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The source (Adobe MAX) 'demoes' full range of incredible scenarios.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfct0aH2COw
The video is much better than the linked page. The video shows the dynamic multi-angle character rotation and other object rotations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63
I find that Adobe is really pulling away from open source software with all this AI stuff. A few years ago it could be argued that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable could do almost everything that Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom could, albeit with a jankier user interface. But now none of the open source software can compete with AI generative fill, AI denoising, and now AI rotation.
It really couldn't
I don't think quite the same kind of tech, but this kinda reminds me of the "3D" pixel art sprite editor thing in Smack Studio https://youtu.be/sM3ss-lY1zU?t=10
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I think you're being a bit too generous with Adobe here :-). I shared this before, but it's worth resharing [1]. It covers the experience of a professional artist using Adobe tools. The gist is that once a company has a captive audience with no alternatives, investors come first. Flashy (no pun intended :-p), cool features to impress investors become more important than the everyday user experience—and this feature d…
You can have both! Cool features that excite users (and that they ultimately end of using), and that get investors excited. (i.e. Adobe mentioned in the day 1 keynote that Generative Fill, released last year and powered by Adobe Firefly is not one of the top 5 used features in Photoshop). The features we make, and how we use gen ai is based on a lot of discussions and back and forth with the community (both public an…
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You are correct even today. Inkscape is great but it’s a fraction of the utility that Illustrator offers. The only people who would actually equate them are people not professionally using these tools everyday. Even paid apps like affinity designer are a fraction of the functionality of Illustrator. Again, a great product but people are just dead wrong if they compare them as an absolute.
> The only people who would actually equate them are people not professionally using these tools everyday. While someone who just needs a functional vector graphics editor and is not being paid to use adobe software might prefer inkscape. Speaking from personal experience, there.
This is a common response when someone says something is better. It doesn’t mean they’re saying you need the better stuff or judging folks who don’t need it.
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With all due respect there’s never been a time when that could have legitimately been argued unless someone was doing relatively basic things with those apps or was a hobbyist. There’s always been a significant gap in capabilities once you looked past the surface. I find this sentiment is common among FOSS advocates who don’t actually professionally use those tools. I am definitely an advocate for free tools closing…
Even if the open source option is only slightly worse, why would a professional allow that to impact how they earn a living?
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They'll probably be better able to compete once Adobe ups prices to reflect the actual cost of all that processing.
Photoshop is £30 a month. NASDAQ.com reports their net profit to be 40% and elsewhere they're reported to gross $20B revenue. I think they can afford the ML based content generation costs without increasing prices.
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you don't need to release to production for real value. I'm under intense pressure to scope out frothy AI features because just discussing them with prospects has a material impact on the costs of the sales funnel.
> just discussing them with prospects [...] sales funnel I'll admit I have no idea what % of Adobe licensees/subscribers are individuals and small visual/graphic design firms (who choose Adobe for personal reasons) compared to larger companies (news agencies, web-design body-shops, etc) where employees use the tools given to them despite any personal preferences for rivals like Procreate, etc - and the rest: students…
I find that Adobe is really pulling away from open source software with all this AI stuff. A few years ago it could be argued that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable could do almost everything that Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom could, albeit with a jankier user interface. But now none of the open source software can compete with AI generative fill, AI denoising, and now AI rotation.
With all due respect there’s never been a time when that could have legitimately been argued unless someone was doing relatively basic things with those apps or was a hobbyist. There’s always been a significant gap in capabilities once you looked past the surface. I find this sentiment is common among FOSS advocates who don’t actually professionally use those tools. I am definitely an advocate for free tools closing…
It's wishful thinking at best and delusion at worst. I see it constantly on hn on many threads. I suspect hn incents that kind of language because people on hn like being pandered to.
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This feels extremely ungenerous to the Big Tech companies. What's wrong with trying out 100 different AI features across your product suite, and then seeing which ones "stick"? You figure out the 10 that users find really valuable, another 10 that will be super-valuable with improvement, and eventually drop the other 80. Especially when if Microsoft tries something and Google doesn't, that suddenly gives Microsoft a…
> What's wrong with trying out 100 different AI features across your product suite, and then seeing which ones "stick"? For users ? Almost everything is wrong with that. There are no users looking for wild churn in their user interface, no users crossing their fingers that the feature that stuck for them gets pruned because it didn't hit adoption targets overall, no users hoping for popups and nags interrupting their…
The users of https://notebooklm.google/ aren't the same as the users of Google Docs.