It’s amazing how much artificial intelligence has played a central role in photography. There was its presence in everyday smartphone use, with things like portrait mode and night vision mode, but now there are even more powerful tools for home owners. desktop photo editing. Just check out how it works on this 70 year old photo.
Coming to you from Glyn Dewis is a video that synthesizes many different tools for restoring his damaged 70-year-old family photo. While normally this would be a quick retouch to remove scratches and rips, in this particular case Dewis wanted to not only do that, but increase the resolution and make it look better. to an aspect ratio suitable for 8×10″ prints as well.
The first tool that Dewis uses will be quite familiar to most photographers and it is one of the Adobe PhotoshopNeural filter of the image recovery filter, does most of the basic cleaning functions well. As he points out, there are several other functions there to color correct photos, but for this video he only used black and white.
The fascinating part comes from the way Dewis changes the aspect ratio of the photo. Using a tool called DALL-E 2, which describes itself as “a new AI system that can generate realistic images and art from natural language descriptions.” Dewis was able to feed his photos into the system and have the AI fill in the missing background details in a pretty convincing way, so he now has enough headroom to crop to the aspect ratio he wants.
I’m hooked on how this stuff works. It’s not perfect by any means, but Dewis’ use case is an interesting one for photographers.
The final step is a non-esoteric software like DALL-E, and that is Topaz Gigapixel AIan image enhancer can increase the size of an image by 600%, since DALL-E is a bit limited in its output resolution.
With those three tools, Dewis can retouch his old photos with less effort than he has taken in the past.
What do you think about the results?
