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🥾 Inside this week’s letter
- Give life to unusable photos with AI
- Before & After Samples
- Recommend AI tool this week
Hello Hello 👋
🚀 Transforming Ordinary Photos
I hope you’re doing well! I’ve had an exciting experience in the past few days while working on my latest blog post. As I delved into Adobe Lightroom to select the photos to update the post, I realized the need to modify a few steps in my photo organization playbook.
Why, you ask? Well, let me explain! 😕
You see, things are moving at an incredible pace in the world of technology & artificial intelligence. We’re now in the era of AI, Generative AI, and GPT, and it’s truly fascinating.
Every week, new tools and advancements are emerging, making it challenging to keep track of all the exciting developments. But fret not; I’ve been experimenting with a few of these tools and will share my insights with you regularly.
⛵ Now, here’s the interesting part. In the past, I would simply flag and delete photos that seemed unusable due to various reasons like noise, slight blurriness, crowded tourist spots, or composition issues. I’ve been following this practice for the past 6-7 years. However, I’m glad I didn’t delete them all.
Recently, Adobe Lightroom introduced a beta feature called “Denoise,” powered by AI. It works wonders in improving image quality by removing digital noise typically associated with high ISO, high shutter speed, or low light conditions.
I tried it with some sample photos from my 2017 US trip, and the results were surprisingly impressive.
Then 1-click edit with preset “rgwords-urban-pack-v1“, and here is final result.
You can see the difference. Such images are sitting in my hard disk for decades, now time to give life to them.
But here’s the exciting part: this is just the beginning of AI integration in photo and video editing tools. Lightroom, for instance, is doing an excellent job with its selective masking of facial features like eyes, nose, and lips, enabling individual editing. Also, Photoshop’s latest beta release, that incorporates generative AI. You can now simply select an object and provide a prompt, and watch the magic unfold. It’s truly remarkable, especially for a first release.
Before I wrap up, let me mention a few other AI-powered tools I’ve been exploring besides Adobe. While I mostly working with Adobe’s suite, I’ve recently been experimenting with Luminar NEO, and it’s been quite intriguing.
🚀 Here are the other tools I found interesting and worth trying.
- Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input.
- Magic Eraser is a free AI background remover for your images.
- Adobe Firefly can create images, vectors, videos, and 3D from text.
Remember, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to AI advancements in the world of photo and video editing. The possibilities are endless, and I’m excited to keep exploring and sharing my experiences with you.
Until the next email, let’s be mindful of our environment 🟢.
Cheers!!
📆 product update
In this section, I share any cool new product or feature released in past few weeks
- Finally Final Cut Pro is available for iPad with monthly subscription
- Adobe firefly is now available in photoshop beta.
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