What if you could change the season of a landscape photo with just the click of a button? Photoshop's new landscape mixer neural filter promises to leverage Adobe Sensei technology to do just that, allowing you to turn a summer landscape into a snow-laden wonderland with a single click. Does it produce worthwhile images, though? This neat video features a Photoshop pro taking the new feature for a test drive to see what it can do.
Coming to you from Aaron Nace with Phlearn, this neat video takes a look at Photoshop's new landscape mixer neural filter. If you have not tried them yet, Photoshop's neural filters are special functions that leverage Adobe Sensei technology to perform complex tasks like retouching a portrait automatically. Some are consumer-ready, and some, like the new landscape mixer, are still in their beta stages, but they are improving constantly. I tried out the new mixer for a bit today, and it was a bit hit or miss, though it was quite impressive when it got things right, instantly creating an effect that I certainly would not be able to do without several hours or work. Check out the video above to see it in action.
My experience with it so far is that it’s not very good. BUT, it’s a starting point to something that could be really useful in future iterations.
I can never get the bl****y thing to work. Every time I try, I get a "We've temporarily disabled this filter because of an error" message.
I'd really like to try it too, it would be perfect for a campaign I'm working on that the client only has a limited number of photos taken during the summer.
Sorry to read that you are having a frustrating experience trying to run it, but don't be too disappointed because it isn't very well tuned yet. It seems as though it is still a far cry from what you would want for a paying client.
I think the video may contain the one photo on which the algorithm was trained. I've tried it on about twenty landscape photos and haven't been able to get anything that doesn't look like a Timothy Leary fever dream.
Here is an example of the simplest landscape that I could find. It is a throwaway photo from Arches NP with about the simplest tonal variation that I could find. I applied all of the sample filters to it, and they all came out looking about the same, with just different hues. I'll show you the snowy mountain version. This is with the effect at 30/100. At full strength it is a technicolor vomitus.
More complex landscapes came out even more, shall we say, interesting.
PS does allow you to send feedback (a smiley face or a frowny face) and a simple multiple choice as to what is wrong with the composite photo. It seems as though Adobe is throwing this out here very early in order to get feedback to train the AI algorithms. It is an interesting concept, but is likely to take some time before it is useable.
After I commented, this article prompted me to work out why it kept failing. Turns out that disabling gpu hardware acceleration did the trick.
But yes, thanks for sharing. I found the same thing. I tried the effect on several supplied images and only one was satisfactorily useable so I abandoned the idea. Still, it may prove useful in the future.
Thanks! :)