Hi everybody. I want to share with you
some of my experiences recently with
editing old photos. We're living in an
amazing time. I mean, the likes of
Photoshop have been around for over 20
years and until recently Photoshop or
other similarly complex graphics
software were the only real options for
doing serious photo editing. Although
I've touched and messed around with
Photoshop a bit over the years, I just,
it's not something I wanted to invest
the time in, so I've always called upon
professionals when I needed that level
of expertise in photo editing. You
can get this done pretty quickly and
cheaply on sites like Fiverr, so when I
do come across something which is beyond
my capabilities, I'll hire somebody sometimes.
It costs as little as $5, sometimes
as much as $25, but it beats
having to pay for the software and teach
myself how to use it. What I do is I use
very simple image editing apps on my
phone and also on my desktop. There's
a great a web-based app called BeFunky.com.
It's positioned somewhere in between,
you know, a very simple one-click
type filter app and Photoshop. It's
kind of in between so it has enough
tools and sophistication that you can
actually do quite a lot with it. Probably
somebody who is expert in Photoshop and
who doesn't mind paying the cost of
Photoshop would be disappointed in
it. They would find it lacking and
frustrating, so it's not going to take
away a market share from Adobe. It
wouldn't be of interest to those people.
But, there are people like myself who
just want very simple photo editing
capabilities. An interesting thing
has been happening with
artificial intelligence in filters.
You've seen the likes of Prisma, Vinci,
and apps like those. This
intelligence is seeping into photo
editing as well. BeFunky recently
released a bunch of filters which allow
you to really add some great life into
old photos. If you have a photo which
is grainy, poorly lit, and so on, a bit
small, you can; there is quite a lot you can
do to breathe some new life into it. But,
it can't make up for lack of detail yet.
Google has recently come up with an
algorithm and some artificial
intelligence system where they can add
detail to photos. You know in all
those movies where you have the spy
scene where they have some grainy still
from a video surveillance camera and
they zoom in and it adds detail, and so
on - that actually is not possible right
now. But it may be quite soon through
artificial intelligence and feeding it
lots of big data so that it can learn
and add details. So, I'm very excited to
see what will be possible 5, 10, 20
years from now where with one click you
can maybe take a horrible, grainy,
terribly lit, old, small photo and turn it
into something quite spectacular.
Seriously, I think this is what's coming.
So, let me know your thoughts. What are
you doing with image editing? And, what
tools you use? Anyway, thanks for
watching. Cheers.
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