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Thursday, October 08, 2009
This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind
Gizmodo: "PhotoSketch is an internet-based program that can take the rough, labeled sketch on the left and automagically turn it into the naff montage on the right."
This looks incredible! I keep going back and forth as to the usefulness of it but it definitely seems like it would be a lot of fun to play around with. Perhaps from a rendering standpoint it could be used to mess around with locations of things in a picture. As far as the issues of copyright...I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think its an intriguing prospect that this stuff on the web can be captured by a program and turned into another form automatically. As long as someone does not claim this as their own art, I think it is perfectly on the up and up.
This is so awesome. It's so cool. It seems like it takes a lot of time and effort out of creating photoshopped images. At the same time though it takes a lot of the time and effort out of creating photoshopped images. However I guess that comes with the advancement of technology, and with this new technology new and crazier things will be developed.
This seems like it's more of a fun thing then a useful thing. You could probably use it to quickly see how certain things look in connection with each other, but given the seemingly random aspect of the picture gathering, it seems like you'd get images of best fit rather then image of what you want doing what you wanted. The article has some pictures at the bottom of the page that illustrated pretty well the possible issue with the program picing best fit pictures. There's a image of a dog doing what appears to be a backwards twist to get a Frisbee, there's also the shark jump sideways at a helicopter, and just the way the images are layed out doesn't seem as real as it could.
This definitely would have made a lot of creative high school english classes a lot easier. It seems really fun, but it definitely takes the work out of art. I think this is very fun to play around with, but if i were a teacher i would never want my students to use this program. It's someone elses artwork that you're essentially borrowing as your own. But just for fun, and for nothing professional, this is a really cool program.
I agree that this is not suitable as a substitute for professinal projects. There is just no way that it can provide results that are 100% accurate. I think a feature it could benefit from is having the option to choose one or more of the elements, instead of it just going to internet searches. I watched the video on the article, and it didn't make it very clear as to how the program actually can pick out an element from an entire photo, such as knowing what is a dog and what isn't. I also don't know how useful this can actually be, but perhaps the technology it uses will develop into a more practical application.
this prgram seems like it is so amazing the way that it works and it works so simply and fast. i cant believe that photoshop has become so easy and fast in this day and age. i would love to play with this program and see if it ascaly dose what it is show and as well as it shows in this article. this program will allow so many more people to photoshop that were daunted but it and the time and skill need to photoshop something in a timely mater. so this is a great program and i look foreword to posable playing with it and seeing how it works.
This is incredible. The abilities of this program to take something so simple and turn it into something that is beautiful makes essentially anyone and artist.
Now u can make that perfect picture or collage for art classes and school projects. I can't help thinking about all the cool things I could use this for in my models, or designs, or random art things.
I literally want to start doing this now. The article didn't say when it would be avaliable but I can't wait. It looks absolutley fantastic!
This is so cool!!! I want to try this now! I am amazed at the way the image filter works to detect whether a certain image is appropriate to use or not. And the way that the pictures are blended together... it looks seamless!! Not sure if this would actually be helpful on a professional level, but it is definitely an awesome thing to play around with!
this is really cool. it kind of excites me cause this is so useful and i cant draw or use photoshop. it may not be that useful in the professional world, but its very entertaining. i would use it so much. It takes a lot of the hard tedious work out of making a photo look seamlessly put together like it was actually taken that way.
Ha! AMAZING! I'm always astounded by the way that modern graph theory seems to make the lives of artists that much easier. And for those who may not necessarily have the skills to do this from the beginning, this may motivate them to learn more one programs like photoshop in order to get more and more precise with what they want. You can see this sort of trend happen as things get easier more and more people tend to lean towards learning more complex things. An object in motion stays in motion, right?...Well: hopefully.
While I feel that this technology is amazing (and I will definitely use this if the case arises), I do feel that things like this not only detract from the art of photography (which was done with the creation of Photoshop like programs) but also detracts from the art that has stemmed from Photoshop. Nothing will ever re-create a genuine photograph (and I am convinced even a professionally photoshop-ed image will not have the same truth in the viewing eye of a human being. There is a sense of reality that, if messed with, instinctively signals that something is not as it should be.
This is really interesting and actually works which is better. The drawing has to be done in the software, but it would be cool if you could import a scan or a sketch from another program to allow more flexibility. Otherwise, this could save lots of time at creating composite images.
