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philip_pj wrote:
The law courts are going to be even more cautious with image based evidence now content faking just got so much easier. Content manufacture is probably too strong a term since this uses existing image content. Retouchers' work is now going to be a lot easier.
Will be interesting to watch the image geek set reaction to this development; will it take on as a new fad like HDR, to be hopelessly overblown and misused, and finally reviled? Initial responses on some blogs indicate it certainly will take on...the biggest challenge a lot of PS users now face is how much image content to retain. Why develop photographic skills beyond envisioning what PS will do for you at the cosy work station back home?
More broadly speaking - technologies like this raise issues of image 'perfection' and why some users feel it is so important to identify and expunge 'defects', and the strength of their belief that they can decide that. The world as represented by images becomes more untrustworthy by the moment, and this content fill (guess they could not call it 'content fake') just pushed that trend much further for the sandpit dwellers.
Developments like these are very market driven, apparently plugins already exist that do much the same thing. PS has always been the graphic designer's friend, much more than being primarily for photographers. In a sense they are filling in the gap between these divergent markets...so maybe it is time for a better dedicated photographic software tool with the overall polish of PS. Adobe are too obsessed with image surface manipulation at the opportunity cost of giving advanced tools for photographers. IMHO.
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I hear you, and I suspect that this feature will be used (abused?) extensively. Flickr is about to get far more "CGI-perfect" but altogether boring images. Like any powerful tool, we can only hope that as much good is done with it as bad.
Personally, I think it is amazing from a technological standpoint. I'll never use it myself, though, as I only use PS on about 1% of my images as it is.
What they really need to do is make their "paste" function just as smart, so when you paste a cutout of George W and his dad fishing onto a New Orleans flood photo, it won't look so "shopped." The comedy factor and political commentary is a far better use of these resources, in my so very opinionated opinion.
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/_images/Bushfloodfish.jpg
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