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Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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The article says clearly there's no guarantee this feature will be released. Which I'm reading as "Demo-ready, but far from production-ready." Somewhat relevant: my experience with Photoshop's Generative Fill has been underwhelming. Sometimes it's wrong, often it's comically wrong. I haven't had many easy wins with it. IMO this is a company that doodles with code for its own entertainment, not a company that innovate…

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.

“I consider lying cause trick sales look like real value to me”. Not judging, but sales alone are not real value.

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Isn't this what AI is all about? Don't kid yourself, most companies, even some big ones, will bankrupt themselves chasing AI and the few remaining will get the spoils.

It seems that’s just the way things go with disruptive technologies. It’s a gold rush and you don’t want to be left behind.

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Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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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.

Adobe had 41% profit margin in 2020, but otherwise in the 25% to 30% range since 2018.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ADBE/adobe/profit-...

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Interesting! What are some unique features not typically found in other apps? (don't say generative fill lol) Creating a specification for minimum viable features of a raster editor able to replace Photoshop would be fantastic. Could serve as a roadmap for alternatives and for bragging rights: "Painter2900: implements 99% of the Rasterflames Liberation Standard, and more!".

Mask precision, plugin compatibility, scripts and actions, color profiles management, brush options, camera raw compatibility, liquify tool, 3D, font options... I just named a few that I use regularly. Beside functions, Gimp's UI looks outdated.

I haven't used Photoshop in about 15 years. Gimp was never close to Photoshop

Krita on the other hand is basically everything I remember about old Photoshop. Even the keyboard shortcuts are pretty much the same. The price is quite right too.

What Adobe has done with generative AI has been really impressive though. I am going to probably have to give PS a try just to see what I am missing.

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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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.

> A few years ago it could be argued that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable To a Linux user, yes. To a professional, it was always a cruel joke, it was never close, even a few years ago. It's like saying Notepad++ is a functional IDE, or Kdenlive is a functional replacement for DaVinci Resolve. I cannot stress this enough: Actual professionals do not think GIMP is a viable replacement, in any way, and never have.

Krita destroyed Gimp years ago. This debate is always by people who obviously don't even use these tools.

No one would compare GIMP to Photoshop in 2024 that has any idea what they are talking about.

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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Is there another source? None of the images loaded for me.

Edit: The article embeds this video, but apparently it embeds without sound. Here's a direct link.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RnibKWuooxUZ7xptBz4UHd/Pro...

Re: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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This is here now. It's possible to set up a flow in a node based ai tool to go from text prompt to stl in a single shot. They current results using open license models aren't incredible in their fidelity, but it's literally here today.

Links please?

https://github.com/MrForExample/ComfyUI-3D-Pack

Edit to add - the meshes it generates aren't the cleanest, so consider a follow up with something like:

https://www.meshlab.net/

Note - if 3d printing isn't your jam, you can also do things like generate game assets. Ex - take the output mesh and throw it into something like https://www.mixamo.com/#/ for auto rigging.

Again - the open source tooling is a bit fiddly, but it's workable (you'll need to be familiar with python packaging to get the 3d pack up and running in comfyui). Quality of the meshes will vary a lot based on input.

You can also find (somewhat) up to date info on new models and papers here: https://github.com/ActiveVisionLab/Awesome-LLM-3D?tab=readme...

If you don't want to run it yourself - there are also several commercial offerings right now:

https://www.meshy.ai/

https://www.3daistudio.com/

https://3dfy.ai/

etc

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