editing photography
No change in the air in the photo editor. For the first time in over a decade, Photoshop, which dominates the publishing picture his name is synonymous with the touch, could be vulnerable to new competitors. How is this possible? Photoshop dominates high photo collage of the end, because it is the industry standard, around which users, educators and gurus gather to form a vast network of knowledge about software. This investment intellectual million users, it is difficult for other software to locate.
So hard, in fact, be a new and much easier and better way of doing things, before a standard like Photoshop could be challenged at all. Photoshop and other programs of traditional photo editing as Paint Shop Pro, were up over many years to become large collections of complex tools. Because of this complexity that Photoshop whole industry, including "how to" magazines, tutorial websites, books, etc. was developed around the software.
It is both strength and weakness of Photoshop. The toolkit is broad and powerful, if for any effect is possible, but, and this is a very large, but only if the user has the knowledge, technique and above all, the time required to achieve the effects he wants. In addition, the vast majority of tools in Photoshop are essentially electronic versions of traditional stencils, brushes, so that artists have always used. Like a brush is useless unless its owner has the technical ability to know and how to use Photoshop tools that are useless without extensive technical training.
But the software need not be complex and silent. In fact, as artists in the past had human assistants, so software, which was duly trained, can also assist artists in their work. For example, portrait professional software is designed to beautify faces in photographs. To do this, the software has actually been "trained" to human beauty, with hundreds of photographs of portraits. Thus, the software has learned that statistically this tends to treat more or less beautiful. This is very different from the picture editing tools typically have not incorporated the concept of beauty at all.
So how does it work? After the user has marked up 5 key points on the face, it scans the face can be improved, and compared with its statistical beauty model. Based on the variation between the face and the model, the software creates a set custom cursors to address various aspects of the face as needed. For example, a slider control to adjust the jaw line. The effect of the cursor in the jaw may vary depending on the jaw that looks like this: if grouping is low, or reduce it if there is a double chin. In this sense, software "knows" to help improve the image of the artist's touch.
This approach of offering intelligent software that creates the "custom tool", according to the needs of individuals in particular, represents a new stage in the photo editor. As the software becomes more intelligent, the requirement will be reduced purely technical knowledge and the focus is exclusively displaced vision. This has implications for photography and graphics as a whole. As digital cameras have reduced the need for specialized photographers and increase significantly the number of real photos taken as well as photo editing software becomes more intelligent and easy to use, more photographers and designers to make their personal touch and the need for specialist touch up artists will decrease.
And all in all this is a good thing. Let's move on a world where the mastery of skills technical complex is a prerequisite for publishing photos to a world beyond the technical part is easy, and where what counts is the quality of vision of the photographer. And freedom from endless technical tinkering and Photoshop tutorials can only be a good thing.
Therefore, Interesting Times for Adobe Photoshop and create photo montage. Photoshop will evolve or die? What future the emergence of easy, use more low cost alternatives to Photoshop Portrait Professional can only be good news for photographers and creative throughout.
Alex McCall is an employee of Anthropics Technology, which makes Portrait Professional photo editing software. Find out more about the program at http://www.portraitprofessional.com/photo_editing
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