-b971-dbdbfcb4d189@gmail.com> References: <783205f5177d9fd064cc7135a14d84eb@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> <0556df20-5775-45ea-b971-dbdbfcb4d189@gmail.com> Message-ID: I take it that you think the answer is "no". On 2025-03-02 14:30, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote: > Probably the funniest thing I have read here in a long time...... or > was that ...seen? > > Frank Filippone > BMWRed735i at gmail.com > > On 3/2/2025 2:18 PM, Brian Reid wrote: >> Impressive. >> >> I wonder whether a gigapixel pass over the picture with low-resolution >> sections would improve anything. From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us Fri Mar 21 21:13:53 2025 From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:13:53 -0700 Subject: [Leica] yearbook delay Message-ID: <2528a9a89c1e1eb8340782be9cf98e0a@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> I suspended work on the yearbook about 50% of the way through because of a family medical situation. I intend to get back to work on it today and to finish it within a few more days.