p.6 #1 · DXO PhotoLab 9 with new AI Mask Technology
Usually, it will take them a couple of months to profile new camera bodies and/or new lenses. They have to profile the new body wih a vast number of existing lenses at diferent ISOs and apertures (and differnent focal lenghts for zooms).
p.6 #2 · DXO PhotoLab 9 with new AI Mask Technology
Oh, that is not good. Why does the camera impact the lens corrections, the microlensers on the sensor?
I find if difficult to belive that they litterally have to test thousands of lenses on each new camera rather than a few representative ones. That's a lot of inventory and many lenses are obsolete.
DXO should be able to have some generic conversions based on the sensor alone.
p.6 #3 · DXO PhotoLab 9 with new AI Mask Technology
gdanmitchell wrote:
Yes, and no.
The thing is, just like with other kinds of photography hardware and software automation, you can get only so far by trusting the software to make all the choices. It still requires a lot of thought and practice and experience to make it work well.
For example, when identifying “objects” for Adobe AI remove, the program (in my case ACR) makes some assumptions about what to remove and how far to extend the affected area beyond my initial selection. Those assumptions can sometimes be wrong, and occasionally very wrong. So you have to know how to tailor them to work correctly — which may well be a case of letting the software make an initial section and then manually adding or excluding elements from it.
Sometimes you have to combine the AI tools with other techniques. Michael Frye wrote recently about dealing with an extremely difficult problem — removing mesh cylinders surrounding tree seedlings from photographs of a Yosemite Valley meadow. He used a sophisticated combination of techniques, including the clone stamp tool, the regular remove tool, and the AI remove tool, often working on small sections fo the intruding element separately. (In other words, he couldn’t just tell the AI tool, “just remove this.”)
Of course, the AI software does sometimes hallucinate and you have to figure how to work around it. My first experience with that was with some migratory bird photographs where I wanted to remove something from the sky. The AI remove tool took it out… but it also ADDED a very small full moon! Usually when that happens you just reselct and do it again, but this time it kept adding a moon!...Show more →
I will add a note to Dan's comment. I use ACR/Br "Generative Fill and Content Aware Fill" for replacing "crap" in an image. When inputting "what I want the replace, it may take a few "suggestions" in the choice box before Br gets it.
That said, many times I have to due a few "passes" to remove the unwanted "crap" and get something I can live with.
Now that is just me. My remark has to do with don't rely 100% on AI to give you a nice finished product.
AS Dan states, it is "auto" up to a "point".
Good Luck!
Dan2
p.6 #5 · DXO PhotoLab 9 with new AI Mask Technology
That's awful, but I guess will have to just look at the images on the camera or something until December unless I can find something else that works without internet on a laptop.
