[Leica] I came over to the dark side

[Aram Langhans]

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



-- 
Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson