If you've been paying attention to photography news, you can't have failed to notice the furore over AI image generation. Generators like Stable Diffusion, Dall-E and Midjourney make it possible to create artwork from nothing more than a sentence.
This has caused great excitement and apprehension among photographers, and the way these tools gather and reassemble the substance of existing photos raises real concerns about intellectual property. Whether you see AI as groundbreaking or a threat to traditional photography, we’re entering a new era of image-making. Users looking to experiment with text-to-image generation will find an intriguing new tool within Photoshop Beta. The Backdrop Creator Neural filter lets you create a new backdrop from a few words.
Of course, as it’s Beta it’s not the finished article, but it’s worth experimenting with. It’s designed to work with your photos, and as such it may offer a glimpse of how photography and AI can work together in the future.
STEP BY STEP DEVELOPING THE FUTURE OF IMAGES
Photoshop Beta collects image data to produce abstracts and patterns using text prompts
This story is from the April 2024 edition of PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine.
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