Okay. This post will bore some people to tears. Read on!
I was just made aware of a new function in Photoshop CS5 that will
1. blow the minds of anyone who has ever used Photoshop, and
2. be completely unimpressive to people who have never used Photoshop.
The reason is this: this function does something with the click of a button that used to take hours and HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS to do. And yet is something that people who don’t use Photoshop ask for all the time, and say, “Well, can’t you just click a button and it’ll just do that?”
At the risk of teaching clients that fixing an image can now just take minutes, I’m still going to post this video for those of you who use Photoshop, just so I can say that I totally blew your minds. Prepare yourselves:
For those of you who are unimpressed, how’s about this?
No Photoshop used.
By Clark Little. Buy his coffee table book and feel like you’re a brave, brave man. With a camera. And no Photoshop.
Wow. Minds definitely blown. It can’t be possible!! Eagerly awaiting a CS upgrade!
So cool that you posted a Clark Little image–we just saw some of his work in Kauai last week. It was incredible. Thanks for the link–we enjoyed seeing the images of how he gets the shots. Having seen the power of the winter breakers coming in and crashing into the reefs, one can appreciate the effort and artistry.
i had a bit of an existential crisis last week when i first saw this. it wasn’t so much the power of the algorithm, but it’s seeming creativity; doesn’t it make interesting choices about what to do with all that blank space?
OH my god! Robbi my mouth just dropped open when I watched this video… how does it know? How does it know what to fill in? But if this means I’ll never have to try and paint over a power line again I will not complain.
I’ve never really used Photoshop, and yet am suitably impressed (thus invalidating your point #2 above!)
What I want to know…how does anyone ever use photographs as proof or evidence of anything again? So easy to change a photo! One click! Alternatively, how long until the first major scandal where a photographer’s photos turn out to actually be Photoshopped images? Or does ‘Photoshopping’ become a new artistic medium? Or maybe it already is and I’m just horribly behind the times…
Wow.
Anna and Mark – who knows when CS5 is coming out. I am seriously going to stand in line for it, for that function alone. Now I’ll be able to Photoshop Matthew out of all my pics. Awesome!
Also, stop bragging about being in Hawaii. Did anyone tell you it got all the way up to 50 degrees here? Suck on that!
Kenan and Tara – one step closer to the A.I. uprising. It looks like they’ll even put us creatives out of business. Damn.
Peter – you are unusually open-minded to sit through that whole video in spite of the fact that you’ve never really used Photoshop. Don’t you have a baby to take care of or something?
And yes, no one will ever be able to submit photos as evidence again. It’s already started. I mean, I don’t actually have any children, I’ve just been photoshopping them in all this time. And I don’t actually live in a barn. I live in a 3-bedroom apartment on Park Avenue. Oh, and I don’t actually make books. I’m a corporate accountant. And I’m married to Gene Simmons. I’d post photos as proof, but probably no one would believe me.
Oh, and Ming – ditto.
Oh. My. God.
Ma cervelle est soufflé. C’était incroyable!
That is whack, yo.