Comments on: Sketch2Photo

By: BZ

BZ — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:11:14 +0000

What would be really interesting, assuming this is true, would be to put the resulting composited photo into Photoshop. Making it an interesting adjunct to the manual version of this.

Plus, the photo could then be turned into real art by using Corel’s Painter program (and a gifted artist).

Of course, the same thing can be done in Painter or Photoshop alone right now. The essence of Painter XI is the turning of crude work into finished, refined work. Having just gotten a very expensive, very complicated giclee inkjet painter, I’d like to try the Chinese program (if it exists).

By: Soronel Haetir

Soronel Haetir — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:40:12 +0000

I recall seeing something sorta like this for product development. The idea there was that someone would make a basic sketch of the piece they wanted and the program would do a search for matching items. I don’t know if that went anywhere or not though.

By: josh bornstein

josh bornstein — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:00:45 +0000

Off Kilter,
I can’t tell if your comment is tongue-in-cheek, or is serious. Assuming it was a serious comment: I think what Mike & Mike are saying (and I was implying) was that if this is true, it is an extraordinary advancement in extraction, which is often a very very difficult thing to do accurately [eg, hair, leaves). It’s not impossible that it’s come out of China, out-of-the-blue. Merely very very very very very improbable. Of course, I’d love for it to be true. But I’m from Xi’an. (The Chinese equivalent of, “I’m from Missouri.”)

If you were joking . . . sorry. (Impossible to tell for internet postings without icons to help.)

By: Off Kilter

Off Kilter — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:34:43 +0000

Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes…?

By: Mike Keenan

Mike Keenan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:15:07 +0000

I haven’t seen much cutting edge software coming out of China. Only a matter of time, I suppose, but this seems almost like a joke.

By: Mike McDougal

Mike McDougal — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:54:09 +0000

I'm skeptical.

josh bornstein: The video seems to suggest that–as part of the programme’s workflow, the objects will be automatically extracted from the backgrounds of the original images.

Quite frankly, I don't believe it can do that or will be able to do it anytime remotely soon.

By: josh bornstein

josh bornstein — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:18:19 +0000

Interesting. The video seems to suggest that–as part of the programme’s workflow, the objects will be automatically extracted from the backgrounds of the original images. That’s always the most difficult part of compositing, and I’ll be interested in seeing more examples of this.

By: Constant

Constant — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:37:17 +0000

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. A video is not that.

By: sitzpinkler

sitzpinkler — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:59:58 +0000

I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.