[Leica] I came over to the dark side

[Tina Manley]

Exactly.

Tina


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> On Mar 3, 2025, at 1:29 PM, Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> I was going to comment how the photo of the dairy farmer in Bolivia you just posted on FB looks so amazingly smooth for TMZ. Now I know the reason :-)
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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>> On 3 Mar 2025, at 18:44, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I find the Topaz Photo Ai to be amazing.  Now I can go back to photos I
>> took in 1993 using TMZ - 1600 ISO - film.  I can apply the Topaz Photo Ai
>> and tell it to resolve the faces.  It's so good, I have to fade it quite a
>> bit so it still looks like film!  The peoples' faces really pop.  I don't
>> usually add or remove anything and their faces are not changed, just
>> resolved incredibly well!!  The Topaz Sharpen is also incredibly good
>> (faded) but I don't often use Topaz DeNoise because it's blotchy.  I prefer
>> to add noise instead.  ;-)
>> 
>> Tina
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>>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have subscribed to the Adobe subscription for a long time.  The tools are
>>> incredible but like anything judgement is required.  If it is journalism
>>> like Chris Crawford is doing then I restrict myself to exposure, dodge,
>>> burn and spotting.
>>> 
>>> On the other hand if it is impresdionistic the all the tools are on the
>>> table.
>>> 
>>> To Brians question the late addition of upsampling mostly works but can
>>> occasionally fail miserably.  Just keep your originals sacrosanct.
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 3:55 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> 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
>>>> <
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>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237.jpg.html
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>>>> 
>>>> A little AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004237-Edit
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>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004237-Edit.jpg.html
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>>>> Another original image with trucks and structures: Leavenworth
>>>> WA-1004234
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>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Leavenworth+WA-1004234.jpg.html
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>>>> 
>>>> And AI removal: Leavenworth WA-1004234-Edit
>>>> <
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>>> 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
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>>>> --
>>>> 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
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