Opinion: Google's robot retouching is bad news for Photoshop
This increasingly wide distinction between Photoshop and new Google tools like Photo Unblur was neatly summed up nicely earlier this year by Adobe VP and Fellow Marc Levoy, who was previously the driving force behind Google's Pixel phones. interview, Levoy said that while his role at Google was to"democratize good photography", his mission at Adobe is instead to"democratize creative photography".
In other words, Google and others have now taken the baton of"democratizing good photography", while Adobe's programs use machine-learning power to improve the workflows of amateurs and pros who need the finer craft of manual photo edits. The death of Photoshop is a long way off, then, even if many of its mass market tools are being automated by phones.These are still early days in the AI photo editing revolution and Google's new tools are far from the only ones out there.
But Google's Photo Unblur and Magic Eraser go a step further by living in our Pixel phones – and they'll surely migrate to our Google Photos libraries, too. This step would really take them to a mass audience, who'll be able to turn their holiday snaps or family photos into polished masterpieces without needing to know what an adjustment layer is.
As for Adobe and Photoshop, we'll likely see some new Sensei announcements at Adobe's Max 2022 conference from October 18. So while its recently updated Photoshop Elements app is starting to look a little dated, the full-fat Photoshop should continue to be at the forefront of photo trickery. That's an impressive run considering it's now 35 years since Photoshop co-founder first started dabbling with his 'Jennifer in Paradise' snap. But given the rapid development of text-to-image generators like Dall-E, and Google's photo-fixing tools, it looks like we're on the cusp of another revolutionary leap for the humble photo edit. Mark is the Cameras Editor at TechRadar.
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