Adobe’s latest Lightroom update brings yet another AI editing tool, this time one that lets you quickly select the subject or replace the sky in your photos. This is a huge boon for working photographers, as it takes the tedious work out of them.
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AI filters are getting so good that one click is enough to make almost any photo look great. In fact, even some professional photographers don’t edit their photos anymore. So, do we still need to edit our photos? Or can we let AI do it all?
“I would say that if I’m just taking photos for fun, then yes, the apps on my iPhone are sufficient to get my photos sharp, accurately exposed, correctly white balanced, and I can remove imperfections to a level where I would be comfortable sharing them on social media,” Cheryl Dell’Osso, Zenfolio’s director of customer engagement, told Lifewire via email. “But if I’m shooting professionally, I want to have complete control,”
“Filters” are no longer just passive overlays that change the colors of your images. We now have beauty filters that not only smooth skin, remove blemishes, and recognize and whiten teeth, but even subtly shift facial features to make them “pleasant.”
