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A comment on Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the floor.

Re:Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the ... by afavour on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:45PM (#26449339)
I guess professional photos have always been touched up and this is just an automation of this process. But I've long felt a little odd about the use of machine learning in photography this way. How long before Google Photos recreates dark photos by just reassembling all of the items it believes are there from machine learning?
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Re:Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the ... by medlyyy on Saturday March 13, 2021 @04:04PM (#26449975)
I mean, the only reason things like this aren't commonplace is cost (of the skillset, tools). Basically anything's possible these days with CGI, everything is purely a matter of the amount of effort you want to put in.

And for artistic purposes, why does it matter how the final result was arrived at? If we have powerful and easy techniques for realising an artistic vision, that doesn't seem like a bad thing?

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