Colin Smith takes you in-depth with the new Firefly Generative Remove AI in Lightroom Classic.
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Colin Smith (Photoshop Cafe) shows the new features in Lightroom & Adobe Camera Raw 16.3 – Generative Remove, Lens Blur, and Content Credentials. Pay particular attention to Content Credentials (at the end of his ACR 16.3 video), a new initiative designed to inform viewers about how files have been enhanced, including additions with AI.
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Deepfakes. Voice cloning. Synthetic media.
It’s hard to tell what’s accurate and authentic these days.
Content Credentials is a new open source tool to help you quickly figure out what you’re looking at.
Critical information about the content you see online is often inaccessible or inaccurate. How was it made? Is it AI-generated? When was it created or edited? Content Credentials make the origin and history of content available for everyone to access anytime. With this information at your fingertips, you have the ability to decide if you trust the content you see—understanding what it is and how much editing or manipulation it went through.
What role does technology play in creating art? Do works created by artificial intelligence meet the definition of art? Keystone Edition: Arts asks artists about the tools they use and if there should be limits to human-machine collaboration when it comes to creativity.
Erika Funke (PBS WVIA), Richard Rinehardt (Director Samek Art Museum, coauthor of RE-COLLECTION), and I share ideas on creativity, technology, and archiving.
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Color grading can unify images of different subjects shot at different times and locations.
Correction Versus Grading
Many people use color correction and color grading interchangeably, but their intents are quite different, while both are post-production processes and often use the same tools. Color correction is an objective technical process where colors are adjusted to appear natural; color grading is a subjective artistic process where colors are enhanced to evoke time, atmosphere, physical sensations (like temperature), and/or emotions. Correction convinces minds (avoiding personal biases); grading provokes feelings (celebrating personal preferences).
Correct Before You Grade
For some (scientists, journalists, product photographers, and art reproduction), color correction is the first and last step. For others (artists, many fashion and portrait photographers), color correction is a necessary prelude to color grading. Producing a neutral base gets images ready for artistic effects. Clipped highlights and shadows, color casts, and too much or too little saturation can all get in the way of successfully color-grading images. Correction also produces consistency between multiple shots. You won’t need to customize the color grading for different images if they are first color-corrected. This can save a lot of time and confusion if you’re processing many images.
Things To Look For During Color Correction
1 Preserve shadow and highlight detail.
2 Remove color casts. Make neutrals truly neutral.
3 Set saturation neither too low nor too high.
Monitor memory colors: skin, blue sky, green grass, etc.
Read more on 4 Ways To Achieve Neutrality.
Tools To Create Color Grades With
“Solve the lack of resolution in Generative AI in Photoshop. Colin Smith shows the new Enhance image feature as well as explains what it does. See how to get full resolution in any image in Photoshop Generative Fill.”
00:00 Generative AI in Photoshop is powerful but struggles with resolution.
00:23 Use the Crop tool and Generative Expand to extend images, but the resolution may drop.
00:52 Zooming in reveals the loss of resolution in generated areas.
01:16 New feature in Photoshop beta enhances image details, improving resolution but not perfectly.
01:43 Demonstration with a cat image shows resolution enhancement using Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw.
02:34 Super Resolution doubles the image size, similar to other upscaling software.
03:29 Generative fill generates up to 1024×1024 pixels, requiring enlargement for larger spaces.
04:22 Convert to a layer and use the rectangular marquee tool for better transparent expansion.
05:18 Generate in pieces to achieve full resolution, suitable for printing.
06:14 Create an action to automate the process for consistent high-resolution results.
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“Photography communicates best when it tells a story and is presented in an essay form. In this Zoom class, David Brommer will use examples of his personal work as well as of other select artists to illustrate excellence in photo essay form. Concept, execution, and presentation will be discussed, as well as “project think tanking” in the Q&A following the lesson. This class will benefit Photographers who want to deepen their commitment to the art or those looking for an inspirational shot in the arm!”
Join me Tuesday, May 21 @ 6pm EST on Zoom – Register here.
Photographer David Brommer (Suspect Photography) will guide what is sure to be an animated, wide-ranging, and thoughtful conversation about photography and creativity. David has a knack for asking the questions that most need to be asked.
I’ll share new work. We’ll talk about the importance of printing your images. After that, anything could happen.
It’s been ten years since our last extended conversation. Enjoy it here as a prelude of more to come.