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This looks incredible! I keep going back and forth as to the usefulness of it but it definitely seems like it would be a lot of fun to play around with. Perhaps from a rendering standpoint it could be used to mess around with locations of things in a picture. As far as the issues of copyright...I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think its an intriguing prospect that this stuff on the web can be captured by a program and turned into another form automatically. As long as someone does not claim this as their own art, I think it is perfectly on the up and up.
This is so awesome. It's so cool. It seems like it takes a lot of time and effort out of creating photoshopped images. At the same time though it takes a lot of the time and effort out of creating photoshopped images. However I guess that comes with the advancement of technology, and with this new technology new and crazier things will be developed.
This seems like it's more of a fun thing then a useful thing. You could probably use it to quickly see how certain things look in connection with each other, but given the seemingly random aspect of the picture gathering, it seems like you'd get images of best fit rather then image of what you want doing what you wanted. The article has some pictures at the bottom of the page that illustrated pretty well the possible issue with the program picing best fit pictures. There's a image of a dog doing what appears to be a backwards twist to get a Frisbee, there's also the shark jump sideways at a helicopter, and just the way the images are layed out doesn't seem as real as it could.
This definitely would have made a lot of creative high school english classes a lot easier. It seems really fun, but it definitely takes the work out of art. I think this is very fun to play around with, but if i were a teacher i would never want my students to use this program. It's someone elses artwork that you're essentially borrowing as your own. But just for fun, and for nothing professional, this is a really cool program.
I agree that this is not suitable as a substitute for professinal projects. There is just no way that it can provide results that are 100% accurate. I think a feature it could benefit from is having the option to choose one or more of the elements, instead of it just going to internet searches. I watched the video on the article, and it didn't make it very clear as to how the program actually can pick out an element from an entire photo, such as knowing what is a dog and what isn't. I also don't know how useful this can actually be, but perhaps the technology it uses will develop into a more practical application.
this prgram seems like it is so amazing the way that it works and it works so simply and fast. i cant believe that photoshop has become so easy and fast in this day and age. i would love to play with this program and see if it ascaly dose what it is show and as well as it shows in this article. this program will allow so many more people to photoshop that were daunted but it and the time and skill need to photoshop something in a timely mater. so this is a great program and i look foreword to posable playing with it and seeing how it works.
MY mind was just blown too!!!
This is incredible. The abilities of this program to take something so simple and turn it into something that is beautiful makes essentially anyone and artist.
Now u can make that perfect picture or collage for art classes and school projects. I can't help thinking about all the cool things I could use this for in my models, or designs, or random art things.
I literally want to start doing this now. The article didn't say when it would be avaliable but I can't wait. It looks absolutley fantastic!
This is so cool!!! I want to try this now! I am amazed at the way the image filter works to detect whether a certain image is appropriate to use or not. And the way that the pictures are blended together... it looks seamless!! Not sure if this would actually be helpful on a professional level, but it is definitely an awesome thing to play around with!
this is really cool. it kind of excites me cause this is so useful and i cant draw or use photoshop. it may not be that useful in the professional world, but its very entertaining. i would use it so much. It takes a lot of the hard tedious work out of making a photo look seamlessly put together like it was actually taken that way.
Ha! AMAZING! I'm always astounded by the way that modern graph theory seems to make the lives of artists that much easier. And for those who may not necessarily have the skills to do this from the beginning, this may motivate them to learn more one programs like photoshop in order to get more and more precise with what they want. You can see this sort of trend happen as things get easier more and more people tend to lean towards learning more complex things. An object in motion stays in motion, right?...Well: hopefully.
While I feel that this technology is amazing (and I will definitely use this if the case arises), I do feel that things like this not only detract from the art of photography (which was done with the creation of Photoshop like programs) but also detracts from the art that has stemmed from Photoshop.
Nothing will ever re-create a genuine photograph (and I am convinced even a professionally photoshop-ed image will not have the same truth in the viewing eye of a human being. There is a sense of reality that, if messed with, instinctively signals that something is not as it should be.
This is really interesting and actually works which is better. The drawing has to be done in the software, but it would be cool if you could import a scan or a sketch from another program to allow more flexibility. Otherwise, this could save lots of time at creating composite images.
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